Documentary

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Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women’s movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society. The film looks at female socialization through a personal look into the lives of six women, age 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them–teachers, counselors, advertising, music and the institution of marriage. It offers us a chance to see how much has changed–and how much remains the same.Read More »

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From the early nineties an electronic music culture emerged in The Hague, the Netherlands. This film travels back and forth in time, alongside the artists and styles while connecting the characteristics of this period.Read More »

Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:
Per Kirkeby og Jørgen Leth om filmen: “Det skal være en smuk film, som helt reelt skildrer naturen, og som også udnytter associationer, der er knyttet til Dyrehaven som begreb. Skelettet er årstidernes skiften, skildret i billeder. Med “billeder” menes enkelte billeder uden anden indbyrdes kontinuitet end den, som selve rammen, årstidernes skiften, giver. Ind i dette skelet bygger vi rent romantiske billeder som et associationsfelt, der ligesom rummer den historiske side af Dyrehaven. Dyrehaven er jo ikke en hvilkensomhelst skov, men en skov, som optager en stor plads i landets kunstneriske bevidsthed.”Read More »

Carlos Saura’s peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and multi-award winning director, with more than 50 films to his name, portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most avant-garde urban expressions. A thrilling and personal journey in the company of figures including Juan Luis Arsuaga, Miquel Barceló, Zeta, Musa 71 and Suso 33.Read More »

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender man who prefers to identify somewhere in between male and female, in an expression of personal ambiguity suggested by the film’s title. This nonfiction film—an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité—is the first of director Spheeris’ films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate,
uncompromising and deeply meaningful. (Mark Toscano)

Preserved by the Academy Film ArchiveRead More »

Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.Read More »

DARUM GEHT’SNicola Graef followed German artist Neo Rauch for three years in his studio in Leipzig and at exhibitions in America, Asia and Europe. He observes critical dialogs with Rauch’s artist wife Rosa Loy and discusses with international collectors, gallery owners and art lovers the phenomenon Neo Rauch.Read More »

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

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73-year-old De Oliveira decides to make a personal movie that his audience will only know once heis dead. In 1982, the director takes the decision to make a movie about (and in) his (ex) house, in which he lived for over 40 years. The initial still shot is held for a long while with the presence oftrees in the garden of his house in Oporto. De Oliveira himself introduces the film and speaks all the credits out. The voices of a man and a woman guide us for most of the first part, in a sort of preliminary and formal tour around the totality of the house. They remain out of frame and the camera perspective is not necessarily theirs.Read More »

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“A dream-like story of America put together out of silent-film material from the archives, interspersed with many different accounts to be read, some of them in verse.”

““This is a logbook. A film which has been improvised. A poem that is slightly too long and made from other films parts, bits of sentences, pieces of music and sounds from all around. It was written in the language of cinema, without dialogue or commentary. It is both a silent movie and a wordy one as it relates many stories, twenty or so, short, minor and forming what is called History with a capital H when put together.Read More »