The Seasons
His great pastoral poem about life as a constant Heraclitic flux, and is one of the very few films ever made which contains not a single image too many nor one too few.
Our Century
This film by which the twentieth century is meant, may well be the masterpiece Vertov only dreamt of, capturing lcarus' triumph in images made during flight.
The End/Life
The two films could be considered as one film and it express these fundamental concepts in metaphoric terms, thus forming a diptych located at the very margins of the conceivable, driven by a pathos...
Elegy of a Voyage
In this film, the artistic transformation of the objects of reality reached the pinnacle of the author's alteration of this reality. The author's thoughts and words anticipate the appearance of...
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 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...
Gambling, Gods, and LSD
This documentary by Swiss - Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler ponders the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the modern world. His journey takes him from a church in Toronto's airport strip...
In the Dark
He is an old man, 80 years old and he has lost his sight. He lives in a small flat with a white cat. The man wants to do something useful and spends his days making woolen bags. The cat messes up his...