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François Ribadeau & Bruno Monsaingeon – Glenn Gould: The Alchemist (1974)
A co-production between Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Idéale Audience International, and Stephen Wright, IMG Artists, directed by François-Louis Ribadeau Part one. The retreat. Partita no. 6 in E minor,...
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Claude Lanzmann – Le dernier des Injustes aka The last of the Unjust (2013)
Quote:1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto, the only “Elder of the Jews” not to have been killed during the...
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Ross McElwee – Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? (1980)
Quote:The “wise and flamboyant” Charleen Swansea, McElwee’s friend and former high school teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a born raconteur who can charm equally a classroom full of wary...
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Dominique Cabrera – Une poste à la Courneuve [+Extra] (1994)
The four thousand inhabitants of Courneuve go to the post office once in a while to collect their benefit or pay their bills. The young postal workers belong to the small group of people in the region...
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Dominique Cabrera & Edmée Doroszlai – Chronique d’une banlieue ordinaire...
At the end of the 80’s, four blocs of low cost housing in a Parisian suburb, Val-Fourre are being destroyed. Some people who lived here remember about their lives in these buildings. ExtraDominique...
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Mariano Llinás – Balnearios AKA Bathing Resorts (2002)
Quote:“Lifeguards, luxury hotels from early XXth Century, mermaids, sea animals and sand castles gather in this labyrinthine essay. A “documentary” about balnearios, Argentine bath resorts and the...
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Alice Diop – La permanence (2016)
SynopsisIn competition at the Cinéma du Réel Film Festival in Paris (March 2016) where it received the Institut français Louis Marcorelles Award, On Call is a film that makes a difference and is...
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Anthony Hall & Christopher Laird – And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (1992)
A fascinating documentary from Trinidad and Tobago about the domination of Caribbean television by programs from the North, primarily the US. This film ambitiously weaves together interviews,...
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William E. Jones – Finished (1997)
DESCRIPTIONFinished is a detective story and a love story, a film noir bathed in sunlight. It’s a film of contradictions: pornographic yet chaste, distanced yet mesmerizing, reticent yet moving. It...
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Leo Regan – 100 Per Cent White (2000)
Quote:A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three members of the gang to see what has happened to...
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Raoul Peck – Lumumba: La mort du prophète AKA Lumumba, Death of a Prophet (1990)
Lumumba: la mort du Prophete offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the life and legacy of one of the legendary figures of modern African history. Like Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba is remembered less...
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Gu Xue – The Choice (2019)
Quote:It’s a video of a Chinese family discussing and arguing about what to do with a relative with some kind of severe illness or injury who is in ICU but will soon either die or be in a vegetative...
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Michael Glawogger – Whores’ Glory (2011)
Quote:As a documentary filmmaker, Austrian director Michael Glawogger isn’t interested in advocacy or journalistic exposé, and while he allows some scenes to unfold before the camera, he isn’t of the...
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Xu Xin – Karamay (2010)
The film opens on the morning of December 8th 2007, in Karamay’s Xiaoxihu cemetery. Daybreak casts a cold grey light over faraway mountains and the Gobi sands. As the camera moves from grave to grave,...
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Hachimiya Ahamada – L’Ivresse d’une Oasis AKA Ashes of Dreams (2011)
On an island in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros archipelago, unoccupied houses await the arrival of their owners. These places without souls and half built abound across the landscape. The myth of...
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Carlos Velo – Torero (1956)
Quote:The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. 700MB | 1h 11mn |...
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Pere Portabella – Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una...
Shot in the months after the death of Franco, Informe general is a “documentary” shot with the techniques of a fiction film—exploring the limits of film representations. The speakers are concerned...
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Sharon Lockhart – Goshogaoka (1997)
arsenal-berlin.de wrote:Filmed in a middle school gymnasium in suburban Japan, GOSHOGAOKA takes as its ostensible subject the exercise routines and drills of a girls baskettball team. The film...
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Luc de Heusch – Gestes du repas (1958)
Luc De Heusch – Les gestes du repas (1958)1958. 35 mm., black and white, 23′. Les Gestes du repas (Mealtime Gestures),This ethnographic film shows us the image of man at his table. An acute view of...
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Walerian Borowczyk – Escargot de Vénus AKA Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
Borowczyk’s portrait of the painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis and her erotic fusions of men, women and molluscs. 663MB | 4mn 40s | 1800×1080 | mkv...
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