The confrontation with death and finitude….Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of things. (RBE)
Filter Films
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“I Am Always Connected” is about inseparable connections, like those between light and shadow, the mind and the body, the rational and the instinctual. The film is a new construction from footage originally made for a 1984 installation piece for the Lumen Travo, a gallery in Amsterdam. The original Super 8 film was projected hundreds of times in a loop. “I Am Always Connected” was filmed on a small country road near Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I painted the canvas backdrop based on photographs taken at the location. I recently returned to the location and found that all the trees had been cut down, due to some disease, I think. (PB) “In Philip Barker’s compact, stunning ‘I Am Always Connected’ the entire history of the camera’s relationship to the subject, to movement and the audience gets compressed into two sophisticated scenarios.” –Cameron Bailey, NOW Magazine
I Am Always Connected
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The story takes place in an abandoned mine near the sea, which has not been used for years. The wall between the sea and the mine has collapsed. The process of deterioration has imprisoned a human being. We do not know how and why this accident has befallen the unfortunate person. We just see him under the wall in the proximity of the sea and understand that with the coming tides he will surely drown. Nearby arrives a car with a mother, her daughter and her lover. Arriving by the seaside, they let the child play away from their proximity so as to have some privacy. The child spies the person under the fallen wall. She cannot understand his need for aid. “What is he doing under the rock?” the child muses to herself (she is just five years old). The mother tells her not to mention to her father their whereabouts. The lover jokes with the child, telling her that she saw “the bad dragon who eats little girls.”
Dragon Who Eats Little Girls, The
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A photograph from the past triggers filmmaker Konstatnin Selezen’s journey into the maze of half-forgotten memories, and prompts him to leave for his ex-homeland in search of things past. The voyage takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally meets Kostia, a victim of the post-perestroika chaos in the present-day Ukraine, who supports his blind wife and two children ( who he hopes will become famous movie stars) on small change that he earns by playing on city squares. “Songs of Youth” takes us onto Kostia’s routes to earning his daily bread, from his humble home in the village somewhat ironically named “Profit” to the famous Odessa Steps, now a cacophony of street music and hawkers, where Kosia outshines even the most irrepressible performers struggling for a place under the sun. Between songs Kostia intimately shares the joys and sorrows of his living, musing on love, death, suicide, hope, harmony and vision. His somewhat prophetic vision of the world becomes a link to a reality that most people look at but do not see.
Songs of Youth
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The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under her possession.
Pineapple
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Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.
Chosen Family, The
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“There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant, “Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason “ Born in the body (…and in time…) “Certainly even today some viewers will be affected by this work. Respect for the true art of filmmaking demanded that even the closeup be kept in, where a razor slices through an eye.” – Warning introduction to the German archival copy of “Un Chien Andalou”
ACHTUNG – die Achtung (concentration chair) | ACHTUNG – Respect (concentration chair)
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A film about the importance of dreams and how far one person is willing to go to make those dreams reality. It chronicles German director Werner Herzog’s making of “Fitzcarraldo” in the Peruvian Amazon. Disaster after disaster befalls Herzog and “Burden of Dreams” grows into a fascinating record of an obsessed genius in the grips of an artistic passion that knows no bounds. Besieged by torrential rains, attacks by armed Indians and the loss of his leading actors, Werner Herzog endures the storm.
Burden of Dreams
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Gothic, mechanized and faintly arcane with a provocative erotic charge, Geiser‘s film floats the viewer in a surreal world of subconscious imaginings both seductive and deeply disturbing. “‘Lost Motion’ begins with a male toy figure set in a kitchen. We are familiar with this setting (we’ve all been in kitchens) but estranged from it as well (this kitchen is very creepy)….”- Barry Doyle
Lost Motion
