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Katherine Gilday – The Famine Within (1990)

Quote: Katherine Gilday’s impressive documentary debut The Famine Within focuses on the debilitating and unattainable ideal of a woman, and its devastating effects on the health and morale of women,...

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Zeynep Kececiler – Uzak Renk Ahenk AKA Harmony of Color in Far (2004) (DVD)

Programme which aims to inform people on Kars and Ardahan region that has always played a role as a bridge in history between Anatolia and Caucasia, is composed of two serials each of them last 28...

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Piotr Stasik – 21 x Nowy Jork AKA 21 x New York (2016)

SYNOPSIS 21 X NEW YORK is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, passions,...

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Jon Nguyen & Rick Barnes & Olivia Neergaard-Holm – David Lynch: The Art Life...

David Lynch takes us on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces...

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Raoul Peck – I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of...

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Kevin Burke – 24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters (2016)

Quote: A documentary exploring the birth, death, and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster....

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Harun Farocki – Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges AKA Images of the...

Quote: The vanishing point of is the conceptual image of the ‘blind spot’ of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944. Commentaries and notes...

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Detlef Siebert – The Man Who Discovered Capitalism (2016)

The Film has three narratives: the story of Schumpeter’s life, the development of his ideas, and how the digital revolution illustrates these ideas. Stylized drama sequences, in combination with...

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Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

Quote: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. The one thing...

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Sara Fishko – The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2016)

About the Jazz Loft Project In January 1955 W. Eugene Smith, a celebrated photographer at Life magazine whose quarrels with his editors were legendary, quit his longtime well-paying job at the...

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Darezhan Omirbayev – Darezhan Omirbayev: Educational Films (2015)

Educational film by Darezhan Omirbayev for film schools students. AUTOGRAPHS A series of educational films, “Autographs” is a textbook for students of cinema department, which is dedicated to the...

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Raymond Depardon & Claudine Nougaret – Au bonheur des maths (2011)

` Quote: This film is based on the simplest staging principle: 9 high-level mathematicians have each less than 4 minutes to tell, in front of the camera, what fascinates or moves them, brings them...

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Mauro Herce – Dead Slow Ahead (2015)

Quote: For over two months, Mauro Herce and his crew travelled aboard the freighter My Fair Lady, shooting 14-16 hours a day as it made it laborious journey from Ukraine to New Orleans. Blurring the...

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Raymond Depardon – Chasseurs et chamans (2003)

Quote: During his stay in the Yanomami village of Watoriki with the anthropologist Bruce Albert, the French documentary filmmaker and photographer Raymond Depardon filmed in parallel a group of...

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Raymond Depardon – 8e étage (2014)

Quote: On the eighth floor, Raymond Depardon filmed a minute of silence with eight personalities who worked for the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William...

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Tomas Alfredson – Torsk på tallin – A small movie about loneliness (1999)

Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called “highly-experienced driver”. http://nitroflare.com/view/4C29BF2499F77A2/torsk.pa.tallin.widd.avi...

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Barbara Sternberg – Transitions (1982)

“Transitions” is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between – between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there,...

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Barbara Sternberg – Like a Dream That Vanishes (1999)

“Like a Dream That Vanishes” continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal nature of film, as the stuff of life echoed on the...

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Maureen Blackwood – Perfect Image? (1989)

Quote: Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women’s own ideas of self worth. Using two actresses who...

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012)

Synopsis: The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they...

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