Three-channel installation. (Meant to displayed on three 'faux walls' covered by wallpaper, each wall fitted with a 14-inch TV screen hidden behind a double-sided mirror with frame, which functions like a mirror reflecting the videos' viewers' faces when the videos show black screens intermittently.) The three videos were recorded without sound at the artist's home and the following contents are displayed throughout: 1) A breath directed towards a mirror, which blurs it, followed by a wiping clean of the mirror surface; 2) An opening up of a mouth followed by a sticking out of the tongue; 3) A close-up view of an eye-roll.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
A doctor and his wife move to a new city where they plan to start a new life. However, trouble strikes in the form of a police inspector who gets completely obsessed with the doctor's wife.
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena.
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines.
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