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Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of the Hollywood image-making industry from a pastiche of narrative cliches: A small-town ingenue goes West to find her dream and loses her innocence; the patriarch of a Hollywood studio nears death; a New York couple seeks screenwriting fame and fortune in the movies. With deadpan humor and hyperbolic visual stylization, the Yonemotos layer artifice upon artifice, constructing an image-world where reality and representation, truth and simulation, are meaningless distinctions.

Made.in.Hollywood.1990.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-JUNGLIST.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	56 min 25 s
Size: 	623 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	640x480 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9C1F40B3E1BFCA0/Made.in.Hollywood.1990.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-JUNGLIST.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto – Made in Hollywood (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, ‘Handsworth Songs’, examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.

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“[Handsworth Songs is] The Black Audio Film Collective’s documentary-essay on the civil disobedience that erupted in reaction to the repressive policing of black communities in London and Birmingham in 1985. On the one hand, the film received critical acclaim and won many prizes, including the prestigious Grierson Award from the British Film Institute. On the other, one review in a black community newspaper—The Voice—received the film with the dismissive remarks, “Oh no, not another riot documentary,” and in the national daily The Guardian the film was subject to a fierce intellectual polemic from novelist Salman Rushdie. Whereas the filmmakers conceived their experimental approach to the documentary genre as a strategy ‘to find a structure and a form which would allow us the space to deconstruct the hegemonic voices of British television newsreels,’ (Reece Auguiste, 1988:6) Rushdie argued that, on the contrary, ‘the trouble is, we aren’t told the other stories. What we get is what we know from TV. Blacks as trouble; blacks as victims’ (ICA, 1988:16)” (Kobena Mercer Welcome to the Jungle 70).

Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah 1986) 576p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 0 min
Size: 	964 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/46EA5DC9C3C39F0/Handsworth_Songs_(John_Akomfrah_1986)_576p.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post John Akomfrah – Handsworth Songs (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The film explores the significance of Greece’s national symbol, the Acropolis, in the creation of national identity and collective memory. Likening the “sacred rock” to the female body, the film attempts to make a comment on the timeless exploitation of the monument, while exploring the relation of History to pornography.

Acropolis (Eva Stefani, 2001).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	25 min 25 s
Size: 	1 017 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C44ED2CF7C2528D/Acropolis_(Eva_Stefani,_2001).mkv

Language(s):English, Greek
Subtitles:English hardcoded for greek parts

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Nazarbazi (the play of glances) is a film about love and desire in post-revolution Iranian cinema, where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited. Images and text come together to manifest the unspeakable and the untouchable, and to summon the current of desire.

After the revolution in 1979, Iran prohibited the depiction of men and women touching onscreen. Since then, directors have relied on every cinematic trick in the book to mirror the ecstatic release of tension through touch – but often it is the game of glances that is enough to set a scene ablaze. Nazarbazi collages these saturated cinematic moments into a poem about love and desire in Iranian film, that also echoes our own time of physical distancing.

Nazarbazi.Maryam.Tafakori.2022.1080p.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	19 min 10 s
Size: 	526 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 581 kb/s
BPP: 	0.069
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#1:  	Persian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s (Audio Track)

https://nitro.download/view/0FC2B45A86BB65A/Nazarbazi.Maryam.Tafakori.2022.1080p.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:Intertitles in Persian and English

The post Maryam Tafakory – Nazarbazi (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A compelling and revealing exploration of one person’s psyche in crisis: combines elaborate split-screen and multi-voice soundtrack to produce a self-portrait at once satiric and poignant.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	53 min 20 s
Size: 	1.69 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F697822CCF278D9/The_Art_of_Worldly_Wisdom_(1979).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post R. Bruce Elder – The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.

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At the height of American Cold-War paranoia, Lilly’s experiments into animal and extraterrestrial communications, and the possibilities for human consciences, signalled him as a brilliant but troubled mind. Through archival footage and layered sound design, the film contextualises Lilly within the wider counter-culture of the time, while exploring broader ethical questions about the interrelationship between species and the limits of scientific knowledge.

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
Size: 	2.35 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/73EB3FE0BF76A71/John_Lilly_and_the_Earth_Coincidence_Control_Office_(2025).mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/ec1275755dfaf38869993d672e92da73/John_Lilly_and_the_Earth_Coincidence_Control_Office_(2025).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens – John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A city’s past, present, and future are unveiled through 13 long takes.

Where.Are.You.Going.2016.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 8 min
Size: 	3.59 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x436 
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 861 kb/s
BPP: 	0.360
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#1:  	Chinese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 127 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FE7833CE2A96444/Where.Are.You.Going.2016.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/5cf5b5f225ce84052e68a6bbc29cb189/Where.Are.You.Going.2016.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin, Tagalog, English, Cantonese
Subtitles:French

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