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Christopher Petit – The Falconer (1998)
Fictional documentary goes on the trail of sixties cultural renegade Peter Whitehead, underground filmmaker, writer, occultist and sometime falconer. 697MB | 55mn 40s | 704×574 |...
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Werner Schroeter – Die Generalprobe AKA Dress Rehearsal (1980)
The first of Schroeter’s series of documentaries about theatrical performers, Dress Rehearsal began as a commission by German television for a short report on the 1980 edition of the World Theatre...
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Peter Whitehead – Wholly Communion (1965)
Whitehead’s breakthrough film, the documentation of the great Albert Hall Poetry Festival in ’65, which won him acclaim and awards. Shot handheld with only 45 minutes of stock (the finished film is 33...
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Edmee Wood – Jazz Calendar (1968)
Jazz Calendar (1968): a rarely screened documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, for which Jarman designed sets and costumes....
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Eugene Jarecki – The House I Live In (2012)
Aired on BBC4 January, 2013. Shortlisted for Best Documentary, 2013 Academy Awards; Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, 2012. Quote:As America remains embroiled in overseas conflict, a less...
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Jacques Tati & Sophie Tatischeff – Forza Bastia (2002)
Quote:“Forza Bastia” is a 26-minute film documenting a UEFA Cup match between PSV Eindhoven and French club SC Bastia at the Furiani Stadium in 1978. Jacques Tati directed the piece at the request of...
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Olafur Sveinsson – Hlemmur AKA Last Stop (2002)
Synopsis:Icelandic filmmaker Olafur Sveinsson takes on the challenge of documenting one of his native country’s social ills by focusing on the homeless people taking shelter in the capital city of...
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Michael Apted – The Up Series – 7 Plus Seven (1970)
The premise behind the Up series is deceptively simple: take a cross-section of children at age 7, ask them about their hopes for the future, and then return every seven years to mark their progress....
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Ulrike Ottinger – Taiga (1992)
a review from the New York Times by Stephen Holden:Quote:In the opening moments of “Taiga,” a mesmerizing eight-hour journey into the nomadic tribal culture of northern Mongolia, the camera makes a...
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Werner Kissling – Eriskay, a poem of remote lives (1935)
Made in 1934 by an amateur ethnographer and aristocratic German diplomat who had abandoned his country to live in Scotland, this is one of the earliest film portraits of the tiny island Eriskay,...
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Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut – Noticias AKA News [+ Extras] (2009)
Noticias is an observational film that using the fragmented format of a newscast program proposes a cinematic glance to the same reality depicted daily by the media. By means of a radical approach to...
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Chris Marker – Dimanche à Pekin AKA Sunday in Peking [ENGLISH] (1956)
Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking – a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as...
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Elif Savas – Coup – A Documentary History Of The Turkish Military...
Fredken, IMDB wrote:Quote:This video is excellent, if not only for the fact that documenting anything that has happened in Turkey is a giant step. The Turkish state has been notorious (as in most...
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Virpi Suutari – Hilton! (2013)
Quote:The roughly beautiful Hilton! gives the viewer a glimpse of life in a modern society, a life that young persons lead. Janne, Toni, Mira, Pete and Make live in a tenement owned by a youth...
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Peter Watkins – The Media Project (1991)
About:THE MEDIA PROJECT is an exposé on media coverage of the first Gulf War, directed by Peter Watkins. The film raises debate on the global media coverage of the Gulf War by taking examples from the...
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Mark Rappaport – Sergei / Sir Gay (2016)
Quote:Sergei Eisenstein, one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, was also a brilliant plastic artist. His thousands and thousands of drawings are superb–as are the hundreds of...
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Mehrdad Oskouei – Az pase borghe AKA The Other Side of the Burka (2004)
Set in a tight-knit, extremely conservative island community off the Southern coast of Iran where all women wear burkas, this film begins as an investigation into the suicide of a woman named Samireh....
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Sydney Pollack – Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005)
Quote:Oscar winning director Sydney Pollack takes a sharp sideways turn with SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY, a documentary about the noted architect. Usually known for making grandiose productions such as...
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José Luis Torres Leiva – El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa AKA The Winds Know...
Quote:Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old...
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Wojciech Has & Stanislaw Rózewicz – Ulica Brzozowa AKA Brzozowa Street (1947)
Quote:The film shows the revival of Warsaw after the war. The city slowly rises from the fall, mainly thanks to the people who work hard to rebuild their capital. The documentary, despite its obvious...
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