Movies

Socialism

Socialism

Film Socialisme, Switzerland / France, 2010., director: Jean-Luc Godard, feature film

The film Socialism, first shown in 2010 at Cannes, like most of Godard's previous films, brings an assemblage of vignettes, allusions and discussions. It is a three-part invention in which music, sounds and images are → more

1968: A Blind Archive

1968: A Blind Archive

1968: A Blind Archive, Mexico, 2014., director: Bani Khoshnoudi, documentary

El Grito (1968-1970) by Leobard López Aretche is one of the few movie testimonials "from the center of the student movement" about it's own development during 1968 and the brutal stranglehold on October 2nd at → more

Jean-Luc Godard: Initiation into the revolutionary film

Jean-Luc Godard: Initiation into the revolutionary film

Initiation au cinéma [révolutionnaire], France, 1969., director: Jean-Paul Török, documentary

The three rolls of interview with Godard, which was recorded on March 19, 1969, were supposed to be material for the show 'Que'est-ce que la mise en scène?' (What is directing / mise en scene?). → more

The Incomparable of The Non-comparable

The Incomparable of The Non-comparable

Lo incomparable de lo no comparable, France, 2019., director: Paul Grivas, feature film

It's always strange to me when they accuse Jean-Luc Godard of working on a film without a screenplay. On the contrary, his screenplays are extremely accurate as seen in this short film. The pictures we → more

The House is Black

The House is Black

Khaneh siah ast, Iran, 1963., director: Forugh Farrokhzad, documentary

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 → more

Tehran Is the Capital of Iran

Tehran Is the Capital of Iran

Teheran, Payetakht-e Iran Ast, Iran, 1966., director: Kamran Shirdel, documentary

In the documentary Tehran Is the Capital of Iran Kamran Shirdel juxtaposes the real life of marginalized city residents with the positively intoned dictation of a professor reading in front of her students. The official → more

Women's Quarter

Women's Quarter

Qaleh, Iran, 1966., director: Kamran Shirdel, documentary

A very harsh and realistic documentary on the lives of poor girls and women in the Qaleh district of northern Tehran, which is notorious for prostitution. This neighborhood is connected to the outside world of → more

Tommaso

Tommaso

Italy / United Kingdom / United States / Greece, 2019., director: Abel Ferrara, feature film

Tommaso is an American with a Roman address. He works on film scripts and teaches acting - and sometimes that just involves breathing and moving around space. Every now and then, he goes to anonymous → more

12th December

12th December

12 dicembre, Italy, 1972., director: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, documentary

December 12, 1969 - A bomb blast at the National Bank at Piazza Fontana in Milan. 17 dead and 88 wounded. Activist and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested without concrete evidence only to "fall out → more

In the Name of the Law

In the Name of the Law

Enligt lag, Sweden, 1958., director: Peter Weiss, Hans Nordenström, documentary

A documentary about the Swedish prison system in the 1950s focused on a juvenile prison in Uppsala. At the beginning of the film, the inscription informs us; "The state has censored this movie. We, who → more