In Im Leo a red figure stands in the balcony doorway of a white model room—but at the same time outside in the open. Holding a mirror in her hand, Bajtala redirects sunlight, blinding the camera lens, effacing the image in rhythmic intervals. The soundtrack accentuates this rhythmization through its synchronization with the image. Alone this slight movement of an otherwise motionless body on the threshold between the paradoxical inner and outer realms suffices to address the ‘blind spot’ of the medium, and at the same time to render it incapacitated. Bajtala undertakes with the mirror, itself a threshold, literally a transformation of visibility and invisibility and in so doing sharpens awareness of changing realities within their context of representation and reproduction.
The story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the successful 35-year-old correspondent Ksenia to take a candid interview with the famous Canadian hockey player Denis Kravtsov.
Viri is a trendy bar waitress, Lissa works in a supermarket and sings hip-hop, Valeria veterinary studies, Yvonne tries to find a place in the world of music and Lourdes does tattoos on the premises of his brother Pogo.
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace.
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
200 km follows the marches carried out by Sintel workers to reach Madrid on May 1, 2002. Sintel was a subsidiary of Telefónica that, when it was privatized, was closed, leaving its 1,800 workers on the streets.
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedicated person he truly is.
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.
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