Rain pours and rubbish soars while light-bulb creatures party on the edge of the earth. A turn-of-the-century scientist in his chamber and a magic lantern child are concerned about the state of the planet. An ode to awareness and transformation, a global warning. —Fern Seiden
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
Le côté obscur de l'ampoule
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
This short tells the story of archery through the ages, mostly using Warner Brothers archive footage. Noted archer Howard Hill demonstrates his skills with various trick shots.
A three-part film by Cao Fei. Part one, 'Imagination of Product', shows workers and machines at the OSRAM lightbulb factory in China's Pearl River Delta. In the second part, 'Factory Fairytale', dancers and musicians appear in the factory, as work continues around them. Finally, 'My Future is Not a Dream' consists of portraits of the factory workers facing Fei's camera.
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
The best rescue team in town, T-Pang Rescue has great members: Titi, the great leader; Pangpang, the incredible transformer; Toktok, the brain of the team; and Sheepon, the only girl, but the bravest of all! One day a big spaceship lands in town and turns into a fascinating amusement park. While everybody is attracted by exciting rides, a father bear asks T-Pang to find his baby lost in the park. Strangely enough, the guards in the park don’t let them search for the baby. With lots of doubt, T-Pang moves to save the baby.
Though he’s a troublemaker prone to argue with friends all the time, Jacob is inseparable from his besties Lucy and Noah. One day at a museum, while bantering with Lucy as always, Jacob gets lost and finds himself in a strange village by himself. Jacob’s journey home is accompanied by the Monkeyville Guide, who looks hardly trustworthy. Will they be able to escape Monkeyville, where only gold and pleasure are worshiped, and go back home safely?
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
Vulvina has just separated from her ex, but a strange encounter will change her love life forever and perhaps even endanger her kingdom.
Dimitri is a little bird from northern Europe and has landed on the plain of Ubuyu in Africa. Every day he learns to overcome his fears and discovers a world full of surprises. In Ubuyu being different is an asset that he will share with Makeba the giraffe, Oko the zebra and Pili the meerkat.
This is a story about little Bobo, who was the smallest little boy in the world. Bobo's greatest wish was to no longer be so small, that is why one day he went out in the rain in order to grow bigger...
After Janie accidentally murders her husband during disputed infidelity over a stripper, her husband's brother introduces her to an Aztec spell that resurrects him from the dead; Unfortunately, he returns to take revenge.
Can a calculated vector line inspire the same feelings as a drawn pixel line? A tongue-in-cheek declaration of love to the technology and aesthetics of the past 6o years.
This animated film advertises the advantages of the “Buchclub 65” (Book Club 65), a book community founded in 1965. Membership in the community, which existed until 1990, entitled you to regularly buy books at discount prices. The nationwide supply of reading matter to the population of the GDR is emphasised, the club magazine is introduced. And once a year, there is a gift: the main recommendation book.
The Wireless Wire-Walkers, also released as Wireless Wire Walker, is a 1921 silent animated film starring Krazy Kat. The film marks the final Krazy Kat film produced by Bray Studios before the filmmakers moved to Winkler Pictures.
A dog asks Krazy Kat to deliver a bowling ball to Kolin Kelly.