As the filmmaker pursues a creative career, she goes looking for others in similar positions to explore what her decision entails. Mixing experimental art and documentary film, the work explores the real and imaginary boundaries of creativity.
As the filmmaker pursues a creative career, she goes looking for others in similar positions to explore what her decision entails. Mixing experimental art and documentary film, the work explores the real and imaginary boundaries of creativity.
2020-05-30
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A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
A fly-on-the-wall display of lives changing and time passing told through an unanswered question.
"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim’s formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between sound and image resonates here as a mode of sociological reflection (with the fragmentary montage mirroring elements of ritual while also destabilizing the ethnographic gaze). A largely overlooked antecedent to the contemporary blending of avant-garde and ethnographic filmmaking, MACHETTE GILLETTE… MAMA still poses a potent challenge to documentary convention." - Max Goldberg
A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate, the strong and the fragile, the fleeting and the eternal. These are the faces of femininity.
An experimental short film about the depressive scenery of Eastern European winter
On September 30th, 2019; people rallied together to fight the system for climate change. This is the story of that rally, and the inevitable impact global warming will have on our planet.
To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a passion for nature decides to make his first film: "The Botanist", an ecological thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio. He traces his path with malice, obstinacy, and discovers, with candor, the arcana of the seventh art. Even if he never gives up, will his film ever exist?
Functions without theaters, murals without walls, clothes without fabrics and students without schools says the necessary about the state abandonment and but also talent and creativity of Colombians, which it has nothing to lose. The documentary tells the story of the beginnings and resilience of several artist from Barranquilla in different disciplines in continuing to maintain and diversify the living culture, that remain to exist.
A vehicle of consciousness navigates the vertiginous labyrinths of San Francisco. ROMAN CHARIOT was filmed over several months with a spy camera mounted on filmmaker David Sherman's son's baby carriage.
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.
A short documentary about a female truck driver in the United Kingdom.
Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man who wants to become a film director. He sings, writes poetry, lives with his parents and his parrot, but knows nothing about love...
A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Manchester's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st century.
A self-funded, non-profit feature documentary exploring and celebrating Liverpool's contemporary independent music scene at the beginning of the 21st century, featuring interviews with Kevin McManus (Liverpool Vision), David Pichilingi (Liverpool Sound City), Craig Pennington (Bido Lito), Paul Du Noyer (NME and Mojo Magazine), David Lloyd (Seven Streets), Peter Guy (GIT Awards and Liverpool Echo), Mike Deane (Liverpool Music Week) and David McTague (Africa Oye).
The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.
A short film set during the span of an entire school week.
Documentary film about Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. An interview: a journey through documentary filmmaking, his childhood, the dawning of New Latin American cinema...
Jorge Prelorán was one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers from Argentina. This documentary presents an interview which focuses on his creative work, and on how his ideas about documentaries are key in the uniqueness of his topics and characters.
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.