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A group of dancers stuck in an abandoned building have a drug fueled nightmare of a night, where the boundaries of reality blur. In true Gasper Noe fashion, the visuals are garish, violent and seductive, and the constant camera movement creates an atmosphere of inescapable anxiety.
Gasper Noe uses his idiosyncratic style to tell the story of a violent night driven by anger and high emotions. His use of non-linear editing, wild camera movement, suffocating close ups, and noise music create a world of tension and claustrophobia.
This documentary by Wang Bing is about the lives of sweatshop textile workers in a manufacturing town in Huzhou City in China. The film allows the audience to feel the space the space and the physicality of the labour, often using long shots, repetition and the duration of the film itself.
Emma Seligman creates a beautiful balance between tension, drama and comedy in her film about a girl at a funeral who has to navigate between her ‘sugar daddy’ and his family, her ex-girlfriend, her parents, and a barrage of agony aunts.
The film focuses on Carol (played by Catherine Deneuve), exploring her relationship with her own sexuality and her isolation. Her isolation in her apartment results in a porous reality where hallucinations reign free, her capability to distinguish between nightmares and life diminish as the wall of the apartment close in.
Kubrick uses the open mountainous landscape and the large empty space of the hotel to create a sense of deep isolation and disconnect, suspending the audience into a state of anxious dread with not hopes of escape.
A survival film about a man trapped in an apartment complex that is still under construction. The film beautifully explores his desperation, loneliness, vulnerability and claustrophobia.
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