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Gan Tang, The Lake
Duration: 28 minutes
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"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
New product!Duration: 1h30
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Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
Duration: 50 minutes
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In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
Feu fantôme
Duration: 58 minutes
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"A long time ago, I was raped by a boy I really liked. A few years later, he reached out to me again to take responsibility for his actions. This film is our open letter to rape culture." — Morgane Ambre
Gods of Stone
Duration: 2h54
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Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
New product!Duration: 2h16
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"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis....
Diary
Duration: 48 minutes
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Larissa faces the many hardships of post-Soviet life: poverty, an alcoholic husband, and an uncertain future. By chance, she discovers her grandmother’s diary, in which she had recorded a dream that seems strangely connected to her own life. A poetic film about memory, family, and the traces of the past.
Time Indefinite
Duration: 3h48
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Forty-year-old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage, he turns on his camera to capture life as it unfolds during this new phase of his life. Both in personal and philosophical terms, McElwee reflects through self-narration on life, death, love, family, and parenthood.
Adolescents
Duration: 2h15
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Over five years, _Adolescentes_ follows Emma and Anaïs, two inseparable friends from different backgrounds and with very different personalities, through their journey from adolescence to adulthood. First loves, doubts, discoveries and profound transformations punctuate their lives, offering a rare portrait of a generation and a changing France.
A Portrait of Ga
Duration: 10 minutes
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"My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
Duration: 4 minutes
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"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
Colour Poems
Duration: 22 minutes
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Garden Pieces
Duration: 11 minutes
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"_Garden Pieces_ is a set of three pieces: _Round the Garden_ is literally a look right round a back garden, from a central point, repeated da capo. As a garden, it’s a place of potentiality still, but it is a place all right. _Fliers_ is an animated piece, scratched-on, with added dyes. _Grove_, the longest of the three, studies and contemplates a group of trees planted maybe sixty years ago i...
Gan Tang, The Lake
Duration: 28 minutes
Subscription access
"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
New product!Duration: 1h30
Subscription access
Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
Duration: 50 minutes
Subscription access
In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
Feu fantôme
Duration: 58 minutes
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"A long time ago, I was raped by a boy I really liked. A few years later, he reached out to me again to take responsibility for his actions. This film is our open letter to rape culture." — Morgane Ambre
Gods of Stone
Duration: 2h54
Subscription access
Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
New product!Duration: 2h16
Subscription access
"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis....
Diary
Duration: 48 minutes
Subscription access
Larissa faces the many hardships of post-Soviet life: poverty, an alcoholic husband, and an uncertain future. By chance, she discovers her grandmother’s diary, in which she had recorded a dream that seems strangely connected to her own life. A poetic film about memory, family, and the traces of the past.
Time Indefinite
Duration: 3h48
Subscription access
Forty-year-old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage, he turns on his camera to capture life as it unfolds during this new phase of his life. Both in personal and philosophical terms, McElwee reflects through self-narration on life, death, love, family, and parenthood.
Adolescents
Duration: 2h15
Subscription access
Over five years, _Adolescentes_ follows Emma and Anaïs, two inseparable friends from different backgrounds and with very different personalities, through their journey from adolescence to adulthood. First loves, doubts, discoveries and profound transformations punctuate their lives, offering a rare portrait of a generation and a changing France.
A Portrait of Ga
Duration: 10 minutes
Subscription access
"My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
Duration: 4 minutes
Subscription access
"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
Colour Poems
Duration: 22 minutes
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Garden Pieces
Duration: 11 minutes
Subscription access
"_Garden Pieces_ is a set of three pieces: _Round the Garden_ is literally a look right round a back garden, from a central point, repeated da capo. As a garden, it’s a place of potentiality still, but it is a place all right. _Fliers_ is an animated piece, scratched-on, with added dyes. _Grove_, the longest of the three, studies and contemplates a group of trees planted maybe sixty years ago i...
