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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the region of Shaanbei, within the Yellow River loop, are built the Yaodong. Formerly troglodyte settlements these vault houses are now built against the mountain. Yaodong are built without architect’s plan, following a knowledge handed down orally. The film shows us the highly accurate work of master stonemasons, as well as master carpenters, master of Fengshui and workers, all of them living in Yaodong with their families. As the filmmaker takes us to meet these people, their rituals and their history, a snapshot of today’s “Yaodong culture” emerges gradually.

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Poster for My Paradise Is Darker Than Your Hell

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Theatre director Jan Kačena poisoned himself in 2019 by inhaling fumes and suffered irreversible brain damage. While his partner makes a film as a declaration of love, he lies unconscious. In the film, the director follows moments in the everyday lives of three people close to him: Czech rapper Tyler Durden, painter Tadeáš Pochman and film director Helena Papírníková. In a naturalistic way, it captures drug addiction, self-destructive tendencies and family problems, which are the subject of intimate, often uncomfortable conversations. The result is a diary-style probe into the fate of the artistic bohemia of late capitalism.

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Poster for Arena 196 - Zwischen Wende, Wahl und Wirklichkeit

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about Germany's parliamentary election in the year 2021, focusing on a single district.

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Poster for De alto calibre

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for O ovo

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Lygia Pape created O ovo in 1967 and showed it in the group exhibition Apocalipopótese, held at Aterro de Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro in 1969. The work consisted of three cubes made of wooden boards, with each side covered with a layer of blue, red, or white plastic film. The participant would enter the structure through the open bottom side of the cube and push the film/skin in order to simulate the act of being born. Before showing the work, the artist herself entered one of the cubes. She described her experience: "You are trapped inside, covered by a sort of membrane; when you push on it with your hand, the membrane starts to give and suddenly tears, and so you are born: you stick your head out of the hole and roll on out." After the military coup d'état in Brazil in 1964, Pape devoted most of her practice to film and continued to make experimental films into the 1970s.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two cops hit their biggest obstacle yet: what to do with the last donut

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pigments are scattered across the asphalt in Manhattan, a thread is tied by poet Cecilia Vicuña between the present and the past.

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1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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Poster for When Women Are Crazy

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rosemary House's first film, shot in her backyard, addresses "sex, death and crazy women" in 11 minutes.

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2023 · ★ 2.0 (1)

When Thora wakes up one day and is suddenly invisible, feelings of helplessness and desperation come thick and fast. But invisibility is also a superpower and in a flamboyant mask, Thora manages to seize her freedom. From an intimate distance, the camera is the only one that sees and makes visible both the lonely and liberating feeling of being air.

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1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Out in Silence" is one of a few films dealing with the HIV and Aids epidemic in the early 90's among the Asian American community. Filmed in New York, Guam and Hawaii, portrait of two people and how they are dealing with issues of homophobia the lack of support from the communities and family.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two twenty-something strangers accidentally encounter one another in a park and forge an unexpected connection. Following which a spontaneous but yet short lived romance develops between the two.

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Poster for As Long As We Love Her

1957 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aconcagua (Andes Mountains) in 1954. Both suffered severe frostbite to their fingers and toes, and three years later, they set out to climb the Aiguille du Géant, a legendary route in the Mont Blanc massif. The camera closely follows the efforts of the roped party, an example of strength and self-sacrifice, until their victorious arrival at the summit.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In order to impress Leah, the cute Jewish girl from New York who is helping out in her Uncle's bookstore in Dublin, Finbar decides to convert to Judaism to win her hand. The working class Irishman discovers there is more to Judaism than a prayer shawl and gefilte fish.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

To promote the start of season five, Špela Čadež summarises the first four seasons of the legendary US comedy drama show for Netflix. From the streaming provider’s logo to the canteen food through to vomit – Čadež “unravels” her condensed version of the stories from the women’s prison in soft and scratchy wool, yellow as urine and red as blood.

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Poster for The Desert Rocker

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries . A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms , one musical performance at a time.

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Poster for Nourishment of the oblivion

2022 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Andrea and the simbionte travel to Toledo; when they arrive, they find a lonely bus station, which slowly turns off the lights for them. In the silence that surrounds them, Andrea watches the moment pass and with it her certainty about her future dream with the simbionte, feeling that everything she experiences is actually a memory.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The video hovers tentatively between therapy, documentary, poetics and mystic traipsery and ends, like all good things, in surrender to song. There is a challenge presented (the challenge to engage earnestly with the piece as it requests) to fall into the breathing and pacing presented, and the challenge to view the video as a discrete piece of art at the same time. The piece relies heavily on the text, the disembodied Virgil through which the words become musical, instructive and (due to the absence of image) visual.

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Poster for Suvel

1968 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The octet Laine and some gymnasts are on an outing to summery nature

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A fifteen minute black-and-white film.

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