Music, Documentary, Fantasy
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality sprung from the pop culture fantasies and hyper-consumerism of contemporary urban China, while also trying to transcend its real-life limitations. It can be seen as an answer to the challenge posed by River Elegy: how to envision a new Chinese destiny founded on principles of individuality, creativity, discovery, and freedom. The film also reflects the contemporary condition of the virtual supplanting our experience of the real.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Rencontre(s)
Film-Tract n° 1968
SoundStage Presents: Robert Plant And The Strange Sensation
George A. Romero's Resident Evil
Railway Station
Gimme Shelter
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Journey to Jah
Moulin Rouge!
Clouds
Waiting for the Sun
Jingle lang ang Pahina
The Road Forward
Unarmed Verses
Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams
Vinyl, Dust and Groove
Cum On Feel The Noize
Meat Loaf - Die Rocklegende
Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1896
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.Rencontre(s)
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2022
Rencontre(s) is an immersive, interactive and multisensory experience that invites you to live the legendary moment during which Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and perfumer Ernest Beaux meet to choose the perfume that would become Chanel N°5 in 1921. Actress Marion Cotillard lent her voice to interpret Gabrielle Chanel in this virtual reality project.Film-Tract n° 1968
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1968
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young MinSoundStage Presents: Robert Plant And The Strange Sensation
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2005
Soundstage: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation is the first live DVD by Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, featuring a performance filmed for the Soundstage television series in Chicago on September 16, 2005, in addition to bonus features from prior to the founding of the Strange Sensation 1. "No Quarter" - 2. "Shine It All Around" - 3. "Black Dog" - 4. "Freedom Fries" 5. "Four Sticks" - 6. "Tin Pan Valley" - 7. "Gallow's Pole" - 8. "The Enchanter" - 9. "Whole Lotta Love"George A. Romero's Resident Evil
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 2025
A documentary that brings to light the vision that director George A. Romero had for an adaptation of Resident Evil, using newly filmed interviews with those who were there, and unravels the secrets behind why it was never produced.Railway Station
IMDB 4.7 | Jan , 1980
Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.Gimme Shelter
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1970
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.Frank Sinatra Memorial
IMDB 0 | May , 2000
Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest stars in Hollywood in this television memorial which celebrates his life and mourns his passing. Exclusive flashback interviews with Sinatra, his friends and his family, reveal little known facts about his overwhelming generosity and the sensationalized image created by the press. * In-depth interviews with those who knew him best... Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Shecky Green, Phyllis McGuire, Quincy Jones, & Betty Garrett, among others. * See highlights from some of Sinatra’s last films and farewell perfomances.Journey to Jah
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2014
The forceful feature-length documentary Journey to Jah by Noel Dernesch and Moritz Springer catches the global phenomenon of crossing borders by documenting the experiences of integration in a foreign culture. The film follows the internationally acclaimed European musicians Gentleman and Alborosie, which found a new spiritual home within the reggae culture while Jamaican singer Terry Lynn takes the other direction integrating European styles into her music.Moulin Rouge!
IMDB 7.5 | May , 2001
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.Clouds
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1969
Clouds 1969 by the British filmmaker Peter Gidal is a film comprised of ten minutes of looped footage of the sky, shot with a handheld camera using a zoom to achieve close-up images. Aside from the amorphous shapes of the clouds, the only forms to appear in the film are an aeroplane flying overhead and the side of a building, and these only as fleeting glimpses. The formless image of the sky and the repetition of the footage on a loop prevent any clear narrative development within the film. The minimal soundtrack consists of a sustained oscillating sine wave, consistently audible throughout the film without progression or climax. The work is shown as a projection and was not produced in an edition. The subject of the film can be said to be the material qualities of film itself: the grain, the light, the shadow and inconsistencies in the print.Waiting for the Sun
IMDB 6.2 | Mar , 2017
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets. Grandma Zhang, as the kids call her, is a former prison guard who has founded an orphanage in Nanzhao.Jingle lang ang Pahina
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2012
Jingle Chordbook Magazine, first published in 1970, promptly taught a generation of Filipinos to play the guitar. Its story also explores how a small independent publication survived the weight of its time – the dark Martial Law years – and how it inspired the Filipino youth to think for themselves and wield the guitar like a weapon. The documentary “Jingle Lang Ang Pahina” tells the story of Jingle, its ragtag crew, and its loyal fans in a rambling, multi-layered narrative told in different voices and perspectives by the writers, artists, fans, collectors, musicians, freaks.The Road Forward
IMDB 9 | Apr , 2017
The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Interviews and musical sequences describe how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood, grew to become a successful voice for change across the country. Visually stunning, The Road Forward seamlessly connects past and present through superbly produced story-songs with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats.Unarmed Verses
IMDB 10 | May , 2017
Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams
IMDB 7 | Jul , 1998
This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an All-Stars' concert at the city's Salon of Dreams.Vinyl, Dust and Groove
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2018
An overview of the Brazilian vinyl market and its main players to understand the dimension of a universe that mixes sounds, money and passion. New factories, labels, stores, rarity-hunting mercenaries, collectors, DJs and a whole complex ecosystem revolve at 33 rpm around this renewed and beloved industry.Cum On Feel The Noize
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2017
Exclusive, long-lost live material from rock's most iconic bands and artists, as well as original interviews with the living legends themselves, including Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page, Nikki Sixx, David Draiman and more.Meat Loaf - Die Rocklegende
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2016
Portal 2: The (Unauthorized) Musical
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
In the distant future, in a far off laboratory standing silent and long abandoned, we meet Chell. She has been asleep for a long time. When she’s awoken by a chatty, British, blue-eyed robot, she finds herself in a facility that is overgrown and falling apart. Together, the two attempt an escape, inadvertently stirring…. something. Aperture is back. For science. You monster!