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Anne Charlotte Robertson – Five Year Diary [Incomplete] (1982)
Includes reels : 01, 02, 03, 09, 22, 23, 26, 31, 40, 47, 80, 81, 83 Anne Charlotte Robertson, born in 1949, was a Massachusetts-based filmmaker who used her Super-8 camera and acute self-awareness to...
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Claude Lanzmann – Tsahal (1994)
new york times review (january 1995) Quote: If “Tsahal,” opening today at the Walter Reade Theater, initially seems to admire that toughness unquestioningly, it eventually grows into a thoughtful...
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Chad Freidrichs – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The...
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Alexander Kluge, Basil Gelpke – Mensch 2.0 (2011)
Quote: Another mammoth-project with the “chronologist of our time” Alexander Kluge. With 12 hours film, Gelpke and Kluge try to get a better understanding of the new human, which arouse from the...
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Gianfranco Angelucci & Liliane Betti – E il Casanova di Fellini? aka And...
Quote: …the “crypto-documentary” by Gianfranco Angelucci amd Liliana Betti E il Casanova di Fellini? (And Fellini’s Casanova?) made for the RAI, in which Federico submits some friends to a screen test...
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Maria Helene Bertino & Dario Castelli & Alessandro Gagliardo – Un mito...
An Anthropological Television Myth is an excuse to introduce television anthropology into the culture debate, reading the history of a country and its people through the archives of hundreds of...
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James Benning – Measuring Change (2016)
Synopsis Measuring Change consists of two shots, which run for about 30 minutes each. The camera is completely still and its placement seems to be exactly the same for both. The film revisits Robert...
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Ferdinand Khittl – Das magische Band AKA The Magic Tape (1959)
Das magische Band – West Germany 1959, 21 min. Directed by: Ferdinand Khittl Written by: Bodo Blüthner, Ferdinand Khittl, Ernst von Khuon Cinematography by: Ronald Martini Music by: Oskar Sala Edited...
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Barbara Hammer – Maya Deren’s Sink (2011)
This evocative tribute to the mother of American avantgarde film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Friends and contemporaries float through her...
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Stephen Segaller – Jung on film (1957)
Here a short description: This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, about...
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Sandra Prechtel – Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter (2013)
Synopsis: The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international...
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Frederick Wiseman – Basic Training (1971)
Quote: BASIC TRAINING follows a company of draftees and enlisted men through the nine weeks of the basic training cycle. The varieties of training techniques used by the army in converting civilians...
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Christophe Farnarier – El somni AKA A dream (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Man has shepherded his flock since the beginning of time, so long in fact that the nomadic shepherd has become part of our collective consciousness. Joan Pipa is the last in the line of a...
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Andrei Ujica – The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu AKA Autobiografia lui...
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. It is an historical tableau that in its scope resembles American...
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel – Somniloquies (2017)
Synopsis In their new film somniloquies, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel overcome the boundaries between inner dreamscapes and human bodies. At the start, flowing forms can be seen and a...
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Frédérique Devaux & Michel Amarger – Cinexperimentaux #9: Stephen Dwoskin...
Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where he settled and participated in the founding of the...
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Franco Piavoli – Il Pianeta Azzurro AKA The Blue Planet [+Extras] (1982)
Synopsis The film follows the cycle of the seasons upon a rural landscape, from the reawakening of life following the Winter thaw to the blossoming of Spring, the heat of Summer working in the fields...
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Larry Gottheim – Horizons (1973)
One of the greatest if all-too-often overlooked landscape films in American cinema, Larry Gottheim’s HORIZONS displays a sensitivity to the seasons that seems more in keeping with Henry David...
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Alex Gibney – The Human Behavior Experiments (2006)
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they’re capable of anything,” says John Huston’s character, Noah Cross, in the movie Chinatown — dialogue that seems...
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Ahmed El Maanouni – Trances (1981)
Quote: It was in 1981 while I was editing a film, The King of Comedy. We worked at night so no one would call us on the telephone and I would have television on, and one channel in New York at the...
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