Still Life

A mortician falls in love with a dead body

Based on a quote by Ira Glass, "Still Life" tells the story about a photography student who wrestles with his thoughts about his creativity and talent.

2001 Sam Taylor video art piece featuring rotting fruit in time lapse

A girl wanders down a long road. When she comes to, she finds herself in a deserted new town. A middle-aged man calls out to her and puts her in his car. The man, who claims to be a probation officer, is in fact the caretaker of the housing estate, and makes it a routine to approach women with the intention of roughing them up.

Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli occupation. This portrait provides brutal witness to how government sanctioned destruction metes upon structures of home and State. Unlike the mediated images of current warfare, Still Life examines the effects of the destruction of Occupation through the details of cinematic landscapes and its inherent inhabitants. In its relentless questioning reaffirmed with a unique and unremitting soundtrack by composer Zeena Parkins, Still Life forces us to focus on details of devastation.

A female life-model sits for a class of male artists.

Inspired by the lives of the forgotten black female muses in 18th and 19th-century masterpieces.

Experimental film by Richard Kerr.

"The Arab governments pushed us out of our homes... I was twelve years old… I've been here for 60 years." A beautiful, poignant documentary, Still Life examines the effect a collection of personal photos showing life in Palestine before the 1948 displacement have on an elderly Palestinian fisherman living in exile in Lebanon. The importance of place and memory in preserving a people's history are crucial to Diana Allan's illuminating documentary. In, Said Ismael Otruk, a Palestinian man born in Acre in the 1930s, recalls his childhood and the halcyon days of his youth. His memories, not always accurate, so he relies on the photographs he managed to take with him. They are images of young boys, of the port, of fishing boats and the sea. On one, he reads a note he wrote many years ago: "Acre and Said in the Golden Age."

you left in october. we've been walking ever since. caught between brief awakenings, one step after another. the wind picked up here / here / here / / / /

A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands what is going on but invariably blames the daughter for his wife's disappointments.

Still Life is a reflection on time, memory and the nature of photogaphy.

This film explores the transformation of an image from color negative to color positive on one film stock. The Still life was painted its color negative during the filming and then the exposed film was processed and printed on color negative printstock.

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

The film makers leave the classical nature film behind in order to explore new ways of conceptualising our understanding of nature and ourselves. A hitherto familiar environment develops strange characteristics and meanders between stagnation and movement, realism and hypnosis, naturalness and artificiality.

Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.

Still Life draws on the experience of Evan, a trans student and artist, as he struggles to craft a true to life self-portrait.

A solitary artist walks into (and under) a sneaky superstition in her studio and psychological chaos ensues.

Three friends find themselves in a limbo between life and death.

An obsession for food and love. Short film made in Prague not to be confused with other feature films using the same name.