Elisabeth Quin – Jean-Luc Godard – Interview avril 2019 (2019)
Director Jean-Luc Godard died on Tuesday September 13 at the age of 91. In April 2019, Elisabeth Quin traveled to Switzerland to speak with the filmmaker on the occasion of the release of his film “Le...
View ArticlePayal Kapadia – A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021)
Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in...
View ArticlePatrick Montgomery – The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures’ content, and...
View ArticleCristina Perincioli – Für Frauen. 1. Kapitel AKA For Women Chapter 1 (1972)
Quote:Equal pay for equal work! Four female employees at a West Berlin supermarket, who feel heavy pressure both at work and at home, go on strike to demand the same salary that their male colleague...
View ArticleZelimir Zilnik – Cosmo Girls (2000)
This is a series of portraits of women from different fields of work who find new occupations and ways to support their families in the transitional period. The following women give us their views of...
View ArticleDaniel Eisenberg – The Unstable Object (2011)
Daniel Eisenberg’s THE UNSTABLE OBJECT juxtaposes the production of luxury automobiles in Dresden, clocks in Chicago and cymbals in a town outside of Istanbul. These detailed observations of modern...
View ArticleDavid Alvarado & Jason Sussberg – We Are As Gods (2021)
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” Stewart Brand wrote in ’68. The pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism now urges people to use our god-like powers to...
View ArticleMasato Hara – MI TA RI! (2002)
Quote:Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by. The time between the two will soon...
View ArticleMischa Hedinger – African Mirror (2019)
Comprised entirely of archive material, drawing on a rich seam of documents to reveal how Swiss filmmaker and travel writer René Gardi left his mark on how a whole generation viewed Africa from the...
View ArticleMani Benchelah & Patrick Tombola – Frontline: Ukraine: Life Under Russia’s...
A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv. FRONTLINE follows displaced families trying to survive underground, civilians caught in the war and first responders risking their...
View ArticleAlessandro Gagliardo & Enrico Ghezzi – Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità AKA The...
Quote:The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a...
View ArticleJean-Thomas Ceccaldi – Instantané d’histoire: Monsieur X, un Normand dans les...
SynopsisIn the aftermath of the First World War, a 20-year-old Frenchman discovers the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, guided by a young Russian emigrant whom he met in the trenches of Verdun. Camera...
View ArticleAnand Patwardhan – Ram Ke Naam AKA In The Name of God (1992)
Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India’s population, the greatest danger to the nation’s extremely strained social...
View ArticleWerner Herzog – The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Quote:Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world’s volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual...
View ArticlePimpaka Towira – The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong (2007)
The Truth Be Told is an epic-scale documentary that follows three and half years in the life of Supinya, a media activist who was sued by the Shin Corporation for stating that the company had...
View ArticleEduardo Coutinho – Moscou (2009)
Plot: In Moscou, Eduardo Coutinho accompanies Grupo Galpão, directed by Enrique Diaz, in the rehearsals of the play “The Three Sisters”, from Chekhov. The film consists in fragments of workshops,...
View ArticleWilhelm Roth – Die Erben von Papas Kino aka The Heirs of Daddy’s Cinema (1968)
Documentary which take as subject the Oberhausen Group and New German Cinema, and some of those who followed in their footsteps.It contains a glimpse of a very young Werner Herzog, here predicting the...
View ArticleJohn Ford – In memoriam Manuel Quezon (1944)
Quote: This is a creative documentary of the funeral of Manuel Quezón, president of the Philippines. Whether directed by Ford or wholly the work of his Field Photo Unit, I don’t know. 244MB | 17m 33s...
View ArticleJulia St. Vincent – Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story [+Extras] (1981)
A documentary about John C. Holmes, who was the biggest star in the adult film industry in more ways than one. +Julia St. Vincent, Bob Chinn, & Gloria Leonard Commentary+Paul Thomas Anderson...
View Article? – Women in Defense (1941)
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America’s preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities....
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