Mountain plays with perspective, scale, time and sound to create a sense of anxiety and (both spatial and temporal) displacement. Confronting the viewer with the appearance of nothing happening - with stasis - the work utilizes waiting or being idle to gain insight and a deeper sense of time, duration and what it means to be 'productive.' The work thus steps on this threshold between being 'productive' and 'unproductive' and attempts to see how far anticipation and expectation could be pushed and/or stretched.
Freemont Gordon isn't passionate about his successful job as an architect in Los Angeles. After turning 30, he finds his job isn't enough, so he quits and takes a road trip—and along the way meets some amazing and generous people.
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters.
Hamdan is a former Palestinian leader who spent 15 years locked up in the old Israeli prisons. In 1973, while living in Syria, he was given a mission to smuggle explosives across the border and train a person he trusted.
In the near future: the EU has collapsed, stock market prices have collapsed, energy costs have exploded; many thousands lose the roof over their heads and literally end up on the street.
Natan tells the remarkable story of Bernard Natan, a Romanian immigrant who came to Paris in 1905 and was involved almost immediately with French cinema.
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter.
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