touch. by Daria Korol
The other side of touch in today’s age of touch technologies
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The other side of touch in today’s age of touch technologies
“Visually and aurally mesmerizing. It is rare to see something this unique and well-realized.”
–Frank Mouris
Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.
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An adaptation of Margurite Duras’ true story “The Cutter-off of Water” about one Summer day.
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The Elsewhereness series deals with questions of site specificity, juxtaposing the nomadic with the place-bound.
Using 3d technology and live shooting, Glucose reshapes our surrounding domestic environment. It depicts a place where physical distorsions happen. The camera becomes the microscope of a slow mental slideshow and catches precious moments of perception disorder.
Continue reading “Glucose by Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize”
A fleet-footed fun from times gone by. Baby Baby Baby was part of the opening show of DL6 | The Berlin International Directors Lounge 2010.
Keely, a lonely 16 year old teenager and ballerina, meets Mairi, an eccentric and attractive girl who is her complete opposite. As the pair are drawn closer to one another, Keely’s limits of desire and self-control are put to the test.
Bewildered, Carlos awakens from a nightmare stalked by Death. The dream has a foreboding message, which is not entirely clear to him. Carlos decides to challenge his destiny and face the consequences, but his evil doing ends up shaping his own fate and that of those around him.
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Kosal, a poet and tattoo artist, resides in Phnom Penh after spending 14 years of his life in a U.S. prison.
Raw and unassuming, his performance makes walls disappear leaving room only for emotions. An act for Kosal to reclaim his place in the world as a free man, a step that begins in Cambodia not America.
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