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Jean Genet – Jean Genet [Interview with Bertrand Poirot-Delpech] (1982)
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Chris Marker – Casque Bleu AKA Blue Helmet (1995)
1951-1960Chris MarkerDocumentaryFranceShort FilmQuote:
This is a 26 minute short film by Chris Marker, where he interviews and records the, “Lucid testimony of François Cremieux, blue helmet in 1994 in the pocket of Bilac,” in Bosnia-Herzogovina By referring to him as a “blue helmet” they mean that he is a UN peacekeeper. Cremieux tells the story about his experiences in Bosnia, as still photographs are injected between the interview footage.Read More » -
Aleksandr Sokurov – Elegiya aka Elegy (1985)
1981-1990Aleksandr SokurovDocumentaryShort FilmUSSRQuote:
The first “Elegy” by Alexander Sokurov appeared in 1984. The legendary fame of the great Russian singer Fiodor Shaliapin, the fame that was still alive in his homeland, resisted to the official tendency of reproaching him for emigrating from Russia. When Sokurov, whose first films seemed to be buried forever in the closed film archives and whose every new work was stopped in the very beginning, made his “Elegy” — without financing, supported only by the enthusiasm of his team, — the Leningrad Documentary Films Productions tried to legalize the film, but with no success. The answer of the highest cinema officials was: “Shaliapin is not forgiven.” It was the time when Shaliapin had not yet got the “imperial” pardon.Read More » -
Ahmed Lallem – Elles AKA The Women (1966)
1961-1970African CinemaAhmed LallemAlgeriaDocumentaryShort FilmThis is another one from the Sarah Maldoror ouvre. She assisted director Lallem for this short documentary, and the two of them assistant-directed William Klein’s Festival Panafricain d’Alger (1970).
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Maldoror works alongside Ahmed Lallem as his assistant director to show young Algerian teenage girls talking about their hopes and desires for the nascent country. The film is an important counterpart to The Battle of Algiers, a film on which Sarah Maldoror and Gillo Pontecorvo would also work together.Read More » -
Joe Gibbons – Confessions of a Sociopath (2002)
2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalJoe GibbonsUSAConfessions of a Sociopath is a 60-minute autobiographical film on digital video and Super 8 film, conceived as a real-life version of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. In this film, Joe Gibbons plays a fictionalized version of himself as he discovers a roomful of Super 8 footage from his own life, detailing events he can no longer recall. This footage shows his earlier film experiments, his descent into destructive behavior, and his “bottoming out” on drugs and alcohol. At a certain point, the films are replaced by random photos, police records, and psychiatric hospital records. In the role of the narrator, Gibbons uses psychiatric terminology to describe his past exploits, as a way of poking fun at both his own misfortune and at psychiatry’s ability to medicalize non-conformity. Through Confessions of a Sociopath, the now-reformed narrator seeks to understand his life, and make amends.Read More »
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Naomi Kawase – Ni tsutsumarete AKA Embracing (1992)
1991-2000DocumentaryJapanJapanese Female DirectorsNaomi KawaseShort FilmIn this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.Read More »
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Joe Gibbons – Living in the World (1985)
1981-1990DocumentaryExperimentalJoe GibbonsUSAAn auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.Read More »
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Warrington Hudlin – Black at Yale: A Film Diary (1974)
1971-1980DocumentaryPoliticsUSAWarrington HudlinThe film was directed by Hudlin while he was a Yale College senior, and focuses on the experiences of African-American students at Yale in the early 1970s. The influential documentary short follows students Erroll McDonald and Eugene Rivers, and features a conversation with civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.Read More »
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Sergei M. Eisenstein, Naum Kleiman – Neizvestniy “Ivan Grozniy” AKA The Unknown Ivan the Terrible (1998)
1991-2000ClassicsDocumentaryNaum KleimanRussiaSergei M. EisensteinIvan the Terrible (Russian: Ivan Grozniy) is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia commissioned by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and identified himself with Ivan, to be written and directed by the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Part I was released in 1944 but Part II was not released until 1958, as it was banned on the order of Stalin, who became incensed over the depiction of Ivan therein. Eisenstein had developed the scenario to require a third part to finish the story but, with the banning of Part II, filming of Part III was stopped and what had been completed was destroyed. – wikiRead More »