"Muscle"
Muscles and Tendons
Explores the sexualisation and objectification of bodies through images of naked female and male figure. Explicitly and indirectly erotic scenes are followed by at first sensual and later noise music with narration. Black-and-white and colour photography exchange. Merely material perception of the body is additionally stressed with images of a car ..
Muscle Influenza
Probably the film in which more people are kidnapped in the shortest amount of time than any other film in cinema history. The antics and light-heartedness that run throughout the film, including the storyline, make it worthy of being called a 'violent film', despite the fact that there are no violent scenes at all. It is also a 'hero film' in that..
Arlette. Courage is a muscle
A pain management specialist in a Berlin hospital laments how difficult it is to see if black skin has turned blue. The patient, 15year old Arlette, doesn’t understand German. Her knee was injured in the war, and unknown wealthy Germans have helped pay for her trip to have surgery in Europe. The camera follows Arlette on her journey, from he..
Short Calf Muscle
Anders - a rather tall 30-year-old - finds out that the rest of the world is under the impression that he is a gnome.
No Pain No Gain
Basé sur une histoire vraie et inspiré d'articles de presse parus dans le Miami New Times, Pain and gain suit les aventures criminelles du "Sun Gym gang". Composé de bodybuilders dopés aux anabolisants, le gang s'est rendu célèbre entre décembre 1999 et janvier 2000 par ses multiples vols, enlèvements et meurtres.
La mafia de la neige
Une lettre anonyme apprend a un journaliste la constitution d'une organisation : Guerre au crime, qui a decidé de massacrer tous les tueurs et trafiquants de la région. Chaque fois que l'organisation frappe, le journaliste est averti. Pour lui, c'est le scoop assuré. Son ami policier se demande pourquoi il approuve ces tueurs...
Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes
En plus d’un siècle, le péplum s’est frayé un chemin dans la culture populaire à coups d’épées et de héros bodybuildés. De « Quo Vadis » à "Gladiator" en passant par « Ben Hur » et « Spartacus », décryptage d’un genre à part entière.
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance
The dancer Fatima, well-known for her dancing shows at the World's Exhibition in 1893, performs for the camera. She opens her act by twirling around a few times, and then she does the 'muscle dance' for which she had attracted considerable notoriety.
The Dragon, the Hero
Dragon Lee fights foreign devils who are stealing antiquities from China.
Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II
While transporting funds for independence movement, Lee Han-saeng is shot in the legs by the Japanese military police. He recovers from his wounds with the help of Jang Geo-chil, an independence fighter, and his daughter, Wan-ah. When the Japanese police investigate Jang's house, Han-saeng and Jang take refuge in the home of Wan-ah's uncle. But he ..
Misdirection
MISDIRECTION is a queer comedy about a college freshman who falls in love with close-up magic as an escape from her unrequited crush on her roommate and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
