Enter the world of Syd Mead, legendary "VISUAL FUTURIST" behind such films as "Blade Runner", "TRON", "Aliens", "2010", and experience his art like never before. Explore his life and career spanning the entire design spectrum from his early beginnings at Ford, and designing consumer products for Philips, to 747 interiors in the Middle East, including a yacht for Donald Trump. This feature length documentary offers a compelling portrait of a man revered around the world, and a detailed look into the field of design, including work by the artist which has never been seen, until now...

Letters to a maternal ancestor reflect on identity connected to ethnic heritage, while also embracing a broader notion of family beyond bloodlines. Weaving images and sounds from the filmmaker’s personal ties to two cities—Detroit and Beirut—the film poses the central question: How do we belong to each other?

Letters to a maternal ancestor reflect on identity connected to ethnic heritage, while also embracing a broader notion of family beyond bloodlines. Weaving images and sounds from the filmmaker’s personal ties to two cities—Detroit and Beirut—the film poses the central question: How do we belong to each other?

Beautiful immortals have gathered in Harajuku to compete for a grand prize: Immense power! For years now the artists behind worldly culture and music have secretly been vampires, including those who produce Visual Kei. Now, they perform their most beautiful songs in the hallowed grounds of the Prison under the Scarlet Moon.

MTV publicity spot directed by Aaron Rose, Harmony Korine, and Rita Ackermann.

MTV publicity spot directed by Aaron Rose, Harmony Korine, and Rita Ackermann.

"Futurism" was an avant-garde artistic movement, created in 1909 ( as you can see your grandfathers were long haired and dangerous youngsters for a while ) that demands a rejection of tradition and the past while exalting technical innovations, especially the mechanical ones, present and future. This avant-garde artistic movement ( literature and music genres) found great acceptance in Italy where many artists developed the Futurism postulates. 　　Herr Anton Giulio Bragaglia was a notable Italian Futurist who began experimenting with photography and published an important manifesto as a theoretical basis for Futurist photography, "Fotodinamismo Futurista". In addition to his career as set designer Herr Bragaglia had a short but intense film career, "Thais" being his debut as a Futurist director. 　　In any case "Thais" is a film that combines in a strange way classicism and the ( Futurist ) modernism, a paradox since we know that the Futurists were people who rejected tradition and the"Thais" story is a very conventional one. It tells of a "femme fatale" who toys with and uses her admirers for her capricious purposes with the expected tragic ending. Classicism can be seen too in the beautiful images from evocative landscapes sequences as the ferry at the river or Bianca's race to the abyss ( "Naturalism" reminiscences?... ) or Herr Charles Baudelaire's poems ( "Impressionism" reminiscences? ) Only at the end of the film do we see the "Futurist" influences in the highly stylized and geometrical décors in which our heroine suffers her particular punishment, a sequence in which Herr Bragaglia's talent as a set designer is put to good effect. 　　For those reasons for this German Count "Thais" is a kind of interesting film catalogue of many artistic movements ( curious artistic duality ) strangely mixed, a display of the spirit of those innovative early years that grants the film an artistic and remarkable balance as a whole.

主角范饼饼（高晓攀 饰）自幼对武侠充满热情，偶然获得一本武林秘籍后，走上了修炼的道路，并成为了胡同中的“霸主”。他参加了武林大赛并赢得冠军，逐渐膨胀的自信使他决定挑战国际泰拳比赛。然而，在比赛中，他的自信被瞬间击碎，遭到KO并被扔出赛场。这时，范饼饼被好心的阿茉救了。 　　阿茉的父亲莫老爹曾是一位厨神，但在经历了合伙人背叛后，莫老爹的生意崩溃，失去了味觉，陷入了债务和酗酒的困境。阿茉为了帮助父亲重拾昔日的辉煌，努力为他找回信心。她向范饼饼寻求帮助，并告诉他莫老爹曾是厨界的传奇人物。范饼饼在了解到自己拥有特殊的味觉天赋后，决定帮助莫老爹重新振作。这个故事不仅描绘了范饼饼从一个武侠梦想家到现实中的奋斗者的成长历程，还展现了他如何利用自己的特殊能力帮助莫老爹重拾厨艺。两人的合作成为了爆笑和励志的结合体，带领他们走向人生的新高峰。

主角范饼饼（高晓攀 饰）自幼对武侠充满热情，偶然获得一本武林秘籍后，走上了修炼的道路，并成为了胡同中的“霸主”。他参加了武林大赛并赢得冠军，逐渐膨胀的自信使他决定挑战国际泰拳比赛。然而，在比赛中，他的自信被瞬间击碎，遭到KO并被扔出赛场。这时，范饼饼被好心的阿茉救了。 　　阿茉的父亲莫老爹曾是一位厨神，但在经历了合伙人背叛后，莫老爹的生意崩溃，失去了味觉，陷入了债务和酗酒的困境。阿茉为了帮助父亲重拾昔日的辉煌，努力为他找回信心。她向范饼饼寻求帮助，并告诉他莫老爹曾是厨界的传奇人物。范饼饼在了解到自己拥有特殊的味觉天赋后，决定帮助莫老爹重新振作。这个故事不仅描绘了范饼饼从一个武侠梦想家到现实中的奋斗者的成长历程，还展现了他如何利用自己的特殊能力帮助莫老爹重拾厨艺。两人的合作成为了爆笑和励志的结合体，带领他们走向人生的新高峰。

"Futurism" was an avant-garde artistic movement, created in 1909 ( as you can see your grandfathers were long haired and dangerous youngsters for a while ) that demands a rejection of tradition and the past while exalting technical innovations, especially the mechanical ones, present and future. This avant-garde artistic movement ( literature and music genres) found great acceptance in Italy where many artists developed the Futurism postulates. 　　Herr Anton Giulio Bragaglia was a notable Italian Futurist who began experimenting with photography and published an important manifesto as a theoretical basis for Futurist photography, "Fotodinamismo Futurista". In addition to his career as set designer Herr Bragaglia had a short but intense film career, "Thais" being his debut as a Futurist director. 　　In any case "Thais" is a film that combines in a strange way classicism and the ( Futurist ) modernism, a paradox since we know that the Futurists were people who rejected tradition and the"Thais" story is a very conventional one. It tells of a "femme fatale" who toys with and uses her admirers for her capricious purposes with the expected tragic ending. Classicism can be seen too in the beautiful images from evocative landscapes sequences as the ferry at the river or Bianca's race to the abyss ( "Naturalism" reminiscences?... ) or Herr Charles Baudelaire's poems ( "Impressionism" reminiscences? ) Only at the end of the film do we see the "Futurist" influences in the highly stylized and geometrical décors in which our heroine suffers her particular punishment, a sequence in which Herr Bragaglia's talent as a set designer is put to good effect. 　　For those reasons for this German Count "Thais" is a kind of interesting film catalogue of many artistic movements ( curious artistic duality ) strangely mixed, a display of the spirit of those innovative early years that grants the film an artistic and remarkable balance as a whole.