Compilation of various documentary/newsreels about events in Latvia starting with 1910 visit of tzar Nicholas II, German military forces occupying Riga in 1917 (when Latvia was not yet established as legal country) and continuing with excerpts form later years.
A miner leaves his cottage in the morning, his family waving goodbye. The pit head; locking the lamps. The miners enter a lift and descend to the pits. At the coalface, miners hack at the coal with pickaxes, while other men and boys load the coal into trolleys. The coal is hoisted to the pit's mouth, where men, women and boys commence unloading. The waste is hoisted to the pit'...
Trivia:
Because the black boxer (Johnson) beat the white boxer, the film was banned in some southern cities.
"One march ends, a journey begins."(一个征程结束,一个征程又将开始。)
荒芜的沙漠,一个巨型怪兽缓慢行驶,每一次艰难的挪动对它来说都是举步维艰。伴随它最后的轰然倒下,聚居在怪物身上的人类便设法逃离去了下一处……
本片是法国MOPA学院学生的联合毕设作品,短片通过缓慢的动作、弥漫的大雾来创造景深感,注重人物及物体的细节考量。审美工作令人印象深刻,照明,渲染效果及后期合成的努力也值得注意。
观众开始会紧张于怪兽身上人类的命运,直到怪兽轰然坍塌,人类奔向下一个怪物,我们才对本片隐晦的寓意了然,原来,人类与怪兽身上的虫子一样,都是寄生,当我们耗尽了怪兽象征着的环境资源,便转移到下一处寄居,与片头字幕“一个征程结束,一个征程又将开始”形成讽刺般的呼吁。
本片现已入围多个大小国际电影节,其中最著名是2015洛杉矶SIGGRAP...
Jack Hartley, the foreman of the Triple X Ranch, is engaged to Nellie Monroe, the ranch owner's daughter. A quarrel starts between Jack and "Red" Williams, a cow-puncher, when the latter first makes advances to Nellie, and second, when Williams abuses a faithful Indian ranch hand. On this latter occasion Jack is unable to restrain his temper and the result is a short fist fight...