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The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
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Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beyond the Void
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November 2001: Charles accompanies his boyfriend Martin, another victim of the AIDS epidemic of the 1990s, to the end. Twenty years later, he takes us back into the story of their passionate encounter and their first exchanges. Through his memoirs, we discover Charles' current challenges.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
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25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
The Kettle
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In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
Into the Delta
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The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
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Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge...
Canone effimero
Duration: 4h02
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A poetic journey into a hidden Italy, far from dominant narratives. _Canone effimero_ explores cultural resistance at work among makers of ancient instruments, polyphonic choirs, and traditions passed down from generation to generation. Through eleven musical chapters, the De Serio brothers compose a mosaic of memories, voices, and landscapes, refocusing attention on marginalized rural cultures.
The Trial
Duration: 5h54
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Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
The Roof
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Straddling documentary and filmed autobiography, this deceptively tranquil film portrays the family of filmmaker Kamal Aljafari in Ramla and Jaffa, through the calm yet unceasing movements of a camera drifting through the rooms of abandoned, damaged, or ruined houses. The title refers to the missing roof of the house where the director’s family settled in 1948—a home left unfinished, a construc...
Clotheslines
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_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
record found here
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Ten years ago, lanaire aderemi’s grandmother told her about the Egba Women’s Revolt, a resistance movement against colonial taxation in the late 1940s in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Inspired by this story, lanaire explores archival documents, historical sites and oral testimonies to document the imaginative and revolutionary spirit of Abeokuta women in the 1940s.
Ghost Strata
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_Ghost Strata_ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, _Ghost Strata_ explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence ha...
Hyperlink
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In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker delicately examines the complex relationships that evolve, fracture, and reshape among the children of a blended family after a breakup. By pushing the boundaries of the "desktop documentary" format, she crafts a poignant and heartfelt portrait of a grief rarely acknowledged, offering a unique and compelling exploration of loss and connection.
The Horse Palace
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Amid the abandoned factories and crumbling buildings of Griffintown lies Montreal’s oldest stable, the last remnant of a bygone era. In this intriguing, anachronistic enclave, brushing up against modernity, time seems to have stood still. But ever since its aging owner decided to sell the property, the days of the Horse Palace are numbered…
Up the River with Acid
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_Up the River with Acid_ is an intimate, impressionistic documentary by Harald Hutter that unfolds over two days in the life of his father, Horst, a former professor whose daily life is profoundly disrupted by cognitive decline. Shot on 16 mm, the film gently observes gestures, silences, and perceptions as memory begins to fragment, while subtly sketching the deep bond that unites Horst and his...
Monsieur le Directeur
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“Mr. Director...” This is how letters addressed to the Director of Belgian public radio between 1958 and 1968 began. Any excuse was good enough to put pen to paper: a listener complained about the broadcast of a song with lyrics deemed too risqué, a young girl wondered how to become an announcer, factory workers wanted to hear more operettas during their lunch break, and so on. During this deca...
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
New product!Subscription access
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beyond the Void
Subscription access
November 2001: Charles accompanies his boyfriend Martin, another victim of the AIDS epidemic of the 1990s, to the end. Twenty years later, he takes us back into the story of their passionate encounter and their first exchanges. Through his memoirs, we discover Charles' current challenges.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
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25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
The Kettle
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In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
Into the Delta
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The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
Subscription access
Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge...
Canone effimero
Duration: 4h02
Subscription access
A poetic journey into a hidden Italy, far from dominant narratives. _Canone effimero_ explores cultural resistance at work among makers of ancient instruments, polyphonic choirs, and traditions passed down from generation to generation. Through eleven musical chapters, the De Serio brothers compose a mosaic of memories, voices, and landscapes, refocusing attention on marginalized rural cultures.
The Trial
Duration: 5h54
Subscription access
Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
The Roof
Subscription access
Straddling documentary and filmed autobiography, this deceptively tranquil film portrays the family of filmmaker Kamal Aljafari in Ramla and Jaffa, through the calm yet unceasing movements of a camera drifting through the rooms of abandoned, damaged, or ruined houses. The title refers to the missing roof of the house where the director’s family settled in 1948—a home left unfinished, a construc...
Clotheslines
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_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
record found here
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Ten years ago, lanaire aderemi’s grandmother told her about the Egba Women’s Revolt, a resistance movement against colonial taxation in the late 1940s in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Inspired by this story, lanaire explores archival documents, historical sites and oral testimonies to document the imaginative and revolutionary spirit of Abeokuta women in the 1940s.
Ghost Strata
Subscription access
_Ghost Strata_ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, _Ghost Strata_ explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence ha...
Hyperlink
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In this intimate documentary, the filmmaker delicately examines the complex relationships that evolve, fracture, and reshape among the children of a blended family after a breakup. By pushing the boundaries of the "desktop documentary" format, she crafts a poignant and heartfelt portrait of a grief rarely acknowledged, offering a unique and compelling exploration of loss and connection.
The Horse Palace
Subscription access
Amid the abandoned factories and crumbling buildings of Griffintown lies Montreal’s oldest stable, the last remnant of a bygone era. In this intriguing, anachronistic enclave, brushing up against modernity, time seems to have stood still. But ever since its aging owner decided to sell the property, the days of the Horse Palace are numbered…
Up the River with Acid
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_Up the River with Acid_ is an intimate, impressionistic documentary by Harald Hutter that unfolds over two days in the life of his father, Horst, a former professor whose daily life is profoundly disrupted by cognitive decline. Shot on 16 mm, the film gently observes gestures, silences, and perceptions as memory begins to fragment, while subtly sketching the deep bond that unites Horst and his...
Monsieur le Directeur
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“Mr. Director...” This is how letters addressed to the Director of Belgian public radio between 1958 and 1968 began. Any excuse was good enough to put pen to paper: a listener complained about the broadcast of a song with lyrics deemed too risqué, a young girl wondered how to become an announcer, factory workers wanted to hear more operettas during their lunch break, and so on. During this deca...
