At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process. Over the course of a career spanning decades, he’s remained enigmatic and reclusive… until now.Read More »
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Fred Scott – Being a Human Person (2020)
2011-2020DocumentaryFred ScottUnited Kingdom -
Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o – Sembène: The Making of African Cinema (1994)
1991-2000African CinemaDocumentaryManthia DiawaraNgugi Wa Thiong'oSenegalThis rich documentary follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home at Yoff, overlooking the sea. Revisiting several locations of his films, Sembene Ousmane reminisces about his career and discusses his craft.Read More »
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Eberhard Fechner – Der Prozeß – Eine Darstellung des Majdanek-Verfahrens in Düsseldorf (1984)
1981-1990DocumentaryEberhard FechnerGermanyTVDer Prozeß. Eine Darstellung des Majdanek-Verfahrens in Düsseldorf
Teil 1: Anklage
Teil 2: Beweisaufnahme
Teil 3: UrteileIn über 8jähriger Arbeit entstand der Film DER PROZESS über die juristische Aufbereitung der Nazi Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Majdanek. Es war das erste große Arbeits- und Todeslager, das von den Russen befreit wurde. Innerhalb von drei Jahren wurden dort mindestens 250 000 Menschen umgebracht: erschossen, vergast, erschlagen.Read More »
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Ulrike Ottinger – Exil Shanghai AKA Exile Shanghai (1997)
1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyUlrike OttingerQuote:
Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of Shanghai. In the dark days of the 1930s, the Chinese metropolis was the last refuge for Europe’s persecuted Jews—a place that did not demand a visa. Those who managed to find refuge there brought with them the social and gastronomic delights of Vienna and Berlin. Ottinger’s four-and-a-half-hour mosaic features interviews with former members of the Shanghai expatriate Jewish community (many of whom relocated to Northern California), and her ever-curious camera cruises the city in search of its lost synagogues, schools, and salons.Read More » -
Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill – The Second Journey (To Uluru) (1981)
1981-1990ArthouseArthur CantrillAustraliaCorinne CantrillDocumentaryFilmed years after “At Uluru” (1978) in very different conditions, the film showcases the burnt landscape around a monolith in a land inhabited for millennia.
“As the camera moves gently from afar into the very heart of the monolith, the magic of the holiest site of the Aborigines unfolds in shimmering nuances of light.
Shot at different times of day, the close-up and panorama shots of this more than 500-million-year-old stone formation combine silence and acoustically altered birdsong to convey a feeling of timelessness into which a sense of loss is also inscribed. The somnambulistic moonrise in the great sky seems almost like an abstract painting and yet it is real. The areas of discolouration in the film material caused by problems in the developing process were deliberately left in the film as a metaphor for the looming threat to this natural environment through bushfires and tourism.Read More » -
Yugantar – Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali AKA Tobacco Embers (1982)
Documentary1981-1990IndiaShort FilmYugantarQuote:
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories. Read More » -
Marwa Zein – Khartoum Offside (2019)
2011-2020African CinemaDocumentaryMarwa ZeinSudanSara dreams of opening a bar and fielding a team for the Women’s Football World Cup. Keeping close to its protagonists, this documentary gives an account of everyday existence in Khartoum and how tradition, politics and religion dictate women’s lives.Read More »
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Bill Moyers – Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988)
1981-1990Bill MoyersDocumentaryUSAMythologist Joseph Campbell presents his ideas about comparative mythology and the ongoing role of myth in human society.Read More »
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Jim McBride – David Holzman’s Diary (1967)
1961-1970DocumentaryExperimentalJim McBrideUSA