Jungle of Desire
The king of x-rated animation, Wong Ping returns with his take on marital bliss..
The king of x-rated animation, Wong Ping returns with his take on marital bliss..
An experimental film that investigates the act of perception and the limits and possibilities through vision. Accompanied by an omniscient narrator and the conjuring of striking imagery, the film examines various conceptual underpinnings of what it means to "see" and what our eyes can truly do. A 2K restoration was made possible using a sole-surviving 16mm colour positive print from the Asian Film Archive Collection (AFA) in 2021..
In Reifying Desire 6, (2014) Satterwhite continues his exploration of memory and personal narrative within a dynamic digital universe. Combining his own performance (drawn from ‘voguing’ and martial arts) with video, 3D animation and fantastical sculpture, Satterwhite blurs the boundaries between the life of the mind, the world of the images and the physical realm of bodies and objects. Within his videos, Satterwhite incorporates his mother’s drawings (diagrams for inventions and text exploring consumer culture medicine, sex, astrology, and philosophy) bringing their lines to life and intimately incorporating them in to his world. Reifying Desire 6 was shown at the Whitney Biennial 2014..
Island of Desire: Directed by Elwood Perez. With Ruffa Gutierrez, Zoren Legaspi, Gloria Diaz, Charo Santos-Concio..
In Canada, at a night-time garden party, a group of young adults are busy chatting each other up; Dylan and Molly seem unable to get over their break-up, Carly has Dylan in her sights, Molly is seducing Noel to rouse his ex’s jealousy; as for Michelle, she is speaking to Charlie about their one-night fling… Already interspersed by individual daytime interviews, where each envisages his or her near future, this chronicle of an ordinary party is suddenly analysed, manipulated, tabulated: a group of young French statisticians note the attractions, signs of seduction, and anticipate the probability that couples will form..
A young woman recounts her claims that she was involved in a cult whose members were either murdered or committed suicide..
...a "mordantly nostalgic" sojourn across America. A landscape of mute streets, empty rooms and serene fields; the remains of a civilization which has momentarily disappeared..
This film adopts a mother’s perspective in examining her relationship with her gay son. The family members can be seen to represent the internal codes and regulative practices of a close-knit Asian community..
Noah is a young man tired of constant dating that seems to be driving him away from finding a romantic match; when all hope is lost, he meets Genevieve. The pair instantly grow infatuated with each other. However, after an abrupt argument, Noah must face his past to test the depths of his romantic connection..
Censorship issues with the film "A Streetcar Named Desire.".
A sheep farmer's monotonous life is unsettled after she steals an elegant dress from the town's tailor..
Elle est sexy, charmante et est recherchée par tous. Une guerre psychologique angoissant entre la victime et ses bourreaux imprévisibles, qui la maintient dans sa propre maison..
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing..
Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long..
A woman is pursued by dark figures after finding a diary inside a mysterious handbag..
It is a dark adult fairy tale about the power of secret wishes. Amelia (40) is an ambitious, hard-working professional. She lives alone with her budgie. She thinks that she knows everything about herself, until she meets a strange boy, who calls himself Ilgu and promises to grant her wish..
Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?.
Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is..
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue..