Overview
The director, a young man in his thirties going through a life crisis, approaches his estranged parents to help him paint his apartment. Conversations accompanied by a paint roller and paint thinner open up old wrongs while revealing the complexity of interpersonal relationships. The absence of communication, or the lack of will to communicate, as a symptom of contemporary family ties, stands in contrast to caring for a family of pigeons that has made its nest on the director's balcony. The film, in its civility and authenticity, follows the lessons of a book dedicated to amateur filmmakers and thus enters into a subversive dialogue with the paradigms of film pedagogy.
More films
Learning (1965)
Documentary · N/A
Documentary film about apprentice youth about to enter real life.
- Runtime
- 14m
- Director
- Dušan Hanák
Taurophilia (2022)
Documentary · N/A
Through rhythmic re-composition of fragmented images, semi-surreal situations are explored in a documentary style of observation of a man's obsession with a powerful animal, the black horned bull, and the Spanish process of taxidermy through which he attempts to embody its beauty and strength, turning into a Minotaur. The subdued basem...
- Runtime
- 15m
A Box of Film (1958)
Documentary
A film about filmmaking.
- Runtime
- 23m
- Cast
- Ladislav Trojan, Vlastimil Brodský, Radovan Lukavský
Bugman (2024)
Documentary · Drama · Fantasy · Horror
A misunderstood and isolated transgender teenager takes revenge upon his unaccepting parents. A powerful supernatural entity known as the Bug God contacts him to help him do the deed. A mysterious organization produces a largely fictitious made-for-TV docudrama on the subject.
- Runtime
- 13m
- Cast
- Heathen Seagraves, Gary Shaw, Mary-Ellin Brooks
Wise Guys 2 (2024)
Comedy · Documentary · Drama
After the release of his debut film, documentarian Richard Chase journeys down a rabbit hole to uncover the lost second episode of his initial film's subject: Wise Guys.
- Runtime
- 30m
- Cast
- William Mitchell, Parker Liberatore, Samuel Ruff
Comments
Talk about the film with other members