Search Results: metaphor
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Movies (20)
Metaphor
The artist is painting a portrait of his girlfriend, facing criticism and problems.
Box: Metaphor
Box Metaphor is a compelling dystopian journey where unjust imprisonment unveils societal conformity and defiance’s profound impact. It’s about breaking free from metaphorical boxe...
A Metaphor
A poetic license allows Samantha (Tetsuo Takita), a soul full of nuances, to experience all the emotions described by Fátima Guedes, our singer and poet, in her poems and songs. J...
Urban Metaphor
The camera gets lost in the deserted streets and lonely reflections of the city lights. Without words, it captures the loneliness of souls who, although surrounded by crowds and co...
The Great Metaphor
What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?
Dead Metaphor
Fire as a metaphor, and a worn out linguistic failure, the dead metaphor. Aristotle said, in the Poetics, “Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something el...
An Impotent Metaphor
Created as part of the Yonemotos’ Soap Opera Series (together with Green Card: American Romance), this postmodern tale navigates artistic and sexual crises in Southern California. ...
An Unsatisfying Metaphor
Documentary about the history of 20th century globalization through the lens of the World Trade Organization's changing art collection; from works of human subjects showcasing the ...
The Art of Metaphor
For more than 50 years, renowned installation artist Donna Dennis builds under-scaled houses to metaphorically honor lost friends. Rich with quotations from hundreds of journals go...
U.S.S. Metaphor
Based on the hilarious Gilbert and Sullivan classic H.M.S. Pinafore, U.S.S. Metaphor includes such characters as Captain Closeted, his gay son sailor Stephen (in love with sailor R...
A Body in Metaphor
A contemplation on the role of women's bodies in African cinema.
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that ...
The Fence is a Metaphor
A teenager tries to learn how to skateboard, but not without bystanders watching his every move.
Metaphor or Sadness Inside Out
Alternating Super-8, digital footage and the correspondence with her brother, the filmmaker evokes their deceased mother and the Portuguese revolution, which she only gets to know ...
Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)
The artist Bruce Nauman set the corner post of a fence on his ranch in Galisteo, New Mexico, one day and videotaped the process. As the title of Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & M...
My Body is a Metaphor
This videotape provides electronic, metaphorical images which, in part, illustrate theories of the disappearing body as a result of social controls, social silencing and oppression...
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resis...
Metaphor: King Vidor Meets with Andrew Wyeth
Vidor and Wyeth discuss the influence of The Big Parade on Wyeth and the use of metaphors in art
The Metaphor That Became a Room
The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two parts, the film first delves i...
At Eltham, a Metaphor on Death
Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instru...
