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Evans Chan – Sorceress of the New Piano – The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan...
Strumming the strings of a grand piano like a harp and performing Beethoven on toy piano are among the surprising scenes in Evans Chan’s documentary, Sorceress of the New Piano (2004). The film...
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Pietro Marcello – Bella e perduta AKA Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Quote:The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo...
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Raoul Ruiz – Cofralandes, tercera parte: Museos y clubes en la región...
Quote:For more than twenty years the films of Ruiz have led us into the fields of uninhibited delirium, free associations, and intricate games of collage. Ruiz, paying no heed to conventions, leads...
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Stephen Dwoskin – Pain Is… (1997)
txt from Strictly Film School(…)“In Pain Is…, Dwoskin’s thoughtful rumination on the nature of pain, this intersection occurs in the conceptual mechanism of pain itself, in the way it surfaces...
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Raoul Ruiz – Cofralandes, segunda parte: Rostros y rincones (2002)
This is the second in a series of seven projected video essays that Ruiz was commissioned to make in 2002-2003 for use among Chilean community organizations and broadcast on public television....
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Raoul Ruiz – Cofralandes, cuarta parte: Evocaciones y valses (2002)
This is the fourth in a series of seven projected video essays (four of which were completed) that Ruiz was commissioned to make in 2002-2003 for use among Chilean community organizations and...
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Pedro González-Rubio – Inori (2012)
A dying town in the lush, water-fed mountains of Japan’s southeastern Nara Prefecture inspires Mexican multihyphenate Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio to ruminate on natural wonders and the melancholy...
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Jurriën Rood & Leo de Boer – De Weg naar Bresson aka The Road to Bresson (1984)
SYNOPSISThe film style of Robert Bresson is the subject of this documentary tribute to the French director and screenwriter, and to his minimalist auteur films about sensitive individuals (or even...
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Antoine d’Agata – Aka Ana (2008)
Renowned French photographer and Nan Goldin disciple Antoine D’Agata offers this visual essay of Tokyo prostitution circuits that isn’t for the easily offended. By exploring the prostitutes’ filthy...
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Elvis Lu – The Shepherds (2018)
Despite harsh condemnation and denunciation from society, a heterosexual female pastor founded Taiwan’s first LGBT-affirming church in May 1996. For LGBT Christians, who had been rejected by the...
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Santiago Álvarez – La guerra necesaria AKA The Necessary War (1980)
Alvarez’ longest documentary examination of the Cuban Revolution, this contains exceptional interviews with Fidel, Raúl, Almeida, Vilma, Haydee, Celia and Faustino Perez, among other key players in...
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Raoul Ruiz – La présence réelle AKA The Real Presence (1984)
From Jordi Torrent’s program notes for “Raúl Ruiz: works for and about French TV,” at Exit Art (Nov 1987): LA PRESENCE REELLE works through four axes of plot which are intercut throughout the film:1....
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Jonas Mekas – Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
Quote:Memories, they say my images are my memories. No no no! These are not memories: this is all real what you see – every image, every detail, everything is real, everything is real and it’s not a...
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Kazuhiro Soda – Mental aka Seishin (2008)
People with various mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, panic disorder, and personality disorder visit Chorale Okayama to see Dr. Masatomo Yamamoto. They are...
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Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen – Amy! (1979)
AMY! is neither a drama not a portrait in the conventional sense, but an assembly of sounds and images which evoke the subject through historic documents and relics, re-enactments and metaphors. The...
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Virgilio Tosi – The Origins of Scientific Cinematography (1990)
Quote:THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY is a documentary film series directed by Virgilio Tosi. The films complement Tosi’s book Cinema Before Cinema, using archive film and original equipment...
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Ebbo Demant – Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Andrej Tarkowskijs Exil...
Description:Documentary on the final years in the life of director Andrej Tarkovsky, who died in 1986, including his exile in Western Europe. The film shows the degree to which the themes of his...
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Måns Månsson & Hongqi Li – Stranded in Canton (2014)
Congolese democracy entrepreneur Lebrun takes us on a tangled, tender and cruel adventure to finalise a Chinese T-shirt deal which is turning sour. Between documentary and fiction, this tragicomedy...
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Jenö Farkas – Wonderful Copenhagen (1984)
Like a bulletin board that has all kinds of notices next to each other, Jenoe Farkas’ documentary on the various inhabitants of Copenhagen, filmed over a several-year period, has all sorts of people...
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Boris Lehman – Histoire de mes cheveux AKA Story of My Hair (2011)
Quote:Artists and filmmakers can be unusual people. Of those unusual people, Boris Lehman is very unusual indeed. He has unusual obsessions, for instance with his hair, and he also makes very...
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