Smile, Man! 1972
When his mother is widowed, Ole is sent to boarding school. There he soon discovers that other boys have their problems too.
When his mother is widowed, Ole is sent to boarding school. There he soon discovers that other boys have their problems too.
Mao Zedong was not only a revolutionary leader and thinker, he was also a poet. In poems written in the classic calligraphic tradition he expresses his experiences and visions. In this film, 8 of Mao's poems are sung, recited and interpreted: 'Changsha' (1925), 'Jinggang Mountains' (1928), 'The Long March' (1935), 'Snow' (1936), 'The People's Liberation Army Captures Nanjing' (1949), 'Swimming' (1956), 'Reply to Comrade Guo Moruo' (1961) and 'Reascending Jinggang Mountains' (1965). Through these poems we get a picture of the Chinese revolution from its first beginning in 1921 until the Cultural Revolution. The poems of Mao Zedong have been published in more than 57 million copies
What happens when Adam and Eve have borrowed money for everything they own and have? Then they end up in the hamster wheel, like everyone else, who consumes beyond their means. Humorous fable about the blessings of the installment system - and its consequences. (DFI)
The block constitutes the common denominator of all symbols. It is offered for sale by the Minotaur to all people in the labyrinth of life and causes both grave attention and hilarity, distress and delight in a highly informal way. (DFI)
An art film by Per Arnoldi about a wide range of things with redundant, non-functional ornamentation and banal beauty: Cakes, candies, lollipops, mechanical toys, slot machines, paper hats, masks, noses, fireworks, streamers, artificial flowers, pranks, flags and much more more. It is terrific that such ornate things are produced, on top of that by machine, and add appetizing and purchase-promoting properties to them. And in terms of beauty, this very banality can be accepted as fully as anything else. (DFI)
Psychedelic music film in shapes and colors. (DFI)
A paraphrase of H.C. Andersen's fairy tale of the same name. Visual acid for the eyes. (DFI)
Musical cartoon fantasy of "When the Saints", sung and played by Matty Peters and Billy Moore. (DFI)
A ballet abstraction shaped as a combination of cartoon and trick film, where the dancers move behind, in front of and between the animated. The eternal pair experiences dangers and joys and finally disappears as it arose. (DFI)
Mogens Zieler's attempt to convey the dynamic element in the graphics through the musical and rhythmic time course of a cartoon. (DFI)
Cartoon fantasy about how a little man is taught by life about right and wrong ambitions. (DFI)
A film poem about the Danish flag, the Dannebrog, and where to look for it. (DFI)
The title is the opening line of the thousand-year-old epic poem "Bjarkemål". A boy's war fantasy in an ordinary Danish villa garden, photographed in harsh, strong spring light. (DFI)