Khesht o ayeneh, Iran, 1965., director: Ebrahim Golestan, feature film
Brick and Mirror is the first Iranian feature film to use direct sound (also used in several scenes in The House is Black). With the absence of music (except percussion in the intro), this broadens our → more
Tappeha-ye Marlik, Iran, 1963., director: Ebrahim Golestan, documentary
A 3,000-year-old site in northern Iran is being excavated by foreign archeologists and farm manure. The film demonstrates Golestan's documentarism about the classic elements through which the past touches the present and in which there → more
Film/Spricht/Viele/Sprachen, Austria, 1995., director: Gustav Deutsch, documentary
39 fragments of Indian feature film with French and Arabic subtitles have been found at Boulevard Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah in Casablanca. Of these, 21 were used to (re) construct a one-minute story consisting of → more
Film Catastrophe, France, 2018., director: Paul Grivas, documentary
Pictures are here for the taking, you just have to pick them. (Paul Grivas) The Film Catastrophe questions certain images from the famous Costa Concordia, the premier film location for Socialism of 2010, Jean-Luc Godard's first digital venture. → more
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, 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
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
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
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
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
