Of Dogs

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof.

A dying forest flared up and the flavor of damp ruin, settled in on the tongue: Tsai Ming Liang created an entirely novel artwork with his tenth feature film 'Stray Dogs' at the Museum MoNTUE. Moving images eclipsed, in slivers and swathes, by immovable shadows of deadwood. Waking, sleep and everything in between proved indistinguishable. This documentary recreates elements of existential banality (on view) and guides focus inward. It establishes a firm, if converse, analog between cinema and consciousness: an interplay of movie (and its constituent elements of light, shadow and audience) mirrored in consciousness (and its building blocks of waking, sleep and dream) if you will.

A painter and a novelist share an abandoned apartment building. The painter takes in 99 stray dogs as the subjects of his next work but, as he does not have enough resources to feed them, the dogs turn feral. Meanwhile, the novelist begins to have an uneasy dread about what will happen when the painter's latest work is complete

According to the law of physical elimination of stray dogs in exchange of a small monetary reward, two middle-aged Albanian ex-hunters, Nikolin and Enver, take a nocturnal journey throughout the city, which is soon interrupted by an unexpected turn of events.

A destructive aggression is festering inside the 19-year-old Gijs. He must learn to contain it as his life is steadily getting out of control.

A "documentary" that explores the myth of the Human-Faced Dog. The legend of the Human-Faced Dog goes all the way to Tokugawa era Japan. In stories, the Human-Faced Dog is initially mistaken for a normal, mangy dog, but as the unlucky passerby gets closer the human features become apparent. Sightings are always at night, and the dog, if approached, will morosely tell people, “Leave me alone”. The Human-Faced Dog took on a new life in more recent times, its peak of popularity in the late 80s and early 90s, where it was claimed to have been seen on highways, chasing cars at enormous speeds and causing car crashes.

"Com Meus Olhos de Cão" (With My Dog-Eyes), is a "friction" film that mixes documentary elements from the life and work of the erudite composer Gilberto Mendes with fictional elements from the book Com Meus Olhos de Cão, by Hilda Hilst.

Recordings from Knud Rasmussen's 5th Thule Expedition, which took place 1921-1924. With dog sled north of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the longest sled journey ever made. In addition to a scientific team consisting of six Danes, he had two Greenlanders on the trip: Arnarulunnguaq (the little woman) and Miteq (the eider). Photographer Leo Hansen was hired in Alaska, November 1923, and filmed the rest of the trip.

A stop-motion animation about a cardhouse builder who lives alone in a house, high on a hill. One day a frozen dog stands outside the door and the whole life changes.

The primary motif of the documentary is the journey. A metaphorical journey, a spiritual journey, a tangible journey, a forest path, a road, a sidewalk, a drug trip, or a journey abroad. The director pastes together a collage of micro-stories of people and places that comment on the journey. Her documentary oscillates between playful absurdism, existentialism and existential questions, environmentalism, and social commentary. The dynamism and rhythm of the narrative are then determined by the jumps between different forms of video, such as analogue film, digital film, and mobile phone filming.

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.

An ethnographic film resulting from a French anthropological expedition in the early 1930s to Africa.

It's a hot day at the municipality's lido. A place where the whole village meets to satisfy their daily need for fries with sausages and to cool off in the lukewarm water of the lake and the pool.

An animated adaptation of Yumeno Kyuusaku's sci-fi novel Dogura Magura.

Comical interaction between a little girl who comes to buy sweets and a candy man.

In this short, base on the fable by Jean De La Fontaine, we join a Samurai and a Ronin as they settle their dispute like gentlemen in a dramatic duel of swords.

A TV adaptation of the story “Twins” by Prezihov Voranc.

Two missionaries visit a house in a rural community in Mexico. When they enter, they are expected with lunch ready: chicken broth. The missionaries are not excited about this and one of them takes advantage of the fact that the owners of the house are not paying attention to get rid of his soup, which will reveal the true objective of the townspeople.