Search Results: allegory
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Movies (19)
Allegory
The ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.
Allegory
This was supposed to be a trial film for the artist to test her defective camera. In Allegory, Friedl vom Gröller stands in the foreground of the scene, anxiously looking into the...
Allegory
Stiff, paralyzed, stupefied by a shadow show, at the bottom of a cave, a wooden puppet emerges to discover life, nature and the ideal city. He returns to the bottom of the cave to ...
Altostratus: An Allegory
Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, a...
An Urban Allegory
A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chanc...
Another Allegory
A film that viscerally revisits sites of fractured queer archival information. Taking in a number of pastoral locations in the UK, it follows violinist Blaize Henry in the pursuit ...
Allegory / Messenger
16mm. Won Bluedents International Film Festival Director Award
Modern Masturbation Allegory
The 22-year-old Xinyi believed she had developed a masturbation addiction and claimed she had begun to feel indescribable feelings. As she struggled, she could not avoid constantly...
A Cave Allegory
Lily is an anthropology professor who struggles to care for a mother who needs medical care due to her advancing illness.
The Allegory of the Screen
Baby Brad's (very existential) short film that he made for his HSC
Allegory of the Jam Jar
Hans is a 50-year old businessman. He has a challenging job, a wonderful collection of ties and a pristine apartment. One day, when a crack appears on the perfect walls of his home...
Allegory of A Woman
I & I: An African Allegory
Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, whereas ...
The Great Allegory
A young woman writer constructs a story in which she evokes the memory of a young man who died in the war.
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...
That Monster: An Allegory
"That Monster: An Allegory addresses the projections and identifications at play in today’s mass politics. The film was developed out of a desire to elucidate the riddle of mass en...
An Allegory of Life
A short film about how something as simple as a walk can be a metaphor of life itself.
Moby Dick: An American Allegory
A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.
The Woman... and the Collector - Allegory III
A film by Kostas Sfikas.
