7.8
Brother Number One is a New Zealand documentary on the torture and murder of New Zealand yachtie Kerry Hamill by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. It follows the journey of Kerry's younger brother, Rob Hamill, an Olympic and Trans-Atlantic champion rower, who travels to Cambodia to retrace the steps taken by his brother and John Dewhirst, speaking to eyewitnesses, perpetrators and survivors.
7.8
Forførende, frygtløs og provokerende. Marina Abramovic har omdefineret hvad kunst er i næsten 40 år. Ved at bruge sin krop som værktøj, har hun skubbet til sine egne og publikums grænser – og til tider risikeret sit liv i processen. I THE ARTIST IS PRESENT følger vi kunstneren på nært hold, imens hun forbereder sig til en performance, mange kunstkritikere vurderer til at blive den vigtigste milepæl i hendes karriere – en ny stor retrospektiv udstilling af hendes arbejde på The Museum of Modern Art i New Work. Men For Marina, er der langt mere på spil. Det er ikke bare en mulighed for at presse grænserne for performancekunst til det yderste, men også en enestående chance for én gang for alle at svare på kritikernes evindelige spørgsmål: “Hvorfor er det kunst”?
7.8
German musician Alexander Hacke explores Istanbul's rich music culture and attempts to create a portrait of Turkey through music genres. On this journey, he encounters a mosaic that covers countless genres from rock to arabesque, electronic to hip-hop.
6.2
9 Muses of Star Empire', a year-long chronicle that follows a journey of an all girl pop group '9 Muses', portrays the every-day life of nine girls, relentlessly pursuing their dreams in a world of jealousy, betrayal, and scandal. What's the price they must pay for stardom?
7.8
Dette er historien om den 85-årige Jiro Ono, verdens største Sushi-kok. Han ejer Sukiyabashi Jiro, en restaurant med én ret og 10 sæder i en undergrundsstation i Tokyo, som har fået 3 Michelin-stjerner, og har en venteliste på flere måneder. Men det er også historien om hans forhold til hans søn og arving Yoshikazu.
5.8
On December 8, 1983 a fifteen year old Jewish boy from the city of Haifa was kidnapped, murdered and sexually abused after his death. Five Arabs who worked in in the neighborhood’s supermarket were convicted and imprisoned for life and 27 years. The conviction was based only on the defendants’ confessions and reconstructions. Seventeen years after their conviction, the five defendants still claim they are innocent. "The Reconstruction" follows the police investigation and juridical process step by step. The heart of the film is the original videotaped reconstructions of the murder performed by the defendants in which they admit their guilt.
7.4
In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his political activism. Baldwin bristled at their questions, and the result is a fascinating, confrontational, often uncomfortable butting of heads between the filmmakers and their subject, in which the author visits the Bastille and other Parisian landmark and reflects on revolution, colonialism, and what it means to be a Black expatriate in Europe.
7
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, India's most holy city. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give the viewer a wholly authentic, though greatly magnified and concentrated, sense of participation in the experiences examined by the film.
7.7
Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. SANS SOLEIL is his mind-bending free-form travelogue that journeys from Africa to Japan.
8.2
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza—PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
5.2
On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing,“ an impressive number of artists from Berlin went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art. This event included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an “experimental examination.” —independent film and video database
7.5
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.
3.9
In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.
7.5
Few films can claim as much influence on the course of cinema history as CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin termed cinéma- vérité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. Simply by interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960—beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War—Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people, from artists to factory workers, from an Italian émigré to an African student. CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER’s penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth.
7.4
This early feature from Chris Marker is a key touchstone in the evolution of his distinctive essayistic style, in which he combines footage shot in the barren reaches of Siberia with his typically idiosyncratic musings. Animated mammoths, a humorous comparison of communist and capitalist values, and even a “commercial” for reindeer all feature in this alternately witty and philosophical travelogue that reveals as much about the history and culture of its subject as it does about the inner workings of its maker’s mind.
7
An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.
8.2
Da Harvey Milk i 1978 blev stemt ind i byrådet i San Francisco, var han den første homoseksuelle, der blev valgt til et offentligt embede i Califor nien. Kun elleve måneder senere, den 27. november 1978, blev han sammen med borgmesteren George Moscone brutalt myrdet af et andet byrådsmedlem - den pæne og konventionelle Dan White. Instruktøren Rob Epstein fortæller historien om Harvey Milk, der som voksen emmigrerede til San Francisco for at kunne leve frit. Han begyndte at engagere sig i lokalpolitik og endte som offer. Milk må have været bevidst om faren, for han efterlod sig et indtalt bånd med et testamente, hvor han fortalte, hvad han ville med sit liv, og som kun måtte åbnes i tilfælde af hans død ved et attentat.
4
This exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.
In the quarries of Carrara, Italy, men and machines dig Monte Bettogli for marble. Managing, coordinating, and guiding quarrymen and their heavy-duty machines is the chief—“Il Capo”—who uses a language consisting solely of gestures and signs to coordinate this dangerous, noisy operation.
A group of six scuba divers specializing in deep underwater operations live for three weeks at the bottom of the ocean. Staying alternately in the recompression chamber on board the platform Luna or conducting work on the bottom of the sea, the divers meticulously adhere to strict protocols.
