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Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge’s photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.Read More »
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Spend it All is one of those films that makes you happy that Blank had a camera and decided to walk outside on those days and point it at things. What he captures is so real, so vivid, raw, visceral, and alive. The vibrancy of the people and the palpableness of the subtle wonders of regular things seeps through that gives this film a thick flavor of life in cajun country; richly mingled with horses and livestock, catching crawdads in the creek with your dad, the smell of freshly cut grass, horse races on a dirt track, live radio broadcasts of a local cajun fiddle player, the whiskey flowin a might regular. This is good, country livin’, simple, unfettered and borderline ecstatic.Read More »
A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York’s singles’ world…Read More »
Prudence Mabhena leads a group of young, disabled Africans who inspire others with their music, proving that disability does not mean inability.Read More »
A small picturesque Provençal village. Certainly, I grew up there, but today life seems to have somewhat deserted it. Except for the car and motorcycle repair garage where everyone, I mean the men, come to have their car serviced. What do they do? What do they talk about? A breakdown develops into a nail-biting suspense, the garage becomes the place of masculine transmission. Men are amongst themselves and repair metal bodies.Read More »
Janine Jansen embarks on a daunting quest to record an album using 12 violins made by Antonio Stradivari.Read More »
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Sergei Eisenstein, one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, was also a brilliant plastic artist. His thousands and thousands of drawings are superb–as are the hundreds of homoerotic drawings he made for his own amusement, never meant for publication. In this video, the homoerotic references in Eisenstein’s films are examined and explored in ways that they never had been before.Read More »
»The Open View – Artists of the Sinti and Roma« presents artists of the Sinti and Roma who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. They use a wide variety of forms of expression and means, but what they all have in common is an open view.
Peter Nestler succeeds in making this tangible by meeting them without cultural fixations and at eye level. Gitta Martl and her daughter Nicole Sevik read short texts. They commemorate the Sinti and Roma in the Austrian »gypsy detention camp« Weyer.Read More »
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Documentary essay about actor John Garfield. A rebel, but also sexy and Jewish. Discusses his work in film and theater, as well as his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee.Read More »