Sarah Maldoror – Aimé Césaire – un homme une terre (1976)
Quote:Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire. 714MB | 57m 14s | 720×540 | mkv...
View ArticleHeiny Srour – Saat el Fahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar AKA The Hour of...
In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, feminist guerrilla movement. Heiny Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot,...
View ArticleHartmut Bitomsky – Das Kino und der Tod aka Cinema and Death (1988)
Quote:“Das Kino und der Tod/Cinema and Death”(1988), is one of his ‘Cinema Anthology’ ,which was made by extraordinary Bitomsky’s voice and movement of his hands that turn over photos of murder in...
View ArticleBoris Lehman – Leçon de vie AKA Life Lesson (1995)
An essay film about the urge to find meaning and imaginative truths in life. 1.92GB | 1h 45m | 762×572 | mkv...
View ArticleMarie Nyreröd – Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern, Bergman och Fårö AKA...
All three documentaries is mainly shot in the home of Ingmar Bergman. This is the first time ever that a film maker has access to Ingmar Bergman in his home at the small island Fårö in the Baltic Sea....
View ArticleJoshua Waletzky – Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992)
Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin...
View ArticleAgnès Varda – Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse AKA The Gleaners and I (2000)
Quote:Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris. 1.96GB | 1h 22m | 768×576 | mkv...
View ArticleFlorence Jaugey – Cinema Alcázar (1998)
Quote:When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a...
View ArticleZeynep Dadak – Ah Gözel Istanbul AKA Invisible to the Eye (2020)
Quote:A cinematic travelogue in contemporary Istanbul, based on Eremya Komurciyan’s ‘History of Istanbul in the 17th Century.’ 3.48GB | 1h 25m | 1920×1036 | mkv...
View ArticleSam Soko – Softie (2020)
Political activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, which puts pressure on his young family and his convictions. 1.73GB | 1h 36m | 854×480 | mkv...
View ArticleGilles Delannoy & Isabelle Pierson & Michel Campioli – Carré blanc (1986)
Quote:so, what we have here is a bunch of journalists gathering up at night in some kind of secret meeting where they share their best stories, for the purpose of selling them to the first issue of a...
View ArticleMark Rappaport – The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (2020)
Autotranslated description:Joan Crawford’s close-up in HUMORESQUE. Michelangelo’s David and Boticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which...
View ArticleSergei M. Eisenstein, Naum Kleiman – Neizvestniy “Ivan Grozniy” AKA The...
Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Ivan Grozniy) is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia commissioned by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified himself with Ivan, to be...
View ArticleWarrington Hudlin – Black at Yale: A Film Diary (1974)
The film was directed by Hudlin while he was a Yale College senior, and focuses on the experiences of African-American students at Yale in the early 1970s. The influential documentary short follows...
View ArticleJoe Gibbons – Living in the World (1985)
An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime. Light Industry wrote:“Former MIT professor ‘robs bank,’ films...
View ArticleNaomi Kawase – Ni tsutsumarete AKA Embracing (1992)
In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth. 658MB | 40m 16s | 656×492 | mkv...
View ArticleJoe Gibbons – Confessions of a Sociopath (2002)
Confessions of a Sociopath is a 60-minute autobiographical film on digital video and Super 8 film, conceived as a real-life version of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. In this film, Joe Gibbons plays a...
View ArticleAhmed Lallem – Elles AKA The Women (1966)
This is another one from the Sarah Maldoror ouvre. She assisted director Lallem for this short documentary, and the two of them assistant-directed William Klein’s Festival Panafricain d’Alger (1970)....
View ArticleAleksandr Sokurov – Elegiya aka Elegy (1985)
Quote:The first “Elegy” by Alexander Sokurov appeared in 1984. The legendary fame of the great Russian singer Fiodor Shaliapin, the fame that was still alive in his homeland, resisted to the official...
View ArticleChris Marker – Casque Bleu AKA Blue Helmet (1995)
Quote:This is a 26 minute short film by Chris Marker, where he interviews and records the, “Lucid testimony of François Cremieux, blue helmet in 1994 in the pocket of Bilac,” in Bosnia-Herzogovina By...
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