decay
14 movies and shows
Soviet Bus Stops
Fri, 24 May 2024
“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.
CODEC
Fri, 09 Jun 2023
An uninvited guest unearths bitter tensions within a friendship group celebrating their graduation.
Flowers
Sun, 01 Feb 2015
An abstract, surreal horror film centering on six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer's house.
After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
Tue, 06 Dec 2011
Ever wondered what would happen in your own home if you were taken away, and everything inside was left to rot? The answer is revealed in this fascinating programme, which explores the strange and surprising science of decay. For two months in summer 2011, a glass box containing a typical kitchen and garden was left to rot in full public view within Edinburgh Zoo. In this resulting documentary, presenter Dr George McGavin and his team use time-lapse cameras and specialist photography to capture the extraordinary way in which moulds, microbes and insects are able to break down our everyday things and allow new life to emerge from old. Decay is something that many of us are repulsed by. But as the programme shows, it's a process that's vital in nature. And seen in close up, it has an unexpected and sometimes mesmerising beauty.
A Wave From The Ocean Crashing Into the Shore
Sat, 30 Nov 2024
This experimental film explores the relationship between what we perceive as natural and what we perceive as unnatural and how this relationship changes over time due to natural and unnatural decay.
Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena
Sun, 21 Oct 1990
During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.
House of Rot
Invalid Date
The mind of a prisoner, expressed through various poetic stanzas, corrodes at the same rate as the house they are trapped in.
Sofka
Sun, 11 Jan 1948
In order to save her family from financial collapse, a young woman named Sofka marries 12-year-old son of a wealthy merchant. Grown up in different times and milieu, her husband shows no understanding for such move of hers.
Decasia: The State of Decay
Thu, 24 Jan 2002
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Bed & Breakfast
Invalid Date
After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.
Porto Franco 2000
Tue, 13 Mar 2001
A documentary about Sulina a dying small port city in the Danube Delta (Romania).
The Calicoon
Invalid Date
Two teenage girls discover the terrible secret lying within the walls of the decaying, once-magnificent vacation destination, The Hotel Calicoon -- a deadly secret that has been concealed for nearly four decades.
Digital Decay
Tue, 03 Jun 2025
A very famous and vaunted digital influencer sees his life crumble before his eyes, after a series of disturbing actions...