Laboratory of Unseen Beauty

A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one splendid vision.

When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest of teenage romances!

A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.

Production ceased when River Phoenix died during the shooting of Dark Blood. Two decades later, George Sluizer found a way to finish his film.

The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps.

In 1995, Raúl Ruiz shot La comedie des ombres in Taiwan, but never edited the material. George Clark wonders what this work could have been like.

A filmmaker’s soul-searching becomes intertwined with his attempts to tell the story of Danish non-fiction novelist Thorkild Hansen. His journey will be epic.

An attempt by the Imperial War Museum to create a version of an unfinished Holocaust documentary comes as close as possible to the project’s original intentions.

Clash of the titans: Kluge mixes some of his weirder TV-skits with scenes from one of IFFR-darling Khavn’s more outrageous features. BOOM!

A meta-movie comedy like no other: one actor, two productions (one scrapped), six parts. Avant-garde fun for the masses!

Glawogger offered non-professional cineastes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to shoot a few scenes from their dream projects. An unclassifiable masterpiece.

What will cinema become in the future – and where will it happen? In this mad mix of research/enquiry/essay, Pêra offers a plethora of answers.

The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitable genius.

An early Stan Laurel comedy made using material from two other films – one of which is now considered lost. A true treat in many ways.

On 2 March 1974, Henri Langlois screened a partly impromptu edit of choice cuts from France’s silent film production. An essayist/educational performance preserved.

During the late sixties, Dante performed all-nighters, remixing B-movies, commercials, instructional films, etc. This now makes up the The Movie Orgy – Ultimate Version.

After Munk died while shooting Pasażerka, Lesiewicz completed the film using stills. Would this axiom of concentration camp cinema be as epochal if finished properly?

The unedited audio of an interview with Schoendoerffer meets the filming session’s few remaining images – slowed down. An essay on cinema and ruins.

The archive find of 2018: Rossellini’s first TV work, left unfinished by the master and now moulded into a presentable shape. A revelation!

Film-in-Film2: Zanussi has the protagonist of his previous film meet characters from several earlier movies for a debate on the meaning of life.

After his student workshop project (based on a Gabriel García Márquez story) was terminated, Siṃgh found a small masterpiece in the material already shot.

A splendid post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film based on a comic book which, in turn, was inspired by an earlier attempt to film the same story.

As if by a miracle, several hours of outtakes from a visionary film by Sergei Parajanov resurfaced. A rare insight into a creative mind.

What looks like a by-the-book documentary on WWI turns out to be the biggest and most dazzling experimental film of 2018.

When Ramsaye embarked on this endeavour, he wanted to summarise film's first two decades – but cinema developed faster than he could edit.

A reworking of Giuseppe De Liguoro’s 1911 pictorial Dante interpretation by all means – analog and digital – currently available. A grand audiovisual spectacle!