Patrick Bokanowski’s extraordinarily intimate portrait of Henri Dimier at work focuses as much attention on the personality of the materials as on the painter himself. Only fitting, as Dimier repeatedly insists that the artist’s vocation is to let the paper “be aware of itself” and takes obvious pleasure showing the proper way to sharpen a pencil. Dimier demonstrates several playful exercises to cultivate an all-important sense of spontaneity while he approaches teaching as another opportunity for improvisation. “If you lose your momentum you lose your freedom,” Dimier opines. And indeed Bokanowski’s portrait exemplifies the benefit of sustained attention. – Max Goldberg

La.part.du.hasard.1984.540p.FANDOR.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	52 min 42 s
Size: 	823 MiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	720x540 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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https://nitro.download/view/ECFFFA47812A46C/La.part.du.hasard.1984.540p.FANDOR.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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PLOT:
A housewife is preparing a duck à l’orange in her kitchen. But the reluctant bird tries to escape from her but the woman manages to recaptures it and plucks it savagely. Once the duck is put in the oven, an alligator unexpectedly appears in the kitchen, threatening the cook. She tries to escape from it first, then pursues it and finally sits down at the table with it. Meanwhile, the duck succeeds in opening the the door of the oven and flies away through the open window.

206MB | 8m 25s | 720×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F7D8B421B015DA0/Le.Canard.a.l.orange.2002.short.576p.BDRip.AAC.x264-trand.mkv
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https://fikper.com/560dDdC6sg/Le.Canard.a.l.orange.2002.short.576p.BDRip.AAC.x264-trand.mkv

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Quote:
Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify – and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.

Quote:
An intense fusion of distorted lenses and double exposures, bizarre images and fireworks, this Bokanowski effort seems almost too clear despite the chaotic form it takes. Though this is not to say there’s an evident meaning, per se, but simply that the imagery lacks the fine, gritty edge of his older films. The focus here is in part on lights, and the image of a brightly lit riverboat at night stands out to me because I am still not sure that’s what it was. Amid the aforementioned chaos, the lights are only truly discernible–again, like his other works–because they take a familiar shape. But this time I am less certain of whether I am filling in the gaps or accurately piercing the veil of confusion here.

486MB | 17m 52s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FD9D8781BA9A655/Battements.solaires.2008.576p.x264.AAC.BDRip-JB666.mkv

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Quote:
Film directed from the play Orpheon, directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft.

101MB | 4m 19s | 785×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F0CCADA2C454415/Eclats.d.Orphee.2002.576p.x264.AAC.BDRip-JB666.mkv

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