"Character"
Fictional Characters
A contemporary read out of Hansel and Gretl, discussing gender, family and social problems.
Characters
Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the ma..
P-38 Flight Characteristics
Training film for pilots of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning pursuit aircraft, focusing particularly on flight characteristics during operation on only one engine.
Ingenuity Over Technology: The Crafty Characters of the Americans
Special feature of Season 1.
Wildcard Character
Wildcard Character describes the very moment of representation when performing labor is dissolving. The exertive performance in front of the camera serves a fast moving, grotesque imagery of glamour that is actively produced and constantly reproduced to not collapse into the ridiculous.
Parade of Characters (Asia in America) St. Louis Exposition
A parade by denizens of one of the Oriental Concessions, The Pike, St. Louis.
Character Studies
Montagu Love pretty much plays himself in this Vitaphone short where he starts off by introducing himself to the viewer and saying most probably remember him for playing villains. He then asks that people pretend that he's surrounded by a dinner party and he's been asked to give a speech even though he's shy.
Characterization
eternal return; character as sign
Characters in Interrogation
A director-character, an intervening actor, an interviewer-character: how do these mediations reveal the shifting levels of difference in the relations woven inside films? The project investigates the interview as a dialogue strategy and fiction as its vehicle.
100 Years of Universal: Unforgettable Characters
Revisit Universal's most memorable heroes, villains, comedians and screen legends.
Story Tellers: An Evening with Colorful Characters
One cold night in the Utah Territory, three opinionated men find themselves sharing a campfire as they tell tales, swap insults, and expound on their personal philosophies. Join Porter Rockwell, Mark Twain, and J. Golden Kimball for an entertaining and enlightening evening with three of the most colorful characters of the Old West.
To the World's End: Scenes and Characters on a London Bus Route
Follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route. The soundtrack features the Carl Davis composition Variations on a Bus Route, commissioned to celebrate London Transport's 50th birthday in 1984.
Sincerity: The Character of Ronald Reagan
“Sincerity” draws upon internal White House footage from 1984 and 1985 surrounding Ronald Reagan’s re-election to the presidency. This short video examines issues of authenticity, privacy, and performance in the maintenance of a public identity.
Figaro!: Living in the Moment of a Character
Two music schools, the Louisville School of Music and the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katrowice, Poland, thousands of miles apart in both distance and language, come together to perform Mozart's comic opera "The Marriage of Figaro."
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting.
Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character
Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.
A Gift with a Character
Being a panda is fun! But not Misha, who is forced to work in a panda costume at children's parties. He is thirty years old, lives in a tiny one-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, and has no serious job. Everything was like that until he was invited to the birthday party of the son of an oligarch. Artyom is nine years old, and he has a secr..
I Want to Be Like the Main Character in a Novel
While writing, I don't think so well, so I am in trouble while talking to myself. Then, the girlfriend Lisa came to the hero's house to play. A girlfriend who asks her boyfriend who is welcoming to see if she is writing well these days. To a boyfriend who confesses that it is not being used well. A girl friend who knows how to do that and has been ..
Common Characters
After overcoming a series of life-altering events - including an addiction to crystal meth, an HIV diagnosis and death of his mother - WILLIE THE GENIUS, an afroqueer performance artist, decides to put his life on stage in a gripping solo theatre play. While developing his theatre production, a film crew documents his process, as he explores the of..
