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Poster for Enigmatic Whisper

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Shot in 16mm inside the studio of artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) in Roxbury, Connecticut, the film draws a filmic portrait of one of the protagonists of twentieth-century art: through images of tools and work materials, still conserved as Calder left them, as well as the natural external context. (Rosa Barba)

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Poster for From the Archives of Modern Art

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this work of documentary fiction, an archivist attempts to put together the "lost years" of Eleanor Antinova, the once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema. Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls "the slippery nature of the self".

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1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One after the other... Me and my friend bought all cheep barbies we could afford at Woolworth, lined them up at home and had immense fun making them fall down...

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Poster for The Sermons of Sister Jane: Believing the Unbelievable

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Sister Jane Kelly discovers sexual molestation and thievery, she carries her battle all the way to Rome creating a scandal; this leads her to debunk church teachings on birth control, homosexuality, married priests and virgin birth and become a champion for the poor. Her courage, wit and humanity shine throughout the film.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Senior sergeant of fire department # 42 Vladimir Kolokoltsev risks his life every day to save people from the fire, despite the disapproval of his family.

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2004 · ★ 6.0 (2)

A young woman's life can be really difficult when her love is the head of the drug trade. So is Silvana.

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Poster for A Film for Log Hill Dogs

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An elegant depiction of landscape and domestic space. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

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Poster for A Balada de João e Sofia

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Singing Sheikh

1991 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Sheikh Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa, born 1918, is famous throughout the Arab world for his folk songs indicting the ruling classes. Considered the voice of the oppressed, he is banned from state television and radio, and has been imprisoned numerous times, including in 1974 for the occasion of President Nixon’s visit. With scenes of Egyptian street life set to his often caustic musical criticisms of his native Egypt’s upper classes, the Sheikh’s message is that “If a beautiful thing is suppressed today, it will rise tomorrow.”

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman's worst nightmare is her reflection.

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Poster for A City of Heroes

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Moser River is a small Canadian community two hours from Halifax on Nova Scotia's eastern shore, where residents have been plagued by vandalism and other forms of intimidation for over two generations. In the absence of adequate policing, acts of violence have escalated to the point where some residents have taken the law into their own hands. This increase in lawlessness resulted in the murder of Donald Findlay in the Halifax County Correctional Centre 90 minutes into serving a 14-day weekend sentence for dangerous driving.

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Poster for Danceplay

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Traditional moral values and contemporary animation styles in a story about the adventures of the musician Tot. Set to ethnic music, the film is a contemporary “ballet” of animation based on a play by Rainis.

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Poster for Out of the Mouth of Babes

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This video proposes an ironic metaphor to grasp the follies of U.S. government action and inaction in Central America. The process of learning U.S. policy is similar to the process of a young child acquiring the principles of language. These dual senses of literacy operate on several levels, situating a child’s consciousness within the contradictions of history comments on the illusory innocence of childhood, and the unexamined, but real, guilt of the U.S. government, its supporters and clients.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Video projection that refers to the various ways in which language operates and its learning as a discipline, in order to achieve a functional and docile individual. Working on it a visuality that puts in scene diverse social subjects, a nudist dancer, a deaf mute, popular Latin American uprisings, the testimony of the mother of a drug addict and the practice of obstetric ultrasounds. The visuality worked on in this piece is insistently intervened by voices that mortify the subject on stage, giving reading to corresponding texts a free version of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, based on a fragment of the work Kaspar by Peter Handke.

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Poster for She

2013 · ★ 6.5 (4)

A young Tajik girl, Maija (Nilufar Faizieva), flies to Russia following her fiancé, Khamid(Makhsum Abdullaev), where he works as a guest worker and lives in the slums with other workers like him. He promises to marry her, but eventually leaves her with barely known people and returns back toTajikistan for a marriage arranged by his parents.

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Poster for Yaõkwá: Image and Memory

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, for fifteen years, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the masters of ceremony pull, for seven months, a myriad of songs, in order to maintain the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual world. In this film, another fifteen years later, the Enawenê Nawê rediscover these images and, with them, deceased relatives, customs that have fallen into disuse and precious ritual songs.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Flu$h

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Roxy, a queer, high femme punk, is caught multi-tasking between a hot date and a hilarious group domination session with a cadre of her fabulous friends. When Roxy allows her date to get in on the action, things go awry, and Roxy must scramble to make sure she and her friends come out on “top.”

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Poster for K (Les Luttes Amazigh)

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

K is a chronicle and an experimental biography. Each part of K is centered around a particular problem: childhood, demonstrations in Kabylia, women… At the breaking up of a family (K Il est une fois…) echo the scattered pieces of a Kabylia torn by struggle and demonstrations (K Les Luttes Amazigh), especially in the region of Tizi Ouzou, our family home. Amazigh means Free Man in our language, which is more relevant than ever in this short film.

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