Lights

"Blinded by the Light" is a two-channel video installation commissioned by Thai Film Archive in celebration of 124th anniversary of the birth of Thai cinema. The film aims to interrogate double- sided effects of how cinema itself has changed and developed through time, and how it affected both workers in film productions and its audiences along its journey.

This documentary weaves three stories – all set in the blind community of Havana, Cuba – into a tale of personal independence. As Lis, Mily, and Margarita each face family problems and heartbreak, their dependence on others turns out to be a double-edged sword. From the music halls of Havana to a cinema club for the blind, their stories reveal both the pain and the joys of fighting for yourself.

The little Fly lived happily and carefree, surrounded by the light of light bulbs and the love of her grandfather Silkworm. However, when the grandfather leaves the heroine, the light bulbs go with him. Now the Fly has to figure out what makes the light bulbs burn.

A woman keeps goldfish in her kitchen. One day, the woman meets a strange man who hides his cheeks behind a white cloth. The film is set in motion the moment the wind stops and the shadows disappear. It is the story of a child born without wanting to be born, who has no place to stay.

Ghodrat is a disabled simple young boy who lives with a watchman of a shrine in a village. The watchman thinks that the people of village are having a misbelief to the shrine and they seldom come there like before. On the other hand people have lost their faith since none of their wishes and requests have been fulfilled by the shrine. During this time the watchman leaves the village for some time and puts Ghodrat in charge of shrine works. Ghodrat has this gift to communicate with spirits of those buried in shrines garden. Being so simple he spends all the belongings and the money of the shrine for the people and very soon the shrine is empty. One night a shepherdess loses her sheeps in darkness. Ghodrat who is in love with the girl, holds a light all night till morning until all the sheeps come to shrine .The next morning Ghodrat leaves the village by train towards a place where he believes the Master of shrine is there.

Grisha was in an unfamiliar hotel. As ill luck would have it, they cut out the light. Meeting with neighbors will greatly change his life.

Filmmaker Jan Willem van Dam made a film in Georgia, following the Revolution of the Roses in 2003, on the borderline of fiction and documentary. The film is based on 'the life and dreams' of Nini Sardlishvili, a sixteen-year-old Georgian girl. Nini tells about her life and dreams, speaks with two elderly women about past and future and walks among the ruins of a huge, burnt-out Soviet archive. She plays herself in the film, just like the other protagonist, Domestic Intelligence agent Gocha Ovashvili. He travels across the country in response to a remarkable appeal by a Georgian minister (appearing in a newscast), to ask people if they are criminals. During this futile and absurd quest, he meets mainly aged Georgians, including a shepherd and two monks, and admires the scenery.

A man contracted to solve a series of disappearances is drawn deeper into an increasingly labyrinthine mystery of which there seems to be no logical explanation; instead, the answers perhaps lie in something outside of the natural order- within the supernatural. Available to watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/338748835

An artistic study of natural materials and a child’s face, which Pilař transforms into abstract objects by transferring them into a negative and changing the colour scheme. Despite the date given in the film (1982), it is probably one of his experiments on the Betamax format, realised around 1984 in his summer studio at his cottage in Jarkovice.

2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept.

Film distributed by ATG.

In the municipality of Cortazar, Salvador Juárez seeks to rescue and share the memory of what it was once like to live there.

An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.

The film is counterbalanced between two interrelated parts. The first part takes place in Los Angeles, and is centered around a Korean female student, Gah-in, who is studying in the US. She is having a sexual affair with a married man named, Jun. The second part is about Jun's wife, Do-hee, which takes place in Seoul, Korea.

In her struggle to find the right path in life, Selya finds comfort and peace with “The Blinding Light.” Selya, a preacher in the morning and a prostitute at night, is a victim of her father’s lust. Psychologically disturbed, she seeks solace in the blinding light of the flashlight on her eyes and ultimately discovers peace, which also gives her an immediate relief from all her problems.

Yu-lan came to Taipei from southern Taiwan. She has got a successful career as a dancer. When her foster mother gets dementia, she has no choice but to retire and go back home. However, the trial and tribulation of her new life have reminded her of her childhood memories. During an argument with her mother’s foreign caretaker, the cause of her foster brother’s death and the secrets about her biological mother are gradually being revealed... As a woman of the advanced maternal age, Yu-lan has found herself unexpectedly pregnant with a baby. Following her heart, she has entered the circle of destiny. Departure means coming back, and her starting point is also her finish line. Is birth adjacent to or far away from death? Maybe at last, you’ll see that the shadow you met will be also the light to guide your life.

A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake, he lavishly squanders his pasta profits, despite the earnest efforts of his partner Orestis, to rein in his spending and put some sense into him. When the business finally goes bankrupt, the hero considers leaving for the Congo to work with his twin brother, Vangelis. Suddenly, however, everything changes, as Vangelis arrives in Athens.

The first Syrian talkie.

Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Sehun and Baekhyun, who are lovers, enjoy dating. However, Baekhyun wants sexual intercourse, but Sehun reluctantly promises to do it in 100 days due to repeated demands.