Charlie and Hannah, two girls in their mid-twenties, are strolling through the city of Antwerp, during an evening in March. Charlie is witty, inaccessible and – in her own words – fundamentally dialectic. Hannah is chatty, neurotic, always hungry and always in love.Read More »
Emilia, 17, arrives at her Aunt Ines’ hostel at the border between Argentina and Brazil, looking for her long lost brother. In this luxuriant jungle, where local myths and legends abound, a dangerous beast believed to be the spirit of an evil man taking the form of different animals seems to be roaming around. On a journey to sexual awakening, Emilia will have to confront her past in order to kill the beast.Read More »
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A portrait of five brothers living on a farm on the Kazakh plains, where the sudden intrusion of the modern world brings corruption, temptation and deceit.Read More »
I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo recounts in the first place our private lives, revealing what we went through while the movies we were making–on the violence of war, on colonialism and fascism—took shape. The film draws on the writings of soldiers, the wounded and prisoners of war. The passages describe some of the battle sites and the boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and show us the face and the acute gaze of Freya Stark at Asolo, as well as reminding us of the unmistakable voice of Walter Chiari in Soviet Armenia. In those years at the same time as the Trilogia della guerra we were working on a large installation called La marcia dell’uomo. Read More »
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“By editing in the camera every subject matter finds a cinematic form and rhythm of its own. Transforming fragments of real life experience in a specific moment and place, every individual film is complete in itself and reflects the process of its creation. Programming my short films in new configurations is a very important part of my artistic practice, in accord with the way the films are created. As within each individual film, time is structured and rhythms are created within each composed series of films. One could characterize each program as one possible temporary ‘montage’, exemplifying essential aspects of the whole body of work. The interplay of different films evokes all kinds of correspondences and contrasts as it evokes an intense filmic cosmos in which one can easily loose the normal notion of time and space.” (Helga Fanderl)Read More »
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A French aristocrat, fleeing the lawsuit that has just been brought against him in Marseille for dissolute morals, takes refuge in Venice accompanied by his mistress, his wife’s own sister, whom he passes off as his legitimate wife. Frequenting the city’s brothels, he soon finds himself confronted with the reproaches of his mistress and the investigations of Venetian spies.
Between eroticism and comical situations, this film is a striking and surprising picture of the libertine mores of the eighteenth century.Read More »
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Every day of her life, Angela kept a diary, filled with words and drawings, in which she recorded public and private matters, meetings, things she had read, everything. Including the account of two trips to Russia (1989-90). The period of the collapse of the USSR. A diary that she had been keeping in small Chinese notebooks, since before Dal Polo all’Equatore (1986), on our uninterrupted work on the violence of the 20th century. From our tours in the United States with the “scented films” of the late seventies to the Anthology Film Archive of New York and the Berkeley Pacific Film Archive… Now I reread these diaries and see again the film-diary of all those years. I am alone now, after many years of life and artistic work together.Read More »
Well into middle-age, but still grasping at the reckless pleasures of his youth, Roque is locked in a pattern of self-destruction. His parents cast him out from their home in Caracas and Roque returns to the Amazon and the derelict tourist lodge he built and ran in a previous life. His aim is to rebuild both the lodge and himself, quitting alcohol for good in the process. But temptations are strong in the jungle. A feverish voyage of discovery through the hinterland between madness and salvation, La Fortaleza is a superb second feature from Venezuelan director Jorge Thielen Armand. What makes it all the more fascinating is the fact that Roque is played by Armand’s own father, Jorge Roque Thielen, and that the screenplay is inspired by his stories of building the lodge and battling alcoholism against a tinderbox backdrop of sparking violence and unrest. Wendy IdeRead More »
Miranda decides to ask Luisa, who is far from her friend, to help her to have an abortion. Both will share an afternoon of complicity and empathy that will end with the promise of keeping the secret.Read More »