Movies: Fireworks

Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!...

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox tem...

Two distant friends in a state of malaise. One unknown frequency permeating from a walkie talkie that connects them. It's the Fourth of July. The ghosts watch over....

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Documentary reveals how fireworks are made, how they create their effects and how pyrotechnicians design and execute firework displays....

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity....

A young girl's beguilement by technology and her ultimate escape from it....

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing thi...

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny....

A gentle love story from the harsh environment of northern Bohemia....

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata....

The Katakai Festival, one of Niigata and Echigo's Three Great Fireworks Festivals, has a 400-year history. Held annually on September 9th and 10th in Katakai Town, it features fireworks dedicated to Asahara Shrine, filled with wishes and prayers. Hig...

Futako, a woman made from the remains of fireworks, is fated to explode at the fireworks festival this summer. After spending time with Ichiro, she forgets her role as a firework and is forcibly reincarnated at a special ritual....