The film tells the story of young director Miramar. Just as the metaphor of the name suggests, he’s obsessed by the infinite sea (“mar”), mysterious and continuous as life itself. The explanation is due to the fact that the film’s plot develops in its maj
A reconstitution of the period between April of 1888 and January of 1889 in which the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) lived in the Italian city of Turin. That’s where he wrote some of his most known texts, like Ecce Homo, Twilight of
Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar are three friends who live in the suburbs. They decide to meet in a small apartment by the end of the week with the purpose of drinking, talking, having pleasure, and above all be together. That’s where they enter in a state of d
She has no one in the world. He’s willing to take care of her. It’s the beginning of a strange relationship. He buys a photographic camera. She will be his photographs only motif. He later discovers that the photos were nibbled by a mouse. He slowly disco
Santamaria and Urtiga are two bandits on the run. One is white, the other one is black. Santamaria is a mystic visionary, believing that a purifying angel is about to appear. His faithful friend Urtiga is a man of a simple mind. He’s a naive person and he
“Stroszek” was written in four days specifically for Berlin street singer Bruno S. and most of the lead roles are played by non-actors. It follows the story of a man for whom there is no place in society and who attempts to find freedom and fortune in America.
Shot in four days, this is the first Bressane’s film at Belair. “A Família do Barulho” is a soap opera about the adventures of a double-dealing from Rio de Janeiro implicated with a strange and confused middle class family.
“A poetic vision of Brazil’s proto-history, a patchwork of legends of ancient America… the cinema that interests me is the cinema of discovery, of retinal detachment. The key for the film it’s in the discovery of an America’s original heap of bones. I d
As a reporter from film clubs, Bressane interviews Radar, an editing technician of soap operas, in the Rio de Janeiro’s prostitution area. A parody on television reports and a reflection upon censorship,quoting Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope and Fernando Pes
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He’s considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all time
Autobiographical short film. It contains excerpts and commentary on several of Herzog’s films and notable footage of a conversation between him and his mentor Lotte Eisner. And discussion between Herzog and mountaineer Reinhold Messner in which a future film project in the Himalayas involving Klaus Kinski is discussed.
A film about the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, to the tomb of Saint Sergei in Zagorsk/Russia and other places around the world, but mainly a film (and music) about the deep spirituality, religious fervor and profound human suffering of pilgrims.
Once a Boxer Toyohara is working for a game parlor owner (Curtis) and gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn’t understand. Before long he’s caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the bos
Is the working class really dying? Is hard manual labor disappearing, or is it just becoming invisible?
Today’s manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is bett
In the Austrian elections of October 1999, Jorg Haider’s extreme right wing FPO party received more than a quarter of the vote and became the second largest party in the country. Four helmers, intrigued and alarmed, take their cameras to the streets, to t
A homage remake to F.W. Murnau’s silent classic “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens” (1922). This richly drawn version of the Dracula tale is one of Herzog’s most beautiful and haunting films.
“Our brain receives millions of signals. We select a small portion and call it ‘reality'”. Reality tunnels according to Master Bob from the Sub-Geniuz Zchool of Thought. Re-interpretations by Master Queiroz from Alfama School.
Unconventional portrait of an old man who declares himself the protector of race horses and fights against the fanatic trainers.