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Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it’s like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It’s impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, a responsibility as if they were splitting uranium.Read More »
Short Film
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Harun Farocki – Ein Bild AKA An Image (1983)
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Vittorio De Seta – Pasqua in Sicilia AKA Easter in Sicily (1955)
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Vittorio De Seta captures the music and pageantry of an Easter celebration in Sicily.Read More » -
Claude Chabrol – L’avarice [Les sept péchés capitaux] (1961)
1961-1970Claude ChabrolComedyFranceShort FilmQuote:
“L’Avarice” was Chabrol’s contribution to the 1962 French/Italian omnibus film LES SEPT PÉCHÉS CAPITAUX (which also featured contributions from de Broca, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Max Douy, Jean-Luc Godard, Eugène Ionesco, Edouard Molinaro, and Roger Vadim) in which a group of twenty-five engineering students put hold a lottery to pick who gets to spend a 50,000 franc evening with a beautiful prostitute. The film was photographed in Franscope by Jean Rabier (Henri Decae’s camera operator on LE BEAU SERGE and LES COUSINS.)
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Sang-soo Hong – List (2011)
2011-2020AsianSang-soo HongShort FilmSouth KoreaPlot : Over a slice of chocolate cake, a mother (Yuh Jung Youn) and daughter (Jung Yu-mi) tensely discuss the good-for-nothing relative whose money troubles have brought them to the seaside town of Mohang. For now they have nothing to do but wait, so the younger woman, Mihye, composes a list of goals for her involuntary vacation — a list which she seems to fulfill almost accidentally, as she and her mother wander, eat, drink, and meet with fate, here in the form of a clumsily flirtatious film director (Joon-Sang Yoo).Read More »
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Tommaso Donati – Cligne-Musette AKA Hide-And-Seek (2020)
2011-2020DocumentaryFranceShort FilmTommaso DonatiUntil the beginning of the 20th century in France, the game of hide and seek was called “cligne-musette”. In a winter landscape, the film follows five kids and a young man who wanders alone between the desolate buildings of the Valibout neighbourhood, located in the province town of Plaisir. They will not cross paths but seem destined to meet the same fate, that of being abandoned to themselves; to hide and not to be found.Read More »
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Davide Palella – Sirio (2019)
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A boy lives alone in the desert. He spends the day gathering firewood, waiting for an old man to provide him of the essentials to his survival.Read More » -
Vittorio De Seta – Lu tempu di li pisci spata AKA The Age of Swordfish (1955)
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Vittorio De Seta’s rhythmic editing adds drama to this chronicle of a Sicilian spearfishing expedition.Read More » -
Lisandro Alonso & Catriel Vildosola – Dos en la vereda AKA Two Guys on the Sidewalk (1995)
1991-2000ArgentinaArthouseCatriel VildosolaLisandro AlonsoShort FilmQuote:
Début by Lisandro Alonso is about the length of one take from his features. Together with Catriel Vildosola, the most important sound man of the New Argentine Cinema, Lisandro Alonso made this short film at the age of 20 while studying at the film academy. He also worked as a sound man and later as an assistant to other Argentine productions before making his debut with Freedom (2001), which won a FIPRESCI Award in Rotterdam. Vildosola was also responsible for the sound of Liverpool, the most recent feature by Alonso.Read More » -
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Machorka-Muff (1963) (HD)
1961-1970ArthouseDanièle HuilletGermanyJean-Marie StraubShort FilmQuote:
The caustic, satirical tone of Machorka-Muff is immediately evident, but successive viewings will reward spectators as they become more familiar with the nuances of Böll’s text—to which the film owes a great deal of its incisiveness—and will be more able to appreciate the precise orchestration executed by Straub and Huillet of the relations between sound and image, of tensions between voice, gesture, tempo, and action. The film’s opening—combining, in barely 48 seconds, extreme concision, lucid insight, and brutal parody—offers us an excellent example of this.— Cristina Álvarez López, MubiRead More »