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Dreaming Istanbul, Film #1 - Short film series, 7X6min - 2011 Dreaming Istanbul is an experimental short film series consisting of seven parts, which creates an original, intriguing and penetrating insight into one of the most historical cities in the world: Istanbul. This first film starts by the Bosphorus and the pace of the streams | |
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Return To Tibet - Short Film, 3mins - 2004 Tibet: an independent and reclusive kingdom ruled by a monk king, the Dalai Lama, until its invasion during the 1950s by Communist China. 50 years later, this 3 minute film presents a kaleidoscope of Tibetan identity, in Tibet and in exile. Following the music of Chris Michell and Bhagdro, with no dialogue nor comments, Gilles Blaize in 'Return to Tibet' draw his first step into the culture of the Tibetans... | |
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Call Of The Snow Lion - Documentary series, 8X13min - 2010 At the end of 2010, Phuntsog Wangyal, Samdup Tsering and Gilles Blaize travelled accross India for Tibet Foundation to reveal the situation of the Tibetans in Exile. Every 4 or 5 days of the trip, they broadcasted almost live the daily life of these Tibetans through a series of films of around 10 minutes that go straight to the the existence of a monk, an artiste, a student, and also a traditional doctor or a guerrilla's veteran. | |
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Rémi Maillard, l'âme du laque - Documentary, 18min - 2010 Alternately monk, silk painter, fashion designer, Rémi Maillard have lived many lifes before reaching his workshop in the heart of Berry, a sanctuary where is burning the fire of lacquer in it's belly. This documentary film introduces his work and follow the different steps of a lacquer making. | |
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The Blue Scarf Documentary, 52min - 2008 The Tibetan form of Buddhism has been part of Mongolian tradition for centuries. However, it suffered systematic destruction under Soviet rules. Today Mongolia is emerging in the modern world. And when Tibetan Buddhism is at risk in Tibet, Mongolia could become its refuge. This is the story of 'The Blue Scarf'. | |
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The Land of Khampas - Institutional Doc, 34mins - 2006 Tibet Foundation is a non-governmental organization which works for the Tibetans, in Tibet and in exile. During the winter of 2005, Gilles Blaize and his camera followed the director of Tibet Foundation on the Tibetan high plateau of East Tibet, now a Chinese province. This film relates the journey and witnesses the projects conducted by Tibet Foundation in the land of Khampas. | |
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Aldous In London - Docu/Anim, 20mins - 2005 Between a Travelogue and an Animated film, Aldous in London is a plunge into the heart of Aldous Eveleigh’s universe, where the reality of London, its Bobbies, its cabs and pubs, mixes with the shifted vision of the wandering painter. Directed by Gilles Blaize, painted by Aldous Eveleigh and composed by Dryden Hawkins, Aldous in London teaches you to look at what you do not see. Open your eyes wide! | |
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Aldous In Istanbul - Anim, 12mins - 2008 First chapter of Aldous Eveleigh, the wandering painter, in Istanbul, with a music composed by Dryden Hawkins. In the city between two continents, two seas, two epochs, Aldous take us on an experimental odyssey where the streets of the old Byzantine and Ottoman city, its peoples and its cultures unveil themselves from new perspectives. | |
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Radio Fantazia No3 - Music, 3min29sec - 80's We already talk about Dryden's trip out of space. Among the stars, he is known as The Loved One. Here is one proof of his musical distraction when he was somewhere up there, illustrated by Pema Wangye's animation. And as we said on our friend's link page, get more good stuff of Dryden Hawkins on his myspace den: www.myspace.com/zwangtaboo. | |
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Aldous In London - Docu/Anim, 20mins - 2005 Between a Travelogue and an Animated film, Aldous in London is a plunge into the heart of Aldous Eveleigh’s universe, where the reality of London, its Bobbies, its cabs and pubs, mixes with the shifted vision of the wandering painter. Directed by Gilles Blaize, painted by Aldous Eveleigh and composed by Dryden Hawkins, Aldous in London teaches you to look at what you do not see. Open your eyes wide! | |
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Short Stretches Of The Thames - Animation, 12mins - 2005 From Greenwich to Westminster, Aldous Eveleigh, through his paintings, offers us a journey along the Thames. Using the animation technique of stop-motion, the wandering painter makes and unmakes landscapes of the British capital. Allow yourself to be rocked by the flow of paintings and the strange music composed by Dryden Hawkins. | |
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New York New Work - Animation, 6mins - 2001 New York, Spring 2001. Few months before the dark story of the two towers, Aldous Eveleigh rolls up in the streets of Manhattan, sketching from his brush the life of the city. Back in London, he creates a series of animations from his paintings on simple postcards of the Big Apple. Sex, violence, money, are the themes of these portraits to make this Aldous video one of our favorites. | |
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Easter In Ostend - Animation, 8mins - 1999 Ah! the beaches of fine sand, the mussels, the fries, the North Sea… Ostend is one of the privileged locations of Aldous Eveleigh. Not surprising that he chose the Belgium seaside resort as a guinea pig for his first video. With his brushes and the stop motion technique, taking the most common photographs of the town, the painter plays to reveal another vision of the Walloon finial where seagulls, Hercule Poirot and pretty girls come together. | |
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I Don’t Give A Foot, PSG/Metz pilot - Short Prog, 2mins - 2005 You take a short programme of 2 minutes to broadcast weekly, you add anonymous people caught in the street and you make them talk about the next match happening locally. With a well-balanced mixture of insolence, high-jacked interviews and an editing style known as 'editing with an axe', I Don’t Give A Foot deliver two minutes of crazy interviews in the street where they face the round-ball aficionados and those who 'don't give a foot'. | |
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IDGAF, Guingamp/Monaco pilot - Short Prog, 2mins - 2004 You take a short programme of 2 minutes to broadcast weekly, you add anonymous people caught in the street and you make them talk about the next match happening locally. With a well-balanced mixture of insolence, high-jacked interviews and an editing style known as 'editing with an axe', I Don’t Give A Foot deliver two minutes of crazy interviews in the street where they face the round-ball aficionados and those who 'don't give a foot'. | |
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