Danish Girls Show Everything / Danske piger viser alt (1996)
Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)
TVRip | MKV | 720 x 450 | x264 @ 800 Kbps | 94 min | 665 Mb
Audio: English-Mandarin-Danish AAC @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded for non-english parts
Genre: Shorts, Comedy, Drama, Art-house, Experimental
TVRip | MKV | 720 x 450 | x264 @ 800 Kbps | 94 min | 665 Mb
Audio: English-Mandarin-Danish AAC @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded for non-english parts
Genre: Shorts, Comedy, Drama, Art-house, Experimental
This Danish omnibus film consists of 20 shorts, by a bevy of international directors; the project as a whole was conceived by Danish visual artist Ane Mette Ruge and Dutch opera-director Jacob F. Schokking. The title represents a pun; in addition to its obvious sensationalistic implications (which is used ironically - almost nothing in the film, aside from some incidental nudity, is exploitative), the "everything" refers to the plethora of subjects at hand, with the filmmakers exploring topics from national identity to ornithology, to trips abroad to Vietnam and Brazil, to the history of Berlin. Shown at the 1998 Gothenburg Film Festival.
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The Weather by Anne Mette Ruge and Jacob F. Schoking – short remake of Berlin, Symphony of a Great City?
Expectations by Krystof Zanussi – interview snippet which means little out of context
Me by Marc J. Hawker – dark, brooding depiction of sexuality, with notes of sci-fi
Meditation by Sussana Edwards – entertaining portrait of a loving matriarch with an unusual hobby
Danthing by David Blair – utterly surreal computer animation, reminiscent of Guy Maddin
My Things by Franz Ernst – sentimental, and a sweet interpretation of the title;
Light Apparel by Mani Kaul – baffling proverbial piece about gender inequality
Archaeology by Morten Skallerud – mildly interesting documentary which discusses the Sami people
Centre – superb experimental short which keeps a moving ball at the centre of the screen
Life In Six Steps by Vibek Vogel – ambitious Reggio-esque documentary which doesn’t quite gel together
Berlin Retour by Gustav Hamos – unusual time-travelling WWII short with a questionable aesthetic
Casting by Monika Treut – weak comedy which aims to subvert the stereotypes of Danish women
Peeping by Zhang Yuan – culture-shock drama; feels like an excerpt of a bigger film
Dreaming by Dusan Makavejev – typical political fare from Dušan Makavejev, with cheeky self-reference
Bliss by Anne- Matte Ruge – inaccessible fragment of a conversation between the artist and Vietnamese friends
My Father by Jacob F. Schokking – touching short about memory; could have been longer
Pork And Apple Stew by Lars Norgaard – dreadful absurdist animation
Rhythm by Mika Kaurismaki – decent piece on samba, although tenuous link to the theme
Tobacco by Anne Rigetze Wivel – shows a prematurely aged woman smoking; subtle yet effective
Why Don’t We? by Jaime M. Hermosillo – tries to conclude the film with a previously unacknowledged message
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Danish Girls Show Everything / Danske piger viser alt (1996)
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