Hai cercato: Soliloquy
Soliloquy / 1967
Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)
Soliloquy / 1999
Two screens face each other in a dark room, only a bench off to the side interrupting the space between them. Settling into this interstitial expanse of Shirin Neshat’s Soliloquy (1999), viewers become mediators, with the series of scenes on each screen flowing not past, but through this audience – asking them, perhaps, to act as witnesses to the ensuing visual dialogue. The titles begin, in English and Persian; then, the sole character appears, clad in black robes and played by Neshat herself. She is looking out of two different windows: one in Albany, New York; the other in Mardin, Turkey, not far from the artist’s native Iran.
Soliloquy /
Lo-fi found-footage collage traverses spaces between the abstract and the surreal, alienation and intimacy. Love's thoughts are unknowable and infinite.
Soliloquy / 2021
In Soliloquy, part of the Kita’s World series, Martine Syms creates digital avatar Kita, who acts as cultural commentator, speaking to questions of consciousness within the systems of race, capitalism, and technology.
Soliloquy /
In Soliloquy, part of the Kita’s World series, Martine Syms creates digital avatar Kita, who acts as cultural commentator, speaking to questions of consciousness within the systems of race, capitalism, and technology.
Soliloquy / 2024
A young actress' insecurity turns to obsession when an identical applicant arrives at her callback audition.
Soliloquy (Sharon) / 2000
An early meditation on the relationship between celebrity presence and audience response, which belongs to a trilogy of three short films (the other two, also accessible via Vimeo, zoom in on Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson). According to Nicholas Bourriaud,“The storyline and the contextual backdrop of the original feature film vanish along with the secondary actors, all now relegated to the mute realm of the proverbial cutting room floor. The result is an unusually direct and somewhat violent relationship between the secluded actor and the viewer, who is granted an almost obscene access to the star. Composed of a series of film clips isolated and chronologically strung together, the new films crudely distill every grunt and murmur of the designated star.”
Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy / 2018
Star Wars meets Shakespeare in this timely nod to both the 40th celebration of Star Wars release and the recent 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is presented as the inner voice of a Stormtrooper, demonstrating the way Shakespeare's language still echoes down to us through the centuries and remains as relevant today as ever---not to mention as well in a galaxy far, far away...
The Soliloquy Of Laundry /
Miguel faces a new challenge, laundry, and loneliness.
Soliloquy (Jack), 1987-2000 /
Breitz’s ‘Soliloquy Trilogy’ (2000), expands her previous investigations of the imaginary relations between the star and the fan. Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Tests’ of the mid-1960s were reportedly a key impetus for the series of three short films that make up the trilogy. Warhol’s short film portraits of the famous and the non-famous employ a static camera that focuses unblinkingly on the face of the motionless sitter over the course of several minutes. His fascination with compressed presence is echoed in Breitz’s films, which, like the ‘Screen Tests,’ reflect on the manner in which celebrity aura is created and maintained.
Soliloquy / 2009
A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past & their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make their journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a picture gets lost, someone's head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.
Soliloquy (Clint), 1971-2000 / 2000
Breitz’s ‘Soliloquy Trilogy’ (2000), expands her previous investigations of the imaginary relations between the star and the fan.
Soliloquy / 2016
Even though the top court of the different countries of the world may legalize homosexuality and recognize same sex marriage, most of these countries have a long way to go until these unions are accepted by their societies. "Mann Ki Baat" (literally, The Heart Speaks) is about one such man residing in India (a predominantly conservative society) who fears that he may not be accepted by his race and the society in general for who he is.
Soliloquy of the Fishes / 2018
Meenalap (Soliloquy of the fishes) revolves around a Bengali couple migrated from a remote village of West Bengal to Pune city, working in a garments factory and struggling to meet the ends while expecting a child. The film delves in to the psychological changes of them in the realm of urban alienation in absence of own family and culture while becoming a mother and father from husband and wife for the first time.
Soliloquies / 2013
A young woman revisiting memories of a lost love days before Martial Law is proclaimed -- an old, jaded mechanic -- a young man on his way to the countryside encountering a host of militia men and their tortured captive -- these are stories of forgotten hopes, of wearied struggles, of memories lost. Can they still be ever found?