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6 movies and shows
The Goal Is To Live
Mon, 29 Apr 2019
The Goal Is To Live is an infinitely-looping assemblage constructed out of repurposed content from the popular show How It’s Made, which chronicles the factories that create everyday objects. The film takes Dina Kelberman’s practice of accumulation and recontextualization into a large-scale time-based work for the first time. Reorganizing short clips into a long Rube-Goldberg-like narrative, and featuring a hypnotic minimalist soundtrack by Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal, the film portrays a mesmerizing and surreal process in which materials are transformed in myriad ways.
Allahu Akbar
Wed, 01 Jan 2003
Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.
Highway Hypnosis
Sat, 14 Sep 2024
"Highway Hypnosis" - alternatively referred to as "white line fever" - is a dazed state in which a driver may travel long stretches of open road in a compliant and normal fashion, yet with little-to-no recollection of how their destination was reached.
Pistachio
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A guy becomes entranced by the glow of the television screen as he absent-mindedly indulges in a pack of mixed nuts. Hypnotized by the flickering images, he is lost in a trance-like state, disconnected from the world around him. Then, he encounters with a pistachio.
River of Tears
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My Hair is a River of Tears is a hypnotic experimental animation that plunges viewers into the isolating depths of schizophrenia. Through poetic visuals and haunting narration, the film traces a solitary journey across surreal cityscapes and shifting inner landscapes. As the protagonist’s thoughts unravel - sparkling with hope, yet clouded by fear - the world becomes a kaleidoscope of anxiety and longing. Dreamlike imagery and a flowing, lyrical script immerse us in the raw emotions of loneliness, confusion, and fleeting hope, offering a powerful meditation on the lived experience of mental illness.
Fleshworm Dreams
Sat, 07 Dec 2024
Fleshworm Dreams is a trippy, kaleidoscopic visual experience that pairs with an abstract, experimental nature record. Think of it like looking through a constantly shifting kaleidoscope—vibrant colors, strange shapes, and mesmerizing patterns swirling together in a beautiful, almost hypnotic way. It’s a chill, weird, and visually stunning ride, where the lines between nature and imagination blur.