Self-Portrait
- Duracion: 0:17
- Votos: 3.50 from 2 people
- Reproducciones: 44
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin Cuaron Felipe ImportantPictures self-portrait Veslav
Felipe Cuaron's "Self-Portrait" is a stunning, rigorously honest "warts and all" depiction of a man who found his art easy, but being a human being rather less so. The film while penetratingly personal, also transcends itself to give a universal insight into what it means to be alive.
Lorelei
- Duracion: 0:10
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 75
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Arnarsdóttir Botkin European folktale Hildur ImportantPictures Lorelei Veslav
Hildur Arnarsdóttir here takes on the Southern German folk myth of the Lorelei, a siren who lures sailors to their deaths in the Rhineland. This is beautiful storytelling from Arnarsdóttir, breathing new life and layers of meaning into a familiar European classic that's, you know, a bit like...
Grandma
- Duracion: 0:8
- Votos: 5.00 from 2 people
- Reproducciones: 78
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin Grandma ImportantPictures Jeremiah McDonald memento mori Veslav
Jeremiah McDonald's touching meditation on the ageing process draws both upon the European art tradition of the Memento Mori and a store of family recollections and memories, to provide us with some unforgettable imagery. The artist instructs us to ponder. And we ponder.
My Favourite Dream
- Duracion: 0:10
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 58
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Billabong Botkin Dream Favourite ImportantPictures My Richard Sir Veslav
Sir Richard Billabong's semi-autobiographical "My Favourite Dream" caused riots in Dusseldorf when it was first exhibited in 1986. No-one now can remember why.
Foreign Policy
- Duracion: 0:20
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 69
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin Finch Ford foreign ImportantPictures Morrison policy twins Veslav
Morrison Ford is believed to be one of the Finch twins working under an assumed name. Certainly, "Foreign Policy" is too accomplished and sophisticated to be the work of an illiterate fourteen year old, as has been claimed. The subtle political analysis and the intelligent juxtaposition of music...
Word Vomit
- Duracion: 0:9
- Votos: 5.00 from 3 people
- Reproducciones: 155
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin Edith Finch ImportantPictures masterpiece Veslav vomit word
Edith Finch's masterpiece requires no description.
Why I Really Bought My Laptop
- Duracion: 0:17
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- Reproducciones: 79
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin ImportantPictures Jon laptop Smart spiritual Veslav
The convicted felon Jon Smart's inspirational "Why I Really Bought My Laptop" displays Smart's superior storytelling skills to great effect. But better yet, just beyond the surface of the narrative lies a deep symbolism that resonates deeply with the viewer on an almost spiritual level. Smart...
A History Of Venezuelan Goldmining, 1934-43
- Duracion: 0:22
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- Reproducciones: 89
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Botkin Cuaron Felipe goldmining history ImportantPictures Primitivism Venezuela Veslav
A decade of boom - but also political intrigue and corruption - in the South American mining industry is here beautifully recorded by the Chilean Primitivist Felipe Cuaron, whose film captures the feel of hard, dangerous, manual labour in semi-darkness with unnerving accuracy. There are 28 parts...
Anecdotes Not Worth Telling, Number 15
- Duracion: 0:31
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 91
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: anecdotes Botkin Enid Finch ImportantPictures paper Veslav waste
Edith Finch's direct sequel to her twin sister, Enid's "Anecdotes Not Worth Telling, Number 6" is a soul-searching epic, which both revisits and expands upon the themes and motifs of the earlier work. This is a beguiling, heart-wrenching piece. The two sisters have spent much of the last year...
Anecdotes Not Worth Telling, Number 6
- Duracion: 0:17
- Votos: 5.00 from 2 people
- Reproducciones: 67
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: anecdotes Botkin Enid Finch ImportantPictures juggling Veslav
Despite its title, the first in Enid Finch's witty and deeply personal series on moments we might call epiphanies.
Canada
- Duracion: 0:15
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 51
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Berlin Botkin Canada Cando colonialism ImportantPictures Veslav
Another student film from the legendary Cando, and forming a companion piece to "Post-War Austerity", "Canada" finds the artist using the recently passed Canada Act - which gave that country full independence from the UK - as a jumping off point from which to launch a contemplative yet precise...
The Death Contemplation Paradox, Part II
- Duracion: 0:12
- Votos: 5.00 from 1 people
- Reproducciones: 84
- Autor: ImportantPictures
Tags: Aronavic Botkin contemplation death horror ImportantPictures paradox Pytori terror Veslav
The wild, contagious success of Pytori Aronavic's Gothic horror "Death Contemplation Paradox" in 1916 inevitably led to a sequel, and one of the first genre franchises was born. "The Death Contemplation Paradox, Part II" picks up the story where the first installment left off. Aronavic was keen...
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