Today PLATFORM is a series of thirteen films, shot in specific neighborhoods of cities chosen for their modernity and architectural complexity. However, the architecture is not filmed for its own sake, it plays the role of background. These locations are also crossroads of different lanes of communication, therefore ebbs and flows are important and almost contextual. A multitude of micro-events are recorded in one sole shot. The simultaneity of these very ordinary events (a car passes, then a train…) is also what makes for audio and visual richness. The choice of the organization of scenes and mixing of the soundtrack come to defy the documentary objectivity of the fixed shots that constitute the film. The use of editing process from classic fictional cinema allow the interweaving of inframince connections between the shots. Attention is therefore focused on a succession of details which become essential..
An animation project about a ghost conductor who takes care of all their passengers..
Trains steam past a station..
The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again..
People's Platform is an American public affairs series that aired on the CBS Television network from August 17, 1948 to August 11, 1950. Hosted by Quincy Howe, the series features debates on topical subjects..
After his mothers death, 12-year-old Jaya (Iqbal S. Manurung) is sent to his father, Johar (Didi Petet), who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is shocked, never knowing he has a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Fully aware he cant bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past, Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site. Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work on the jermal, Jaya decides to take fate into his own hands. He gives up hope on being accepted and learns the skills and attitude needed to survive on the jermal. Jaya increasingly becomes like the other boys: a tough, rough survivor; while Johar is forced to gradually face and accept his past. Eventually, both Johar and Jaya learn that they are bound by their past, united by the space in which they move, and connected by the inescapable truth..
At a windy, abandoned province station a man is waiting for a train. But something seems to be wrong; wasn't that a naked person running by? The man begins to examine the area; the tension rises up to the point, where another passenger arrives on the platform..
Trois cinéastes traversent les USA pour rencontrer Ulillillia, un auteur de jeux vidéo célèbre sur Internet . À leur arrivée, sa ville natale a été frappée par la pire inondation de son histoire. Le film qui en résulte est un aperçu perspicace de la vie extraordinaire d'un concepteur de jeux vidéo exceptionnellement brillant et une visite guidée de sa petite ville natale du Midwest au lendemain de la catastrophe..
The world of street children and their concepts of love, fear, respect and money..
The world of street children and their concepts of love, fear, respect and money..
A coming of age story of a girl, who makes a bad decision because she doesn't know what she really wants from her life yet..
The film shows the tedious process of inspection and maintenance of passenger cars. To the accompaniment of jazz music, we get to know the hardships of the employees of the railway. A request for respect for their work addressed to passengers is the main message of the image..
A group of six scuba divers that specialize in deep underwater operations lives for a period of three weeks at the bottom of the ocean, conducting work on board of the platform Luna..
Circulation des visiteurs debout sur le trottoir roulant.
People riding on a moving platform / walkway..
A meditative film that explores modernist architecture in Norway, spanning from the late fifties to the early nineties..
Sur la plate-forme pétrolière Kishorn Bravo, stationnée dans les eaux de la mer du Nord au large des côtes écossaises, l'équipage, qui se prépare à revenir sur le continent, est interrompu par un brouillard mystérieux brouillant toute communication avec le rivage et le monde extérieur. Les personnes prises au piège s'interrogent sur les forces en présence, jusqu'à ce qu'un accident les amènent à se demander à qui elles peuvent vraiment faire confiance..
