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The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?

Monk.in.Pieces.2025.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-ZTR.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	3.95 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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https://nitro.download/view/362729ECBEBE078/Monk.in.Pieces.2025.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-ZTR.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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An unsung talent in her lifetime, director, professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka Keene’s stark, stunning debut feature The Juniper Tree is loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, and stars Björk in her first on-screen performance. The film premiered to glowing reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 and led Keene to further direct Heroine of Hell (1996) starring Catherine Keener and Barefoot to Jerusalem (2008), the latter completed after her tragically early death in 2004.

Set in medieval Iceland, The Juniper Tree follows Margit (Björk in a riveting performance) and her older sister Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadottir) as they flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter and protection with Johan (Valdimar Orn Fygenring), and his resentful young son, Jonas (Geirlaug Sunna Pormar), the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery. Photographed entirely on location in the stunning landscapes of Iceland in spectacular black-and-white by Randy Sellars, The Juniper Tree is a deeply atmospheric film, evocative of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, and filled with indelible waking dream sequences (courtesy of legendary experimental filmmaker Pat O’Neill). A potent allegory for misogyny and its attendant tragedies, The Juniper Tree is a major rediscovery for art house audiences.

Nietzchka Keene - (1990) The Juniper Tree.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	1.99 GiB
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Aspect ratio:  	5:3
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#1:  	Icelandic 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/BE598DEEB0F9F30/Nietzchka_Keene_-_(1990)_The_Juniper_Tree.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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The documentary feature ARAKIMENTARI explores the work of popular and controversial Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in a style designed to match Araki’s own. Araki’s fame and the debate around his photography derive mostly from his work with nudes, which blur the lines normally established between art, erotica, and pornography. The photographs have often been credited with reversing the Japanese ban on the visual representation of pubic hair, and Araki has been seen by his supporters as one of the artistic champions of free speech and social criticism in Japan. Some of Araki’s celebrity fans–Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and others–are interviewed to explain the appeal and importance of his photography. Liberally peppered with images of the photography and presented in a manner designed to imitate the combination of titillation and estrangement Araki’s work engenders, ARAKIMENTARI goes beyond the biographical documentary to the realm of artistic portrait.

Arakimentari.2004.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 14mn
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DXVA:	Compatible
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Codec:	x264
Resolution:	704x560 ~> 746x560
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 155 kb/s
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#1:	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s
#2:	English 2.0ch AAC @ 96.0 kb/s (Commentary with Director Travis Klose and Producer Jason Fried)

https://nitro.download/view/90E0A72DB6FD808/Arakimentari.2004.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

https://fikper.com/Estm7xccJB/Arakimentari.2004.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English/Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Travis Klose – Arakimentari (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film originated from my readings of the One Thousand And One Nights. But unlike the Arabian tales, my stories are all from real life, though at times they too wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality.

There are some twenty-five different stories in my movie. Their protagonists are all my good friends and I myself am an inseparable part of the stories. The storyteller of the Arabian Nights was also part of his or her tales.

Some of the people in the movie you’ll recognize, some not. The fact that some of them you’ll recognize has no bearing on the stories: after all, we all recognize John Wayne or Annette Bening, but in their stories they are no longer the people we know.

The subjects of the stories cover a wide range of emotions, geographies, personal anxieties, anecdotes. These are not very big stories, not for the Big Screen: these are all personal big stories… And yes, you’ll also find some provocations… But that’s me, one ‘me’ of many. The very question “What is a story?” is a provocative question.

2.22GB | 1h 51m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/76B6A37EE1D757F/Jonas_Mekas_-_(2011)_Sleepless_Nights_Stories.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, German, French, Lithuanian

The post Jonas Mekas – Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Here we have a true rarity, an Icelandic WIP exploitation horror love story. Teenage girl (played by the singer Björk at the time when she was on the brink of becoming a world famous musician) is taken against her will from her dysfunctional home by the authorities and moved to an isolated and strict religious institution in the countryside where she and other girls at her age are kept imprisoned and harassed sexually. The film is loosely inspired by a true case involving the Salvation Army that became very controversial in the country two decades earlier. The film score is by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the current Chieftain of the Asa Faith Society in Iceland.

707MB | 50mn 15s | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/8240841B557D0EB/Glerbrot_RUV.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/388CF47D854DC13/Glerbrot.srt

Language(s):Icelandic
Subtitles:English

The post Kristín Jóhannesdóttir – Glerbrot AKA Broken Glass (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Matthew Barney with a soundtrack composed by Björk, represents the first creative collaboration of two of the most protean, dynamic forces in music and fine art.

It is an apt pairing. Refusing to choose between pop pleasure and restless experimentation, Björk’s musical vision weds technology and emotion, countering gut-level expression with an insistence upon formal modernity and innovation.

Similarly poised, and celebrated, within the world of contemporary art as Björk is within her own field, Matthew Barney is a visual artist whose ambitious, rigorous multimedia work encodes esoteric meanings while providing lushly immediate aesthetic rewards. Best known for The Cremaster Cycle, the sprawling sequence of five films made over ten years which was the subject of a recent Guggenheim retrospective, Matthew Barney’s work is multimedia in execution but singularly focused in conception: tightly unified fusions of sculpture, performance, architecture, set design, music, computer generated effects and prosthetics, Barney’s films deploy the full range of cinematic resources in the service of a hermetic vision rich with densely layered networks of meaning drawn from mythology, history, sports, music, and biology.

The basis of Barney’s approach is an operative tension between sculpture and film: the lingering attention to sensuous detail and richly organized aesthetics lends each character, costume, artifact, set, and architectural location within his work the frozen timelessness of sculpture– yet these components are subjected to vigorous processes of radical rupture and change as the films unfold.

Drawing.Restraint.9.2009.NTSC.DVD.AC3.5.1-ZN.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 24mn
Size: 	2.98 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
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Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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#1:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps (Drawing Restraint 9 (2005))

https://nitro.download/view/AA069DA9C5A64DF/Drawing.Restraint.9.2009.NTSC.DVD.x264.AC3.5.1-ZN.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, English, Icelandic
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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