Amsterdam Global Village
Johan van der KEUKEN, the most esteemed and prolific of documentary filmmakers, has a knack for scratching at the surface of things and showing them as they really are. In this four-hour epic, the...
Augest - A Moment Before the Eruption
Civil unrest in the state of Israel. Filmmaker Avi MOGRABI confess to the camera that he is going to make a film about the month of August in Israel. He hates this month. It represent everything he...
Berlin 10/90
Robert KRAMER’s film, which formed part of an experimental TV series called Live, is a self-conscious attempt to access the vein of ‘the real’. The film takes place in real time, beginning at 3:15...
Caught in the Act
Caught in the Act records the daily acts of admission and interviewing of detainees at the police station. As if on an assembly line, the detainees and enter one after the other, telling the...
Displaced Person
Displaced Person explores the larger question within the historical field. Stately and sinuous passages from a Beethoven string quartet create a complex argumentation around images and text. This...
From the East
Chantel AKERMAN’s travelogue documentary is a valuable record of life in the Soviet Union before it finally succumbed to the gloss of Western imperialism and the commodity culture. Taking her camera...
From the Pole to the Equator
In the spring of 1982, GIANIKIAN and Ricci LUCCHI discovered a collection of footage shot by the early Italian pioneer of documentary film and cinematographer Luca COMERIO (1874-1940). As an act of...
A Grin without a Cat
Constructed as a seamless rhapsody on social activism and worldwide political wars of the 1960s and 1970s - Vietnam, Bolivia, Prague and Chile - this documentary film is regarded as a watershed work...
J'ai 10 ans
November 4 1984 was the first day when the first French paid TV channel CANAL+ aired. To celebrate its 10th birthday, the TV station recruited 13 kids born on the same day, gave each of them an 8mm...
Limes: Bioborder/ Park/ Spektakel
Arbitrary Divisions - political, societal and natural - are explored in this essay film that uses quotations from political and cultural thinkers either read on the soundtrack or overlaid on the...