Hai cercato: Heart Beat
The Heart Beat / 1975
A piece of white paper with “IMAI” typed on its surface is placed on top of a paper cone speaker, which emits the recorded sound of Imai’s heartbeat. As the iron coil fixed to the inner part of the speaker vibrates back and forth, the piece of white paper flips up and down, as if it has a life of its own. This work demonstrates Imai’s desire to visualize the sound created by an inner organ that one is usually not conscious of hearing.
Heart Beat 3D / 2010
A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with the stories narrated by the mysterious Dr. B, who is a gifted surgeon at the centre of a conspiracy and a criminal ring trafficking in human parts, especially hearts. Because that’s where the world has ended up – humans thirsting for endless lives and shadowy businessmen and dealmakers taking advantage of this hunger. Set to original music by Němec’s student and fellow filmmaker Petr Marek and his band Midi Lidi, the rich soundscape of the film creates a distinct counterpart to the freewheeling visuals shot digitally in 3D. The former Czech president Václav Havel makes an appearance in the film recalling a script he wrote in the 1960s with Němec, his distant cousin, which the present film utilises as a reflecting surface.
Beating Heart / 1940
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Heart Beats of Long Ago / 1911
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the house gives a feast in honor of the arrival of a wealthy foreign noble, whom he expects to make his son-in-law. The daughter, however, has given her heart to the son of her father's enemy. That he may be present at the festival, she surreptitiously takes her father's signet ring, throwing it to him from the window, which, of course, admits him. The father, anticipating the intrusion of his enemies, orders death to any member who enters the hall. After the festivities the unwelcome betrothal takes place and the forbidden lover braves death to see his loved one. While they are in clandestine meeting a guard is seen to enter the corridor so the girl hides her sweetheart in a secret closet, turning the key and taking it with her. Not finding the intruder, the guard imagines he was mistaken.
Beats of the Heart: Salsa / 1979
'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.
Her Heart Still Beats / 2011
When Ed’s wife comes home early from work one day he becomes overtaken by a strange feeling when he looks into her eyes. Disturbed or possibly just paranoid, Ed becomes possessed with his wife’s eyes and struggles to understand these feelings. Is she evil or is he insane? They may not have enough time to find out.
Heart Beat Ear Drum / 2015
A 75 minute portrait of the artist and musician Z’EV, known for his punk era scrap metal music – how his music changed and grew and how his personal journey led him to the margins of art and the depths of heart. Eagerly awaited by fans, this documentary introduces a truly charismatic and quirky individual.
Be Still My Beating Heart / 2019
Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically.
My Heart Beats For You / 2023
Priya and Kaveri struggle with codependency as they seek to develop a sense of identity within their relationship. A Tamil-American queer romance and philosophical exploration.
Instruments of a Beating Heart /
First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing “Ode to Joy” at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part — the big drum.
Heart, Beating in the Dark / 1982
A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.
Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance / 1979
Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.
Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat / 2011
An eccentric clock, erratic, running backwards and forwards, skipping beats, announcing the hours of chrysanthemums, electric orgasms, blood, noise and other coincidences.
How to Build a Beating Heart /
National Geographic delves into the science of tissue engineering and tracks how scientists are beginning to harness the body's natural powers to grow skin, muscle, body parts and vital organs, even hearts.
The Sky is a Beating Heart / 2021
Documenting the light hitting my apartment on Sunday June 6 2021, with shots roughly edited from darkest to brightest
How to Build A Beating Heart / 2011
Science may be on the verge of producing a limitless supply of replacement parts by regenerating damaged or aging body parts grown from our own cells. Could it eliminate the death sentence for profound birth defects, the need for prosthetics and any shortage of transplant organs? National Geographic delves into the science of tissue engineering and tracks how scientists are beginning to harness the bodys natural powers to grow skin, muscle, body parts and vital organs, even hearts
Every Heart Beats True: The Jim Stynes Story / 2010
This raw and moving documentary charts former AFL footballer Jim Stynes' journey, from arriving in Australia at 18 to be coming one of the AFL's most celebrated players, and onto his diagnosis and struggle with cancer.
THE HIDDEN HEARTBEAT /
A captivating documentary that explores the profound connection between humanity and the whispering woods.
Beating Heart / 2022
A desperate rescue attempt leads to the continuation of the lives of two young girls. Their families will do everything they can to keep their own daughter alive... Their lives may have just begun but they the god of death seems to have come upon them. Two families meet at this fateful juncture, faced by the cruel reality and the urgency of time that have become heavy shackles binding their desperate parents.
Beats of the Heart: Tex-Mex Music of the Texas-Mexican borderlands / 1982
Along a thousand miles of the Rio Grande, Mexican and American cultures have mingled to produce Tex-Mex music – the impassioned statement of the border people. Since the Mexican revolution, this music has been the mouthpiece and spirit of the Tex-Mex community. Today, like most border regions, the area is a cultural melting pot, marked by violence and drug running, illegal immigrants and shady business dealings.