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From La Région Centrale (1971), Snow orchestrates new patterns of movement that exchanges the focus on landscape with the cityscape of Toronto.

Derek Xavier returns to his metropolitan birthplace to find it in a state of turmoil. The city's corrupt authority is being challenged by the Citizens Control Movement (CCM), a radical activist group rising from the shadows. Derek finds himself in the middle of this conflict, and his choices become clear: align himself with the CCM, defend the authority of the city's rulers...or propose a third alternative that could shake the city to its core.

An entirely computer-generated urban scene, rendered in three dimensions and fully navigable, assembled with the multimillion-dollar equipment at the Guidance and Control Division of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

Lena Sitnikova - obeying the will of her parents and her authoritative grandma - goes to the Medical School in order to keep the family tradition. However she dreams about a totally different life. For now she doesn't know what she exactly wants, till she meets Lyova - a painter, in his artistic depression. He introduces her into the world of art, galleries and art business. Lena finds her inner self, but the chosen life doesn't suit the plans of her parents: their daughter ought to be a medical student, even if they will have to force her. Lena goes through a lot of troubles: she fights with her parents, learns how to kiss and to say «I love you», how to walk the line on high heels and to defend her right to do what she wants. And there will certainly be a «happy end»...

In this experimental animated short, Ryan Larkin (Walking) creates a series of figures who move across the screen and disappear into a hole. Eventually, the hole metamorphoses into a bridge, on top of which stands the young man from whom the others figures originated.

Four people experience loneliness in different parts of a town.

Loops are used to create a new screen space and to play with the boundaries between space and time. With each loop, time is repeated and space is extended into a continuous surface.

Shibuya Crossing is one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world, with 2.4 million people crossing each day. This Tokyo Cityscape shows the sights and sounds of Shibuya Crossing to make you feel as if you were there.

The perception of the city in the modern era is characterized by its fleeting and momentary nature. Social and architectural constructions are fragmented and dashing past. Cityscapes attempts to make archived recordings from the Austrian Film Museum legible along these lines. Single images are isolated from the cinematographic flow in order to scrutinize their inscribed cognitive potential. For Walter Benjamin, history disintegrates into images and not stories. Cityscapes is a search along the tracks of these images.

A novelist uses all his money to buy gifts for the woman he loves who in turn is also seeing a business man, using him for expensive presents. As a consequence the writer is unable to pay the rent, whilst the womans family goes hungry as her fathers business suffers. A joyful comedy that expresses the dangers of consumerism for the careless spender.

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

A visual celebration of Manhattan and its waterways on the 300th anniversary of purchase from the local Native Americans.

A solitary woman walks through the eerie night-time landscape of Dublin's Cork Street, a street once quiet and residential, now a four-laned artery for city traffic. Memories are narrated which no longer match the present-day surroundings.

What happens when we meet in the street? Suddenly, mistakenly, intimately. Estranged, rushed, too much, too little, too late. Smiles, small talk, and promises.

A sequel to the 2011 "Going to the Store" and 2013 "Late for Meeting" animated short films, which feature a silly, disjointed journey in the traditions of dadaism and surreal humor in film.

In a near-future world where petty thieves use the dark web to coordinate robberies, a destitute burglar is confronted with a malevolent presence in an apartment she found online.

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls from distant countries and unfamiliar sounds, emotionally devastated and deserted, the city attempts to reconcile with its own voice.

Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.

Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.

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