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By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, Hale County This Morning, This Evening offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, RaMell...
By embarking on a trawler to document one of mankind's oldest endeavours, in a stream of extraordinary images, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor capture the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen digital cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker, merging sea and sky – this documentary alerts us to the dangers of intensive fishing while a...
The filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family. The result is a portrait tinged with love and sorrows, revealing intergenerational traumas.
By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, Hale County This Morning, This Evening offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, RaMell...
By embarking on a trawler to document one of mankind's oldest endeavours, in a stream of extraordinary images, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor capture the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen digital cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker, merging sea and sky – this documentary alerts us to the dangers of intensive fishing while a...
The filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family. The result is a portrait tinged with love and sorrows, revealing intergenerational traumas.