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Aesthetic is a deep look into why people think something isn't the same as everything else.

A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks on the life of a yakuza hitman.

Shot on 8mm by Isao Yamada.

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Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs Iwatsuki that she has many enemies.

A sensory odyssey that spans from the dawn of creation to the edge of annihilation, yet ultimately transcends beyond it.

Waking up from a fuzzy dream, a man encounters a strange glass of water...

Eun-hee and Jung-yeon head toward a pension to have a blast with the guys. Chul-soon is the janitor and he is caught sneeking a peek at Eun-hee and Jung-yeon tanning, but gets away with it in return for letting them take an embarassing video of him. That night, while having dinner, Eun-hee excuses herself from the table and Jung-yeon and Min-ki have sex. They realize someone is wwatching and thinking it's Chul-soon again, beat him up. However, Chul-soon is innocent and he decides to take revenge.

It contains the sad colours drawn in Busan in 1974. In Ae raises her two younger brothers with a mother's heart.

Going through Leonardo Favio's film career means reuniting with images and sounds that built a sensibility that keeps expanding generation after generation. This documentary follows the path of a unique filmmaker by means of a scheme of voices, including that of Favio himself, with the lucidity and brutal honesty so typical of him.

Bastard Aesthetic is about the art of drag, which has been marginalized for years. Even with the recent popularization and with the awakening of a respect for drag queens, Lya Ford and Luna Vicious show how drag and fighting are inseparable. During the birth of these women, a process of hours, they tell us a little about their lives, their trajectories through drag and their love for what they do. We follow their night lives and, with the break of dawn, their deaths. Until the next night.

Martian Spies tells a love story between a boy who pretends to be a terrorist and a young girl, who is the wife of a KGB agent. The boy tells her that he has been hired to shoot the president – Yeltsin. The end is poetic yet addressing the politics of revenge and corruption in Russia. Miners stand in front of their mine, singing a song, which tells the story of contemporary Russian politics.

The 1st story, Tony Oki, a perverted man, falls in love with Yui, a young wife who enjoys playing tennis with her husband. While her husband was at work, someone broke into her front door and raped her. At that time, a photo was taken and the lewd act was uploaded to a blog with my eyes on it. Yui is forced to endure the perverted man's escalating outdoor exposure training, knowing that her body and mind are being violated, but she can no longer overcome her physical desires. The 2nd story, her body was exposed to her brother-in-law who was on a long business trip after her husband died. The 3rd story, Her husband is indifferent and they have almost no sex life, but Miho has a strong sexual desire and spends her days masturbating. As a stimulant, Miho remembered the masochistic sex she had with her ex-boyfriend. One day, unable to control herself, Miho went to see her ex-boyfriend. She was inflamed by her ex-boyfriend's extreme sadistic sexual acts.

Andres Kurg is an art historian who likes Danish modernist architecture and therefore wants to settle there. He argues with Danish officials to grant him a residence permit for aesthetic reasons.

This film documents the production journey of the exhibition "Deka'dans: The Aesthetics of Destruction," which was showcased in four different locations in Spain and Türkiye.

experimental film by artist Michio Fukuoka

"We Easterners create beauty out of nothing by conjuring shadows." Japanese literary master Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965) wrote these words about 90 years ago in his essay, "In Praise of Shadows." Known as a masterpiece that elucidates Japanese aesthetics from the perspective of light and dark, his work continues to be read overseas as an excellent introduction to Japanese culture. This program depicts the world Tanizaki describes using advanced imaging technology. While weaving in the works and commentary of modern artists and persons of culture who have been influenced by Tanizaki, it depicts the world of subtle beauty that he loved.

Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.

Aesthetica is a visual journey that captures the essence and elements of snowboarding. This feature snowboard film highlights the riding of progressive and unique freestyle features in the backcountry to the steepest and deepest powder conditions of 2008. Witness the pure power powder throwdowns by Mark Landvik, Eric Jackson and Mads Jonsson in the Great White North. Visit with the hardcore underground Canadian locals as they destroy the streets of Montreal. Watch the most shocking avalanche footage of Xavier Delerue taking the ride of his life along with Torstein Horgmo's, mind blowing freestyle segment. Mathieu Crepel, Kazuhiro Kokubo and Mitch Reed deliver their best images to date along with the return of Johan Olofsson NoBoarding bottomless powder. This snowboard movie delivers all aspects of modern riding by today's best riders in 16mm film by Standard Films.

Antti Autti elevates his captivating Arctic Lines video series to new heights with Aesthetics, a feature film that follows Autti, Jeremy Jones and Elena Hight as they search for dream lines in Norway's Lyngen Alps. The trio thread the needle between challenging conditions and breathtaking terrain to explore zones that demand they climb and ride at their highest level. Through successes and failures the session proves pivotal for all as they reflect on what they're searching for in the mountains and what drives them to keep going back.

When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.

Chor Yuen was Gu Long before he started filming Gu Long. The director's first wuxia film, made at Shaws' rival Cathay, finds him relishing in a mode of expression that would later become the signature style of the 'martial-arts suspense thriller' mini-genre. Chor grafts the quasi-psychological stylishness of his Cantonese melodrama onto this actioner, laying on thick the atmosphere by dialling up the fog machine and unleashing the colours from his camera's palette. He also stages his fights in modern dance-like choreography, with moves that are more graceful than ferocious and paused poses that are longer on expressive narcissism than continuity of action. Cold Blade is the quiet beginning of an aesthetic.

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

A young woman’s carefully managed routine spirals out of control when she runs out of antipsychotics.

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

Welcome to the 1980s TV horrorshow that never was. PHANTASMATAPES is a psychotronic VHS mixtape that reimagines THE REVENGE OF DR. X (a Japan-set creature feature that was written by Ed Wood) and THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (the savage body horror film that inspired FRANKENHOOKER) as a late-nite, home-taped double feature—complete with local TV commercials and a new synthesizer score from Taken by Savages (JUNGLE TRAP). Inspired by hazy memories of channel-surfing at the witching hour, this is a nostalgic and experimental art project from the minds behind Bleeding Skull.

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When a spacey-teenager notices a storefront-psychic, she convinces her cautious friend into getting a reading together. Quickly their fortune turns as they attempt to land the gig of a lifetime.

In an inner world suspended between oblivion and creation, a female figure moves through a dreamlike space where forgotten ideas take shape. Genesis is an experimental piece that explores the journey toward the origin of an idea — of oneself.

Pixel Rot is a lo-fi horror short shot on a 3DS. What starts as casual footage slowly unravels into something broken—glitches that shouldn't be there, moments that were never filmed. The camera remembers more than it should.

A man ventures out into the streets of a pandemic-ridden London.

A young woman recalls the events of the previous night, putting together the pieces of a drunken encounter with a strange man.

Three evil men violate the sanctity of The Wendigo's domain.

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Gönül Gül is a member of the assassin society called "Elders Club". She hunts people who have done her wrong in the past. The next target is an old lover.

Full of determination and uncertainty, Nutmeg pursues her daydream to escape a dull reality with a Walkman and her case of few sentimental belongings.

All You Can Eat is a brief yet captivating short film that highlights the hungry moments shared between Brylee and his partner as they enjoy a sushi date together at Trapper's Sushi.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Buddy can't get over his ex, and it's starting to ruin his life (and his coffee).

An art film that captures the title as a triple entendre.

A film shot in quarantine that explores the new normal in a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, told through a personal lens in an autobiographical narrative.

A character examination told through a short film.

A folk singer in 17th-century Kerala discovers a mansion. Inside, he encounters an enigmatic cook and a powerful master, setting in motion a chain of events that changes his life.

The Homicide Intervention Team (HIT) sends ruthless police officer Arjun Sarkaar to find a group of killers and stop their grisly murder spree.

A team of four expert policemen go through extreme trials and tribulations to find the killer of a young woman.