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Poster for A Recipe for Gruel

2013 · ★ 4.2 (2)

A splendid 10-minute animated film by Sharon Smith. It is an adaptation of a tale by Frank Key. Narrated by Key himself, it has been screened at film festivals and competitions all over the world, including Annecy, Edinburgh, Brazil and last month’s Raindance in London.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Art was an important factor of my childhood, where I would spend time watching mama, through the threads. Today I am back in Iceland, watching her again - this time through the camera. We have not lived under the same roof since I was a teenager. I am 35, without children and a strong desire to make a film about her. Mum is not interested in being filmed. The film does not only deal with a mother - daughter relationship, but also a filmmaker and a subject with their own will." Salóme is Yrsa´s first documentary after finishing her master in creative documentary at Pompeu Fabra, iDEC, Barcelona.

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Poster for Chechnya: Who Killed Natasha?

2010 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Grozny. July 2009. The body of journalist and human rights defender Natasha Estemirova is discovered by the side of the road. Like her friend, Anna Politkovskaya, Estemirova sought to publicise what was happening in Chechnyna. Like Politkovskaya, she received several death threats from Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. In this investigation, we examine the silencing of voices of dissent in Russia.

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Poster for Around the World in 50 Concerts

2014 · ★ 5.5 (2)

During the unique world tour of the RCO celebrating its jubilee in 2013 we meet musicians and concertgoers. The tour develops not just into a journey across the globe but also as a trip to the core of classical music, a quest for the palette of emotions which only classical music can arouse. In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra tours the whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. Unbounded passion and love for music brings musicians and concert goers together. Documentary maker Heddy Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg and shows how the ensemble succeeds in gaining the hearts of people with a different cultural background. A journey to the kernel and the power of music which knows how to touch unexpected emotions and which helps to overcome the pain of living.

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1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The description of a soldier's first leave of absence

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A series of chromatic intersections. Audience members form teams who respond to vertical lines by shouting "plaid" and to horizontal lines by shouting "rad". This approximation of the sound was recorded at the Anthology Film Archives in February, 2011.

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Poster for The Room Called Heaven

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

American plains and high altitudes assembled in a B-roll structure take us to a place of sounds*. Plans américains show color and temperature shifts while an emotional room tone is sustained for the length of a 400ft camera roll.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A dexterous verbal enactment of slippages between voice, body and object, with objects functioning as stand-ins for multiple ideas and body parts.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sleep deficient actors drift in and out of consciousness. Peer into a parallel cinematic world that exists between the edits, when we are not looking at the screen.

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Poster for Cry When It Happens

2010 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of California. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday habitats. Music appears across the interiors and exteriors and speaks of limitlessness and longing.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary on the work of filmmaker Basilio Martín Patino.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Through her own family's memories of struggle, Adjani unravels the story of war-torn Southern Philippines as an endless attempt at survival and adaptation to state policies that disregard the most basic concept of home.

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Poster for The Dragon Is the Frame

2014 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Diaristic but also generously expansive, Mary-Helena Clark's disarmingly raw and beautiful The Dragon is the Frame proceeds like an experimental detective film, exploring the enigma of depression in its subtle interplay between presence and absence.

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Poster for (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

1988 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing images of the artist collapsing to the ground with bursts of wildly scrambled electronic distortion.

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Poster for Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star

2011 · ★ 6.0 (2)

In this follow-up to 'Afghan Star,' filmmaker Havana Marking returns to Afghanistan to check in on infamous contestant Setara from the popular Afghan talent show of the same name. The film looks at where Setara is now and the impact that her controversial performance has had on her life and her country, including ever-present threats to her safety.

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Poster for There? Where?

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen voices. Where is the location of these voices, here or there? Are the images near or far in relation to the voices? Are the images commenting on the images or vice versa?

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Poster for Hold Me

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In an empty warehouse the expressive movements of a dancer tell an emotional story. Attention shifts between image and the filmstrip-from one physical to another.

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Poster for All We Have Is Now

2014 · ★ 3.5 (2)

A documentary about the Swedish band Vulkano.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This look at the world of fastpitch softball details vanishing Americana, the line between hobby and obsession, and a pride in identity that transcends racial or regional affiliation.

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Poster for Richard Groenendijk: Alle dagen

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Registration of the eight theatre program by the Dutch comedian Richard Groenendijk.

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