SYNOPSIS
Cabrera’s cousin discovers himself in Chris Marker’s La Jetée: a photo of him and his parents on the observation deck of Orly airport. They had arrived there from Algeria in 1962.

Le cinquieme plan de La jetee (2024).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 37 min
Size: 	2.11 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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https://nitro.download/view/B06CB24C8A75988/Le_cinquieme_plan_de_La_jetee_(2024).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish

Many thanks to @Vincent for this copy

The post Dominique Cabrera – Le cinquième plan de La Jetée (2024) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants’ association takes part in the renovation of the buildings.

Dominique Cabrera - J'ai droit à la parole (1981).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	30 min 55 s
Size: 	1.02 GiB
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Resolution: 	1456x1080 
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https://nitro.download/view/44A45FB6B742517/Dominique_Cabrera_-_J’ai_droit_a_la_parole_(1981).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Dominique Cabrera – J’ai droit à la parole (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Dominique Cabrera is a french film maker who was born in Algeria. After Algeria gained independence from France, the European-descended people had to leave the country. It was 1962 when Dominique was 4 or 5 years old.

Tonight, at Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies Center’s artist talk series, she started by telling this early childhood experience and how it had shaped her experience of feeling exiled all life and the feeling of a lost country. She showed clips of her movies for the audiences to get a feel.

The first clip was the start of her first feature-length film “On the other shore” – it started from scenes in the airport and the music is deeply sad, and conflicts and crisis await. She then showed a diary documentary of her own life “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”. From the “Milk of human kindness” we see a moment of a woman’s life that has suddenly changed and become unbearable and the intense fear she feels about the change. Another woman encourages her that she will manage.

I asked the film maker whether she was experiencing change while she made “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”. She said yes. “It was a time I felt how common I was as everybody else, a single woman with a son, living in the suburb, divorced without much money. I always thought I was special but also just how common.” The title of the movie came from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

“She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, [emphasis added]
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)

When I asked her how the feeling of exile and lost country shaped her films, she answered that her films often ask the question “where is the house/home”?

Now after jotting down the notes, I know why I felt stirred after seeing clips of her films. I too lost ‘home’ when i was very young, and it seems every step I have taken I am further away from ‘home’. I am not sure being optimistic shows courage or coward to gloss over the reality.

1.60GB | 1h 19m | 736×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/06E06D8B9C58EA2/Demain.et.encore.demain.D.Cabrera.1997.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Dominique Cabrera – Demain et encore demain, journal 1995 (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

At the end of the 80’s, four blocs of low cost housing in a Parisian suburb, Val-Fourre are being destroyed. Some people who lived here remember about their lives in these buildings.

Extra
Dominique Cabrera et ses personnages (59 min, radio interview, audio only, in French)
Maryline Canto (actress), Jean-Louis Nivault (protagonist) and Jacques Pamart (director of photography) interviewed by Inès Léraud and Guillaume Baldy.

988MGB | 58 min 18 s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4D6F853B7159C9A/Chronique_d’une_banlieue_ordinaire.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/38CD03A5BD23035/Dominique_Cabrera_et_ses_personnages.ac3

Language:French

Subtitles:English, French (subs/idx)

The post Dominique Cabrera & Edmée Doroszlai – Chronique d’une banlieue ordinaire [+Extra] (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The four thousand inhabitants of Courneuve go to the post office once in a while to collect their benefit or pay their bills. The young postal workers belong to the small group of people in the region with a paid job. Every day they are confronted with the poverty of the people at the other side of the counter. Dominique Cabrera alternately put his camera on either side of the counter and registered the behaviour and faces of the people who are involved in small financial transactions. Against the background of the post office buzz, he listened to the conversations that are part of the exchange of money. Une poste à la courneuve draws a colourful image of the effect an economic crisis can have on the lives of ordinary people.

Extra (no subs)
Dominique Cabrera, Hélène Louvart and Xavier Griette talk about the making and the shooting of the movie.

899MB | 54 min 6 s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E823DC46F88D14B/Une_poste_a_la_Courneuve.mkv https://nitro.download/view/591E02D87A7571C/Interview.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English, French (sub/idx)

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