STOCHASTICS
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
In “Stochastics,” a new 6 minute short, French artist David Kidman takes a simple idea and expands it with fascinating results…
Posted on November 17, 2011 by David Finkelstein
I MY BIKE
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
Riding a bike becomes a metaphor for navigating through danger…
Posted on November 16, 2011 by David Finkelstein
POOLSIDE MANNERS
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
A kind of formalized physical comedy of manners, but without the humor…
Posted on November 15, 2011 by David Finkelstein
TWIST OF FATE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
This can be appreciated by anyone who has ever been scared out of their minds by an MRI scan or an IV monitor…
Posted on November 14, 2011 by David Finkelstein
DREXCIYA
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 12 minutes |
Broken tiles, decayed diving boards inhabited by birds, and even animal skulls are all shot in beautifully composed, lingering shots…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by David Finkelstein
THE INDESERIAN TABLETS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
“The Indeserian Tablets” is a complex, mesmerizing and beautiful short by Peter Rose…
Posted on November 12, 2011 by David Finkelstein
BLACK STAINS
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Horodi and Kammerer have used a collage technique, mixing straight documentary footage with fiction, to make a strong statement in favor of an engaged and activist form of making art…
Posted on November 11, 2011 by David Finkelstein
PARTIAL FRACTION
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 45 minutes |
Shot within a few blocks, this film presents certain people who happened to be present within a certain place at a certain time…
Posted on November 10, 2011 by David Finkelstein
THE DIVIDED UTOPIA OF NEVE SHAANAN: EIGHT COMMENTS ON THE NEW CENTRAL BUS STATION OF TEL AVIV
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 24 minutes |
The structure of the film itself is a kind of argument for a new, multivalent way of thinking about urban spaces…
Posted on November 9, 2011 by David Finkelstein
VIDEOMAPPINGS: AIDA, PALESTINE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 46 minutes |
The mere act of asking to Palestinians to make their own maps, while telling their own stories, is political…
Posted on November 8, 2011 by David Finkelstein
THE FLOOR OF THE WORLD
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
Geiser’s aim, it seems, is not so much to tell a particular story, but to create a kind of fertile image and sound garden, where the seeds of many, many stories are just sprouting and starting to grow…
Posted on November 7, 2011 by David Finkelstein
GHOST ALGEBRA
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
“Ghost Algebra” is one of Janie Geiser’s most beautiful and evocative films, using her style of simply animated objects…
Posted on November 6, 2011 by David Finkelstein
CAT’S CRADLE
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
A great sense of variety and even drama within the narrow scope of this abstract, visual study…
Posted on November 5, 2011 by David Finkelstein
RETREAT
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
This seems like a very informal, relaxed version of Buddhism…
Posted on November 4, 2011 by David Finkelstein
CROOKED BEAUTY
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 34 minutes |
“Being told that I had a ‘mental illness’ was both horrifying, and very conveniently let me off the hook for having responsibility for my life…”
Posted on November 3, 2011 by David Finkelstein
