Movies

Face to Face

Face to Face

Croatia, 1963., director: Branko Bauer, feature film

A worker named Milun complains about the unfair dismissal of his colleague Trajčet, and at a party meeting the director accuses him of being the author of an anonymous letter about irregularities in the company. → more

9/64 O Christmas Tree

9/64 O Christmas Tree

9/64 O Tannenbaum, Austria, 1964., director: Kurt Kren, feature film

Kren in the movie 9/64 O Christmas Tree provides a more visually descriptive development of Mühl's action. The selected images follow a more dramatic sequence, probably because the action itself contained a wide range of → more

El Grito

El Grito

El Grito, Mexico, 1968.-1970., director: Leobardo López Aretche, documentary

Until recently banned, Aretche's documentary was filmed in secret and captures the clashes that broke out in Mexico in 1968, shortly before the Olympics, between students protesting against the corrupt government, army and police. For → more

Brick and Mirror

Brick and Mirror

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

The Hills of Marlik

The Hills of Marlik

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/Speaks/Many/Languages

Film/Speaks/Many/Languages

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

Film Catastrophe

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

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