- Overview
Six million tons, suspended by the slightest gesture. Mother of the World presents a series of brief vignettes of Cairo just prior to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. These fragmented scenes choreograph class structure and foreign influence into an intimate, poetic view of a nation about to change.
- Release Date
01 November 2011
- DirectingSimon Tarr
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
- Stars
Videos
User Reviews
See moreMore Like This
Oblivion
A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...
See moreBeing in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from...
See moreMaking the Nature Scene
Long before Kim Gordon was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Body/Head, she was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Sonic Youth. In the...
See moreFeeler
16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Krakow, Sidney, Portland, Napa...
See moreA Film to Pass the Time
Exploring American living, sex work, and the power of God among other things in the year 2024.
See moreMoving Memories
On April 1st, 2022, my grandfather passed away and i felt lost. I think my path changed when, some days after he passed away, i was offered a small...
See moreunbroken rhythms
poem. trees. fragments. fritz. movement.
See moreUntitled (Pink Dot)
In Untitled (Pink Dot), Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood (1982) into a morass of seething electronic...
See morebleared eyes of blue glass
The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...
See morefifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen
fifteen zero three nineteenth of january two thousand sixteen explores how everyday routines and gestures are transformed when a mother loses her...
See moreThe Pleasure in Pain
A short film that follows key figures of the London kink scene on an exploration into BDSM and the notorious fetish event Klub Verboten. The film...
See moreDuelo
The short film follows Endika, a director who, in the midst of a clash with his reality, transforms a documentary about paternal absence into a...
See moreThe Ongoing Conversation
An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.
See moreAurum iter
Aurum Iter is a cinematic journey that delves into the depths of the visual and sonic, challenging the boundaries of traditional storytelling...
See moreTen Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the...
See moreto boyhood, i never knew him
Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words...
See moreHow I'm Goin' Public
A single-channel, nonlinear performance video and diegetic sounds. Exploring the ground of the reenactments of intimacy and the public display of...
See moreShadows
Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of the...
See moreMegalópolis
Exploration of the territory in a delirious time-space journey through the largest Megalopolis in America.
See moreO Tempo Passa