Documentary

A man (Perry Caravello) caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he’s in is a fake.Read More »

Aside been built around New Age pseudoscience and featuring a soundtrack by Stevie Wonder the film makes use of time-lapse photography (where plants are seen growing in a few seconds, creepers reach out to other plants and tug on them, mushrooms and flowers open)Read More »

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Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch’s unparalleled art not only on stage but also behind the scenes.Read More »

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In a French village near Bordeaux, Pessac, a young lady is chosen for her virtue by the townspeople.

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This is the first version that Eustache shot. The second version will be shot 10 years after. May ’68 will have been replaced in the conversations by the unemployment and crisis…Read More »

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Richard Leacock photographs the first week of school integration in November 1960 in New Orleans, which is marked by violent demonstrations of hatred by white parents as their children look on, a vision of how prejudice is passed on, one divided generation passing its legacy of conflict to the next.Read More »

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Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine’s Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor’s place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying with the White Mountains in the background, various young children playing, a lad holding his cat while carrying milk cans on a yoke, a pointer stalking a cat, the annual burning of brush and rubbish, and a montage of chores and relaxation on the farm. The last shot is of spring, a flag in the background. The films are sweet and straightforward, with clear black and white images.Read More »

Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.Read More »

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Goulag is a precise and documented investigation by the opening of the archives during the 90s but also based on Russian literature or traveling historians like Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu. A voice-over, reminiscent in many ways of the style and vision of a Chris Marker (Hélène Châtelain is the actress of La Jetée), tries to organize the logic, reversed or paradoxical, which innervates the evolution of repression, rehabilitation…Read More »

Made for Italian television, this powerful documentary by iconoclastic auteur Liliana Cavani profiles a number of women who participated in the Italian Resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy during World War II. Cited by Cavani as the inspiration for her controversial international breakthrough THE NIGHT PORTER, WOMEN OF THE RESISTANCE is a both an inspiring ode to the courage of the everyday heroines who fought back against fascism and a harrowing exploration of the desperate extremes to which war drives all involved.Read More »