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Field of Vision
"Field of Vision" moves between the real and the imagined, the built and natural worlds, and explores how we see with both our eyes and our minds. It weaves together layers of images and sounds with police blotter reports and descriptions of visual and auditory hallucinations.
Le progrès scientifique est-il synonyme de progrès social ?
Bondarchuk. Battle
The new film about Sergei Bondarchuk is not a traditional description of the life of a famous director and not a biopic timed to coincide with a round date. The creators of the film focus on a unique period in the history of world cinema - the post-war "thaw" euphoria and the time of great hopes, the key character of which was the author of "War and Peace". What was this man and cinematographer who shot both chamber dramas and megalomaniac battle projects? And how did he, the winner of many USSR awards, manage to become a figure of world significance and a link between the two superpowers during the Cold War era?
from time without beginning
'Death in Kashi is "liberation"'. – Death in Banaras, Jonathan P. Parry, 1994.
The Leaf
A personal, poetic, documentary film about Director Will J. Zang’s experience as both a filmmaker and a gay immigrant during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and destroyed Will's daily life with financial struggles, uncertainty about being his true authentic self, and the uprising of racism.
Portrait of Kaye
Restricted by her lifelong agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents’ house. Finding relief from her fears in the faces and lives of old film stars, she pastes their images alongside those of her deceased family on the walls of her house, creating a kaleidoscopic collage that mixes personal history with Hollywood fantasy. Told first-hand via freewheeling monologues, Portrait of Kaye is a bittersweet portrait of a woman forming her own unique identity while navigating the conflicting influences of her mother’s bawdy humour and her father’s anxieties. Now 74 and recently widowed, her infatuation with a younger neighbour gives her an opportunity to explore personal and sexual freedoms that have always been hidden away. Shot over two years, former next-door neighbour and music video director Ben Reed has assembled a unique and touching meditation on family, film and the meaning of freedom.
Cowboy Poet
A young man continues the tradition of cowboy poetry, using his performances to navigate his emotions, family and the modern world.
American Wildlife
At a wildlife rehabilitation center in the Pacific Northwest, the steady, practiced, and gentle hands of veterinarians nurse dozens of convalescing animals back to health.
An Event So Fast
"An Event So Fast" is an experimental documentary about a family's failed invention. In Ralston, Alberta, a town for families of the military, a father works for the Defense Research Board as an explosives researcher stationed at Suffield Experimental Station. His work leads him to pursue a life as a professor researching shock waves. Soon he devises a new kind of bulletproof material and employs his grown children to assist in experiments and promotions in order to get his invention to market. Through home movies and archival film, the family recounts how a belief in ideas becomes the greatest obstacle to success.
2021-1985
Confidential report on designer Dino Gavina's showroom created by Carlo Scarpa between 1961 and 1963. Restoration details and stills from a 1985 film by Ellis Donda.
Zara & Mike: No Nonsense Royals
The Tindalls are on the surface an unlikely pairing of a Wakefield-born rugby union player and the daughter of the Princess Royal born and bred in a royal palace. This programme looks at their life together, from the highs to the lows, revealing how they carved out successful careers for themselves and supported each other along the way.
SHITFACE
The film portrait of a face made of shit thematizes the individual's ideas about his own freedom. Antonín dolák, philosopher and YouTuber, feels free when he gets rid of all social conventions. He loses his face, takes off his mask and talks openly about the socially taboo topics that line his life. However, a conflict arises between him and the staff, when Dolak loses control over the depiction of himself.
How I Like It
In Pakistan, the public space is dominated by men. The confidence with which they walk the streets or weight train quickly disappears once they are confronted with female sexuality. Off-screen, several anonymous women talk about their sexuality. The images of the conventional partiarchal society are in sharp contrast to the liberating explicitness of the accounts of clit stimulation, sex with multiple partners, pissing, abortions, and rape.
Together Again
Roger Banks is a 26-year-survivor of HIV. While quarantined in his NYC apartment, during the first COVID-19 outbreak in NYC, Roger reflects upon a lifetime spent searching for answers. Roger’s fear and isolation provoke spirits of friends and family to visit him while he experiences intense flashbacks of his youth and the AIDS crisis.
The Trial of Louise Woodward
This current affairs documentary focuses on the trial of Louise Woodward, the 19-year-old British au pair accused of the murder, by shaking, of nine month old baby Matthew Eappen who was in her care while she was working in the US. At the time the highest profile court case in the US featuring a British defendant, the trial was played out on television screens across both sides of the Atlantic. This programme, marking 25 years since the 1997 trial, features access to many of the key figures closest to the case, aiming to illuminate each key step of the trial and its aftermath.
Thomas Müntzer, premier communiste de l’histoire ?
Datura's Aubade
The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.
My Parent, Neal
An animated reflection on Hannah’s parent's gender transition and the evolution of their relationship.
TOOMANYKICKS
”TOOMANYKICKS” is a story about 11 people who grew up in a period of intense social and economic changes in Poland. Collecting sports shoes has become their passion. How many pairs is too many? That question doesn’t exist in a real sneakerhead’s world. Thanks to them, we learn about the heyday of Polish design in the last three decades of economic freedom, but we also learn a lot about the importance of sport and music in their lives. Many of the film's protagonists achieved success not only in Poland, but also internationally.In recent years, the love of sports shoes has ceased to be merely a hobby of a narrow group of people. Their passion is shared by an increasing part of the Polish society, no matter the education, origin or financial status.
Drawings of My BF
Over the course of their sessions, what began as an artist-model relationship developed into something more. Now officially BFs (boyfriends), Wilfrid continues to draw Theo regularly and has somewhat effortlessly amassed hundreds of drawings that were brought together for an exhibition appropriately titled ‘Drawings of my BF’. As Wilfred studies Theo, and Theo returns his gaze, the two lovers discuss the romantic ideals and human realities of the sketcher-subject dynamic and the role that creating art together has played in their lasting connection.
Exits and Entries
Entries are Exit points to more complex Entries. It is a visual exploration, an assemblage of forces. The doing an undoing's of my mother: a warrior. The film is part of a large-project "Doing and Undoing: Poems from within", a series of art interventions created during my mother’s cancer and healing process.
Luo Luo’s Fear
Luo Luo’s intense fear of Covid-19 keeps her in the house during the pandemic. She listens to her father relate their family history, and spends time on Zoom with fellow Folk Memory Project members Wu Wenguang and Zhang Mengqi.
Ebb and Flow
Three women surf the waters off the west coast of Ireland, in a celebration of the radiant female surf community.
Downstream
The captain of a fishing schooner, Vladimir Pavlov, lives in Karelia and is engaged in native fishing, extracting fish with his artel on Lake Onega. The film is about the heroes' understanding of the fate of a Russian man who lived his life under two forms of the state system, about the clash of the past and the present.
Darina Through the Looking Glass
Gifted girl Darina, who lives out in the sticks on the island of Sakhalin wants to move to Moscow. She longs for love and recognition, but so far she can’t even find a job. Parents believe that their 40-year-old daughter has her head in the clouds, but Darina pays no attention.The island girl brightens up her routine with a unique vision of beauty and an active social networking, while she continues to stay in her personal Wonderland.
Aguilucho: Dance of the Harpy Eagle
The indigenous people of the Darién Gap rainforest work with conservationists to use their heritage and traditions to protect the endangered Harpy Eagle and, in turn, protect their community.
The Granite Man of Gilmour
After an extraterrestrial encounter in 1975, David Hamel embarked on a 30-year mission to build a flying saucer in his backyard, ultimately failing to do so yet leaving behind a mysterious legacy that only the residents of his small town can unravel.
The Equilibrists
The Equilibrists of the film are patient and surprising exemplars of the lessons to be learnt from scrutinizing the elementary principles of physics. Here familiar feats of balance and curious games combine with the didactic serving as a reminder of the patience, delicacy and balance essential for stability.
Divided by Law
Captured just before and during the coronavirus outbreak and in the lead-up to Brexit, Divided by Law bears witness to binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK’s hostile immigration environment.