David Finkelstein
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Department: Directing
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Gender: Male
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Marvelous Discourse
Overview: Language passes through the body, meaty, corporeal, and breathing. Do you adopt the stereotypically "male" strategy of verbally lunging at your opponent, trying to skewer him rhetorically, or do you adopt the "feminine" approach, like the Oracle of Delphi, and open your body to allow voices from the beyond to speak through you? "Marvelous Discourse" uses cave art, shadow puppets, and a visit to a caf? in the Israeli town of Endor, among many other images, to explore the gendered experience of language-in-the-body. The text for the video is completely improvised by the actors, as a spectacular example of language unfolding from an intuitive physicality.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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Privy
Overview: A young woman is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-11
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Suggestive Gestures
Overview: Traveling along the path of a labyrinth, the viewer passes through a series of extremely diverse landscapes, which are created through lush animation, evocative orchestral music, and rich dialog, in which words are used as much for rhythm and texture as they are for meaning. A man and woman guide us on this trip, taking us past gently falling Mondrian paintings, violent car crashes and bombing raids, and a pair of dancing, multicolored boxes, among many other settings. Based on an improvised performance, 'Suggestive Gestures' leads us gradually and indirectly towards a mysterious animal, hiding in the center of the maze.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-10
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Invincible City
Overview: In a city of dead ideas, dry, brittle conversations, and trembling, crystallized buildings, two men seek the proper approach to take towards the end of the world. Should one sit back, writing notes in a crumbling notebook, or should one rush headlong into the flames?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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The Linen Closet
Overview: An older woman opens a closet door and finds a key to her confused, fading memories. Hearing and vision loss isolate her, and her mental confusion keeps her suspended in the tactile sensations of the immediate present. The touch of old linen brings back old family history, both pleasant and traumatic. Based on an improvised dialogue.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Epistolary Fusillades
Overview: Shattered mind, shattered images, shattered culture. Fragmented messages bombard us from all directions, like a barrage of letters from every corner of the globe. Should the artist "hold the mirror ball" up to nature, and mesmerize the populace with fractured distractions? Is our decentralized culture doomed to incoherence? Or can the artist build new meanings through the technique of collage? Based on an improvisation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-31
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Spiral Garage
Overview: A symbolic journey through a hypercritical world of continual insults and retaliations.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-23
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Dirt
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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Balancing on a Molecule (Dirt: Part Three)
Overview: A collage of poetic imagery, music, and invocatory language, the film follows two men in a series of esoteric experiments. Their words gives rise to desert landscapes, populated by sweat lodges, snakes, and an unusual game of tennis.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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