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An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow ?Read More »

A film that tells the story of American performer Loie Fuller, a pioneer of dance, stage lighting and design.Read More »

PLOT: In 2013 typhoon Haiyan (also called Jolanda) hit Tacloban Island, causing the death of 7 thousand people. Few months later, Diaz visited the Island to film children lives.Read More »

In “Die Nordkalotte”, Peter Nestler shows the transition of space in Lapland after Chernobyl nuclear accident while he continues the shots of river and valley from the top of mountains to sea. Deer and other animals in the vast space disappear gradually, and we see them caught to the space with a narrow cage at the end of this film. There’re rich information and physical sense which viewers can’t recognize on all other media. We should reconsider that Straub says “Operai,Contadini” is a challenge to talk-show on television. Although they’re co-productions with television, they support cinema where we support force of stare and concentration in the dark.Read More »

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Yes, a bullfighting movie

It is increasingly rare, within a very fragmented public opinion, where there are few common facts or experiences, for a work of art to provoke what we could call a cultural event. That is to say, that it becomes an event of sufficient importance to channel public debate and to signify, in a certain sphere, a memorable event. Tardes de soledad, the film by Albert Serra, starring the maestro Roca Rey, has achieved something like this. Since its premiere in San Sebastian, this work has aroused a reflection that goes far beyond the criticism itself and that this is so is explained, I think, because we are facing a creation that places us in a stark and unusual way, to such atavistic questions as what is the value of life, what is man, what is art and what is the freedom of the artist. And all this, of course, without hiding the certain fact of death. Tardes de soledad somehow forces you to think in shock.Read More »

PLOT: Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium.Read More »

Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.Read More »

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In a spiritual continuation of the anguished confrontations that close out Minamata: The Victims and Their World, Minamata Revolt captures the direct negotiations that took place between the Chisso corporation and the Minamata disease victims after a court ruling ordered the company to compensate them and their families. Patients who had self-organized to demand the company for direct payments and lifelong medical care stare down and scream in the faces of Chisso’s spokespeople, who effortlessly embody the chillingly staid evil of corporate greed. The second and most rarely screened entry in Tsuchimoto’s Minamata Trilogy, Revolt is a gripping indictment of modern industry and a testament to human resilience.
– Museum of the Moving ImageRead More »

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Anthony Powell’s 12-volume epic “A Dance to the Music of Time” is widely regarded as the most formidable single work of British fiction since the war. It is also largely entertaining: its cast of 400 characters ranges from upper-class drawing-rooms to Bohemian London and a violent death in a hippie commune. They have, in their turn, gathered a devoted set of fans among English-speaking readers.Read More »