A Stone Story

Ember Days

2021

Primordial spring is in the air, all is tentative.

Don't Look Now

1973 · ★ 6.9

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Alvar Aalto: Technology and Nature

1987 · ★ 6

The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is one of the great figures of modern architecture, ranked alongside Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. This film analyses Aalto’s uniquely successful resolution of the demands and possibilities created by new technology and construction materials with the need to make his buildings sympathetic both to their users and to their natural surroundings. His inventive use of timber in particular represents both a reference to the forest landscape of Finland and a building material that is ‘warm’ and extremely adaptable. Filmed in Finland, Italy, Germany and the USA, this documentary shows how the Finnish natural environment and art traditions were essential elements in Aalto’s pioneering harmonization of technology and nature.

Regression

2025

Valentino wanders through the city like an apparition, ensnared in the liminal space between nostalgia and departure. His camera fragments reality into vestiges of a nation that still lays claim to him. Spaces where memory murmurs unfulfilled promises. In a discourse that transcends mere conversation, words entwine with eloquent silences and in that fleeting exchange, the inevitable emerges: farewells foretold, inscribed before they are ever uttered.

Electronic Poem

1958

Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress. The pavilion was shaped like a stomach, with a narrow entrance and exit on either side of a large central space. As the audience entered and exited the pavilion, the electronic composition Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis (who also acted as Le Corbusier's architectural assistant for the pavilion's design) was heard. Poème électronique was synchronized to a film of black and white photographs selected by Le Corbusier which touched on vague themes of human existence.

Ekodomy aneb Život v rovnováze

2008

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火藥, burn my eyes

In 1967, Beulah struck Reynosa. Family survives through images from memory circling the wreck. Rituals of celebration and violence like hurricane, shift between dancing, cyanotypes, blue fire and lost family archive. We have come to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Thus invent colors that burn the eyelid like 火藥.

Pieces Within

2024

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985 · ★ 6.7

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Longing of the idle plants

2022

A film about using nature as a way to deal, cope and escape depression, a sense of melancholy and loss clouds over the film.

In Between Mountains and Oceans

2014

Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude toward Nature. Since ancient times, they have negotiated their own unique relationship with their natural surroundings. Acclaimed photographer Masa-aki Miyazawa discovered the essence of that ancient way of living in Ise Jingu, Japan’s holiest Shinto shrine. Inspired by the idea of sending a message to the future in the same way this ancient shrine keeps alive the traditions of the past, Miyazawa used an ultra-high resolution 4K camera to create a breathtaking visual journey linking the Ise forest with other forests throughout Japan.

The Man Who Can't Get Enough of Architecture: Nişan Yaubyan

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