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Margaret Mead narrates an elaborate ritual performance. The ritual is reenacting a local mythological story, which is briefly described before the film. The basic story is that a king denies to marry a witch’s daughter, thereby unleashing the witch’s wrath. She and her disciples spread plague across the land. The king sends an emissary, who the witch transforms into a dragon. This becomes a cosmic battle between life (dragon) and death (witch).Read More »
Oliver Laxe presents at the 2010 Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes his first feature, Todos vós sodes capitáns, wining the Fipresci Award.
This is one of his first short films, shot, as the feature, in Morocco, and published in Spain in a DVD as an hommage to Andrei Tarkovski.Read More »
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A dream of an economic crisis crashing the cryptocurrency market. Thousands cryogenically frozen, awaiting better times.Read More »
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Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the “Memphis Belle”. The “Memphis Belle” took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.Read More »
A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era.
“The Spirit Moves”: Rescuing the Essence of DanceRead More »
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They were called fahavalo – enemies – because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar. Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes takes us where the events took place, on a journey to meet the last witnesses. They tell us about their fight for independence and their long months of resistance in the jungle, armed only with spears and talismans. When Malagasy soldiers came back from WWII, they expected de Gaulle to give them independence. Instead, they were asked to return to their indigenous status and provide unfree labour in coffee plantations. They soon organized an uprising, harshly repressed by the French and their heavy weaponry. They resisted for months though, with the help of shamans and their magic formulas. Through the mesmerizing music of Régis Gizavo, the dialogue between never seen archive footage from the 40’s and heartfelt testimonies makes us travel into a forgotten past. A journey into history, filmed today, along the railways, through the forest, from the Highlands to the East coast of Madagascar.Read More »
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Last meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker in preparation for “Scénario”, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by his love of cinema.Read More »
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Inspired by the first-person documentaries of Ross McElwee, DEAR JESSE is gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman’s filmed “letter” to the notoriously anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms. Shot during the 1996 senatorial campaign, the film features interviews with opponents and supporters, as well as writers Allan Gurganus and Lee Smith. The film also features a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, the young man whose murder in Laramie, Wyoming, called attention to antigay violence.Read More »
