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Daniel Eisenberg – Persistence (1997)

The third of Daniel Eisenberg’s thematically connected film essays about postwar Europe, PERSISTENCE, an award-winning feature-length experimental documentary in gorgeous color, once again explores...

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Cristina Alvarez Lopez and Adrian Martin – Phantasmagoria of the Interior (2015)

PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE INTERIOR is an audiovisual essay devoted to Walerian Borowczyk’s film THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE. Utilising the materials of the complete, restored version...

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John Dower – My Scientology Movie (2015)

Louis documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous church of scientology. 3.05GB | 1h 39min | 1280×714 | mkv...

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Marina Zenovich – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

IMDB:Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski’s sudden flight from the United States. 1.61GB | 1:39:28 | 608×348 | avi...

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Peter Watkins – Resan AKA The Journey (1987)

A global peace film produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico, Japan, Scotland,...

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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Sex-Business – Made in Pasing (1969)

Quote:The topic of the film is Alois Brummer, a likeable and inoffensive man from Lower Bavaria, a sex film producer. A man, small and round in stature, unusually active, with a nose for the market,...

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Luis Ospina – Todo comenzó por el fin AKA It All Started at the End (2015)

It All Started At the End is the self-portrait of the “Grupo de Cali”, also known as “Caliwood”, a group of cinephiles, who in the midst of the wild partying and historical chaos of the 70s and 80s,...

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Mikhail Romm & Marlen Khutsiev & Elem Klimov – I vsyo-taki ya veryu… (1974)

Quote:Born in 1901, Mikhail Romm took part in the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II. His landmark films Nine Days of One Year (1961) and Ordinary Fascism (1965) embodied the...

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Unknown – Aseveljeyden sankarit aka Brotherhood of Arms (1943)

German-Finnish coproduction documentary which has not been published before 1999. Film is an accurate description of the Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers from 1941 to 1943. Recruited in spring 1941,...

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Charlotte Zwerin – Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu (1994)

Documentary about Toru Takemitsu, composer of the extraordinary scores for such films as Kwaidan, Woman In the Dunes, Ran, and many others. Illustrated with scenes from these films and others, and...

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Marcel Hanoun – Un film (autoportrait) (1985)

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of...

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Johan van der Keuken – De Meester en de Reus aka the master and the giant (1980)

Between documentary and fiction, The master and the giant approaches the topic of the rivalry in the creation: a first God created the world, a second God destroyed it to build one new, better. Myth...

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Nick Bougas – The Goddess Bunny (1998)

Quote:This rare 90 minute documentary examines Hollywood underground phenomenon, THE GODDESS BUNNY, a horribly misshapen, polio stricken performing transvestite. The film follows Bunny and her bizarre...

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Larry Wessel – Iconoclast (2010)

Quote:Boyd Rice may well be the only person alive who’s been on a first name basis with both Charlie Manson and Marilyn Manson. His career has spanned more than three decades, during which time he has...

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Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Soft and Hard (1986)

Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader wrote:Soft and Hard (A Soft Conversation Between Two Friends on a Hard Subject)Soft and Hard, a highly intimate 48-minute video made by Godard and Anne-Marie...

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Enrique Colina – Estética AKA Aesthetics (1984)

Aesthetics provides a humorous glimpse into Cubans’ sense of style. Enrique Colina reveals the desire for expressing individuality through diverse conceptions of beauty in everyday life whether in the...

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – El arte del tabaco AKA The Art of Cigars (1974)

This early work of master filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea, captures the beauty of making cigars. Images of hands selecting tobacco leaves and rolling cigars are interspersed with graphic designs from...

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Ai Weiwei – Lao ma ti hua AKA Disturbing the Peace (2009)

Ai Weiwei studio production “LAO MA TI HUA” is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren’s trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with “inciting subversion of state power”. Chengdu...

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Enrique Colina – El rey de la selva AKA King of the Jungle (1990)

Made as Cuba was entering the economic crisis of the early 90s, King of the Jungle demonstrates Colina’s talent at capturing the sentiments of a particular moment. We observe life along Havana’s Prado...

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Santiago Álvarez – El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá… morirá… AKA The Tiger...

Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez’s hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet...

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