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★ 5.5 · 2017 · 1m · Music
Lights flicker & fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.
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2010 · ★ 7.3
The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.
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TRAUMA
2014 · ★ 9
TRAUMA is a collaborative film project by Jesse Kanda and Arca first partially exhibited at MoMA PS1 at the end of 2013. The film follows a nonlinear narrative about the death of a salaryman, a drunk driving infant and takes place within a subconscious world. TRAUMA's score will span through Arca's existing and future works.
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Conversation
2010 · ★ 9.5
To the idly meditating musician received a call from his distant friend with a proposal to write a song about the untimely departed Lady Diana.
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005 · ★ 7.4
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1945 · ★ 4.8
Four types of visual interpretation of four songs by Karol Szymanowski. Polish words by Julian Tuwin, English translation by Jan Sliwinski.
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1967 · ★ 5.4
A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple.
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All My Life
1966 · ★ 5.2
The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky just as the song ends.
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2008
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All this Roughness
2020
An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories.
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E
2018 · ★ 7.2
In the unearthly world of E, hand-made meets hi-tech as characters appear to consume one another with their own, trafficked likenesses. Constructing her work entirely from laser-printed film stills (approximately 770 in total) lifted from Niklaus Schilling’s 1972 horror film, Nachtschatten, Zemlianski rips, layers, and paints these images with pastels and charcoal, then scans them back together into a bracing animation set to the eponymous song (“E”) by the Berlin-based band, Comb.
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Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007 · ★ 6.5
This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his prolific career. Included are interviews, musical demonstrations, rare archive & home movie footage, plus live performances to tell the story behind the conception and recording of these groundbreaking albums. Extras include additional interviews and demonstrations not included in the broadcast version, 2 full performances from the Roxy in 1973 and Saturday Night Live in 1976, and new full live performance done specially for these Classic Albums.
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