Jean-Gabriel Périot (“A German Youth”) directs a performative experience between a rock duo and a dancer.)
Archives: Filmes
“Kurz davor ist es passiert” redefines the process of documentary filmmaking. By making a film about human trafficking, Anja Salomonowitz tells the story of its victims not by filming them, but by making other people (apparently with no relation to their stories) tell them through their bodies and daily lives.)
In Paris, a young woman who has just broken up with her boyfriend wonders about the nature love. As she drifts through various places, real and fictive memories of her past loves intertwine.
Guerín travels to the Irish town of Innisfree, where his beloved John Ford shot The Quiet Man, to explore the still echoing changes since Ford’s visit years before. Revisiting the past using re-enactments with an imagined Maureen O’Hara, Innisfree explores the difference between then and now in order to chart the interstices between memory and history, between imagination, fantasy and reality, and between classical narrative cinema and contemporary, observational documentary.
A couple (filmmaker Vincent Dieutre and Simon Versnel) tries to find itself between their lives and their memories of “Journey to Italy” (1954) in a transformed Italian landscape.)
Ursula Meier builds a portrait of her young actor “Kacey Mottet Klein” through his work in her films.)
Angie may not have much formal education, but she’s got energy, wit and ambition, and she’s in her prime. She’s been messed about in the past and she’s fed up. She has a point to prove. This is her moment. Angie sets up a recruitment agency with her flat-mate Rose, working in a twilight zone between gangmasters, employment agencies and the migrant workers they place. This is a tale set against the reality of the Anglo Saxon miracle of flexible labour, globalisation, double shifts and lots of happy, happy, happy consumers: Us.
The adventures of Poppy. Is she perhaps a little crazy and irresponsible? Or is she in fact deeply sane and sensible? Either way, everybody falls in love with her, for better or for worse‚Ķ Mike Leigh’s new film revolves around Poppy, a teacher from north London whose life, at first glance, seems to be full of complications.
“Late August, Early September” by Olivier Assayas was Mia Hansen-Løve’s gateway to cinema and her first role as an actress. )
“Law and ORDER” shows the process and rules of sadomasochistic pleasure between two bodies.)
The film features some owls which happen to land at the Arctic and start a new life there. Their main attribute is their stupidity combined with with the lack of long-term memory. They never learn from their failures, and start to do and discover things as it would be the first time.
In the single-channel video Hybred, artist Christine Kirouac translates a conversation with her mother into an exploration of the stereotypes and subjectivities surrounding her Métis identity (Cree/Irish).
“Law of Gravity” seems to follow Beckett’s steps in the absurd tale of two friends waiting for their film to happen.)
“Map Museum” builds an architectural puzzle out of Centro Cultural de Belém exhibition spaces. )
I. Rossellini in collaboration with J. Shapiro, R. Gilbert, and A. Byers sound out the creative possibilities in the area between film and art. With the use of a magnifying glass, insect terrariums visitors can find out everything about the sexual lives of flies, worms, and lightning bugs on small monitors: I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and ‘scandalous’ ways that insects copulate, says Rossellini.
Based on a book composed of some letters from the prison by Rosa Luxemburg, written between July 1919 and October 1918. And the inherent refrains: birds singing, vegetables, passages of colors and sounds. This regarding the inner events. As for the exterior ones: the October Revolution, the First World War, Chaplin, Klee. The histories present, and their blends. Destinies.
“Me and My Moulton” is the latest work from Oscar winner Torril Kove.)
“Logistics” tells a story of separation between a group of friends — those who leave and those who decide to stay in their country.)