It is the expressive face of a young gir Carola Schmidt sensitively transforms the documentary video material she produced of a psychological portrait into a poetic study. The portrayed is the figure of a female fan of the band Tokio-Hotel in a concert situation. The starting point for the work is the type of fan as an individual. There is an exchange of monstrous energies with cathartic effects typical of these ecstatic states. Of course, well-known symptoms of 'fan culture' are called up through your work: unfulfilled longings, the desire to be one with the crowd, the merging of the self in the collective, the positive feelings that are shown to the star as a projection surface and the associated desire to function as a form of self-awareness through self-ingratiation.
Nikki Blue is a dancer at a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice, a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf.
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
A documentary following the exploits of a group of filmmakers as they take their independent feature, Ten 'til Noon, along the film festival circuit, and the politics, pitfalls, triumphs and comic tragedies they encounter along the way.
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a kept woman who defies convention to chase a dream of romantic love with an earnest, if naïve, young man.
