A portrait of António Campos, an extraordinary cineaste that was called an amateur, one of the most unique Portuguese directors due to the way he filmed the country on the 1960 and 1970’s. Considered as a director out of the mainstream, a loner, instinctive, Campos stands for the passion of filming.
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Father and son share a common space. On one side there’s dexterity, experience and knowledge, on the other boredom and passivity. Controlling very well the natural surroundings and with a fair use of time, Hannon presents a moment of ambivalence of feelings between what stays and what is about to disappear. (Miguel Valverde)
This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira (Guimarães), the land he adopted as his own. Did Raul Brandão resist to the Portuguese non-inscription way? Has he left any trace in the general psychic and historic blank built by the Portuguese people, in which usually nothing leaves any trace?
Tedium breeds its own reverie. Here becomes like there becomes like could be anywhere. This forms a coincidence with the generic: Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less
substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift. Pathetic and momentarily cathartic.
Alex’s move abroad forces his parents, who know nothing about computers, to suddenly dive into the mysterious world of the Internet.
A musical landscape film about a street corner in Rio using photographs among others by Bressane’s parents (taken between 1909 and 1955) and Bressane’s own films (shot between 1957 and 2005), bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century Aperana means wrong road. A fiction about a fiction.
The camera shows us the gestures, movements, rythms, repetitions, transforming the space filmed into a theatre. The film tells us the story of a neighbourhood in Recife, Brazil, where the absurd and the comic are a part of everyday life. (Miguel Cabral)
Using images “from the first four and a half decades of cinematography,” taken from 11 archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical “film drama in five acts. (…) Film is: a girl and a gun. (Isabella Reicher)
The title character Fitzcarraldo (Kinski) is an obsessed opera lover and an indomitable spirit who wants to build an opera in the Amazonian jungle. To accomplish this he has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory that will bring him a fortune. The story was inspired by the real life Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald.
Three chords, three countries, one revolution… Punk in Africa is the story of the multi-racial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, where the punk subculture represented a genuinely radical political impulse.
He began uploading Moore’s videos to Youtube in 2006. He later edits original videoclips out of Moore’s old home-video archive, found footage from the internet, plus new footage filmed by R. Stevie. The YouTube channel grows. In 2009, he begins to build a documentary assembled from his vast archive of R. Stevie Moore DVDs and CDs.
Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to make his way up the many flights of stairs to reach the summit.
It’s hard to believe that “False Aging” clocks in at under 15 minutes, given how powerfully it evokes passing decades punctuated by muffled eruptions of longing and regret. Klahr’s collaged reveries cast deeper shadows and offer little magical protection from death and disappointment.(Kristin M. Jones)
Radiotehnika is a film about the last units in a radio factory in Riga. It is also a film about a woman engineer who was working there years ago. She tells about that time, the Soviet Time and its social organisation with the factory. I was intrigued by her career and how, as a woman, she chose to study engineering.” (Eleonore de Montesquiou)
Organopolis takes a humorous look at the physical and emotional journey affecting young pupil’s everyday life through the reactions of their body organs.
Divided in three chapters: Creation, Paradise and The Golden Age. Narrated by three different German narrators: Film historian Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg. The term which has become this film’s title, Fata Morgana, refers to mirages, and is an apt title for this work shot in the deserts of North Africa. It is a rhythmic, musical succession of images and short scenes.
“Oblivion” takes us to the forgotten city of Lima, to a forgotten people, the Peruvians and – like most countries in Latin America – the forgotten land of Peru.
My research started from a circumstance or curiosity. A process or a study to find the intangibility of an object that is always in motion, that never stops, in no life, at no time. We cannot talk about it, only about what it does. About its effects (…). (Leonor Noivo)