Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer / 1979

Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page).

Below the Surface / 2022

It's 1940. German forces are prevailing over Allies across Europe. The crew of the Polish submarine, now serving in the Royal Navy, is waging a heroic fight against the invisible enemy.

Dal profondo della Terra / 20083.01 voti

A series of strange accidents plaguing a city located near the mine. Two people were pulled through the funnel, which formed after the collapse of tunnels under the lake. Geologist Nina Thiemann discovers that the mine tunnels are insecure and unstable. A woman with an expert in the field of explosions and a father, a former miner, descend into the ground, hoping that they will prevent catastrophe

Moleman 3: Journey to the Surface / 2014

Moleman 3 is a documentary diary about a journey from the underground to the cultural surface. Music styles and artists ignored by record labels and the mainstream media didn't have much chance of getting wide recognition back in the day. The digital revolution changed everything. The internet and digital technology, accessible to everyone, reshaped the music industry completely. The significance of record labels which controlled mainstream music has changed and decayed. For genres building themselves up from the bottom, success was once unimaginable without a record label and money. As of today, thanks to the digital revolution, it can easily be done.

...calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea. I was transported. / 2007

In this film, Walker employs paper silhouettes, archival photographs, and other imagery to examine the history and long aftermath of slavery in the United States. Drawing on references to that history, the 2003 Darfur genocide, and the American South, she uses silhouettes, a nineteenth-century portrait technique, to reflect on issues of identity, race, and violence. The brightly colored backgrounds and country-inflected banjo soundtrack create a sense of spectacle that is at odds with the violence experienced by the figures, reminding viewers that images of black bodies in pain continue to be a source of entertainment under white supremacy. [Overview courtesy of The Whitney Museum]

On the Water Surface / 2023

Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother's wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she'd left behind, resurface during the visit. As her mother leaves her the family house, a tragedy haunts her. She can't stop thinking about her father drowning at sea. Moreover, she feels her mother blames her and has abandoned her for it. She realizes she won't be able to move on like her mother unless she faces her problems head-on. Following a confrontation, Deniz accepts the past and takes a real step into adulthood. Sitting by the sea, she is at peace. The sea is no longer a threat but a sign of liberation. She jumps in.

The Created Surface of the Earth / 1920

Directed by Lev Kuleshov.

Beneath the Surface / 1997

23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that her pimp / boyfriend Roffe has turned his attention to Sandra's younger and well-behaving sister Jannika.

Surface / 20224.01 voti

Un trauma cranico causa a Sophie una grossa perdita di memoria. La giovane donna prova a ricostruire la propria vita, aiutata da marito e amici. Ma, così, inizia anche a mettere in discussione la sua vita, all'apparenza idilliaca. Come sempre, non è tutto oro quello che luccica.

± 5 Meters From the Surface of the Oceans / 2015

Underneath the Surface / 1967

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

Below the Surface / 2022

In his native Colombia, 23-year-old Elkin felt misunderstood. He left for Europe to explore his gender identity. Roaming through Europe, he put himself in the shoes of various alter-egos through his work as a sex worker.

Beneath the Surface / 2021

Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past.

Sounding the Surface / 1963

This short film on the waters of Switzerland does not show conventional landscapes. Without literary commentary, only by means of image, rhythm and music, it tries, on the contrary, to make the life of an element, water.

Beneath the Surface / 2022

In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse and suffering, supported by a mass of evidence and previously unseen archival footage. As the case goes to court, the community remains defiant against a judicial system whose attitudes highlight fissures in the purported equal treatment of all citizens. The community’s battle aims to break a vicious cycle of racism and to achieve meaningful lasting change for future generations.

Underground/ On The Surface / 2013

it's a feature documentary exploring the world of Egyptian underground Popular music, by following some of the biggest stars of this genre; Wezza, Okka, and Ortega, also known as the 8% .

Arising from the Surface / 1980

Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.

The Surface of Things / 2017

An urban legend of Athens says that in the 80s a girl was swept away by an ancient underground river that nobody has ever seen. Today a young anthropologist is researching the case, interviewing the girl’s three best friends and their former history teacher.

Rock and Cliff: The Geological Surface of Horn Town / 2019

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the experiences of rural residents moved there through government-led displacement. Horn Town is located in Wulong, a rural district near the Three Gorges Dam administered by the Chongqing municipality (a city of 30 million people). Narrated in the style of a science documentary but using local Chongqing dialect, the video brings a geological and topographical perspective to types of 'rocks' found in the area,from mythological stones from a mountain cliff, to ruins of the original settlement, to a stone sculpture from a dubious 'Land Art Biennial', in order to address issues of land acquisition, top-down development and spatial politic.

Ashes Settling In Layers On The Surface /

Based on diaries and photographs found in the houses destroyed during the Russian war against Ukraine, the film captures the stories of Mariupol, including that of the director’s family. It centers on the value of freedom and human life itself over the nonsensical statements repeated by totalitarian regimes, as witnessed throughout the history of the Azovstal plant.