Documentary

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Welcome to Alang, India, the site of a gargantuan scrap yard where oceangoing ships come to die. Forty thousand Indians live and work here, dismembering and scavenging the hulks of 400 vessels every year. Shipbreakers is an extraordinary documentary that chronicles the lives of the people who work here, from the men who take apart these giant ships with their bare hands to the bosses, who ignore environmental and health concerns for fear of losing the business to other developing nations. It may be the world’s most dangerous job. One worker a day, on average, dies on the job, evaporated in explosions, crushed by falling steel, cut in half by cables or broken up from falls. Of the remainder, one in four will contract cancers caused by asbestos, PCBs and other toxic substances. Vividly capturing both the haunting beauty of the ships and the deplorable conditions of the workers, Shipbreakers is an international story of greed, survival, Third World labor, and environmental neglect.Read More »

A Machine to Live In is a hybrid documentary linking the cosmic power structures of the state to the mystical architecture of cults and utopian cities in the remote hinterlands of Brazil.Read More »

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La mort de Danton
Un film de Alice Diop

2011 • documentaire • 64 minutes

auteur-réalisateur Alice Diop • image Blaise Harrison • son Pascale Mons • montage Amrita David • montage son et mixage Ludovic Escallier • étalonnage Eric Salleron

Steve a 25 ans, la dégaine d’un « loulou des quartiers » ceux-là même qui alimentent les faits-divers sur la violence des banlieues. Il faut dire que « petite racaille », il l’était encore il y a quelques mois. Avec ses potes, compagnons d’infortunes, il « tenait les barres » de sa cage d’escalier, rêvant d’une vie meilleure entre les vapeurs des joints qu’ils se partageaient entre amis.Read More »

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the country and settled there. The brave prisoners were integrated into the army, women espoused. For fifty years, the adventurous young people from Niger Babatou went to live in the epic.Read More »

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The film conjures up futuristic beings from an eerie smoke-filled landscape and the crystalline depths of the earth. Look Then Below was shot in the vast, dark passages of Wookey Hole Caves, under the Mendips in Somerset. The netherworld of chambers, carved out over deep time, once held remnants of lost civilisations, now foretell a future subterranean world, occupied by a species evolved from our environmentally challenged world.Read More »

LESSON BY PIERRE BOULEZ (A) + SUR INCISES (concert) (2000)
Directed By Andy Sommer
With warmth, modesty and infectious enthusiasm, Boulez explains the hidden architecture of his most recent work, Sur Incises, to a non-specialized young audience. On a number of occasions, Pierre Boulez has shown that he can come up with the right words and gestures to throw a light on complex musical scores. Here he demonstrates his teaching talents in talking about his work as a composer: after conducting the nine soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, who follow him with visible pleasure through the mysteries of a spectacular score, he offers a witty exposition of the musical movements that make up its construction.Read More »

History and stories of Brest station on the border between Poland and Belarus, 1941 starting point of the National Socialist war against the Soviet Union. An oppressive study, enriched with archive material, which reports with partly bizarre, partly moving snapshots of the disintegration of a society. Private and history are skillfully interwoven into a fascinating kaleidoscope. (Russian with German subtitles; TV and video title: “Bahnhof Brest”)Read More »

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas and spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released because DNA evidence proved their innocence.Read More »

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Harrowing, provocatively-intense and emotionally-charged documentary about the ever so fascinating but disturbing Robin Hood Hills murders case. Sharply directed and engrossingly formated with multi-dimensional angles that delve into the human psyche and makes one think liberally and often inquisitively about the way our justice system operates and the possibility of evil at liberty and innocence imprisoned!Read More »