Directed by Laida Lertxundi • 2018 • Spain, United States
Laida Lertxundi applies the six compositional principles of eighteenth-century Chinese painter Shih-t’ao (such as “draw attention to a scene emerging from a static background” and “add scattered dynamism to immobility”) to this cosmic diary film shot in Cuba and California and incorporating allusions to Wong Kar-wai’s DAYS OF BEING WILD and the writings of R. D. Laing and Lucy Lippard.
Directed by John Magary • 2020 • United States
Starring Kalle Condliffe, John Magary
Cooped up in their New York City apartment during the pandemic, a couple’s lockdown frustrations find release during a DIY haircut in this black-comic riff on Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough short THE BIG SHAVE.
