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Andrew Kotting – Gallivant (1997)
Quote:Gallivant is a fantastic British road movie and Andrew Kotting deserves to take his place with those two other great film iconoclasts and chroniclers of late twentieth century life in Britain:...
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Zhangke Jia – Hai shang chuan qi AKA I Wish I Knew (2010)
Quote:Like his last film, 2008’s 24 City, Jia Zhangke’s Un Certain Regard title I Wish I Knew is a documentary/fiction hybrid about modern-day China. Where 24 City took a personal focus on the...
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Michael Blackwood – Deconstructivist Architects (1990)
A documentary about the early beginning of the deconstructivist era of the architecture flourishing in the 80´ties.Interviews with Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Frank Gehry, Daniel...
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Marlo Poras – The Mosuo Sisters (2012)
Synopsis from Women Make Movies:A tale of two sisters living in the shadow of two Chinas, this documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marlo Poras (Mai’s America; Run Granny Run) follows Juma and...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – Der VW-Komplex aka The VW Complex (1990)
Quote:However a VW is put together, what comes out is always the Federal Republic of Germany. The VW factory is a museum of industrial technology, and at the same time it is its Utopia. The old...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – Die UFA (1992)
Quote:The latest film by Hartmut Bitomsky is, just like much of his early work, a original film essay about film and film history. Just as in earlier films, he makes inventive use of the potential...
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Richard Leacock & Mark Woodcock – Two American Audiences: La Chinoise – A...
Two American Audiences (Richard Leacock, Mark Woodcock, 1968, 40 min., 16mm): Announcing itself as “a typical Pennebaker production of a typical Godard visit,” JLG speaks with grad students and Serge...
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Paul Kenworthy & Ralph Wright – A True-Life Fantasy: Perri (1957)
Quote:Perri is a 1957 film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten’s 1938 Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel. It was the company’s fifth feature entry in their True-Life Adventures series, and...
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Joshua Oppenheimer & Anonymous & Christine Cynn – The Act of Killing [Dir....
Quote:In The Act Of Killing, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and executive produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, the filmmakers expose a corrupt regime that celebrates death squad leaders as...
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Libbie Dina Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki – People’s Park (2012)
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, People’s Park is a single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province....
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Ulrich Seidl – Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen AKA Loss Is to Be Expected (1992)
Quote:In a small Austrian village near the Czech border lives Sepp Paur, a widower. The food supply that his late wife stored in the freezer is running low. It is time for Sepp to look for another...
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Eric Baudelaire – Also Known As Jihadi (2017)
The path to radicalism of a young man from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh, is rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at...
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Robert J. Flaherty – Nanook of the North (1922)
Quote:Robert Flahertys’ Nanook of the North is considered one of the greatest films of all time for a number of reasons. First off, because it’s one of the greatest films of all time. Flaherty both...
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Bettina Blümner – Prinzessinnenbad AKA Pool of Princesses (2007)
PrinzessinnenbadDirector: Bettina Blümner Seit ihrer Kindheit kennen sich die nun 15-jährigen und lebenshungrigen Mädchen Klara, Mina und Tanutscha. Seit je gehen sie auf die gleichen Partys, stehen...
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Jean Rouch – Petit à petit AKA Little by Little (1970)
Jean Rouch’s Nigerien collaborators travel to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960’s Parisian life. 1.94GB | 1h 36mn | 640×480 | mkv...
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Jean Eustache – Numéro zéro (1971)
A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother. Quote:Almost the entire hour and three-quarters of Jean Eustache’s 1971 film “Numéro Zéro” is filled with the director’s interview of...
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Damien Manivel – Les enfants d’Isadora AKA Isadora’s Children (2019)
Making his return to the Locarno Film Festival following the 2014 Special Mention he received in the Filmmakers of the Present section for A Young Poet [+], Damien Manivel is treating the festival to...
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Fernando Birri – Tire dié AKA Throw Me a Dime (1958)
Fernando Birri’s Tire dié (Throw Me a Dime, 1958) begins with an aerial shot of the provincial city of Santa Fe, Argentina. The association of voice-of-God narration with perspective-of-God images...
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Jon Jost – Plain Talk & Common Sense (1987)
Plain Talk & Common Sense (uncommon senses) “is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for...
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Fronza Woods – Fannie’s Film (1981)
Quote:A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers’ exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings. A challenge to mainstream...
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