Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration behind many of his avant-garde creations. Set in Dali’s hometown of Lligat, Spain, the artist himself takes the viewer on a tour of the creative process that is behind his remarkable body of work. Journey into the subconscious of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and take a look at the world through Salvador Dali’s eyes with this program that he both designed and performed. The documentary is directed by Jean-Christopher Averty, with narration provided by Orson Welles.
INFLUENCERSis a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.
The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.
Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.
“Influencers” belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.
Before becoming a legendary director, Stanley Kubrick was a poor kid from the Bronx who did
photojournalism for Look magazine in the 1940s in and around New York City. He shot on the sly,
often times his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it. Of the some odd 10 000 black and
white photographs he took while working at the magazine, VandM.
Iggy: “Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination.”
“Joseph-I can’t believe that
you’re still smoking those fucking things.
Vinny, they’ll fuck you up.
They’ll kill you. Believe me.
Vinny-Were you put on this fucking earth
to annoy me?
Joseph-You said you were gonna quit.
Instead, you spend a fortune…
so those big tobacco companies
can get fucking rich.
And then you get cancer.
And then the fucking doctors
and the hospitals, they can get rich.
And the undertakers, too.
All because you want to smoke
like a fucking moron.
Vinny-I can’t help it. I’m fucking addicted, okay?
Joseph-So, coffee and cigarettes?
That’s your lunch? That ain’t healthy, is it?
Vinny-You’re drinking coffee,
so don’t break my fucking balls.
Joseph-Vinny, I had lunch already.
Vinny-So I’m on a diet, okay? Jesus!
(…)
Vinny-I like coffee. Keeps me going.
Joseph-It keeps you going, all right.
You’re a fucking maniac. A caffeine maniac.
Vinny- You’re drinking coffee, ain’t you?
Joseph- Yeah. So?
Vinny-So maybe you should try to quit.
Joseph- I ain’t no fucking quitter.
I’ll drink to that.
Vinny-Fucking moron.”
Tom: The beauty of quitting is, now that I’ve quit, I can have one, ’cause I’ve quit.
“As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.
We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your view on the country in the Hindu Kush.”
In a 70 year old comedy, Charlie Chaplin plays the role of a poor Jewish barber mistaken for Adolph Hitler. This is a speech Charlie gives at the end of the movie that seems like it fits pretty well with the events of the world today.
“Cisma (L. schisma < Gr. schisma)
f. acto de cismar, preocupação constante; ideia, pensamento fixo; mania; devaneio, divagação, fabulação; apreensão: perder-se em cismas sem nexo."
