Pascal-Alex Vincent – Satoshi Kon, l’illusionniste AKA Satoshi Kon: The...
A subtle portrait of Japanese director Satoshi Kon by the specialist of Japanese cinema Pascal-Alex Vincent and a dive into a rich work. With interviews of the greatest Japanese, French and American...
View ArticleJohn Ford – Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976)
A documentary about Lt. Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller, USMC. Interviews, combat footage, parade at Virginia Military Institute. Made for TV, but never sold or released. 663MB | 47m 45s | 640×480 | avi...
View ArticleHito Steyerl – Factory of the Sun (2015)
In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015 German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Steyerl probes the pleasures and perils of image circulation in a moment defined by the unprecedented global...
View ArticleAndrea Sedlackova – Toyen: La baronne subversive du surréalisme AKA, Toyen:...
If Leonora Carrington was England’s “lost surrealist” the Czech title must surely go to Marie Cermínová, AKA Toyen or “the baroness” to her friends – a name that characterised her remote and somewhat...
View ArticleAlexe Poukine – Sans frapper AKA That Which Does Not Kill (2019)
Alexe Poukine tells the story of Ada, 19, brutally abused three times a few days apart by the same boy. 1.34GB | 1h 23m | 1280×720 | mkv...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Happy Birthday to John (1997)
On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, in New York. On the same day an...
View ArticleFumio Kamei – Ikiteite yokatta AKA It Is Good to Live (1956)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:This is one of the first documentary films about the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It coldly records the lingering effects of the bomb on the victims...
View ArticleSierra Pettengill – Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)
SynopsisWelcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation’s...
View ArticleSatoshi Uemine – Sizuka no Umi AKA Sea of Tranquility (2004)
The film was made by the Japanese visual artist Satoshi Uemine, and DVD released in 2005. This silent, personal movie bears and reflects the traces of the re-encounter between the director and his...
View ArticleMarcel Lozinski – Jak to sie robi AKA How It’s Done (2006)
Culture.pl wrote:Marcel Łoziński’s Jak to się robi / How It’s Done is a provocative vision of the Polish model of democracy as well as being an ironic and at the same time terrifying portrait of...
View ArticleAlbert Maysles & David Maysles – Meet Marlon Brando (1966)
One day in 1966, the Maysles brothers filmed Marlon Brando as he did what we would now call a junket, where the idea is to let scores of television reporters meet the star in order to sell his latest...
View ArticleCecil M. Hepworth – Baby’s Toilet (1905)
QuoteBaby’s Toilet is a 1905 British short film directed by Cecil Hepworth. The film features Hepworth’s baby daughter Elizabeth being bathed and dressed by her nurse, and was categorised by Hepworth...
View ArticleJoshua Bonnetta – An Dà Shealladh aka The Two Sights (2020)
Gathering sounds and images from the land and seascapes of the Outer Hebrides, Joshua Bonnetta’s lush, eerie film is a compendium of ghost stories, weird tales of premonition, and supernatural lore...
View ArticleSumiko Haneda – Hayachine no fu AKA Ode to Mt. Hayachine (1982)
Quote:Shot in the foothills of Iwate Prefecture’s mystical Mt. Hayachine, the film records a year in the life of the area’s villages and villagers as they prepare for kagura performances, a...
View ArticlePeter Mettler – Picture of Light (1994)
Quote:PICTURE OF LIGHT (1994) feature documentary, takes a film crew to the Sub Artic to capture the wonder of the Northern Lights. While combining glimpses of the characters who live in this remote...
View ArticleShinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Daisanji kyosei sokuryo soshi toso AKA Sanrizuka:...
After Summer, Ogawa Pro attempted a more epic scale with Winter in Sanrizuka. It was roundly criticised as a failure. In the wake of this criticism, the collective became increasingly militant. They...
View ArticleShinsuke Ogawa – Nippon Kaiho sensen: Sanrizuka AKA Winter in Sanrizuka (1970)
The second film in Ogawa Productions’ Narita/Sanrizuka series of documentaries about the resistance by farmers and activists to the construction of the Narita Airport. 2.44GB | 2h 23m | 718×480 | mkv...
View ArticleDaniel Raim – Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer...
TCM production exploring the invented, and inventive, techniques of early cinematographers, and their impact on filmmaking from the earliest films to those of present day. Quote:An Interview with...
View ArticleSylvère Lotringer – Violentes Femmes AKA Violent Femmes (1998)
When Catherine Robbe-Grillet—the legendary Parisian dominatrix, actress, and writer—was invited to visit Sylvère Lotringer’s loft on Front Street, she had no idea she’d be meeting Mlle. Victoire, her...
View ArticleWarwick Thornton – We Don’t Need a Map (2017)
VARIETY – Warwick Thornton’s eye-opening doc about the cultural roots of the Southern Cross constellation is quintessentially Australian At once benignly mischievous and profoundly serious, “We Don’t...
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