Charlotte Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the pioneer of animation. Her film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” that she begun making in 1923 and released in 1926 was the first and the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. Reiniger made more than 70 films over her career. Reiniger fled Germany to England in…
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Living Madness with MITRA
So… tonight was the dress rehearsal, the pre-premier if one will, of MITRA. And well… [this] had to happen. ‘Cause… so much thoughts and emotions…Enter the madness of other. To understand the madness. Of other. Of self. To understand the fight for the right and justice. While we walked down the narrow yet illuminated path,…
“Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.”
“What is art?,” asked Tarkovksy. “Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.” “Never try to convey your idea to the audience,” said Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, “—it is a thankless and senseless…
Hands of Bresson
“The things one can express with the hands…” – Robert Bresson “A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture… here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.” – Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight &…
the look of sound. the sound of movement.
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike “pas de trente-deux” in this short directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher, with the music by Steve Reich.