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In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.
An experimental documentary, This Pain Has a Heartbeat tells the story of two brothers who weave in and out of each other's lives over the course of several years.
The documentary evokes the devastating effects of the earthquake that struck the Haitian capital on January 12, 2010, through the words of Haiti's greatest poet Frankétienne and his premonitory play The Trap. Shot in the
"Son of Mongolia" was the title of a 1936 film. It was the first feature film, the first Mongolian feature, shot by a Soviet crew from Leningrad. It was almost a Western comedy. But then, suddenly, it disappeared. A docu
Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said, “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to s
If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better accompaniment than the drawings of Ronald Searle. The BFI commissioned four films fr
"Häiden Vietto Karjalan Runomailla" ( Karelian Wedding In The Land Of The Kalevala ) is an early and valuable documentary ( more exactly, a recreation ), an ethnological Finnish silent film about a traditional Karelian w
Following the loss of his wife, a grieving young father withdraws from the world — until the quiet care of his four-year-old daughter begins to bring him back.
In 2016, inspired by the great poets Basho, William Wordsworth and Nan Shepherd, Calum Rodger undertook a poetic odyssey around the game-world of Grand Theft Auto V. In 2017, he chronicled this journey in 20-minute perfo
Danya lives with spinal muscular atrophy, but it does not stop him from laughing, joking, and going out. Together with his assistant Kolya, he heads to a bar. We join them, listening to their conversations, noticing the
We experience a lot of poems as a record of real life. Through the specific Taiwanese backdrop, the poetry film illustrates a series of moments to approach the concept of time, which is not as concrete as we are taught.