1971-1980

Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.Read More »

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Justine, leaves her family, drops out of school at 18. Drifting in Paris, encountering odd characters she finally slips into prostitution.Read More »

An early film by Marilú Mallet (as Maria Luisa Mallet) created for the Education Ministry’s Department of Culture under Allende’s Popular Unity government.

The film combines images with intertitles that present the disparity in land distribution, economic opportunity, and civil rights between the indigenous Mapuche people and Chilean Whites/Mestizos.Read More »

Synopsis:
Very Remby deals with the rural exodus, the return to the land, and the antagonism between two worlds, that of city-dwellers and that of rural people deeply rooted in tradition. Ranaivo lives in Tananarive. To make ends meet, he has to sell sorbets. His father, Ratovo, goes into town to consult his son. He asks him for financial help for the ceremony of turning over the dead. It’s after this ceremony in the village that Ranaivo decides to leave the city and emigrate to the highlands, where anything is still possible for those who want to return to the land.Read More »

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“Epileptic Seizure Comparison is an attempt to orchestrate sound and light rhythms in an intimate and proportional space, an ongoing location wherein non-epileptic persons may begin to experience, under ‘controlled conditions’ the majestic potentials of convulsive seizure.”Read More »

Mar Tien Liang is the master of the Magic Kick. When his home is attacked by the Fang Kang he effortlessly defeats his opponent, but his wife Mar Tien Liang is horrified to witness such violence. She implores him never to use his magic kick again, and all is well until young Fan arrives to challenge the master.Read More »

From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
This deceptively humorous cinema verite study of a travelling evangelist emerges as a ruthless expose of an aspect of America’s national psyche, with implications far beyond its immediate subject matter. Marjoe began by performing marriage ceremonies at the age of four (seen in marvelous newsreels of the time) and graduated to fame on the “Holy Roller” Pentecostal circuit, throwing women into convulsions, performing miracles, providing sex substitutes and mass therapy to the countless victimized poor and ignorant who flock to his meetings with their offerings. While the sequences of a prancing Mick Jagger imitation (complete with rock rhythms and brimstone) and of his huge and suffering audience in themselves constitute an impressive achievement of non-fiction cinema, simultaneous private interviews reveal the fiery evangelist to be a cynical atheist and hedonist, with contempt for his “work” and at best an ambiguous solicitude for his flock.Read More »

Hannelore Reitzler elopes with her boyfriend to the Hotel Liebesnest but he leaves her during the night after failing to take her virginity. Not wanting to return home, Hannelore takes job as a chambermaid which also involves giving sexual favors to the guests at an extra charge. Meanwhile, a female cat burglar visits Das Liebesnest every night and each time she gets caught, she offers her body to the captor to keep them quiet. Written by Il TesoroRead More »

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother’s death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, “Armaguedon”. A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.Read More »