The stor y of a man who wants to be touched and takes advantage of an airport passengers’ control system to enjoy brief moments of pleasure. Today, he crosses yet another frontier.
The routine of the daily commute on the train the usual trip, no surprises. The monotony of an over-familiar return journey, endlessly coming and going.
Réalisateur : Caicedo de Roux Santiago
Production : ENSAD - École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris
It’s not a simple ABC, this found footage alphabet by Volker Schreiner. Schreiner reveals his qualities in collecting and choreographing footage from classic (Hollywood) films. The concept of alphabetical ordering is loosely maintained so there’s room for a playful contribution from the subconscious.
With it’s slow travelling shots of deserted corridors, close-ups of door-handles and scribbled notes and low-angle shots of staircases this film vibrates with references to film noir and in particular to Hitchcock-style suspense.
A youthful, idealistic and romantic love, a eugology, if you will. One’s point of view suddenly shifts and becomes something else. Each moment contains a contradiction. How do you alter this moment ?
In a militar y laborator y, a scientist has become obsessed with the half-human half-eel cr eature he’s studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren....
Marc is afraid of stepping on the lines between the paving-stones in the street. With the help of Mr. X, he star ts a treatment to overcome his phobia.