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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2015:
29 September 2015
Artists and the military might seem strange bedfellows, but painters, sculptors, photographers and set designers have played a critical but little-known role in modern warfare.
18 June 2015
A documentary chronicling the events surrounding three Americans arrested and held as political hostages in Iran and their families’ campaign to free them.
13 May 2015
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.
06 February 2015
In Matt Braunger's stand-up special, he reveals why single men are so creepy, describes the drunken antics he observed as a bartender and details a surprisingly stressful Bingo victory.
01 December 2015
What would it look like if Jesus was born in the 21st century? Savior is a contemprary interpretation of the Christmas story set in modern England.
19 September 2015
Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide.
15 December 2015
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
15 January 2015
A troubled former supermodel seeks to make her way in the world after getting kicked out of rehab.
18 December 2015
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
04 February 2015
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
25 December 2015
A sequel to more traditions of a typical Colombian family, this time we will see a bachelor party, Halloween, a heartbreak and much more.
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