Short Film

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

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Champ de Galois… où l’on retrouve les mouvements d’appareil “premingeriens” dont parle Douchet à propos d’Astruc – de même qu’on y retrouve, à travers le destin d’Evariste Galois, ce qu’il décrit comme “la tragédie lyrique et romantique de l’adolescent à la recherche de l’absolu” – des mouvements d’autant plus appropriés que, dans la séquence du duel, ils font du pré un espace purement géométrique, pour ne pas dire galoisien.Read More »

“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. It has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…”Read More »

The first version of Gamboa’s novel about an innocent young girl who is betrayed by the man she loves and must become a prostitute after her family rejects her.Read More »

Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him.Read More »

A whistle, when blown, conjures up…what, exactly? Nothing good.Read More »

Synopsis: Stefano is the younger son in a family who lives in the outskirts of Rome. He’s been expelled at school, and is starting to work at a newsstand. A poetic look at the life and responsibilities of a poor kid in late-60s Italy.Read More »

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“HANDS is an ingenious piece of propaganda that communicates not only through the thrust of its content, but through the very unconventionality of its “experimental” structure. The film suggests that the government that produced it is imaginative and inventive, open to new possibilities, and supportive of forms of free expression.” – Scott MacDonaldRead More »

From the blu-ray cover:
Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 – Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. Misère au Borinage, which he co-directed with Joris Ivens in 1933, has become a classic of the ‘cinema of reality’ with which he was most closely associated.Read More »

Set in Istanbul, the film opens with a surprisingly candid scene of Baldwin leisurely awakening in his bedroom. Sedat Pakay, a Turkish filmmaker who studied with Walker Evans, is known for his photographic portraits of famous artists and writers, Baldwin among them. Here in Istanbul, Baldwin seems relatively relaxed, walking among crowds in a public park or on the city’s streets. His focus is personal, even intimate: “The life I live is very different from what people imagine. I love a few men. I love a few women. Love comes in many strange packages; it never comes to you as you think it will. I think the trick is to say yes to life.” He speaks of how difficult it is concentrate and to write in the United States and says that “American men are paranoiac on the subject of homosexuality.” The film offers us a self-reflective James Baldwin, one who fearlessly examines his most private thoughts and feelings.Read More »