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Ho Tzu Nyen – Utama – Every Name in History is I (2003)
Utama – Every Name In History Is I is a film about the founding of Singapore. In the indigenous Malay tongue, ‘Singa’ means lion, while ‘pore’ is derived from the word ‘pura’, or city. In official...
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Gerald Fox – This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis...
This video presents a portrait of fiction writer Bret Easton Ellis, who was catapulted to notoriety with the publication of American Psycho. Ellis, who was born in 1964 in New York, rose to fame and...
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Leo Hurwitz & Charles Pratt – Here at the Water’s Edge (1961)
A magnificent city symphony, regarding the activity in and around New York City’s waterfront. This copy comes from the website of the George Eastman House and has a watermark. They describe it thusly:...
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Nicholas Kaufmann & Wilhelm Prager – Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit – Ein Film...
Synopsis: What is the perfect body – and how do you get it? People were already grappling with these questions 100 years ago. Wilhelm Prager’s and Nicholas Kaufmann’s documentary “Wege zu Kraft und...
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Dylan Bank & Daniel DiMauro & Morgan Pehme – Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
A documentary exploring the life and career of notorious Republican dirty trickster and longtime Trump advisor, Roger Stone, who helped create the real-estate mogul’s political career....
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Carol Salter – Almost Heaven (2017)
Ying Ling delicately washes the face of the motionless body. Using a damp cloth, she carefully cleans the hands, feet and finally the torso. The 17-year-old girl is far from home, preparing for her...
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James Hughes & Lynn Riggs – A Day in Santa Fe (1931)
Quote:“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle...
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Pierre-André Boutang – L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze AKA Gilles Deleuze from...
The eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, filmed by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989. The individual episodes are “A comme Animal,” “B comme Boisson,” “C comme...
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Adam Curtis – Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
At the start of the 1990s the Soviet Union – one the largest empires in the world – imploded. It was not a slow collapse like the British Empire, but one that collapsed suddenly – in just a few...
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William Fairman & Max Gogarty – Chemsex (2015)
imdb wrote: In hidden basements, bedrooms and bars across London, “Chemsex” is a documentary that exposes frankly and intimately a dark side to modern gay life. Traversing an underworld of intravenous...
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Peter Flynn – Film is Dead — Long Live Film (2024)
Film collectors rescue and preserve obscure and forgotten photochemical films from basement vault, releasing and restoring titles before analog film disappear, blurring lines between piracy and...
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Christopher Bird & Kevin Brownlow – Garbo (2005)
Quote: An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies’ most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the...
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Charles Eames & Ray Eames – Powers of Ten (1977)
Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a...
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Robert Kramer – Starting Place/Point de départ (1994)
Synopsis:In Starting Place, Robert Kramer revisits Hanoi, two decades after the end of the war and his making of People’s war. He succeeds in creating an impressionistic portrait of a country dealing...
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Katja Gauriloff – Säilöttyjä Unelmia AKA Canned Dreams (2012)
A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients. A dream-like...
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Lewis Jacobs – Tree Trunk to Head (1938)
Quote:“The personality of the sculptor Chaim Gross, his mannerisms, his characteristic method of work, his tendencies are all intimately disclosed in minute details, as though unobserved—a sort of...
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James Algar – Jungle Cat (1959)
This final True-Life Adventure would also appear to be one of the best, as we go into the South American jungle to observe the jaguar. Jungle Cat is more intimate than its kin, allowing individual...
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Catarina Vasconcelos – Metáfora ou a Tristeza Virada do Avesso AKA Metaphor...
Quote:A correspondence between a brother and sister in the midst of the anniversary of their mother’s death, causes them to go in a journey to the past to understand the time where their mother lived...
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Matt Finlin – The Movie Man (2024)
Amid a global pandemic, an entrepreneur looks back on his life’s work owning and operating an idiosyncratic cinema in the forest of northern Ontario. The Movie Man (2024).mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Patricia Franquesa – Diari de la meva sextorsió AKA My Sextortion Diary (2024)
Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival. My Sextortion...
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