29 October 2015 4 mins
A fusion of two Cinématons to celebrate the day of experimental cinema in Samawah, Iraq.
Watch the official Samawah, year zero 2015 trailer in HD below or find more Samawah, year zero videos on Vidimovie.
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26 February 1996
A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.
26 February 1996
Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and fleeting colored forms.
26 February 1996
The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of nervous feedback, sometimes influenced by the colors of inlet waters, sometimes the wave movements, but more ordinarily by the cellular shifts and shapes of the optic system receiving exterior imagery.
26 February 1996
...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena.
01 January 1995
Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to multi-colored brush strokes and finally fulsomely darkened and thickened brush-strokes which then thin to something akin to the beginning.
01 January 1995
Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the end.
01 January 1995
Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy white (clear leader) spacing between them.
01 January 1995
Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which is increasingly interrupted by ragged-edged blobs and smears of color.
01 January 1995
Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift tone and lighten until ending on thin blues.
01 January 1995
This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are constantly interrupted by "cloud"-like forms.
26 February 1996
Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.
01 April 1953
Glen doesn't dare tell his fiancée Barbara that he is a transvestite; in addition, Alan is undergoing medical treatment to become a woman named Anne; both stories are told by a psychiatrist.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Samawah, year zero:
Le mélange de deux Cinématons de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la journée de cinéma expérimental à Samawa en Irak. (Version anglaise).
السمّاوة، عام صفر Samawah year zero : un clip de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la présentation de ses films à Samawah Iraq.
Le mélange de deux "Cinématons" de Gérard Courant pour célébrer la journée de cinéma expérimental à Samawa en Irak. (Version arabe).
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26 April 2015
A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny.
12 September 2015
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
10 October 2015
A group of friends are having a party on a boat. In the distance, a small town watches them in silence.
25 June 2015
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
24 July 2015
Shot on my iPhone, “shegetsey betsey” is an attempt to reconcile a breakup and examine the way in which I give and receive love.
03 February 2015
A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
20 May 2015
What is art and how does it relate to society? Is its value determined by its popularity or originality? Is the goal profit or expressing one's personal vision? These are some of the questions raised as we follow fiercely independent New York artist Robert Cenedella in his artistic journey through decades of struggling for creative expression.
13 February 2015
Humpback Whales takes audiences to Alaska, Hawaii and the Kingdom of Tonga for a close-up look at how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play and take care of their young.
22 April 2015
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance.
17 June 2015
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.
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