The Train Stop
Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the Iocomotive. The people at the station are all asleep. Why are they so...
The Central Region
In director Michael SNOW's "The Central Region", a brilliant convergence of form and content, camera movement becomes the raison d'être. Rarely, if ever, has a film so clearly delineated the role of...
Land of Water
The film is a lyrical exploration of the south of Chile combining three periods: the immemorial time of nature, the recent conquest by man and an uncertain future. Working on the hypnotic slowness of...
Out of the Present
The film tells of the collapse of the Soviet Union by way of the story of the cosmonaut who was floating in space in 1991, thereby unexpectedly becoming the last Soviet citizen. When he left the...
San Yuan Li
OU Ning, CAO Fei and U-thèque members made this experimental film by invitation for the 50th Venice Biennial. The film combines individual creativity and group cooperation. With research and footage...
The Taste of Koumiz
In the 1930s, the Soviet Union began the massive collectivization of its lands. Khirgiz nomads, whose culture depended upon rearing horses, were forced to join the collective farms - the kolkhozes....