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Poster for Do Right and Fear No One

1975 · ★ 5.0 (2)

A portrait of a woman’s life between 1915 and 1975. In Jutta Brückner’s documentary, her mother looks back at the 60 years of her life, talking about her father’s early accidental death, the constraints faced by a lower middle-class family of five, her training as a seamstress, marriage to a bookkeeper committed to social democratic ideals, the privations of war, and not least of all, her later realisation that fear may have caused her to miss opportunities … An ingenious collage of picture and sound accompanies the mother’s narrative, a tapestry of proverbs, pop songs, marching music, and the noise of war. Hundreds of photographs – most selected from August Sander’s (1876–1964) project “People of the 20th Century”, alongside newer photos by Abisag Tüllmann, among others – lend the individual vita of the director’s mother a kind of ontological validity. Images of labourers and office workers, excursions and marches, imbue what we hear with references that transcend the personal.

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Poster for Louis XIV, roi des arts

2015 · ★ 9.0 (1)

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Here the Seats Are Vacant

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film tells the story of an actress from 1960s and 1970s who was banned from acting after the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

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Poster for The Frustrating Fours and the Fascinating Fives

1953 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A study of the behavior of four and five year old children at home and at nursery school. At four the vacillation between infantile helplessness and vigorous self-assertion is seen, and at five the development of independence and the beginning of cooperation. Parents observe that, unpredictable as their behavior may be, it's fun to help in the development of the fours and the fives.

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Poster for Sherlock Holmes Against Conan Doyle

2018 · ★ 7.4 (7)

130 years after he was created, Sherlock Holmes is a literary character who exceeded his author's expectations and is known throughout the world. Find out the true story behind the author, Conan Doyle, and his struggle to come to terms with the phenomenon that is Sherlock Holmes.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Secrets of Mexuality

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A dense and highly detailed film exploring sexuality in the specific realms of Mexican wrestling and kitsch paintings through rapid-fire transformations. Much of the film is hand scratched frame by frame, hand painted (over collage animation). This film was made as a commission by the Mexican Composer Felipe Waller and screened live in Europe and Mexico with live accompaniment by the Dutch group 'Martin Altena Ensemble'.

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Poster for Radiances I

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Video Painting Series

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Poster for Selling Stupid

2017 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Two women working for an advertising firm have to come up with a campaign for a new video game.

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Poster for Obscuro Barroco

2018 · ★ 6.5 (11)

A stream of consciousness from Brazil’s underground flows straight into the heart of the city’s street carnival. In between the masks and the make-up, the young, naked and new bodies and a spectacular firework display, people come into view who have undergone a transformation that makes it difficult to clearly ascribe them to any gender.

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Poster for In Its Form Asleep

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Antoinette Zwirchmayr's serenely composed images create a calm, surrealistic atmosphere of transformation. As if time were suspended, her still lives linger with lucid clarity in a state between dream and consciousness. A male body, seen through the filmmaker's lens, reveals abstract, sculpted forms reminiscent of classical statues. Breathing softly, the dreamer is alive. The quail eggs resting atop his upper legs conjure up thoughts of birth and rebirth (through sleep). While the images seem to be corresponding silently with one another in a dreamlike logic, the film projector hums, shedding light on interior and exterior and back again.

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Poster for Nightfall

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

16mm / color and b/w / sound

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Poster for Fists of a Nation

2005 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A documentary detailing the relationship of the Panamanian people and Roberto Duran

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Poster for Britomarti

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Animation with found footage shot in 16mm.

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The 1995 stand up show from the Perrier prize winning comic Sean Hughes.

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Poster for Fear Flight

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Beatrice Seckler rehearses a dance, filmed by Shirley Clarke in 1952.

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa examines how the Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin have struggled to restore the centuries-old tradition of spearfishing — and the heated opposition they have encountered.

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Poster for Värmländingarna

1910 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Councilor Sven Ersson and Farmer Jan Hansson has been bitter enemies for several years. Sven's neighbour Ola in Gyllby has a daughter Britta. The perfect partner for Sven's son Erik. But Erik only have eyes for Anna. The daughter of Jan Hansson. Unaware of the hostility between the families, Erik has asked Anna to marry him.

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1912 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, is almost run over by a car. Out of the headquarters gates march singing and playing female Salvation Army soldiers. One of the women is on her way to a nearby restaurant where the two sisters Ruth and Fanny works as waitresses.

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