Documentary

A cinematic experience that looks to the future with unwavering optimism about what humans and technology can do, about how politics can create, and about what Life can become.Read More »

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This interview with Castoriadis was conducted in 1989 by famed filmmaker Chris Marker for Marker’s own television series L’héritage de la chouette (“The Owl’s Legacy”). Eighty-one minutes long, the raw footage originally recorded in French has been translated into English (via easy-to-read subtitles) and edited anonymously as a public service. Here, Castoriadis lays out and examines the contributions of ancient Greece to questions of contemporary relevance relating to democracy, politics, philosophy, art, poetry, economic and social reorganization, and the creative chaos that underlies all existence.Read More »

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Traveling by train from one end of the country to the other, the DEFA documentary team interviewed East German women of different ages and backgrounds. In this masterpiece, they reveal their personal and professional frustrations, hopes and aspirations–and, in doing so, paint a portrait of a changing society. This ground-breaking documentary caused a sensation when it was first shown in the East German city of Leipzig in 1988. Exactly one year later, when the Berlin Wall fell, it was on tour in the USA, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Later the DEFA Film Library would be housed at the same institution.Read More »

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Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image.Read More »

Reprise is a three-hour documentary about a legendary and anonymous short film, The Resumption of Work at the Wonder Mills, shot in 1968 by two film students in front of the Wonder factory in Saint-Ouen: as employees return to work a woman appears in the crowd, rebels and refuses to return to the factory. This mysterious rebel is the pretext and the subject of this film. Le Roux investigates this pasionaria. He tries to find her by meeting former workers, activists and trade unionists. The opportunity for the filmmaker to unfold a piece of history buried, to give voice to workers who had never been able to tell their experience, explain their working conditions, express their nostalgia mixed with suffering.Read More »

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When the Fog is Swept Away, The Houses and Craftsmen of Old (Eastern Black Sea Region) is documenting rapidly vanishing old houses and craftsmen for the new generations.Read More »

A documentary short following Zahedi’s friend and fellow director, Greg Watkins (co-director of A Little Stiff), during the filming of A Sign from God.

249MB | 18 min 12 s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7D42F07439FC3B9/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Greg_Watkins_(Zahedi,_1999).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) with the unusual proposition of taking psychedelic mushrooms together, and filming the results. Surprisingly, Will accepts.Read More »

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This film is a birthday gift to Caveh Zahedi’s girlfriend Amada (Mandy) Field. Mr. Zahedi arranged for one of his friends to film her all day on her birthday as his special birthday gift to her.Read More »