The Study Of Groundhogs A Real Life Look At Marmots

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial town, Kunitachi.

Found footage of the 1926 film "Les Fonts by Ribas y Compañía" (my grandfather) as opposed to subjective filming of my present in Les Fonts. A parody, a game of contrasts between cultivated flowers, domesticated to serve patriarchy, and wild flowers, which grow on the margins of thought.

There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago, that the only way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuits, "to create a super-race that would combine the Eskimo strength and the shrewdness of the Westerner." Following in the footsteps of this extravagant theory, this film essay marches in search of that super-race.

Spring break is known as a time for college kids to let loose and get wild during their week of freedom from classes. But for a select group of students, they want to have their fun while also making a positive impact on the environment.

In laboratory conditions a good night's sleep.

An attempt to show how illogical movement patterns are possible in a two-dimensional space. (Filmform)

In March 1997, a teaching and research team led by Professor Zhuang Kongshao came to the Tujia area along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to conduct anthropological research, with the aim of establishing a link between anthropological academic knowledge and field studies, as well as finding valuable research points to achieve the possibility of interdisciplinary collaborative research. "Field Study Along the Yangtze River" is a synchronous film and television work based on this survey. Now re-edited and transferred to today's university classroom, it is intended to facilitate anthropology students who are preparing to enter the field study phase, and by watching this film, it will trigger them to think about the opportunity of academic docking between theory and research sites, and further transition them into their own fieldwork thinking.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the floor and her right arm raised in front of her face, holding the man's thighs with her right, while the man is bent forward, as if looking in the distance.

Adam Elliot's earliest film, Human Behavioral Case Studies, is a drawn animation rather than claymation like his other films. It's about unusual human behaviors or obsessions. At only a minute long, it's just long enough to be memorably, darkly amusing.

Experimental short by Cioni Carpi.

Digitised celluloid cut together, reformed, corrupted, mutated, a conservative film becomes reframed, a high school girl begins a spiral into addiction in a nightmarish country.

There are about 140 landscapes painted by Claude Monet in Pourville during 4 long stays between 1882 and 1897. The coastline has hardly changed since then. Enriched by the historic dimension Wyborny presents a panorama of this coast by superimposing Monets paintings with the present reality of the location.

End-of-the-century financial survival

An unknown person is asleep in a bathtub of blood. Study made for the short-film "Analysis of A Rising Sun".

The film tells about the research of sleep physiology by Ivan Nikolaevich Pigarev, PhD, Professor of the IPPR RAS.

In Haren Das: 21 Studies of Life, Amit Dutta portrays the remarkable ability to infuse static images with vivid life, giving an immersive experience to Das’s printmaking, wood engravings, etching, and linocut, used to capture landscapes, seascapes, and flora and fauna indigenous to the Bengal region.

This animated film was utilized in a classic experiment in cognitive psychology. Subjects were requested to interpret the moving picture-film of about 2 and a half minutes duration in which three geometrical figures were shown moving in various directions and at various speeds.