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Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
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97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Animus femina
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Four women in close contact with wildlife explore our relationship with living beings through repair, reflection, art and "living-with". Four exceptional journeys that invite us to decenter our human gaze and rethink our ways of inhabiting the world in a time of climate crisis.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
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In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a work based on his experiences living with AIDS in Toronto, but he died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing it. For three decades, his work-in-progress was considered "long-lost" until it resurfaced at The ArQuives. In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi Chan combines Lloyd Wong's footage with fragments of her research notes to ref...
Orbits
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Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son’s curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine’s...
The Rose Family
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In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
On the Adamant
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
The Trial
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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 ...
Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
Subscription access
97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
Subscription access
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Animus femina
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Four women in close contact with wildlife explore our relationship with living beings through repair, reflection, art and "living-with". Four exceptional journeys that invite us to decenter our human gaze and rethink our ways of inhabiting the world in a time of climate crisis.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
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In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a work based on his experiences living with AIDS in Toronto, but he died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing it. For three decades, his work-in-progress was considered "long-lost" until it resurfaced at The ArQuives. In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi Chan combines Lloyd Wong's footage with fragments of her research notes to ref...
Orbits
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Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son’s curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine’s...
The Rose Family
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In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
On the Adamant
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
The Trial
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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 ...
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The Shape of Things
Duration: 20 minutes
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A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
Bloody Mess
Duration: 9 minutes
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When filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. But it turned out she had fibroids. _Bloody Mess_ is a short, personal, animated documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by actor Susan Kent) on their harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.
The Little Ancestor
Duration: 22 minutes
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On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
Duration: 46 minutes
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April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
Duration: 44 minutes
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
New product!Duration: 2h04
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The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
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97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Rojek
Duration: 4h14
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_Rojek_ encounters incarcerated members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) through their personal stories. These conversations are...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
New product!Duration: 1h39
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Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
The Shape of Things
Duration: 20 minutes
Subscription access
A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
Bloody Mess
Duration: 9 minutes
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When filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. But it turned out she had fibroids. _Bloody Mess_ is a short, personal, animated documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by actor Susan Kent) on their harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.
The Little Ancestor
Duration: 22 minutes
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On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
Duration: 46 minutes
Subscription access
April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
Duration: 44 minutes
Subscription access
In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
New product!Duration: 2h04
Subscription access
The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
Subscription access
97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
Subscription access
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
Rojek
Duration: 4h14
Subscription access
_Rojek_ encounters incarcerated members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) through their personal stories. These conversations are...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
New product!Duration: 1h39
Subscription access
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
