A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world into a colorful "bliss." When his younger brother discovers his secret, their relationship is put in jeopardy.
After leaving the psychiatric facility where they had been wrongfully confined, Katya and Yulia, two young Russian women whom I have been filming for many years, finally achieve independent lives. This newfound freedom, which they have fought so hard to attain, promises to make their dreams of a new future come true. But how can one be free and pursue their aspirations in today’s Russia?
They are in poor shape and are afraid of the ball, but Norway's new national team still wants to go to the WC. With Ole Martin Årst as coach, they aim for the top.
Au Revoir Siam charts the mental journey of a Thai political refugee in France. Intertwining traditional Thai rituals with the reality faced by political refugees, filmmaker Domenico Singha Pedroli explores the concept of borders, examining time, space and identity. A poetic and political narrative that delves into the troubled past of the Kingdom of Siam.
As a visual artist with a new media background, I translate memories and moments into visual stories using digital techniques. This digital work titled Dream Reunion is an animation about my maternal grandfather. The night before he died in the hospital, he was in and out of consciousness. He awoke and thought he was in Cape North, Nova Scotia. So, I hijacked his final dream, creating a map to guide our reunion back East.
Learning To Swim is a personal film where I reflect on my connection to water, both personally and within the larger cultural context of Black America. In the midst of this reflection, I attempt to learn how to swim, to ease the tension I feel toward this thing I'm inextricably linked to.
A mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless “pool”, Swimming Lesson aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning in the sea. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the Bedouin town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities. The work deals with the lack of swimming pools due to discrimination, but in a future world, in a few years or a little more, there may be a shortage of water due to global warming, drought and evaporation as well.
A lyrical and contemplative gallery tour is unexpectedly interrupted by personal memories. Shared metaphors are conjured up by remembered, real and imagined smells. Wandering among this gallery’s replicated portraits the lingering smells of surrounding exhibits and faint smells of air, questions are raised about truth, perception and the conditions that interfere with our perception of place.
Lincoln Park Golf Course has represented the fabric of Milwaukee for over 100 years, providing a secret garden of community where generations of players meet in fellowship over the game they all love.
