Thalé 2012 streaming

Like a Wave in the Sea...

Two women- one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering - interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island....

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and flowers as if trying, linearly, to evolve a glyph-script....

Men and dogs move dreamily through a room. In this hostile environment, their attitudes and reactions lead to irritated moods....

A terrestrial TV signal is mapped into patterns created by a Voltage Controlled Oscillator. Short snippets of the TV’s audio are randomly introduced in an attempt to recontextualise the broadcast and perchance elicit new meaning....

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak....

a minimalistic audio visual composition you can play yourself....

Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and colour distortion, heightening the viewer’s awareness of film-time and the film-image, and perception of colour in motion....

Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the film progresses from simplicity to complexity… With the film’s culmination in representational, photographic imagery, one would anticipate a culminating “richness” of image; yet the insistent evidence of splice bars and the loop and repetition of the short piece of found footage and the conflicting superimposition of filtered loops all reiterate the work which is necessary to decipher that cinematic image. - Deke Dusinberre...

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master....

"A study of place and presence through degrees of winter. The natural and artificial world commingle, and continued exposure strips the seemingly insignificant of prescribed meaninglessness. Emptiness fades, a natural presence emerges, ebb and flow holds sway over the moving image and shakes loose roles of setting or background.”...

Water runs under a bridge A church looms overhead A couple films each other on the shoreline Walking into a sea of chaotic filmic decay Super 8mm Kodachrome shot by my parents in 1985, and buried by myself in late summer of 2018....

A day in the life of an 'organillero' as he plays his music in the streets of a Chilean city....

An observational film that using the fragmented format of a newscast program proposes a cinematic glance to the same reality depicted daily by the media....

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James Fotopoulos’ first feature film is a two and half hour endurance test about a lonely man’s decent into horror, mutilation and psychological collapse. The lines of reality and fantasy blur when the man’s hand-tinted primordial dreams of humanoid sex and violence manifest in his everyday reality as cancer, abuse and mannequin love....

Life in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy, his family, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes. Filmed in a fusion of authentic and staged documentation, with robotic performances by actors and non-actors, the piece meditates on the mundane existence of human and animal life....

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep....

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence....