2011-2020

  • Hlynur Palmason – Hvítur, hvítur dagur AKA A White, White Day (2019)

    Drama2011-2020Hlynur PalmasonIceland

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    An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.Read More »

  • Elia Suleiman – It Must Be Heaven (2019)

    2011-2020ArthouseComedyElia SuleimanPalestine

    Quote:
    “Where do the birds fly after the last sky?” asks Mahmoud Darwich, and award-winning Palestinian director Elia Suleiman in his latest film asks the same question through his alter-ego, ES. ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. It Must Be Heaven is a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home?Read More »

  • Robert Schinkel – Gemmeker (2020)

    2011-2020DramaNetherlandsPoliticsRobert Schinkel

    IMDB says:
    In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, former commander of Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, engages in a war of words with an enigmatic interrogator accusing him of unspeakable crimes.Read More »

  • Alexander Leith – Age of the Image (2020)

    2011-2020Alexander LeithBBCDocumentaryUnited Kingdom

    From the Introduction
    Every age is said to have its genius. The 18th century is often called the age of philosophy. The 19th century is the age of the novel. But our own age is undoubtedly an age of the image.

    Other periods had images, of course, but, in the last 100 years or so, we made more images than ever before, and they have changed not just what we see, but how we see.

    This was an era that rewrote the rules of image making. Beaming pictures into our homes, manipulating them, making the impossible visible and, in the digital age, revealing them in eye-opening detail.Read More »

  • Tatia Shé – Aftermath (2020)

    2011-2020ExperimentalFranceTatia Shé

    Dedicated to Bruce Baillie and Hollis Frampton.Read More »

  • Sharon Grimberg – American Experience: McCarthy (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryPoliticsSharon GrimbergUSA

    “McCarthy,” a new two-hour documentary chronicling the remarkable rise and precipitous fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-communist crusade would test the limits of American decency and democracy, premieres Monday, January 6, 2020, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET on American Experience on PBS.Read More »

  • Travis Wilkerson – Machine Gun or Typewriter? (2015) (HD)

    2011-2020ExperimentalTravis WilkersonUSA

    “Machine Gun or Typewriter? is at once a landscape essay film, a fractious collage piece and an abstract confessional, restlessly serving the film noir narrative trope of a missing woman. Wilkerson plays the radio man, seen only behind a pop screen and a Sennheiser mic, who tells stories about falling in and out of love with his partner, another would-be political reactionary. Each anecdote is tethered to a place, both physically — mapped out with pins and string on the man’s wall — and figuratively: the man’s fury at the injustices perpetrated at these landmarks wrests attention away from the woman who has gone missing. There’s a perverse solace he finds in re-visiting narratives of systemic racism, class divide and police brutality.” Conor Bateman, 4:3Read More »

  • Mark Cousins – A Story of Children and Film (2013)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMark CousinsUnited Kingdom

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    The world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood ? its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness ? as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries.It includes classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, also dozens of masterpieces (many directed by women) that are almost unknown.It combines the child?s eye view of Mark Cousins? acclaimed film The First Movie, with the revelations and bold movie history of his 15 hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Read More »

  • João Vladimiro – Lacrau (2013) (HD)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalJoão VladimiroPortugal

    SYNOPSIS
    The viper is deaf and the scorpion can’t see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return “to the curve where man got lost” in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable.
    A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.Read More »

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