Summary
This is a film about the lives of people suffering from leprosy, but also about life itself ... A representation of any closed and claustrophobic society, image of futility, isolation and separation. (Forough Farrokhzadin)
The black-and-white documentary by Forough Farrokhzad, about a colony of lepers in northern Iran, is the most powerful Iranian film I've seen. Farrokhzad was awarded as one of the finest Persian poets of the twentieth century; in her only film, she seems to apply poetry techniques to framing, editing, sound and narration. At the same time lyrical and concrete, devoid of pathos and voyeurism, deeply human, the film offers a glimpse into everyday life in the colony - people eating, various medical treatments, children at school and during playtime - spiritually, boldly and beautifully without anything similar in the West, for my eyes and ears it seemed like a prayer. (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
This was not a classic institutional film - as it did not praise and point out its sponsor, the Association for aiding lepers, it did not even follow the established official style of such films. Moreover, it set the ladder and became a model for poetically realistic documentaries and their vision, what Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum aptly called radical humanism. (Hamid Naficy, Social History of Iraninan Cinema, Vol II)
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Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema XIII.
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06.-09.02.2020.
Film Is More Than Film
Film ist mehr als Film, Austria, 1996., director: Gustav Deutsch, feature film
Border
Border, France / United Kingdom, 2004., director: Laura Waddington, documentary
Pasolini's Anger. Hypotheses for the Reconstruction of the Original Version of the Film
La rabbia di Pasolini. Ipotesi di ricostruzione della versione originale del film, Italy, 1963.-2008., director: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci, documentary
6/64: Mom and Dad (An Otto Mühl Happening)
6/64 Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl), Austria, 1964., director: Kurt Kren, experimental
Film or Power
Film oder Macht, West Germany, 1970., director: Vlado Kristl, feature film
7/64: Leda and the Swan
7/64 Leda und der Schwan, Austria, 1964., director: Kurt Kren, feature film
Liberty
Liberté, France / Portugal / Spain / Germany, 2019., director: Albert Serra, feature film
Actors: Submission and Pleasure: Opening of the Festival
Actors: Submission and Pleasure,
Cinema Conversation
Cinema Conversation,
Film is. 1-6
Film ist. 1-6, director: Gustav Deutsch,
In the Name of the Law
Enligt lag, Sweden, 1958., director: Peter Weiss, Hans Nordenström, documentary
12th December
12 dicembre, Italy, 1972., director: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, documentary
Power and Rebellion
Albert Serra - Selection of films,
Tommaso
Italy / United Kingdom / United States / Greece, 2019., director: Abel Ferrara, feature film
Symposium - Power of Cinemaclash
Symposium - Power of Cinemaclash,
Women's Quarter
Qaleh, Iran, 1966., director: Kamran Shirdel, documentary
Tehran Is the Capital of Iran
Teheran, Payetakht-e Iran Ast, Iran, 1966., director: Kamran Shirdel, documentary
The Incomparable of The Non-comparable
Lo incomparable de lo no comparable, France, 2019., director: Paul Grivas, feature film
Jean-Luc Godard: Initiation into the revolutionary film
Initiation au cinéma [révolutionnaire], France, 1969., director: Jean-Paul Török, documentary
1968: A Blind Archive
1968: A Blind Archive, Mexico, 2014., director: Bani Khoshnoudi, documentary
Visual Riots
Visual Riots,
Socialism
Film Socialisme, Switzerland / France, 2010., director: Jean-Luc Godard, feature film
Film Catastrophe
Film Catastrophe, France, 2018., director: Paul Grivas, documentary
Film/Speaks/Many/Languages
Film/Spricht/Viele/Sprachen, Austria, 1995., director: Gustav Deutsch, documentary
The Hills of Marlik
Tappeha-ye Marlik, Iran, 1963., director: Ebrahim Golestan, documentary
Brick and Mirror
Khesht o ayeneh, Iran, 1965., director: Ebrahim Golestan, feature film
El Grito
El Grito, Mexico, 1968.-1970., director: Leobardo López Aretche, documentary
Visual Riots
Nicole Brenez,
9/64 O Christmas Tree
9/64 O Tannenbaum, Austria, 1964., director: Kurt Kren, feature film
