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One year after ABC’s juggernaut adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, the network hoped to reap similar success from a lesser-known King property: The Langoliers. In May of 1995, horror titan Tom Holland unleashed his take on the sci-fi oddity across two nights. The television event was a ratings success, but critics savaged it as “dull” with “ludicrous” special effects. (It’s hard to imagine anyone being scared by CGI meatballs with teeth.)

Enter The Timekeepers of Eternity, an experimental reworking of the miniseries from filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos that chops the three-hour series down to 60 minutes while centering the story around its most compelling character, Bronson Pinchot’s Craig Toomey. More importantly, Maragkos animates the movie into a “paper nightmare” (his words), with the picture ripping, crunching, and wrapping in on itself. It’s as cool as it sounds.

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Rewind to the ’90s this week with The Timekeepers of Eternity, the experimental reworking of the 1995 TV miniseries The Langoliers, now available in appropriate VHS form.

You can order a copy of The Timekeepers of Eternity on VHS now, complete with handmade VHS covers.

Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos transforms the adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1988 novella into a whole new film through hypnotic black-and-white collage animation.

No Vcr? That’s ok. You can watch the film in its entirety, for free, right here.

In The Timekeepers of Eternity, “Mr. Toomey has an important business meeting in Boston, but he dreads the thought of arriving. The only relief from the screams of his father in his traumatic dreams of childhood is obsessively tearing paper – ripping it into strips. When he wakes on his flight, there seems to have been a tear in reality as most of the other passengers have vanished. When the survivors land,...

Maria Hatzakou and Alexandra Matheou’s “Stringa,” a female-led folk-horror set in remote rural Greece, won the top prize at Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which wrapped with an award ceremony Wednesday.

The Greek project took home the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, giving full post-production image and sound support to a film that’s in development. This will be a debut feature for Matheou and Hatzakou, who also produces the film under her label Merricat. She was the one to receive the prize from the jury, which called the project “very solid and persuasive” in the ways in which it “addresses freedom of choice in a patriarchal society.”

The directors, who also co-wrote the script, describe it as “a film about the female experience,” a subversive horror that “touches on post-generational trauma and the sly ways by which the patriarchy still manages to impose itself on our lives and choices.

Here’s one more Halloween treat to add to your watchlists this October: The Timekeepers of Eternity, the experimental reworking of The Langoliers, a 1995 TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s 1988 novella. Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos has made his edited, printed, and animated vision available to watch online for free throughout October.

Check out the trailer below for a closer look at Maragkos’ new vision for the 1995 miniseries.

You can watch the film in its entirety, for free, right here.

In The Timekeepers of Eternity, “Mr. Toomey has an important business meeting in Boston, but he dreads the thought of arriving. The only relief from the screams of his father in his traumatic dreams of childhood is obsessively tearing paper – ripping it into strips. When he wakes on his flight, there seems to have been a tear in reality as most of the other passengers have vanished. When the survivors land,...

Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has selected 10 films from seven countries for its works in progress strand.

The strand selects projects in post-production stage, which have a link to the Mediterranean region and Southeastern Europe, and presents them to sales agents, distributors, producers, streaming platforms and festival programmers with the objective to raise finishing funds, secure sales agents, festival premieres and book meetings with potential partners.

“This year’s powerful projects challenge contemporary issues and gaze upon the human condition through gripping imagery, sometimes painfully beautiful storytelling and creative cinematic language. Their common compass navigates us through the subjects of social injustice, exploration of human relationships and common desires and choices people make to treat one another and the environment they inhabit,” the festival said in a statement.

Agora gives out several awards for the works in progress films. These include the Authorwave post-production award...

Projects will be presented during festival’s Industry Days section.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has unveiled the projects that will be showcased during its Eastern Promises industry strand, which takes place on July 3-4.

27 film projects have been selected for Eastern Promises’ Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+ Works in Progress strands.

The most promising projects, selected by international juries, will receive awards worth a total of €115,000. The showcase of projects to industry professionals will take place during this year’s Kviff Industry Days.

Eleven fiction and documentary features have been selected for the Works in Progress strand.

Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry platform has unveiled 27 film projects that will be showcased during its Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+ Works in Progress presentations. The most promising projects, selected by international juries, will receive awards with a total value of 115,000 Eur.

The showcasing of projects to industry professionals will take place in Karlovy Vary, during this year’s Kviff Industry Days on July 3 (Works in Progress and Works in Development – Feature Launch) and July 4 (First Cut+ Works in Progress).

For Works in Progress, 11 fiction and documentary feature films in the late stage of production or post-production from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa have been selected.

The following projects will compete for prizes of a total value of 100,000 Eur:

“Distances” (Poland)

Director: Matej Bobrik

Producer: Agnieszka Skalska...

The Langoliers, a 1995 TV miniseries based on Stephen King’s 1988 novella, usually ranks somewhere among the most forgotten or worst of King adaptations. At best, television’s limitations and the ‘90s CGI date the miniseries, especially once the eponymous creatures start chomping up the scenery. Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos laboriously re-edits the miniseries using paper collage techniques and […]

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The Glasgow Short Film Festival 2022 awards ceremony Photo: Andrew Robertson

The 15th Glasgow Short Film Festival returned to what I almost automatically attempted to describe as "live action" when I mean in fact "in person". The festival operated in a hybrid model, many of the programmes were available online though some workshops were streamed as well as the films in the main competitions.

Eye For Film attended the opening gala, the astonishing The Timekeepers Of Eternity at Glasgow's Film Theatre. The Gft was one of the many bodies thanked in the various speeches of the evening, and Aristotelis Maragkos the film's director served on one of the juries.

He was joined on the Scotland's Year Of Stories Short Film Award jury by Hannah Laveri and Ren Scateni. Scateni was the only jury member present as her colleagues were among many of the film-makers that circumstances and indeed other ceremonies had called them away.

A radical re-imagining, Timekeepers Of Eternity is not just metatextual but metatextural. Aristotelis Maragkos has taken a 1995 mini-series based on a 1988 novella and created something that is at once reactionary, reflective, redemptive. It is a striking piece of work, an absolute masterwork of technique and intent.

Stephen King's story The Langoliers may be known to some, it appeared in collection Four Past Midnight. A 'red eye' flight from Los Angeles to Boston is diverted by a strange occurrence, the few passengers find themselves in a world that is almost exactly like but not quite the same as our own. Refracted, if you will. Within its text there's reference to bad television movies and disaster films, and the two part adaptation by ABC might be both of those. In Q&a Maragkos talked about a desire not only to capture the film as he remembered it from childhood but to recontextualise.

All have projects at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink industry strand.

With the CineLink industry programme in full swing at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Screen profiles five producers from the region with an international outlook.

Jelena Angelovski (Serbia/Montenegro)

Serbian-born actress and producer Angelovski began to make her mark internationally when she produced Tamara Drakulić’s feature debut Wind through her Belgrade-based Monkey Production in 2016. It played at various international festivals including Torino and Goteborg.

Angelovski followed it up with two freelance projects: Ivan Salatić’s 2018 Venice Critics Week entry You Have the Night. made through Podgorica-based Meander Film,...

Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.

The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.

Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.

“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...

Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.

The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.

“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”

The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...

Young film-making programme attracted more than 300 applications, its biggest number to date.Scroll down for full list of participants

Participants have been selected to take part in the 7th edition of the Sarajevo Talent Campus Programme (July 7-14) dedicated to young filmmakers from the countries of Southeast Europe.

The Selection Committee has chosen 70 participants from Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldavia Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

Sarajevo Talent Campus, launched in cooperation with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Berlinale Talent Campus, aims to connect young film professionals from Southeast Europe with established film professionals, to inform them and bring them closer to regional and international film industry.

During the seven-day programme, young film professionals are provided with the opportunity to exchange their viewpoints and ideas.

Sarajevo Talent Campus, designed to fill in the gap between film school education and practical working experience, encourages collaborative...