By the Lake
Genres
Overview
Bokanowski returns to the complex - and mind-bending - optical array of pinholes, mirrors, prisms, and refractive substrates of his earlier film, La Plage to create the whimsical and playful Au bord du lac. The film is composed of mundane, everyday scenes of recreation and leisure on an idyllic, sunny day at a park that overlooks a lake - rowing a boat, playing a game of volleyball, rollerskating, bicycling, reading a newspaper, sunbathing, riding on horseback, or strolling on the promenade - shot through optical distortions to create fractured and knotted images that resemble embellished, gothic fairytale illustrations or appear to resolve into morphing, geometric patterns of fluid motion. Evoking the vibrant colors and sun-soaked palette of an invigorated Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Bokanowski transforms the quotidian into an infinitely mesmerizing dynamic kaleidoscope of shape-shifting textures and self-reconstituting objects of organic, abstract art.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
6 min
Release Date
1994-09-26
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
8
Vote Average
5.8
5.5
Oleg and the War
The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other. But life is becoming more and more difficult and the war does not seem to end.
2017-04-09 | uk
0.0
The Legend of Rurik
A Viking warrior fights a dragon in a volcano to avenge the destruction of his village and his wife’s death.
2016-09-01 | en
10.0
Or Bleu
Two coral harvesters brothers are about to finish their working day, when the elder one discovers a mysterious underwater cave.
2017-09-07 | fr
6.8
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
During the holiday season, when the animals of the Central Park Zoo are preparing for Christmas, Private, the youngest of the penguins notices that the Polar Bear is all alone. Assured that nobody should have to spend Christmas alone, Private goes into the city for some last-minute Christmas shopping. Along the way, he gets stuffed into a stocking
2005-09-23 | en
6.0
Quod Libet
1978-04-12 | xx
4.8
Shake Hands with Danger
This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
1980-06-03 | en
5.0
Bronx, New York, November 2019
2021-10-21 | xx
5.0
Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms.
2021-10-21 | en
6.7
Foolish Girl
2006-01-01 | ru
0.0
Knight Out
Silent cartoon.
1926-09-17 | en
0.0
Ship Ahoy
Silent cartoon.
1930-01-01 | en
0.0
OCCHIO
An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.
2024-09-10 | it
7.7
The Curse of the Monkey Bird
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig search for a cursed treasure inside a jungle temple.
2019-06-12 | en
6.0
Duel
An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.
1997-01-01 | cs
6.8
Asterix in Britain
One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.
1986-12-03 | fr
6.2
Asterix Conquers America
When marauding Romans capture - and catapult - their pal Getafix into lands unknown, the shrewd and cunning Asterix and his able sidekick Obelix spring into action! But their journey leads them to a strange and dangerous new world, where they must face a tribe of Indians, a stampeding herd of buffalo and a medicine man with designs on their magic potion!
1994-09-29 | de
7.3
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
1976-06-26 | fr
8.0
H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia
A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.
2004-03-27 | it
0.0
Manzanar
Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
1972-01-01 | en
6.4
Butterfly
The film is devoted to the theme of careful attitude to the nature. It tells us how one of butterflies which are caught by the boy, grows till the huge sizes and the hunter appears in the net. Having tested bondage, the boy lets out the captives.
1972-01-01 | ru