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An emblematic work that anticipates the feminist movement, in the simple but radical gesture of contrast between the advertising images of women and real women: workers, mothers, who struggle to make ends meet. The film gives voice to working-class women, in a pre-feminist experimental film that shows the unavoidable contribution made by women to politics and social justice.Read More »
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After my first documentary Self-portrait with Three Women, my second self-portrait was painted in a village named 47 KM. This village, located 47 kilometres from Suizhou, Hubei Province, is where my father was born. He left the village when he was 20, but his father, my grandfather, still lives there. In the summer and winter of 2010, through my participation in the Folk Memory Project, I went back to the village, which seems disconnected from my current life, and re-discovered and came to better understand my grandfather, the old villagers who underwent the disaster of the famine 50 years ago, as well as the village, which always perplexed and embarrassed me. What does 47 KM really mean to me? It seems to be like a mirror, I see myself in front of it.Read More »
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Writer-director Gary Hawkins’s first “Rough South” entry, “The Rough South of Harry Crews,” bases his show on Crew’s revealing remark, “What has been most significant in my life had all taken place by the time I was six years old.” Hawkins re-enacts the early episodes of Crew’s childhood through a still-photo technique reminiscent of Chris Marker’s “La Jette,” juxtaposing the stills against Crew’s commentary to reveal the source of his adult literary themes.Read More »
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Despite the voiceover, the text of which may seem old-fashioned, it is a loving evocation of jazz and blues,
of its origins and of some representatives. A film whose main interest lies, in my opinion, in the choice
and editing of archives (photos and films)Read More »
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O Espectador Espantado is a documentary-essay about spectatorship, mixing interviews with staged actions in cinema theaters and other sites where we presently can watch moving images.
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Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. (the title translates as ‘the so-called Caryatides’). As one might expect from Varda, the film is strongly feminist, as she draws out wider symbolic and social implications from these images of women holding up huge weights, both then and now, but it is playfully so. The film becomes much sadder when she talks about Baudelaire, whose Paris these ladies grace; his poetry, success, notoriety; his subsequent physical decline, loss of voice and death. These statues are now so familiar that they are barely noticed, but in mapping the mental geography of a city, foreign viewers will be ravished by this Rameau-soundtracked exploration of a forgotten Paris.Read More »
Wu Mi Le aka Let It Be is a documentary recording the lives of several old farmers in Houbi Township, Tainan Country. It generated discussion and debate in the Taiwanese civil society about the impact on agriculture due to its membership in the World Trade Organization.
It is selected as one of the Golden Horse’s 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films in 2010.Read More »
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Dennis and Julie Parks left the eastern seaboard in the early 1960’s, settling in the former mining boomtown of Tuscarora, Nevada, population twelve. They spent the next twenty-five years operating and expanding their pottery school, raising a family and running a studio. A mining company, motivated by high gold prices, began a large open pit gold mining operation just outside of town in 1989. Nevada, encouraging mining, writes its laws to favor that industry’s interests over all others.Read More »
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After a life-threatening injury, a construction worker lies endlessly in wait to return home. A migrant poet-labourer leads students in dreaming of an afternoon river. One Muslim devotee cries while praying, wearing his “I [HEART] SINGAPORE” shirt. Having paid the average EUR10,000 “migration fee,” another fresh-faced youngster arrives, eager to try his luck here too. All this while, a social worker helping the transient-worker community in Singapore journeys to their motherland, Bangladesh, discovering deep pain and promise. The heartfelt, observational documentary I DREAM OF SINGAPORE interweaves the natural worlds and cityscapes of Bangladesh and Singapore.Read More »