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Lance Bauscher – Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)

Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magickian. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope. Whatever the label and rank, Robert Anton Wilson is...

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Jocelyne Saab – War Children AKA Les Enfants de la Guerre (1976)

A few days after the Karantina massacre, in a predominantly Muslim slum in Beirut, Jocelyne Saab meets the surviving children, who are marked by the horrific visions of the combat they witnessed....

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Pedro Chaskel & Luis Alberto Sanz – No es hora de llorar AKA It Is Not The...

Through the testimony of the victims of the Brazilian dictatorship, and the re-creation of the practices to which they were subjected, the torture suffered by the Brazilian political detainees in...

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Marie Losier – Cassandro, the Exotico! (2018)

ACID Cannes 2018—After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from...

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Jean Rouch – Moi, un noir AKA I, a Negro (1958)

A group of young Nigerians leave the savannah to work in the Ivory Coast. They end up in Treichville, a poor quarter of Abidjan, lost and rootless in modern civilisation. The hero, who narrates his...

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Les Blank – Burden of Dreams (1982)

Quote:A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog’s epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven...

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Eugenio Polgovsky – Tropico de cancer AKA Tropic of Cancer (2004)

At the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, various families survive by hunting animals which they sell on the freeway. 893MB | 52 min 46 s | 987×576 | mkv...

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Corneliu Porumboiu – Fotbal Infinit AKA Infinite Football (2018)

Quote:They talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurentiu Ginghina, it’s not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to...

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Nicolas Humbert – Wild Plants (2016)

SynopsisPeople’s associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants....

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Sofia Bohdanowicz – Maison du bonheur (2017) (HD)

SynopsisThe day-to-day life of a Parisian astrologer, who has been residing in the same Montmartre apartment for over 50 years. 6.22GB | 1 h 2 min | 1920×1080 | mkv...

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Paul Thomas Anderson – Junun AKA Junjun (2015)

Musician Jonny Greenwood travels to Rajasthan, where he performs with a multitude of Indian musicians. 2.18GB | 53 min 57 s | 1280×720 | mkv...

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Chantal Akerman – Hôtel Monterey (1972)

Quote:New York City’s Monterey is a residence hotel; the residents we see are older, most live alone. The camera, usually stationery, begins with a look into the lobby. The film ends with a panorama...

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Ulrike Koch – Die Salzmänner von Tibet aka The Saltmen of Tibet (1997)

For this Swiss-German documentary, filmmaker/Sinologist Ulrike Koch sneaked cameras into Tibet in order to film four men and 160 yak in a 2,000-year-old ritual — the annual spring pilgrimage to gather...

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Maciej J. Drygas – Uslyszcie moj krzyk AKA Hear my cry (1991)

Hear My Cry“ depicts the startling story of Ryszard Siwiec, a man who, on a Polish national holiday in September 1968, immolated himself in front of thousands of people in a stadium in Warsaw. He...

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Nathaniel Dorsky – Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview (2000)

Nathaniel Dorsky’s films are precise articulations of cinematic qualities: the surprise of an edit, the composition of framing, and the flash of the image. Dubbed the “filmmaker’s filmmaker”, Dorsky’s...

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James Benning – Los (2001)

Quote:I began El Valley Centro in November of 1998; I was driving through the Great Central Valley looking for places to film. I wasn’t going to start shooting for at least six months; I wanted to...

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Kevin Brownlow – Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)

Feature-length documentary on Lon Chaney, featuring new interviews (notably with Chaney biographer Michael F. Blake), unseen footage of Chaney, and excerpts from old interviews with Chaney...

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Steve Binder – The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

Filmed just eight months after The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, THE T.A.M.I. SHOW introduced rock ‘n’ soul youth culture to America in the first concert movie of the rock era. One of the...

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Massimo Iannetta & Nina Toussaint – La décomposition de l’âme AKA Zersetzung...

Quote: There are always people who say: you can’t change people by force. Them, they say: it’s not so clear, we know our business and have a lot of time. The former central preventive prison for...

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Liliane de Kermadec – He Film (2011)

PlotThe Chinese government provides the villages in the mountains of Sichuan (China) with films. The main character of this film is a projectionist who, 37 years ago, used to carry his old projector...

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