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Gérard Patris – Histoires naturelles : Max Ernst (1972)


Hans Fjellestad – Moog (2004)

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Bob Moog shaped musical culture with some of the most inspiring electronic instruments ever created. This “compelling documentary portrait of a provocative, thoughtful and deeply sympathetic figure” (New York Times) peeks into the inventor’s mind and the worldwide phenomenon he fomented.




892MB | 1 h 9 min | 704×440 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2CCF6950EEFAFC5/Moog.2004.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

Nikolaus Geyrhalter – 7915 Km (2008)

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A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye ‘7915 KM’ undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa’s present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. ‘7915 KM’ demonstrates the extent of this distance, which is the result of political and economic conditions, and also the ideas and prejudices to be found in both Europe and Africa. It also makes the closeness tangible, which becomes clear in the stories of everyday life, work, hopes and worries. Keeping the sobering reality in mind, it creates an homage to humanity and slowness which questions deep-seated perceptions and the role of Europeans in numerous, presumably African, problems




3.50GB | 1h 45mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/D347189CBF10C46/7915.Km.2008.1080p.FLI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cinefeel.part4.rar

Language:French, Arabic, English, Wolof, Bambara
Subtitles:German [Hard]

Les Blank – A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

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“Les Blank made A Poem Is A Naked Person during 1972-74, while living at the Russell/Shelter records recording studio compound on Grand Lake Of The Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. While the film has had few public showings as, apparantly, Mr. Russell is not keen on sharing it with his public.

According to Les’s contract, He is legally able to show his own copy if personally presenting it and a non-profit organization is sponsoring the showing. There are presently no such screenings in the works.

It is feature-length, with appearances by Willy Nelson, George Jones and some amazing characters in Oklahoma, where much of it was shot. At least two major critics have declared it the best film ever made on Rock and Roll.

Les Blank spent nearly two years filming Russell in his studio and environs when he and Denny Cordell were running Shelter Records out of Los Angeles and Tulsa in Russell’s native Oklahoma. Blank’s film “A Poem Is a Naked Person,” which Russell financed, was never released commercially. “I paid for it and I own it but I didn’t care for it,” Russell says. “I’m not sure what the purpose was – it’s not my idea of a documentary. It’s not supposed to be released, but one never knows.”




2.03GB | 1h 30mn | 768×576 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/0676FA3A6DBD578/Les_Blank,_A_Poem_Is_A_Naked_Person_(1974)_-_BluRay_576p.part3.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English

Fritz Hippler – Der ewige Jude AKA The Eternal Jew (1940)

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Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an “indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race”, designed to depict the “true” Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.





1.05GB | 1h 6mn | 682×529 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0F13FE1CB8AD9A9/The.Eternal.Jew.1940.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/A00725F08FEA40D/The.Eternal.Jew.1940.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language:English, German
Subtitles: English hardsubbed for German parts

Clément Cogitore – Braguino (2017)

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“What’s at stake when a group of humans gather in an isolated location?” That’s one of the questions that drove acclaimed French filmmaker and artist Clément Cogitore to a remote part of the Siberian Taïga forest, where two families, the Braguines and the Kilines, live in autonomy and bitter rivalry on the Yenissei river, 450 miles from the nearest village. Their children’s shared playground: an island protected from the bears. With striking images and dramaturgy, Cogitore creates a story about childhood, forests, and failed utopias. Braguino is a brilliant documentary, both enchanting and troubling, at times taking the shape of an ethnographic film, at others that of a Western.




784MB | 0h 48mn | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0C00A96A91A8058/Braguino.2017.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English

James Benning – Maggie’s Farm (2020)

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“A portrait of an art institution as a cinematic landscape: in a succession of static shots, James Benning explores the buildings and terrain of the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches. A series of views of nature filmed in the surrounding park and woods transitions into images of floors, seating areas and other details of a public building not meant for show. In both parts, an uncanny feeling dominates: the geometries of nature, the dark green and brown tones, the rushing of the highway in the background on the one hand and the humming of halogen lamps, the sound of steps in an otherwise seemingly empty school on the other – it all seems to be hiding a secret. The camera’s gaze is almost always restricted; it rarely penetrates very far into the image. It discovers shabby corners, observing scenarios more reminiscent of a mystery novel than the campus of an art institution. More so than in the majority of James Benning’s longer works of recent years, a narrative lies concealed within the images; every shot creates an urge to move forward, a tension, almost as if the landscapes and interiors were the scenes of a crime.” (arsenal-berlin)




2.71GB | 1h 24mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/3EBAB59DFD6FD4C/Maggie’s_Farm_(James_Benning,_2020).mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/1392412869017B9/Maggie’s_Farm_(James_Benning,_2020).part3.rar

Language:No Language.
Subtitles:None

David Elfick – Crystal Voyager (1973)

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Outstanding psychadelic surfing documentary with Meddle-era Pink Floyd soundtrack

In 1975 surfer and sometime director of photography George Greenhough got tired of the overcrowded beaches of Southern California and set of on a journey of discovery. He designed and built his own surfboards, some equipped with underwater camera equipment. With a small group of friends he built a boat and went off the map to find some waves they could truly call their own. This journey of discovery became a breathtaking cinematic trip. Combined with the music of Pink Floyd, an understated first person narrative, and some of the best surfing footage I believe has been ever shot they created one of the most remarkable works of art ever made. At times the photography seems almost impossible. Cameras glide effortlessly through sheets of seething water, bringing the viewer as close to the experience of actually surfing than anything I have seen.




2.16GB | 1h 15mn | 763×458 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/62EA79D98612C87/Crystal.Voyager.DVDRip.x264.1972.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/6468987C9DA990A/Crystal.Voyager.DVDRip.x264.1972.part3.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:None


Jeremy Weisfeld – Deep Crates: A Documentary Film Dedicated To The Art Of Beatdiggin’ (2004)

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Deep Crates is the first ever full-length documentary film exploring the exciting world of beatdiggin`/record collecting culture from a hip-hop perspective. This film endeavour features some of hip-hop`s most elite producers and DJ`s including the likes of Diamond D, Madlib, Lord Finesse, and Da Beatminerz, as they deliver the goods with a hip-hop history lesson and wild tales of crate-diggin` adventures never before revealed on film.

Features interviews with (among many others) Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ Eclipse, Diamond D, Maseo (De La Soul), Lord Finesse, Buckwild, Egon, Mr Walt and Evil D (Da Beatminerz), V.I.C. and Mike Heron (Ghetto Pros), Beni B, Ogee, Amed, DJ Amir (kon & Amir), Soulman, Fusion, and DJ Format.




1.11GB | 1h 10mn | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/214138C867A585B/Deep_Crates_(2004).mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/67B6755585DA060/Deep_Crates_(2004).part2.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:None

Paul Bradshaw – Tutankhamun in Colour (2020)

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BBC Four Website Description
A century after the world’s most exciting archaeological find – the tomb of Tutankhamun – we can witness the dramatic scenes of its discovery and marvel at its extraordinary treasures exactly as they were first seen – in colour.

Oxford University Egyptologist, Elizabeth Frood, is our guide to the discovery of the tomb on 4 November 1922 by British Egyptologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. It provided much-needed good news, following the Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, and we have been transfixed ever since.

Colourisation provides a fantastic insight into the artefacts themselves and the context that they were found in. Many photos were taken using glass plate negatives, which have fantastic resolution and which, with colourisation, reveal detail not seen for a century.

Liz’s story begins in 1891, with an old black and white family photo of the young Carter. Colourisation brings him to life as he arrived in Egypt as a 17-year-old artist. Carter met two people who would change his life: British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, who inspired him to be an archaeologist, and Lord Carnarvon, a keen amateur Egyptologist who hired Carter to help him.

Liz travels to Highclere Castle to meet the current Countess of Carnarvon. Carnarvon and Carter both yearned to find what nobody had ever discovered before, a pharaoh’s tomb with its treasures still intact. Carter became convinced that Tutankhamun’s tomb lay undiscovered in an ancient royal burial ground known as The Valley of the Kings, and in 1914 Carnarvon was granted a concession to start excavating there.

But the First World War intervened. Colourisation reveals a changing Egypt. Egyptians were soon pushing for independence from Britain, which claimed Egypt as a protectorate. The politics of the time were to have a profound effect on Carter and Carnarvon.

In December 1917, the meticulous Carter divided the valley up into a grid and began excavating each sector, right down to the bedrock. Colourisation reveals the astonishing scale of the operation that was required.

On 4 November 1922, a water-boy in Carter’s team, Hussein Abdul Rasoul, discovered a flight of steps descending into the bedrock. Carter broke into the tomb to discover first a rubble-filled passageway, then another sealed entrance. As Carter peered in, he declared, ‘It is wonderful.’ The extraordinary collection of objects he saw, including gilded couches, chariots, jewels, statues, and even ancient lunchboxes containing food for the afterlife, were captured in black and white by expert photographer Harry Burton. Using colourisation, we are now able to experience the scene that met their eyes, in incredible detail, almost as though it’s right in front of us.

On 16 February 1923, Carter and Carnarvon broke through into Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. A large blue and gilt shrine filled the room. Opening its doors, Carter discovered sealed doors to another three shrines, one within the next. Within these was a sarcophagus made from yellow quartzite and, within this, a nest of three coffins, also one within the next. For the first time in a century, we reveal each stage in amazing coloured detail. The outermost coffin was gilt, adorned with a garland of flowers. The middle one was inlaid with gold and coloured glass and the innermost was – incredibly – crafted from solid gold.

Finally, within this, was Tutankhamun’s mummy wearing the famous solid gold mask. Colourisation of the rather messy-looking black and white photograph reveals that his wrapped body was actually festooned with colourful jewellery. The discovery of Tutankhamun’s body also revealed that he died very young, aged 19. This changed the way Tutankhamun was seen around the world. In Europe, the death of a young man hit a chord with so many who had lost their sons in the First World War. In his own country, Tutankhamun became a young and vibrant symbol of a powerful and independent Egypt.




1.99GB | 59mn 10s | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/3B503AD66DBBF11/Tutankhamun_in_Colour_(2020).mkv
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Language:English
Subtitles:English (Muxed SRT)

Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)

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James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham, and Atlanta, to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe, and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America—wondering “what happened to the children” and those “who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road.”




1.39GB | 1h 28mn | 744×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/7DA7017AD081CF6/Dick_Fontaine_&_Pat_Hartley_-_I_Heard_It_Through_the_Grapevine_(1982).mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/E0C2C313DCE5113/Dick_Fontaine_&_Pat_Hartley_-_I_Heard_It_Through_the_Grapevine_(1982).part2.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:None

Yuri Nomura – Eatrip (2009)

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An exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature.

Eatrip is a Japanese documentary about food. An exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature.

This contemporary Japanese food culture documentary explores our connection to food and to each other, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature. Seen through the experiences of a food purveyor, a singer, a famous actor (Tadanobu Asano), a homemaker who lives off the land and a Buddhist monk, the film embarks on a journey throughout Japan showing how life can be led richly through the daily ritual of eating. A traditional tea ceremony, a visit to a famous fish market in Tokyo and a gathering around the dinner table celebrate the central importance of food.



1.54GB | 1h 18min | 854×462 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/AE0FFEA6228DD95/Eatrip.2009.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/62082FD3A2A5AD4/Eatrip.2009.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Hartmut Bitomsky – Staub AKA Dust (2007)

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A speck of dust is just about perceptible to the naked eye. It’s the smallest visible subject a film can be about – it’s a medium of disappearance and a criteria of perception. Wherever we go, it has already beaten us; wherever we turn, it follows us. It is our past, our present and our future. It is universal and has a name in every language. It keeps housewives busy, as well as scientists, inventors, artists and entire industrial branches. It is blamed for feeding vermin and causing illness. It takes ownership of our possessions, it penetrates laboratories, it creates planets and galaxies. We’re surrounded by it, it gets inside us, we shed it… It nestles right into the despair of its own existence.




1.76GB | 1h 30min | 1013×548 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/54707E96E2F06FC/Staub.AKA.Dust.2007.DVDRip.x264.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/FFA157A8AB77FA1/Staub.AKA.Dust.2007.DVDRip.x264-.part2.rar

Language:German
Subtitles:English, Italian, Spanish

Werner Herzog – Family Romance, LLC (2019)

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Mark Rappaport – Anna / Nana / Nana / Anna (2019)

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“I was a star waiting to be born.” Anna Sten, actress in Russian silent films and early German sound films. She should become a star like Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich. Sam Goldwyn had that in mind with a lot of money and publicity. In 1934 Anna Sten has a leading role as Nana, the starting signal for a Hollywood career that never happened. ANNA / NANA / NANA / ANNA: actor name, role, film title, novel. How many nanas did we see on the screen? And with what meaning is the name Nana now charged? From Anna Stens Nana to Anna Karinas Nana S. in Godard’s VIVRE SA VIE – things are going badly for all Nanas.
(Martina Müller)

512MB | 26 min 6 s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/67C3759CB961D25/Anna_Nana_Nana_Anna_(2019,_dir._Mark_Rappaport).mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None


Barbara Kopple – Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

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This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk.




2.04GB | 1h 44min | 846×476 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D51553CFE7EBAA6/Harlan_County_U.S.A._(1976).mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/BD1C4896C3241A3/Harlan_County_U.S.A._(1976).part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/2171D2E41082DA2/Harlan_County_U.S.A._(1976).part3.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English

Byambasuren Davaa – Das Lied von den zwei Pferden AKA The Two Horses of Genghis Khan (2009)

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A promise, an old, destroyed horse head violin and a song believed lost lead the singer Urna back to Outer Mongolia. Her grandmother was forced to destroy her once loved violin in the tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The ancient song of the Mongols, “The Two Horses of Genghis Khan”, was engraved on the violin’s neck. Only the violin’s neck and head survived the cultural storm. Now it is time to fulfill the promise that Urna made to her grandmother. Arrived in Ulan Bator, Urna brings the still intact parts of the violin – head and neck – to Hicheengui, a renowned maker of horse head violins, who will build a new body for the old instrument in the coming weeks. Then, Urna leaves for the interior to look there for the song’s missing verses. But she will be disappointed. None of the people whom she meets on the way appears to still know the old melody of the Mongols. Written by silke

995MB | 1h 27min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/23846E943B6DEA6/Das_Lied_von_den_zwei_Pferden.mkv

Language:Mongolian
Subtitles:English and German muxed

Agnès Varda – Daguerréotypes [+Extras] (1976)

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Originally shot in the mid-’70s, Agnès Varda’s vérité documentary Daguerréotypes has aged splendidly, acquiring flavors that would’ve been inconceivable at the time it was made. Back then, Varda hauled her camera around her Paris neighborhood on the Rue Daguerre, intending to capture what went on in the little shops in what was at the time one of the city’s most bustling commercial districts. As Varda explains early on in her voiceover narration, she wasn’t looking for esoterica. She filmed butchers, bakers, tailors, grocers, hairstylists, driving-school instructors… people she saw every day. And her vignettes are short: just a transaction or two, cut together with interviews about the merchants’ pasts, and portrait-style shots of them puttering about their businesses. Sometimes Varda brings the camera in close and loose, approximating reality, and sometimes she stands back and takes in the tableau as though it were a piece of art, as in one shot of a salon where the customers and the poster-sized photos of well-coiffed models become fused into a single plane.

Those cinematic qualities of Daguerréotypes extend to the editing. Throughout the film, Varda shows a street magician at work, and intercuts his tricks with footage of her other subjects stocking shelves and baking bread and the like, implying that these common tasks are themselves a kind of magic. But Varda’s greatest feat of juxtaposition is accidental. Watching Daguerréotypes now is an exercise in time-travel, as what was framed as mundane-but-lovely in 1976 now seems downright exotic. It isn’t just the fashions that date this documentary, or the subjects’ shared experiences of the European turmoil of the mid-20th-century. It’s also their work itself, which is like a relic of some ancient civilization. The most haunting figures in Daguerréotypes are an old married couple who run a parfumerie and sundries shop. As the owner mixes scents by hand, his wife sighs and stares out the front window, looking tired and perhaps disengaged. They already seem to be on their way out, trailing what Varda so evocatively describes as “a scent of suspended inventory.”

Extras
Including two short films

L’opéra-mouffe AKA Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)
Le lion volatil AKA The Vanishing Lion (2003)

1.29GB | 1h 15min | 640×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2F1BA86D12F913E/Daguerréotypes.1976.DVDRip.AC3-KG.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/1BED6D5DD4B88C3/Extras.rar

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https://nitroflare.com/view/BDA42C2A4D9103B/Daguerreotypes_+_Extras.part2.rar

Language:French
Subtitles:English, German, Spanish, Portuguese

Alan Yentob – Arena: The Orson Welles Story (1982)

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Leni Riefenstahl – Der Sieg des Glaubens AKA Victory of the Faith (1933)

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Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith) is the first documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from Nazi officials that resented employing a woman — and a non-Party member too. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from August 30 to September 3 in 1933.

Like her Nazi documentaries of 1935, the short Tag der Freiheit (Day of Liberty) and the classic propaganda feature Triumph of the Will, Der Sieg des Glaubens has no voiceover commentary and few explanatory titles. The activities captured by Riefenstahl’s cameras include the welcoming of foreign diplomats and other politicians at the Nuremberg train station; Adolf Hitler’s arrival at the airport and his meeting with important party members; massive Nazi troop parades; and Hitler’s speech on the tenth anniversary of the National Socialist movement.

1.08GB | 1h 02min | 680×533 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F937C42983CEB03/Der.Sieg.des.Glaubens.AKA.Victory.of.the.Faith.1933.DVDRip.x264.mkv.mkv
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https://nitroflare.com/view/E93C858F34545D1/Der.Sieg.des.Glaubens.1933.DVDRip.x264.mkv.part2.rar

Language:German
Subtitles:English,Spanish

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