JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.

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Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Self-Portrait With Nanny

Self-portrait with Nanny (2004) is a gem from last year. The faded images of Kaganof as a baby put to retro burlesque music are a reference to the silent films of long ago. Once again, Kaganof pays homage to popular cine

Kobra Self-Portrait

Sleepless all night, Kobra remembers his life, from the poor childhood in the outskirts of São Paulo to the international recognition of his work. The events unfold between reality and dream. In an intimate journey, we g

Self-Portrait

Footage of the gradual installation and deinstallation of a private exhibition of calligraphic self-portraits hung on the gate of a cramped backyard is intercut with a short shot cut from a family film showing a close-up

Self-Portrait As A City

A Self-Portrait

The Last Self-portrait

Slovak director Marek Kuboš has not shot a film in 13 years. His first film ever – a student exercise at film school – was a self-portrait. The circle is closed, the source of creativity has seemingly dried up. All that

One Color Self-Portrait

While trying to lead a normal life in Berlin, a young man struggles with his own emotional isolation

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

Selfportrait of an Unknown Man

A strange combination of circumstances leads the forty-year-old engineer Igor into the hall of the old cinema, where the film session has already begun. The main character of the picture is the poet Belov, the same roman

Crematorium: A Collaborative Self-Portrait

“Shot at a Bohemian crematorium outside Chicago, this self-viewing at work makes metaphoric reference to the location and process of cremation. Still photos, drawing, bleach, inks & silver tape were used to ‘move heaven

Self-portrait nº1 (Toilette)

One of my very first films, for which I hold the camera at arm's length and thereby capture fragmentary and very close images of myself washing my face or combing my hair; all interspersed with photos at different ages.

American Capitalism, A Self-Portrait

This found-footage film is made by cutting and pasting bits and pieces of institutional movies from the Prelinger archive fund. It aims at throwing light on American capitalism discursive dynamics.

Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter

Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close frie

Split Infinities: Self-Portrait Reconsidered

"Two films & two iPhone sketches, with 40 years between them. Includes formal studies in light & shadow, subjectivity & objectivity, film material and the creative process. Filmmaker’s self-portrait in time, and by chanc

Self-Portrait with Mother

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always suppor

A Self-Portrait

A Self-Portrait is the story of the art teacher Qiu Sha, told in photos and the words of Qiu Sha, about his youth, the changes in his family and in society. Director He Yi: 'What I remember now is the material that I cam

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., discusses his development as a writer, including references to some of his major novels, his themes and their meaning, his relationship to other writers, problems in sustaining his special vision of A

Self-Portrait as Felt

An attempt to look at one's identity - an old chest of drawers, where the memories are stored.