2011-2020

  • Ben Russell – Good Luck (2017)

    2011-2020Ben RussellDocumentaryFrance

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    Filmed between a state-owned large-scale underground mine in the war-torn state of Serbia and an illegal mining collective in the tropical heat of Suriname, Good Luck is a visceral non-fiction portrait of hope and sacrifice in a time of global economic turmoil.

    SYNOPSIS
    Shot on Super16mm, Good Luck is a portrait of two mining communities operating on opposite sides of a hostile world: the state employees of a 600m-deep underground Serbian copper mine and the Maroon laborers of an illegal gold mining operation in the jungle tropics of Suriname.Read More »

  • Murat Düzgünoglu – Neden Tarkovski Olamiyorum… AKA Why Can’t I Be Tarkovsky (2014)

    Drama2011-2020ComedyMurat DüzgünogluTurkey

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    Why Can’t I Be Tarkovsky? (Neden Tarkovski Olamiyorum…) by Murat Düzgünoğlu (2014, 95 min.). Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, earns his living making cheap television films inspired by the stories behind Anatolian folk songs. His dream is to make films like his idol, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, though it seems that everything stands between him and his ambition.

    This low-key, tragicomic story presents us with a glimpse of the life of Bahadir, director of TV movies, who dreams of making artistically ambitious films like those of his idol, Andrei Tarkovsky.Read More »

  • Michael Palm – Cinema Futures (2016)

    2011-2020AustriaDocumentaryMichael Palm

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    To commemorate its 50th anniversary and to discuss what lies ahead for the medium of film, in 2014 the Austrian Film Museum has initiated a new feature-length work for the cinema.
    Austrian writer and filmmaker Michael Palm, celebrated for his outstanding essay film 
    Low Definition Control (2011), took up the challenge.
    Cinema Futures is being shot at a variety of international locations – engaging in multifaceted ways with the potential future of film in the digital era.
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  • Eugène Green – En attendant les barbares AKA Waiting for the Barbarians (2017)

    2011-2020DramaEugène GreenFrance

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    Quote:
    On the night of the world loom the barbarians, and six refugees of modern time appear at the castle in search of king’s protection.

    Quote:
    Six strangers—fleeing hordes of much-feared, but never-glimpsed barbarians—seek refuge in the ancient home of a sorcerer and sorceress. After being promptly asked to surrender their smartphones, the guests are treated to an alternately deadpan and philosophical odyssey involving magic, ghosts, painting, and an extended reenactment of an Arthurian romance as they confront their uniquely 21st-century insecurities and anxieties. Part playful performance art piece, part metaphysical consciousness-bender, Eugène Green’s entrancing, oddly life-affirming fable is a thought-provoking and slyly humorous exploration of the filmmaker’s ongoing concerns with Baroque traditions and the search for meaning in the age of social media. Produced as part of the Les Chantiers Nomades Spring 2017 “Waiting for the Barbarians” workshop.Read More »

  • Hsin-yao Huang – The Great Buddha + (2017)

    Drama2011-2020ArthouseHsin-yao HuangTaiwan

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    Quote:
    Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle’s biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Bottom collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are an integral part of their dull lives. One day when the television is broken, their lives are changed forever. The story involves gods, the middle-aged men’s sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Maybe the audience will find it preposterous, but isn’t life itself a farce?Read More »

  • Ricky D’Ambrose – Spiral Jetty (2017)

    2011-2020ExperimentalRicky D'AmbroseShort FilmUSA

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    An applauded New York intellectual hires a young archivist to whitewash her late psychologist father’s reputation by eliminating a forbidding, potentially incriminating paper trail.Read More »

  • Daisy Asquith – Queerama (2017)

    2011-2020Daisy AsquithDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

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    Synopsis:
    Compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both documentary and fictional sources, set to music, illustrating the huge changes in LGBTQ life in Britain (mainly England) over the 20th century.

    Review:
    Sensitive, cheeky and enriched with a healthy shot of self-awareness, Daisy Asquith’s kaleidoscopic Queerama is as much a reflection on the shifting status of LGBTQ people within the UK pop culture landscape – as both subjects and creators – as an ambitious summation of the corresponding societal changes in the last century or so. A loosely structured montage of decades-spanning archive footage, it’s perhaps of little surprise that the film doesn’t have a whole lot new to say but the empathy and energy by which these images and ideas are edited together into a single piece make Queerama an entertaining and often poignant tribute to the progress made, as well as an implicit acknowledgement of the progress yet to be made.
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  • Ted Fendt – Short Stay (2016)

    2011-2020ComedyExperimentalTed FendtUSA

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    The Only Luxury: An Interview with Ted Fendt
    By Dan Sullivan

    For the past few years, Ted Fendt has been one of the busiest under-the-radar figures in film exhibition in New York: a projectionist at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he is also the city’s go-to live-subtitler of rare, unsubtitled prints of French films, and ranks among its most active moviegoers. But his contributions to film culture extend beyond the local scene to the online sphere, where he has become an essential translator of texts by Jean-Luc Godard, Luc Moullet, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-André Fieschi, among others. He has also produced new English subtitles for a number of films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (having taught himself German in order to so) and co-edited the catalogue for an upcoming retrospective of their films to tour the US later in 2016.Read More »

  • Estevão Meneguzzo & Andre Felix – Valentina (2017)

    2011-2020BrazilDramaEstevão Meneguzzo and Andre FelixShort Film

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    ​English: As a young archivist labours on the reassembly of a long-lost film print, her emotional life spirals into a tumultuous state that is mirrored in the degradation of the frames she so painstakingly works upon.

    ​Portuguese: Valentina precisa tomar uma importante decisão em sua vida enquanto trabalha com preservação de filmes na cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Read More »

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