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Poster for Secondhand Daylight

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Carol Morley's 16mm documentary short is set in a fast food restaurant where a selection of twenty-somethings talk about their troubles. One of two shorts Morley directed as her graduation films from Central St. Martin's School of Art (the other being Girl).

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Poster for Valemon

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

About miracles, true love and a happy rescue.

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1969 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training contracts of 18 students. While Director Heinz Rathsack dictates to his secretary Helene Schwarz the letter lifting the ban from the premises against 18 students, the students plan a general assembly inside the dffb despite the ban.

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Poster for Britt-Marie Was Here

2019 · ★ 5.2 (59)

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football team.

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Poster for By Halves

2012 · ★ 4.0 (1)

By Halves uses appropriated footage from rejected 35mm prints that were cut in half and readjusted to be used as spacers for 16mm to sync sound tracks on film, and not meant to be projected.

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Poster for Performance Wencke Mühleisen

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rituals of performance, symbolic showdowns and murders of father figures, slaughterhouse parties, examinations of prejudice, gender and sexuality.

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Poster for Happy Hour

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

City life is repetitious and all about work. It always comes with night life and a lot of drinking after work, because people always try to escape from the stress at work, or even from family and relationships. What we call "happy hour" here is the hours we have fun after work - night life. Therefore, if "HAPPY hour" is our night life, then what are those "UNHAPPY hours"?

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2008 · ★ 2.0 (1)

A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

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Poster for A Part Of Me

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

What happens if a beloved person disappears, leaving you no choice other than radicalism or the blind faith in a stranger.

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Poster for On ne badine pas avec Rosette

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Egg

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A portrait of two people thrown together by circumstance and a bit of larceny. Chiao-Dahn might be a low-level gang member, but he's also a first-class goofball-more likely to break out dancing than to break the law. Ordered to kidnap and bring the beautiful but slightly spoiled Yumi to San Francisco, the seemingly hapless Chiao-Dahn soon finds himself at LAX, with no idea how to get to S.F. and saddled with a kidnapping victim who would rather go shopping than cooperate.

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Poster for Die Frau des Reporters

1986 · ★ 5.0 (1)

In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.

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Poster for Dehors

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Landscapes. A utilitarian nature. Contemporary. Cruel images. Changing. Seasons. The watch could be eternal. Each image transparent and non-avenue. Only the sound volumes will unfold an obscure duration.

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Poster for Coup de Grâce

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as there is so much to do, but he finally concedes. The next day his daughter calls on him, a visit he no longer counted on. They spend the day with one another. The longer they are together, and the later the night gets, the more absurd the situations and moments they experience become.

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Poster for Shakespeare: The Legacy

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film explores the era, life and work of William Shakespeare, including his famous lost years and the ways in which his legacy endures today.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Only separated heart grows big without knowing it. Eventually self swelled something almost swallowed himself to disappear. Chaff failed to make a good rice crop.

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Poster for Le Voyage de Maryam

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Up To and Including Her Limits extends the principles of Jackson Pollock's action painting. Schneemann is suspended from a rope harness, naked and drawing; her moving body becomes a measure of concentration, the sustained and variable movements of her extended drawing hand creates a dense web of strokes and marking. This video captures the concentration and raw intensity of Schneemann's presence and use of her own body. The piece was edited by Schneemann in 1984 from video footage of six performances: the Berkeley Museum, 1974; London Filmmaker's Cooperative, 1974; Artists Space, NY, 1974; Anthology Film Archives, NY, 1974; The Kitchen, NY, 1976; and the Studio Galerie, Berlin, 1976.

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Poster for Aus lauter Liebe zu Dir

2002 · ★ 5.2 (2)

Against her will, the professionally successful style consultant Juliane falls in love with the carpenter Johannes and realizes that her relationship with her friend and business partner René is a dead end. But that's just the start of the problems, because the eccentric carpenter is quite headstrong and, with his work clothes, doesn't fit in at all with the so-called high society that Juliane frequents. What's more, she loses a lot of customers after her separation from René.

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Poster for Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film guides the viewer through the process of making contact with a figure who exists only in his own photographs—70’s gay sex icon Peter Berlin. The film is structured in three parts, which were made chronologically. In the first part, the filmmaker appropriates Peter Berlin’s outfits and poses, playfully attempting to embody Peter Berlin’s artistic persona. Each frame of the original 16mm film was then hand-painted to distort the image, producing an animated effect that prevents the viewer from seeing the full performing body. In the second part, a voice over relates a story riddled with anxiety about a potential meeting with Peter Berlin that is paired with images of mansions and window displays. The third and final section is an interview with Peter Berlin in his apartment, describing a moment of exchange that crosses lines of gender and generation, a moment where the identities of two filmmakers briefly coalesce.

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