Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker’s movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of Austro-fascism and National Socialism. West’s masterly narration combined with impressing archive footage illustrate and elucidate the complex Austrian history between WW1 and WW2.

3.77GB | 1 h 32 min | 1440×1080 | mkv

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Language:German
Subtitles:English, Danish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.

Part I, “A Prayer from the Eiffel Tower,” documents personal attitudes and feelings around Paris. A salesman feels free only when he is driving his car, and then only if there is not too much traffic. A working-class mother of eight has just gotten the larger apartment that she had been wanting for years. The space capsule of American astronaut John Glenn is examined by a group of admiring children. Two investors talk about their careers and adventures. A couple in love since their teens discuss the possibility of eternal happiness. At a middle class wedding banquet, the guests are raucous while the bride is quiet, dignified and reserved.

Part II, “The Return of Fantomas,” is an investigation of the political and social life of the city. Marker and Lhomme alternate between public events and private discussions: the former focusing on the Algerian situation, such as a funeral for people killed in Paris street demonstrations after the Algerian settlement. Meanwhile, the latter includes a conversation with two girls about the state of France; a meeting with a pair of engineers who describe the potential of the current technological revolution; a n African student who discusses his own response to the French and the Parisians’ reaction to his skin color; a worker-priest forced to choose between the Church and his fellow workers; and an Algerian worker describing conflict he has experienced with native Frenchmen.

“A far-reaching meditation on the relationship between individual and society”—Film Comment

“Chris Marker is an artist. He has something to say about the ‘other France,’ the France we don’t see on the Champs-Elysees, and he says it simply and movingly.”—The Guardian

3.75GB | 2 h 25 min | 1998×1080 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:English (HC)

Part of the Portuguese militant cinema made on the 70s. The title of this documentary (What Will I Do with This Sword?) is a call to anti-imperialist struggle and to the union of the working class.

704MB | 1:03:39 | 640×480 | avi

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Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:En, Pt, Fr; Vobsubs

He came from outer space to save the human race!

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva – Klaus Nomi was one of 1980’s most profoundly bizarre appearances. He was a cult figure in the New Wave Underground scene who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences. He was a performer with a “look” so strong, that his first audiences went wild before he even opened his mouth. On the verge of international fame as a singer, he instead became one of the first prominent artists to die of AIDS. But the reaction Klaus Nomi provoked was so strong, that he is still unforgettable, even 20 years after his death.

Nomi constructed his own myth out of elements so completely “wrong”, yet so deliberate, that it all seemed oddly possible. He was an alien amongst the outcasts, a tortured soul who also radiated optimism at a time when optimism was “officially” out of fashion. He was as much a genuine talent as he was the engine of his own destruction. His appeal is not easy to explain in words. He has to be seen – and heard – to be believed.

It is hard to limit this film to being called a documentary. It is rather a non-fiction film, maybe even an oral history. But it’s also visual, partly because Nomi himself was so visual, someone who’s main concern was putting forth an image of himself in everything he did – literally illustrated by the photos, films, videos and artworks that go with it.

What unifies the various stylistic elements is Klaus Nomi himself, not only the all pervasive image he put out, but more importantly, his effect on others. It’s a story that grows out of a group of people who influenced him, loved him, felt pity for him or betrayed by him, yet above all, were inspired by him.

The Nomi Song is a story of love of music and love of performing at a time when it seemed as though everyone was struck by a sense of urgency to make something – anything – simply because “somewhere in the great cosmic plan we all knew that we only had a finite amount of time together and we had to make the most of it.”

693MB | 1:35:57 | 512 x 272 | avi

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Language:English
Subtitles:None

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NinaHagen was born in East Berlin in 1955, migrated to the West in the mid-70’s and became a New Wave Punk rock star in 1978, singing in a screechy growl that shaded into an operatic coloratura.

2.31GB | 1 h 35 min | 752×534 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:None

No description available.

184MB | 13 min 39 s | 1280×720 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:None

One year in the life of a family of reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland. Jessica Oreck’s intimate, gorgeously lensed documentary follows brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki. The film is a study of hard work, hard earned leisure, and the intricate bond between man and nature that makes up life above the Arctic Circle.Quote:
Brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki are cowboys of the Arctic. Quiet but good natured, dare-devilish but humble, rugged but gentle, and exceptionally knowledgeable when it comes to their little slice of wilderness. These men are what John Wayne wanted to be. The brothers, along with their wives and children, live well north of the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, where they are the leaders of a collective of traditional reindeer herders who manage the last group of wild reindeer in all of Finland. Aatsinki follows the family for the span of one year, quietly observing their seasonal routines and the difficulties and joys of a life so closely tied to the land.

Theirs is a story of action and work, of small moments between husband and wife, father and daughter, animal and man, man and landscape. It is a life of sweeping panoramas and commonplace details. The simplicity of the film allows the extraordinary action to shine through, whether it be a thousand reindeer cresting a hill or Aarne’s daughter opening a Christmas present.

Though, on the surface, Aatsinki is the story of a single family, its underlying narrative is one of global consequences and connections. Between their uncanny understanding of the landscape and their reindeer on the one hand, and their heavy reliance on snowmobiles and helicopters on the other, the herders have been categorized as beacons of sustainability and demons of environmentalism – in essence, poster children for simplicity and technology alike. Their story raises weighty questions about what it means to live with the land and invites audience members to reconsider their own assumptions about technology, food production, and, most critically, man’s place in nature.

3.12GB | 1h 25mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

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Language:Finnish
Subtitles:English

from the official website:
Imagine cramming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana – you would be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprisingly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next to godliness.

Yet even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative “can of sardines,” people of all ages still make room for a tiny bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature’s most efficient invention in space, design and function – insects.

Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.

Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan’s captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the “Isle of the Dragonflies.”

896MB | 1h 30mn | 720×480 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/DF0E9A5C5D36155/BEETLE_QUEEN_CONQUERS_TOKYO.avi

Language:Japanese
Subtitles: English [hardcoded]

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think – but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

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Offers a surprising view of the Portuguese capital.
Ariel Schweitzer, Cahiers du Cinéma

1.14GB | 1 h 25 min | 1280×692 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/3EF82C03ECB7CAD/Here.In.Lisbon-Episodes.Of.A.City.2015.720p.part1.rar
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Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

Synopsis:
‘Allah Tantou’ is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the continent’s widespread human rights abuses. Director David Achkar has described the origins of his film: “Every year Amnesty International publishes a list of countries where human rights are ignored, including the estimated number of those unjustly imprisoned and executed in each. My father was one of those who died anonymously. In 1986, by a strange twist of fate, an envelope containing letters written by my father in prison was brought to me. Years later, still trying to make my first film, I watched some home movies my father had shot and then opened that envelope for the first time. I decided immediately to make Allah Tantou”. Using these movies and letters, as well as newsreels and dramatization, David Achkar reconstructs his father’s life, which closely parallels the rise and fall of Africa’s own hopes for independence. Marof Achkar became a prominent figure in Sekou Toure’s postcolonial government, Guinea’s UN ambassador and an articulate international spokesman for African causes. Recalled to Conakry in 1968, he was imprisoned and secretly executed in 1971. His family was expelled from Guinea and was only notified of his demise after Toure´’s death in 1984.

Year………….: 1991
Country……….: Guinea
Audio…………: 1. French (Stereo)
Subtitles……..: English (hardcoded)
Video Format…..: 5:4 (720/576)
DVD Source…….: DVD5
DVD Format…….: NTSC
DVD distributor..: California Newsreel
Program……….: DVDDecrypter
Bit Rate………: 4.5 Mb/s

Menus……….: Untouched, intact.
Video……….: Untouched, intact.
DVD-extras…..: Untouched, intact.
DVD-Audio……: Untouched, intact.

http://nitroflare.com/view/A1CC94081F4933D/Allah_Tantou_%281991%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/5D320E57ED38E2B/Allah_Tantou_%281991%29.part2.rar

Language:English, French
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

Shallow Well Project
This is a film that Johnny undertook to make after he was reprimanded by the community for making the photographs of horses which are described in the text. It was at that time that he was asked to supervise the construction of a shallow well.

Johnny previously had experience as a foreman helping to construct these wells in the community. He told the relative who suggested that he undertake the supervision of this construction that he couldn’t do it because he was learning to make movies. But then he realized that perhaps he could make a film about it and thus regain some of his status.

This film is in many ways different from any of the other films made by the Navajo and is discussed in the analysis section. It opens, however, in much the same way, showing the old first-a series of shots of the old open ponds from which the Navajo used to draw water. We then see a series of closeups of flies and insects on the water. After moving with the camera around the stagnant pool we cut quickly to a series of Navajo workmen beginning to build their shallow well. We follow, in almost educational film style, all the processes, in close-up, by which the various portions of the well are built. Intercut at moments are shots of the Navajo reading blueprints, measuring with yardsticks, and receiving instructions from the foreman who actually was in charge of this project. Johnny again shows the typical Navajo use of the circular pan in many of the shots of the cement work as the camera explores the various parts of the installation, always moving in a sunwise direction. When the job is finished we see a Navajo (Johnny used Worth to play the part of a Navajo) walking up to the well and drawing water and we see water coming from the various parts of the shallow well. The film ends not with shots of anybody walking, but with a series of shots of trucks driving away from the well.

Of interest here is that although there are no face close-ups, there are also no shots of Navajos walking to get anything. All the tools and all the equipment they need are right there. Instead of walking away from the job they ride away. This is the only time in any of the films in which Navajos are shown using their pickup trucks.
-Sol Worth & John Adair

164MB | 15:14.907 | 592×448 | av

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Language:Silent
Subtitles:None

Estonia’s first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, the South-Eastern region in Estonia.

352MB | 7mn 29s | 962×720 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/427006F4189F776/Retk.labi.Setumaa.AKA.Journey.Through.Setomaa.1913.720p.Bluray.x264-SaL.mkv

Language:No linguistic content
Subtitles:None

The Korean Wedding Chest is a 2009 documentary film about Korean wedding traditions directed by Ulrike Ottinger. The German language film was described as “capturing the collision of ancient tradition and modern culture on the subject of love and marriage in Korea in a film that echoes the beauty, precision and care of the rituals she examines” by the Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post’s website refers to the surrealist style of the film as being well suited to “the regal pacing of the ritual” and calls the film one of Ottinger’s most praised works.

1.35GB | 1 h 18 min | 1024×576 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/09FE8ADC7F22B54/Ulrike_Ottinger_-_Die_koreanische_Hochzeitstruhe.part1.rar
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Language:Korean and German
Subtitles:English/German/French VobSub (all optional within mkv file)

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

2.62GB | 1 h 33 min | 1024×552 | mkv

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Language:English
Subtitles:English, Spanish

“Just A Beginning” follows a nursery school class for a period of two years. But this is a very unusual class as the children, aged three to five study… philosophy! Seated in a circle around a ritually lit candle, the children, in a fresh, funny and sometimes merciless manner, approach the universal subjects of love, power, difference, growing up, death etc. Little by little the philosophy workshop becomes a privileged moment where each child reflects on the words of the other, learns how to listen and to build a discourse. From now on they will be able to think for themselves! With their emotions, their unusual expressions and their contradictions, the children of this nursery school deliver a single testimony on an innovative experiment. “Just A Beginning” is the fabulous true story of a school with an eye on the future.

1.79GB | 1 h 38 min | 1013×548 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/0A80E3DE0176A15/Ce.nest.quun.debut.2010.part1.rar
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Language:French
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French

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SHAKEDOWN chronicles explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. The story functions as a legend where money is both myth and material. Cumulatively, questions arise about how to diagram the before and after of a utopic moment. Directed by Leilah Weinraub.

From the film iMDB page
SHAKEDOWN is the story of Los Angeles’ black lesbian strip club scene and its genesis. Owned and operated by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown is the darker, faster, younger iteration of this dance culture. The film is a window into this world. Shakedown emerged from a post-RIOTS, post-OJ, post-integration but still very racially divided Los Angeles. In this divided city Shakedown is an independent, all black and all female cash economy.
SHAKEDOWN chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organizers including Ronnie-Ron, Shakedown Productions’ creator and emcee; Mahogany, the legendary “mother” of the community; Egypt, their star performer; and Jazmine, the “Queen” of Shakedown.

2.19GB | 1h 10mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/FD8E0A2D5011120/Shakedown_%28Weinraub%2C_2018%29.part1.rar
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Language:English
Subtitles:None

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This is an excellent hour-and-a-half documentary overview of Fassbinder’s career. For those new to the director, this is the perfect starting place (perhaps even before watching the films).Quote:
This lengthy film (1h:36m:32s) consists mostly of interview footage of Fassbinder’s collaborators with a few select clips from films. There’s also a good analysis of Fassbinder’s visual language here. Although one doesn’t really get a very clear sense of Fassbinder, one notion that does come across is that he was a compulsive filmmaker; unlike the others who fall into that category, such as Jess Franco and Ed Wood, however, his pictures were often very high quality despite low budgets and short shooting schedules.

Life Stories: A Conversation with R.W. Fassbinder
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Life Stories is a 49-minute interview with Fassbinder, dating from 1978—apparently the longest interview he ever gave. He appears physically bloated and mentally exhausted (he keeps refilling his coffee cup), but responds candidly to questions about his childhood, brief marriage, and filmmaking style.

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At first inarticulate and reluctant to talk, Fassbinder warms up a bit about 15 minutes in, though the questions become a bit irritatingly abstract and Fassbinder visually seems to be wondering where this discussion is going. One is left with the inevitable comparison to Franz Schubert, madly creating before his impending premature death. The question is unresolved, however, as to whether the creative burst was to accomplish as much as possible prior to an early death, or whether that death was brought on by the frenetic pace of work. Of course, Fassbinder’s chain smoking probably didn’t do his bad heart any good either. Except as noted, everything but the commentaries is in English-subtitled German.

An interview with Fassbinder’s cinematographer Xaver Schwarzenberger.
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A second interview segment with Xaver Schwarzenberger, cinematographer for Fassbinder’s last five projects (including the last two films of the trilogy) gives some interesting insights into Fassbinder’s shooting process, backed up by behind-the-scenes footage. Fassbinder controlled the framing absolutely, but left the lighting and color filters to his cameraman, which left Schwarzenberger a good deal of room for creativity.

An interview with editor Juliane Lorenz conducted by Fassbinder scholar Laurence Kardish.
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Another interview with Juliane Lorenz (32m:39s) centers expressly on Fassbinder’s editing style, frequently working without rushes but immediately editing scenes as they were filmed. She also touches on the casting of the trilogy and reveals that at one point Schygulla was intended to play all three of the women; however, when she revealed this in an interview Fassbinder flew into a rage and that was the end of that idea.

Also included: trailers for all three films in the BRD trilogy (Lola, The Marriage Of Maria Braun and Veronika Voss); caps of the DVD menu, e.g.,

http://nitroflare.com/view/A48521DD8EEF846/Fassbinder-BRD-Bonus-Disk.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/4C9F9529F83BC8B/Fassbinder-BRD-Bonus-Disk.part2.rar

Language:German
Subtitles:English (.srt, .idx/.sub)

Nitrate Kisses explores images of lesbian and gay culture in this first feature-length film by Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema. Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot in Sodom (1993), by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, as well as footage from German narrative and documentary films of the ’30s are interwoven in this multi-faceted construction. Questions of a forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people are put in context by the contemporary sexual activities – photographed by Hammer – of four gay and lesbian couples.

The role of sexuality in the historic present is juxtaposed with the oral histories of Maria, a lesbian Latina born in 1904, who recounts her experiences of Greenwich Village bars before Stonewall; of Ruth, who speaks of the fear of being discovers lesbian while in the Army; of Sandy who speaks of her attempts, in cross-dressing, to bind her breasts; and of Jerre, who tells of confronting the shipping industry during WWII about sexual discrimination.

Nitrate Kisses makes the viewer, gay or straight, want to save scraps. Letters, books, records and snapshots in order to preserve ordinary lives as “history”. The imaginative possibilities of revealed and new languages, histories and biographies in recovered documents suggests a new visibility for gays and lesbians of yesterday and today.

644MB | 01:05:13 | 544×400 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/D365E7907F387F3/Nitrate.Kisses.VHSRip.Xvid-Sinusoid.avi

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Jaberg and Hofmann’s film takes us on a cinematic journey through the life and work of Daniel Schmid, one of the most unusual artists within Swiss film. Born into a hotelier family of the 1940s in the village of Flims, surrounded by snow covered mountains, visited by exotic guests from around the world, Daniel Schmid always was a dreamer. The young filmmakers offer a mysterious kaleidoscope of people and places related to the director. Even as a child, Daniel Schmid knew that there was a hidden world, caught between reality and imagination.

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The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old Paris cinema. The glittering skyscapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg documents the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both films and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Grisons mountains, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Morocco, Portugal, and his native Grisons. «Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense» traces the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever.
«Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense» lets us hear several of his loyal companions comment on this exceptional artist, among others his muse Ingrid Caven, his cameraman Renato Berta, and close friends like director Werner Schroeter, actress Bulle Ogier, and film scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi. And we hear Daniel Schmid himself – in a cinematic exploration of his life and work carried by his own voice and view of the world. A world situated between reality and fiction.

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«In describing someone else, you are in fact describing yourself … rather than this stranger, because it is your projection; in actual fact, this says more about you than about this other person, who has long departed (…).» Daniel Schmid

Daniel Schmid was born to a family of hotel proprietors on 26th December 1941 in the small Grisons town of Flims. From 1962, he studied history and literature at the Free University Berlin. From 1967 to 1969, he attended the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and worked together with Peter Lilienthal, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Werner Schroeter. During this period (1971-1980), he also worked as an actor. From 1970 to 2004, Schmid made 15 films, and from 1984 he directed seven operas at the Zurich Opera House and the Grand Théâtre Geneva. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Leopord at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Due to ill health, he was forced to discontinue shooting his last film PORTOVERO. Daniel Schmid died of cancer in August 2006.

1.38GB | 1h 23mn | 720×400 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/8C256509AA4C602/Daniel.Schmid.-.Le.chat.qui.pense.2010.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/59736CED47EC6C5/Daniel.Schmid.-.Le.chat.qui.pense.2010.part2.rar

Language:German, French, Swiss German, Japanese
Subtitles:English, French, German, Italian Subs

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“I CALL FOR A THEATRE IN WHICH THE ACTORS ARE LIKE VICTIMS BURNING AT THE STAKE, SIGNALLING THROUGH THE FLAMES.” – Antonin Artaud

Julian Beck and Judith Malina picked up the torch from Artaud and carried it into the theaters and streets of the world for more than 40 years. Their Living Theatre inspired the off-Broadway movement in the 40’s and 50’s and the radical theatre in the 60’s and 70’s. This tale of social and esthetic breakthrough weaves excerpts from their most controversial productions with on-the-road interviews with Beck and Malina, who define their lifelong commitment to a revolutionary art in which politics and theatre are inseparable.

“The odyssey of the Living Theatre . . . a company that has produced more guts, passion and controversy than any other in our time.” — Jack Kroll, Newsweek

“Beck and Malina are most persuasive, especially when one realizes that they are thinking out loud, continuing their attempts to bring some order out of life’s chaos.” — Vincent Canby,The New York Times

“A must-see for those who appreciate how the avant-garde can extend our perceptions of art.” — Video Times

1.14GB | 1h 36mn | 640×480 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/80D34FBC7F72DAC/Signals_Through_the_Flames.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/24009BB4AE7BB1D/Signals_Through_the_Flames.part2.rar

Language:English
Subtitles: a few hardsubs where needed