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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When you're insanely happy, you're so happy to be happy, that you forget what made you happy. Shishi Yamazaki's film for her graduation show on January, 2013.

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Poster for Ja, ja die schönste auf der Welt ist meine Bar

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Listening to Heino

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Close-ups of people's faces—psychoanalysts—reading Gröller's protocols. The fire inexorably burns through the paper. The notes about hundreds of hours of "talking healing" are silently, almost carelessly extinguished in the middle of a snow-covered landscape.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Second part of a triptych of films that utilises different histories while focusing upon recognizable locations along and within the River Thames: from Millbank Prison (now the site of Tate Britain) to Second World War architecture on the Essex coastline. Linking places as far flung as the Canadian Northwest Passage and a cellular prison in the Andaman Islands, the three Missives create an extended narrative recited by the female captain of a ship returning to the Thames from the Canadian Arctic. Meta Incognita: Missive II is based on the exploits of the Elizabethan privateer turned explorer Martin Frobisher, who repeatedly sailed to the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Set in a future where global warming has opened up the Northwest Passage to heavy/commercial/trans-continental cargo trade, the narrative follows a renegade ship’s captain who has undertaken a commission to smuggle the last remnants of an unspecified natural resource.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hamid, aged ten, lives in Great Britain. He tells how he has fled from Eritrea, about his grief and how difficult it can be to arrive in a new life.

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Poster for Eating Grass

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Filmed in Karachi, Lahore, and London, Eating Grass comprises five overlapping narratives, each representing different emotional states experienced throughout the day that are marked by the Muslim tradition of the five daily prayers. The film’s title references a remark made by Pakistan’s Prime Minister. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974 amid the nuclear arms race with India. He said his people would have their own nuclear weapon even if it meant “eating grass.”

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Eva

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Four young women present themselves seductively, self confidently and with some signs of shame. The camera´s low angle creates – in spite of feminism – a provocative image of Eva’s everlasting attraction.

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Poster for Le Barométre

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

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Poster for About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work

1973 · ★ 7.5 (2)

Opinions of workers of the textile industry on the theses of the XIII Labor Congress of the CTC.

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Poster for What is in a Girl's Handbag?

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"I was tired of aimlessly walking the club circuit so I decided to entertain myself in a more interesting fashion, combining clubbing with the creation of a work of art. Wearing the dress code appropriate to each club so that I would not stand out from the crowd, and armed with my camera, I walked into the ladies toilets of various night clubs asking the girls and women I bumped into the same question: What is in your handbag? It is unbelievable how much one can learn about girls by checking the contents of their bags and also listening to their own comments about them."

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Poster for NEC SPE, NEC METU

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

NEC SPE, NEC METU follows upon Gutes Ende (Bliss) and Ich auch, auch, ich auch (Me too, too, me too), and it is the third film of Friedl vom Gröller to record visits to her mother in a nursing home. Like the life of her mother, the film itself is consumed by an involuntary force accelerating like a spiral heading toward the end.

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Poster for Gaelle Obiegly

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gaelle Obiegly is a film about not being able to see, and a reversal of the gaze.

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Poster for Spitting

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them. Various moods become apparent on the way to a certain goal: effort, failure, then finally success. A happy, lighthearted film.

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Poster for Tracey Emin C.V. Cunt Vernacular

1997 · ★ 7.8 (4)

Emin's video CV is an accompaniment to her work on paper, Tracey Emin CV 1995 (Tate T07632), which is a potted history of the artist's professional and emotional life from conception until 1995. This CV, read aloud by Emin, constitutes the sound-track to the video and provides contrasting background to the visual information on display. As Emin narrates her story of trauma and abuse, mixed with pleasure and success, the video takes the viewer on a journey through the artist's home. The artist is not visibly present in person until the last frames when she appears curled up naked on the floor of her sitting-room at the feet of her mother (who wears black sunglasses and looks away from both her daughter and the camera). Like Emin's handwritten CV, the video constitutes her self-portrait, in this instance adding the component of a journey around the space of her apartment to her narrating voice. -Tate

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Poster for Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with gospel singer and folk healer Fannie Bell Chapman and her family in Centreville, Mississippi in the early 1970s. Footage includes Chapman and her daughters singing and praying during church services and at home, a healing service at the Chapman home, and Chapman "speaking in tongues" after healing. Members of the Chapman family also discuss the development of their faith, the call to heal and sing the Christian gospel, and their lives singing together.

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Poster for AI-5 - O Dia que Não Existiu

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about a political episode during the Brazilian military dictatorship, which resulted in the issue of the Institutional Act #5 (AI-5), abolishing freedom of opinion in Brazil, and marking the transition to the toughest period of violation of human rights in the country. The episode was the Congress Assembly on December 12th, 1968, in which its members denied permission to punish congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, as was the Government's wish.

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Poster for The Devil Dogs

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Belleau Wood, France, June 1918. After three weeks of battle, the US Marines stopped the German advance a few miles from Paris. They earned the name of "Devil Dogs" and made victory possible for the Allies. Gilles Lagin has given himself a mission: to preserve the memory of the American soldiers who fought in Belleau Wood. For 40 years, he has led families into the footsteps of their ancestors, the 1918 Devil Dogs.

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Poster for The World or Nothing

2018 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Il mondo o niente is the isolated and fantasized south of Italy. But this other world is very close, crossed by a modernity blended with an idealized archaism: peasants have iPhone 6 and wolves respond to the sound of a megaphone, while mysterious machines observe the stars and an oil refinery poisons the waters of the territory.

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