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How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.

A look at the careers and influence of Terry Riley, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich.

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Pinkfong and his friends enjoy the magic show put on by three cars in Wonder Village. But when danger appears, Hogi must be brave to save the day!

Featuring notable Minimalist artists such as Bride Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and Donald Judd, What is Minimalism: The American Perspective 1958-1968 explores the movement during an explorative exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles. Exhibition curator, Ann Goldstein, walks us through multiple rooms of the exhibit and offers her insight on Minimalism and its role in our society, stating that "It marked a fundamental, and critical and pivotal and irrevocable change in the course of art history," (Ann Goldstein). This film observes and analyzes the compelling creative choices behind some of the featured artists most applauded works of art.

The movie takes place entirely in and around the Mini Moni Cafè. The Mini Moni Cafè is run by the first generation members of Mini Moni, who are lead by Mari Yaguchi. Mika Todd is the primary baker for the cafè and Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji are bumbling waitresses. One day Kago and Tsuji serve a particularly enthusiastic customer (played by Ai Takahashi) who says she has never had such a delicious cake before. When the waitress explain they do not know the secret ingredient that makes the cakes so good, Takahashi decides to sneak into the cafè later find out what it is and steal it.

Inspired by a poem by Cristina Peri Rossi, this intimate film explores the distance that can only exist between lovers.

The 'Making-Of' Documentary of Minimoni.'s feature film where they must stop the Fairy Queen from turning all cakes into stone.

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 2.

An extremely shy woman has a crush on her coworker. He is trying his best to catch his attention. Her maximum desire is his minimum caress.

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go through life with only 100 things in his possession. The fact that they can't keep their hands off each other and end up falling in love holds true to the old adage that opposites really do attract...

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 3.

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 1.

Two weeks to go until the qualification race for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. A young Polish swimmer (Jan Kałusowski) prepares for a chance to compete at the most prestigious sports event in the world.

A film driven by the chaotic energy of Prague streets. Comprising several direct survey probes, they collectively present a picture of societal apathy and the values ​​of contemporary Czech youth. In addition to the author herself, this is represented by more or less sober young people who unashamedly confide in the camera their attitudes towards the climate crisis, feminism or the war in Ukraine. But they also talk about the meaning of life, the secret of good sex or love, the search for which (and not finding) is one of the central themes of the film.

In an apartment, a young man lies on the floor, seemingly having fallen after hitting his head hard while reaching for a book on the shelf. "Where am I? Who am I?" he wonders, finding himself devoid of memory. He attempts to access his personal information but fails to retrieve his PIN number from his phone or PC. Despite considering himself a minimalist, he struggles to locate anything in his room. What should he do?

Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in music history. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz have toured the world, performing approximately 90 live shows that were unlike anything seen before, prompting global headlines such as this from the London Evening Standard: Is This The Greatest Show London Has Ever Seen? Said performance at London's Royal Festival Hall was also included in Time Out's recent list of best shows ever witnessed in the Capital.

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DVD collection of all the Minimoni Pyon Seijin and Gomaki Penguin Monogatari segments from Hello! Morning.

Minima Gesté, drag queen on stage, Arthur in civilian life. Whether he is he or she, he is on all fronts: the show, his job as an engineer, his life as a couple, his commitments to numerous associations that fight for the most precarious. Whatever the nature of this precariousness. Minima is now one of the essential figures of the Parisian drag scene. She continues the fight of her models: these drags who launched the Pride March, who are at the initiative of all the great movements for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ people and of the ostracized and despised communities. Minima Gesté / Arthur makes us discover this world of drag, its commitments which pass, and it is so much better, by the party and the disguise.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

A muffin thief troubles Mr. Baker, so he seeks help from a sleek detective. They agree to catch the thief at night in the bakery in Baker Street.

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing fragments of his inner struggle, toxic masculinity, and unspoken vulnerability, as well as the painful dissonance between his desires and his actions.

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

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

Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music composed especially for Shiver.

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

Minimalist, bizarre and surreal story that takes place in some sort of post-cataclysmic future, where the main hero collects tracks which were the only connection of his with the environment known today.

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work was in 1970 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In collaboration with his partner Mary Lucier. The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room while re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Due to the room's particular size and geometry, certain resonant frequencies are emphasized while others are attenuated. Eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the characteristic resonance of the room.

Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” anxiously awaits the bomb’s first test in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Adams adapted the work into a symphony, comprising its three main acts. In the second half of the program, Adams conducts his 2015 violin concerto, Scheherazade.2, which restages the tale of the One Thousand and One Nights heroine as a strong woman navigating a patriarchial society, incarnated by the solo violin part. The work was composed specifically for Canadian-American virtuoso Leila Josefowicz and co-commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, who perform it to perfection. The evening then closes out with Tromba Lontana, an orchestral fanfare written to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas’s independence from Mexico in 1836.

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the rituals of modern existentialism — one cup of coffee and one book at a time.

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.

Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.

An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil plan of conquest.

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A legend of Argentine rock travels to Iquitos to find an old Healer and participate in his Ayahuasca ceremony. You will have to go through the jungle and your own ghosts, on your way to healing.

The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.

A con leaves the prison with a plan to deceive people by entering financial bank business.

A "wedding of the century", as Yugoslavian press of the time called it, took place on February 19, 1995 when Željko Ražnatović 'Arkan', a Serbian war criminal, married Svetlana 'Ceca' Ražnatović, the most popular folk singer in the country. The wedding was released on VHS.

From a Mess to the Masses follows the band Phoenix and their loyal team members on their quest to find meaning in our chaotic world through music. The journey is an abstract and emotional ride. It highlights the need for constant movement, artistically and historically, in order to remain anchored amidst the surrounding disorder. Through their story, their words, and the music they have created together, From a Mess to the Masses uncovers the beauty of the creative process and its incredible power to bring people together.

An estranged grandson and his grieving grandfather reconnect through an unfinished bucket list, healing old wounds and rebuilding their bond.

A journey into the very depths of the belly of the most influential and insidious organization in existence. See, as never before, how the Papacy plays a vital role in current events, and the final fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

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A young woman's 21st birthday party is met with disaster when her teeth start uncontrollably falling out. Having locked herself in the bathroom, she struggles to contain it in the demanding presence of her father and the house guests.