Set against a backdrop of spectacular neon footage of Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, the film is an illuminating exploration into the vibrant history and contemporary use of neon. The movement, power, and raw exuberance of neon is revealed through a fascinating demonstration of how neon is made, a montage of notable neon installations and commentary from a colorful array of neon experts.
Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tourist films and suggesting instead a lifestyle rhymed by windshield wipers and the music of The Honeymoon Killers. The film is flashing back-and-forth and ultimately leaves, like an arabesque of light and colour made of lines, curves and angles.
A gentle love story from the harsh environment of northern Bohemia.
Welcome to the neon studio of Carolina Pereira. Bem-vindo ao estúdio neon da Carolina Pereira.
A film celebrating the beauty and romance, the art and science of neon: visually stunning, one of the most environmentally friendly forms of lighting ever made, and endangered – LED is slowly but surely taking its place around the globe. Vivid, beautiful and insightful, Neon is the story of this noble element that has so profoundly coloured the modern world.
In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...
Charly is looking for his American girlfriend, Amy, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances during a vacation stay at a hotel in Copenhagen. A few months later Charly decides to revisit the hotel to finally solve the mystery once and for all. However, Charly's investigation is quickly derailed by the mysterious and flirtatious receptionist, Felicija, and his own gradually failing judgement that leads him into a phantasmagorical nightmare.
A young private detective gets dragged into a larger mystery after taking on a missing person case in Phoenix, Arizona.
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make
A solitary boy is confronted by a stranger with concealed intentions…
A grieving woman takes a mysterious pill that throws her into the drug trip of her life...or death.
Two people who decide to hook-up for the first time distract themselves with comforting conversation.
Three kids are trying to stand strong. In a world where you don’t know for what you want to stay strong. Full of sexuality and the need to define their identity. “We are the children with no obligations, the most possibilities, with the most liberated freedom. We are children who build words. Children who give birth to children. We are children of our time, free from guilt.”
A chauvinistic young man pays a visit to a new nightclub named "Salem's Flames", unaware that he is about to meet his comeuppance at the hands of a coven of witches.
Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.
In pursuit of happiness, a young woman fantasises about killing her boyfriend
Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.
A has-been teen celebrity gets his life in order, however, upon returning to the entertainment industry, he is faced with a new, darker side to it.
On the wake of a girl having been found dead in a club, Carlos starts to see bizarre things and feel strange changes in his body. When he meets Paula, the boy fears for her well-being as he grows suspicious of what's happening to him.
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.