Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.

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ON TOP – Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer … to bathing in the hot springs … to when they first met … and embraced.

DOWN UNDER – Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse … he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard … and drives off haunted by a aching memory.

In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel REJECTED all of them upon review, and they were never aired… Nominated for Oscar in 2001, another 16 wins.

An animator’s commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone, eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself..

An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past – just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself. Nominated for an Oscar in 1997.

Alexander Petrov "Mermaid" by vibliographer

Under a program enacted in 2009, California allocates $100 million annually to film and TV productions, which are eligible for up to a 25% tax credit toward qualified production expenses.

Hollywood seeks to bolster California film and TV tax credit - latimes.com

Hollywood stakeholders are calling on California to bolster its film and TV tax credit to keep its homegrown industry from permanently leaving the state.  Film industry and union officials are mobilizing to back legislation this year that would substantially increase funding for the state's film incentive program and lift some restrictions to make the program more competitive with those offered by New York, Georgia and other states and countries.

Leonardo DiCaprio, the 39-year-old speaks with THR about what angry "Wolf" moviegoers ought to know about the filmmakers' intentions, his special relationship with Martin Scorsese, his post-"Titanic" career and how he'd feel if he finally won an Oscar.

Leonardo DiCaprio on 'Wolf of Wall Street': 'We Don't Like These People' (Q&A)

As critics and moviegoers emerge from The Wolf of Wall Street -- a film that Leonardo DiCaprio developed, produced, appears in for all of its 179 minutes and regards as one of his "babies" -- many are debating whether he deserves to take home his first Oscar or be stoned for his performance as stock trader Jordan Belfort. But the actor, taking it all in stride, forcefully rejects any notion that he or director Martin Scorsese are laughing with -- as opposed to laughing at -- their protagonist and his cohorts. "Look, it is a cautionary tale," DiCaprio told me when we spoke by phone on Monday.