Diane Wellington, a teenager who disappeared in 1938 in South Dakota, has just been found. This is the starting point of this narrative, which revives the codes of silent cinema by relying on intertitles.
Nénette is a French documentary film about a 40-year-old female orangutan living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert.
Temps Mort is one of IICADOM’s (The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other People’s Memories) categories used to designate the archival material collected from the end of the film stock, which content was the result from the amateur film maker’s need
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu by Andrei Ujică is a film made from archive footage showing the power of the Romanian dictator between 1965 and 1989. The filmmaker uses a process of transforming the original status of the images.
During the “Great Leap Forward” from 1958 to 1961, Mao’s Anti-Rightist Movement resulted in the “re-education through labour” of middle-class intellectuals and government officials that were declared to be “rightist.” Some three thousand political prisoners were arrested and sent to the Jiabi
Bjorn Gabriels: The very basics of cinema haven’t lost their force.
“Azari’s gentle approach to the topic means that instead of forcing responses from her subjects, she often uses silence as a tool to elicit a deeper, thoughtful response.
“In Hong Sang-soo’s work there is a constant trait, which is neither really stylistic (it’s not a matter of form), nor frankly thematic (it’s not a matter of content either), and which returns, like a butterfly – and even, as its course is erratic, like a moth, the ultimate uncatchable insect.
In Because We Are Visual Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes immerse themselves into the world of public video journals. The Internet and its online communities intend to bring people closer together and to connect them.