Lucien Castaing-Taylor
A quiet, ravishing pastoral to restore the senses. A shepherdess guides a parade of sheep across Montana's Hell Roaring Creek; a quotidian ritual that exists out of time.
Experimental and Avant-Garde Short Film Environment Documentary
Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam's Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis's 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-threatening boat crossing. Melancholic and mysterious, the film urgently and elegantly addresses the perils of illegal migration.
A single roll of Super 8mm to capture the mystery in the everyday, blown up to 35mm.
Life may not go on but careful work continues at this Mansfield Ohio address.
An ode to the sea, where beauty and death often meet.
The apocalyptic sublime of J. M. W. Turner’s 1840 masterpiece The Slave Ship, with its firery conflagration and strewn debris amid wild waters, is the source for T. Marie’s time-based pixel painting-film Slaveship.
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor was born in Liverpool and is an anthropologist and artist working in film, video, and photography. His films include Made in USA (90), In and Out of Africa (92), Sweetgrass (09) and The High Trail (10).