Where the Land Sounds

Cinexprimentaux #8: Coop... Cinexpérimentaux is a series of documentaries on experimental filmmakers, produced and directed by Michel Amarger and Frédérique Devaux. N°8 is dedicated to the most important European cooperative Light Cone created in 1982 in Paris.

IDOMU II 8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area. Idomu’s Testament - Sequel or IDOMU II. In Saitama prefecture Chichibu city there’s a mountain which was most loved by Tokugawa Ieyasu (founder of Tokugawa shogunate). It is Mount Buko, which rose 2 hundred million years ago when the pacific plate moved the underwater volcanoes around Hawaii. It is like the giant turtle shell where Myouken bodhisattva stood. A gentle mountain which heals people’s hearts and gives them the blessings of green and water.

Freetime The film starts with the figure of a man walking against the wind across the dunes at Nida; this is an allusion to a famous photograph by Antanas Sutkus taken in Nida, in 1965, which represents the iconic image of Jean-Paul Sartre. The walking hero in the film finds a beret – the aura of an artist. His journey ends at the Museum of the Revolution of the time, which now houses the National Gallery of Art (2009). During the Soviet period, art was often understood as one of the ways to spend free time. The film is dedicated to the memory of Bronius Maigis’s political protest, carried out on the 15th of June, 1985, at the Leningrad State Hermitage Museum.

In Another World Kasia (40) has two teenage kids, is happily married and loved. She is a middle-class woman with a high education and a managerial position at work. Her life is perfectly organized and is a stream of successes. One day her peaceful and perfect life is destroyed by the news that she is pregnant with a baby with Down's syndrome. At this moment, she can decide either to give birth or have an abortion. Yet for her, neither of the solutions is good. Each will result in a drama and trauma. The camera stays with her for over six months documenting her state of mind and emotions, up to the final scene of the film - the delivery.

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Dreams Of An Empty Stree... A lonely teenage boy had been rejected by girls again and again. One night, he hopelessly wanders the streets. He then encounters someone...something...

Tempus Using stock footage to tell a coherent narrative, Director Paige Verinam explores the idea of time.

Corpse The walls of a prison. The voices and cries of the prisoners escape from the litany of days.

Altimir Since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, Bulgaria has experienced the most extreme population decline in the world. Low birth rates, high death rates, and two large waves of emigration have pushed many villages to the verge of extinction. Altimir explores life in one of Bulgaria's disappearing villages, haunted by the promises of communism and capitalism. Yordan Dimitrov is our guide to the life that remains.