Steven Cantor – What Remains (2005)
At home at her Virginia farm, photographer Sally Mann reflects on the controversy surrounding her earlier collections while forging ahead with new work in this intimate portrait of an artist. Also...
View ArticleQiu Jiongjiong – Gu Nainai AKA Madame (2010)
SynopsisThe Chinese documentary movement continues to evolve, reaching new levels of awareness of issues complicating its mission to objectively capture the reality of its society. Among these issues...
View ArticleJamie Johnson – The One Percent (2006)
Quote:In this hard-hitting but humorous documentary, director Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage...
View ArticleChris Smith – American Movie (1999)
Quote:On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it’s making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from...
View ArticleFranz-Josef Spieker – Süden im Schatten aka South in the Shade (1962)
Part of DVD release Die “Oberhausener” – Provokation der Wirklichkeit (Provoking Reality)Edition Filmmuseum 69 Oberhausen Manifesto 1962:28.2.1962 The collapse of conventional German film has finally...
View ArticleBenoît Bourreau – Aware, Anywhere (2018)
30 years after his debut, Olivier Assayas is back in New York to present his latest feature film shot in Paris, London, Prague and Oman – This portrait of the filmmaker is part of the collection...
View ArticleWerner Fritsch – Das sind die Gewitter in der Natur AKA These are the...
QuoteDas sind die Gewitter in der Natur is a fragment of a long gone time. A time that should not be forgotten. Following Wenzel Heindl, a former farmhand who was 80 years old at the time of the...
View ArticleKen Burns – The Civil War (1990)
This highly acclaimed mini series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of...
View ArticleCameron Jamie – Kranky Klaus (2003)
Quote:Recording of the annual Christmas folklore street ritual Krampus in Austria, in which people dressed up as hairy monsters scare the wits out of the population. The accompanying metal soundtrack...
View ArticleThunska Pansittivorakul & Harit Srikhao – Homogeneous, Empty Time (2017)
Quote:This documentary film explores the spread of nationalism according to the concept of “Homogeneous, Empty Time” by Walter Benjamin, a German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic. The theory as...
View ArticleStephen Ives – Ken Burns – The West (1996)
Since its premiere on PBS in September 1996, The West has rightfully assumed its place as a milestone event in television history, and remains the single most ambitious and authoritative audio-visual...
View ArticleTze Woon Chan – Blue Island (2022)
Exploring the state of depression among the current citizens on Hong Kong as China consolidates its power over the metropolis. 2.48GB | 1h 37m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticlePeter Cohen – Undergångens arkitektur AKA The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Synopsis from IMDb: An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered...
View ArticleJean Painlevé – Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé (2009) (DVD)
The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) must be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French...
View ArticleÉric Duvivier – Autoportrait d’un Schizophrène AKA Self portrait of a...
(auto-translated: ) An attempt to present, played by an actor, the mental universe of a schizophrenic, i.e. a patient whose inner life is supposed to be unable to distinguish between the dream world...
View ArticleMarcus Robinson – An Engineer Imagines (2019)
A cinematic homage to Peter Rice, one of the most distinguished engineers of the late 20th century. Tracing Rice’s extraordinary life and career, from his Dundalk childhood to his work on the Sydney...
View ArticleLaura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Following the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic’s unfathomable death toll. 6.67GB | 2h...
View ArticleCorinna Belz – Peter Handke: Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte…...
This documentary explores the life and work of the Austrian novelist, playwright and political activist, Peter Handke. The director managed to meet and stay with Handke in his house in the country...
View ArticlePhilippe Béziat – Indes galantes AKA Gallant Indies (2020)
On the stage of Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes, offering a dynamic take on the...
View ArticleLi Ma – Inmates AKA Qiu (2017)
Quote:In a confined section of a psychiatric ward in Northeast China, patients of schizophrenia, mania, depression, compulsive sexual behaviour and alcohol addition receive the mandatory treatment. As...
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