“The faster you break it the faster we make it,” says the wooden column at one point, going on to acknowledge the bounteous economic logic of this reality with the observation that “production is sealed in gold.”Early on we see the black-and-white striped house Adolf Loos designed for Josephine Baker. It’s a cardboard model, of course; the plans were never realized. The house is an idea, an image, a virtual presence, a possibility, a provocation. Later in the film it reappears, reconfigured in different materials with a different range of qualities and surface finishes. “Why do so many things look the same, and only one of them is good?” asks a female voice. This is not the column’s voice but that of someone who sounds much like Marten herself. It is, in fact, her sister, one Marten speaking another Marten’s words. After all, in order to manufacture glamour, a little plagiarism is essential. And this process—call it borrowing, copying, paying homage, whatever—is both violent and comic.

Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite statio...

Desperate to prove to his peers that he’s more than a chubby kid that never wins at anything, little...

Nie Xiaoqian was betrayed and died with hatred. She turned into a ghost after death and was imprison...

Zanna, a girl separated from her family suddenly enters a world full of wonders that she never imagi...

In pursuit of her lifelong dream of becoming a writer, Yumi takes the bold step of quitting her job ...

Furio’s Furious Fragments & Friends - Furio Jesi (1941 Turin -1980 Genoa), enfant prodige moving bet...

Remy, a resident of Paris, has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he ca...

Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to take his game to the next level and t...

At the After-life service, the soul Gaspard doesn’t have enough Karma points to reincarnate into the...

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Togethe...

Following his robbery, a man finds himself forced to board into a little grandma’s car to escape the...

Liyoki, a silverback gorilla, lives peacefully with his family, when they are attacked by poachers.

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate text...

Barbie meets another Barbie Roberts, forming a close friendship, nicknaming each other Malibu and Br...

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzill...

The story focuses on high school girl Nagisa Yukiai who lives in a seaside town. She has believed he...

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Par...

Autumn is in the air as the Kitauji High School concert band prepares for the National Competition. ...