As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 looms near, William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of “The Disintegration Loops” (his elegy to the 2001 Attacks), while quarantined in the midst of COVID-19. All of the interviews are shot on Zoom, interspersed with dramatically eerie shots of an almost empty NYC at the outset of the pandemic, and loaded with amazing archival footage of William growing up and becoming the true visionary he was always meant to be.Read More »
What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? Golden Jubilee takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation. The father, sparked by a memory of an encounter as a child, inhabits the voice of a spirit known locally as Devchar, whose task is to protect the workers, farmers, and the once communal lands of Goa.Read More »
Features two short documentaries Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2013 with characters from the 1984 film.
50 years after the film fictional interrupted by the military coup in March 1964, and 30 years after the conclusion of the documentary, in March 1984, a meet with Elizabeth Teixeira and his sons and the peasants of Galilee.Read More »
Documentary which take as subject the Oberhausen Group and New German Cinema. An ironic look back at the Oberhausen Manifesto and its impact.
With Ferdinand Khittl, Haro Senft, Franz-Josef Spieker, Vlado Kristl, Peter Schamoni, Enno Patalas, Ulrich Gregor, Uwe Nettelbeck, Rudolf Noelte, Hilmar Hoffmann, Artur Brauner, Peter Bamberger, Rudolf Thome, Klaus Lemke, Max ZihlmannRead More »
An impressionistic image of Warsaw rebuilt after the war and its residents. A kind of lyrical film version of a feature article, full of warm humour and enriched with observations of everyday life. (Awards: 1955 – 9th International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Honorary Diploma, 5th World Festival of Youth and Students, Warsaw, Gold Medal; 1956 – 5th Cultural and Documentary Film Week, Mannheim, Film Critics’ Award)Read More »
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This black and white documentary film reports on a brigade of women, they are the “stars” of a Berlin light bulb factory. What is striking is the cordiality and good cooperation within the women’s group, despite their monotonous work in the control area in the production of tungsten wires, also called filaments. Original tones are inserted to convey the joys, the cheerfulness and quick-wittedness that they have despite their burden of family and work. A problem of the wrong way of counting the female workers is openly addressed by the brigade leader and in a countercut Inge introduces her baby to her colleagues in the company. Everything seems like one big family and nobody can really imagine being without this work.Read More »
May 68 events seen through various 16 & 35mm shots, anonymous images made by young protesters who were filming during the night.Read More »
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This is a documentary about drag queens and transsexuals in Madrid.
This is the story of real people: Lorenzo, Rene, Jose Antonio, Paco, Juan and Jose, told by themselves. Sometimes funny, other dramatic, often pathetic, and how and why they became Lorena, Renee, Mayte, Eve, Tamara and Jhosette.Read More »
