Exprmntl was the legendary film festival dedicated to experimental cinema. Taking place between Christmas and New Year over seven editions from 1949-1974, it was a stellar gathering of filmmakers working in avant-garde film.
Secção: Director's Cut
Opera-loving Brian Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) lives in a small Peruvian city. He is obsessed with building an opera house in his town. In order to achieve his goal he has to bring a massive boat over a mountain.
Lang’s Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) gets appropriated by Dietmar Brehm’s hypnotic cinema.
During Fitzcarraldo’s (1982) shooting, an Amazonian leader offered Werner Herzog to assassinate Kinski.
A socialite is shocked when Jean, says he wants to end their relationship. Soon she begins plotting her revenge. She meets Agnes, an ex-prostitute, and arranges her marriage with Jean.
This meditative film is a tribute to the astonishing work of naturalist and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith, accompanied by a new Tindersticks’ score.
Through encounters with collaborators and friends, the analysis of excerpts from his films and the voice of Raoul Ruiz, this documentary reveals the bases of his work as an artist: childhood, poetry and science dictate the rules.
Special A/Effects conjures cinema’s own fiction and artifice: an analysis of the past, present and future of the medium.
Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.
Set in a Portuguese village, where everyone is very religious, the film tells the story of Joana. She is badly regarded by other women and it doesn’t take long until everyone claims she was possessed by the devil.
A audiovisual essay that edits Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) as if it was an Eisenstein film.
Manuel Guimarães is one of the most important Portuguese directors (the only one who dealt with neorealism) and yet his work is rarely seen and discussed. Leonor Areal celebrates the man and the troubled artist.
In this film we observe Paul Vecchiali’s mechanics with neither comment nor interview, a film raising the essential issue of the role of the filmmaker.
In 1976, Zulawski embarked on the largest-scale film production in Polish history, a grandiloquent sci-fi epic. The Polish government deemed the film subversive and shut the production down. This is its first digital restoration.
In the 1970s, the Munich Group set about revolutionizing German film with low budgets and an excess of creativity. Their star, Iris Berben, takes us on a journey back through time: full of film clips and interviews.
1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin dwells into the recent work of Guy Maddin. In his bizarre interactive project Seances restless spirits of lost films are summoned in several séances starring some major international actors.
O cinema que vê is an essay about cinema as an extension of the eye.
A meeting between two friends: the cinematographer Caroline Champetier shoots a documentary about cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, making a film about his gesture and the relation between film art and craftwork.