Sagar Mitchell & James Kenyon – Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell &...
ELECTRIC EDWARDIANS: THE FILMS OF MITCHELL & KENYON Probably the most exciting film discovery of recent times, the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon were commissioned by travelling...
View ArticleGlauber Rocha & Affonso Beatto – 1968 (1968)
Unfinished documentary about the “March of the 100,000”, driven by the student movement against brazilian dictatorship in 1968. Glauber directed with “Antonio das Mortes'” cinematographer, Affonso...
View ArticleRenzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – La lotta dell’uomo per la sua...
For three years Rossellini and his son worked on a twelve-part series for Italian television about man’s search for food and the subsequent development of civilization. sense of cinema wrote:In 1963...
View ArticleStavros Psyllakis – Mikres istories Roma AKA Short Gypsy Stories (2014)
Athanasia, Theodoros, George and Chrysoula live and move around Zefyri, Menidi and the wider region. They no longer live in chattels and camps, but in a modern urban environment, each according to...
View ArticleAffonso Uchoa – Sete anos em Maio AKA Seven Years in May (2019)
Following the internationally acclaimed film ARÁBIA, Brazilian filmmaker A onso Uchôa presents his new take on social injustice. In the darkness of the night and lit only by a bonfire, a young man...
View ArticleTadeusz Makarczynski – Suita warszawska AKA Warsaw Suite (1946)
Quote:A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw spring. The film has no commentary, only...
View ArticleManfred Kirchheimer – Dream of a City (2018)
Quote:Between 1958 and 1960 Walter Hess and Manny Kirchheimer shot black and white 16mm film from Wall Street to midtown New York to the Delaware River. They documented the activities at a huge...
View ArticleAleksandr Sokurov – Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life (1996)
Quote:Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in...
View ArticleSteven Bognar & Julia Reichert – American Factory (2019)
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way...
View ArticlePaul Hegeman – That Pärt Feeling – the Universe of Arvo Pärt (2019)
The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is. 5.41GB | 1h 18m | 1920×1040 | mkv...
View ArticleWalter Fasano – Pino (2021)
Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the...
View ArticleOlivier Derousseau – Northern Range (2020)
It’s firstly the portrait of an area, France’s north coast between Dunkirk and Calais, where Olivier Derousseau lives and works: ransacked landscapes, port installations, plumes of smoke from the...
View ArticleKazuo Hara – Minamata Mandala (2020)
“Minamata disease” is a neurological disease caused by methylmercury poisoning named for its identification in Kumamoto Prefecture, where industrial wastewater from a Chisso Corporation chemical plant...
View ArticleTadeusz Makarczynski – Do redakcji nadszedl list AKA A Letter at the...
Quote:The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish...
View ArticleUri Rosenberg – Librarians (2019)
Librarians documents communities and librarians struggling to preserve books and the culture of reading in the digital age. Will they succeed? How do libraries function these days ad are they able to...
View ArticleGabriel Tejedor – Mayskaya Street (2017)
Kanopy wrote:Winter 2015, Belarus. The presidential election is brewing. The omnipotent Lukashenko is running for a 5th. mandate at the head of this martyred country: devastated by World War II and...
View ArticleSacha Guitry & Frederic Rossif – Ceux de chez nous (1952)
“I dreamed of a new encyclopedia … “. Sacha Guitry attended, “according to his tastes” the greatest personalities of his time. He filmed “in their attitudes the most familiar, whenever that was...
View ArticlePare Lorentz – The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Synopsis:Filmmaker/critic Pare Lorentz was the creative force behind the landmark documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains. The project was underwritten by the United States Resettlement...
View ArticleAndrea Luka Zimmerman & Adrian Jackson – Here for Life (2019)
In Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson’s freewheeling kaleidoscopic film Here for Life, place is again of paramount importance. We’re in Hackney in rapidly gentrifying east London, full of...
View ArticleAyreen Anastas – Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005) (DVD)
“Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini’s trip to Palestine in his film, Seeking Locations in Palestine for The Gospel According to Matthew (1963). It adapts his script into a route...
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