Color Theories by Julio Torres. A Guide to Seeing the World
Julio Torres takes the stage in NYC and invites the audience to see the people, places, and things around us through his kaleidoscopic lens. Blending stand-up, an interactive set, and live drawings, Julio explores the inherent traits, personalities, and emotions of particular colors.
True Colours
Detective Tom Webourne isn’t your average rugged scrappy looking detective… He has heightened senses. When the police stumble across a crime scene which they are clueless about it’s the detective’s time to shine. Will he be able to shed some light and give the police an idea of what really went down?
Color Book
Following the passing of his wife, a devoted father is learning to raise his son with Down Syndrome as a single parent. While adjusting to their new reality, the two embark on a journey through Metro Atlanta to attend their first baseball game.
The King of Color
At 96, Lawrence Herbert reflects on his life, from his Depression-era Brooklyn upbringing to creating the Pantone Matching System, which revolutionized the worldwide use of color.
Universes
Experimental short film of colors and lights
White
Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path.
Grey
A grey man can see the colors on others. Obsessed with their beauty, he tries to please people to connect with them. Repeated failures cause him to lose himself, leaving him an exhausted, hollow shell.
Inquilino
Forgot I Was Afraid
Bruno lives in a black and white world for so long that he forgot what colors are, as well as his phobia towards them. Seeing all the color in a fruit basket, Bruno rediscovers his fear and the effects of his phobia.
Bacchus
Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colorful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.
Beauty
In a gray world, Henry created colors. He managed to trap them inside small glass balls to give to his sick wife, but he couldn't save her. From that day on, he began to produce colored balls non-stop, involving his four sons but refusing to share that incredible magic with the rest of the world and arguing with his youngest son, Stick, about it. Twenty years later, Stick returns home because his father is dying. The only hope seems to lie in a very expensive medical device, but only by freeing the color from the glass balls will Stick and Henry be able to reconcile and fill everyone's lives with beauty.
Fluids
16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract. Opticals, repetitions, camera moves and zooms are what make up the bulk of this exploration into fluids. The results bridge that realm between hangout art piece and intersteller stoner trip.
SOME COLORS
The Colour Wheel Session
The Fantasia-inspired session features live performances of Life Is Yours, 2001 (Summer Sky), 2AM & Looking High from FOALS' 2022 album 'Life Is Yours'.
EXAM
A film student who can't afford to pay for tuition finds an interesting way to get money.
Cygnus-X
Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.
Flyin' Cut Sleeves
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
Lines
An aggressive battle between red and dark blue unfolds. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.
Demain me tue
A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.
