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Artour Aristakisian – Ladoni AKA Palms [+Extras] (1993)
Synopsis:“My little son, it’s me, your father…” The narrator tries to communicate with his unborn son and takes off on a journey were you see faces of apparitions of those outcasts, who find their...
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Valeria Sarmiento – La dueña de casa aka La femme au foyer (1975)
The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende’s military overthrow. 446MB | 25m 28s | 768×576 | mkv...
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Bregtje van der Haak – Lagos / Koolhaas (2002)
Rem Koolhaas – winner of architecture’s Nobel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize – is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. For the past four years Koolhaas and students from The...
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Petra Costa – Elena (2012)
Quote:Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military...
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Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Comment Ca Va? (1978)
A Jean-Luc Godard film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film. Quote:Comment ça va? is therefore less about “something” (whatever that may be)...
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Harun Farocki – Zum Vergleich AKA In Comparison (2009)
Quote:Bricks are manufacured in Africa, India and Europe and used to erect clinics, children’s homes, schools and residential buildings. Harun Farocki observed the different steps of the manufacturing...
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Jirí Menzel – Domy z panelu aka Prefabricated Houses (1959)
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolising the obsolete past, alternate with shots of...
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Ken Burns – Jazz (2001)
Quote: A worthy documentary on the first 60 years of jazz with an emphasis on Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and swing. Episodes 1. Gumbo – Beginnings to 1917 2. The Gift 1917-1924 3. Our Language...
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James Benning – L. Cohen (2018)
Quote:“Legendary avant-garde filmmaker and visual artist James Benning returns to the Festival with L. COHEN, one of the year’s most awe-inspiring and transcendent experiences. Benning has described...
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Manoel de Oliveira – Porto da Minha Infância AKA Porto of My Childhood (2001)
Quote:This Proustian documentary, made when Oliveira was 93 years old, explores the great Portuguese film-maker’s relationship with his home town, Oporto, the place which inspired his first film...
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Harun Farocki – Immersion: Serious Games 3 (2009)
For Immersion, Harun Farocki went to visit a research centre near Seattle specialized in the development of virtual realities and computer simulations. One of their projects consists in using virtual...
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Harun Farocki – Serious Games 4: A Sun with No Shadow (2010)
This chapter considers the fact that the pictures with which preparations were made for war are so very similar to the pictures with which war was evaluated afterward. But there is a difference: The...
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Harun Farocki – Serious Games 2: Three Dead (2010)
In this second of a four part series, media artist Harun Farocki explores the interplay between modern warfare and electronic media using computer simulation and documentary footage. Originally...
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Helena Lumbreras – Espana 68 (El hoy es malo pero el manana es mio) AKA Spain...
España 68 (El hoy es malo pero el mañana es mío) aka Spain 68A documentary about the 1968 student demonstrations and university occupations in Spain. Spagna ’68, entirely financed by Pier Paolo...
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Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra – Tempo di viaggio aka Voyage in Time aka...
Quote:Just like the Russian poet of the film 1983 ‘Nosthalgia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator, traveled through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer,...
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Guy Debord – La société du spectacle AKA Society of the Spectacle [English...
Guy Debord’s landmark cinematic analysis of consumer society is based on his influential sociological book “La société du spectacle” (1967). Debord was a leading member of the avant-garde art movement...
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Mark Soosaar – Kihnu naine AKA Women from Kihnu (1974)
Kihnu is one of Estonia’s islands, a small piece of land in the Gulf of Riga close to the town of Pärnu. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking...
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Athina Rachel Tsangari – After Before (2016)
After Before is a documentary made by filmmaker and Before Midnight coproducer and actor Athina Rachel Tsangari, from footage she captured on location in Greece during the film’s production,...
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Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel [Extra]...
This is the content of the second disc of Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel, in whichThomas Harlan revists his film and literary work.It is much more than an extra and more something like a second...
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Charlie Curran – See Know Evil (2018)
See Know Evil is the first documentary to describe the art and life of Davide Sorrenti, an icon of 90’s fashion, photography and youth culture. Born to the renowned Sorrenti family and diagnosed with...
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