IFFR 2006

Nina Kusturica

Eva Testor

Using conversations with Michael Haneke, all was on the road, a picture is painted of the way in which this Austrian director films and edits and about his relationship to the audience and the media.

Cinema Regained

24 Wirklichkeiten in der Sekunde

Marie Menken

Marie Menken: 'A long day from the life of pop artist Andy Warhol, reduced to a few minutes. A document.'

Andy Warhol

Animations of mosaics and Moorish architecture.

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

A new version of a famous film, made for Menken's husband - poet and film maker Willard Maas.

Bagatelle for Willard Maas

Richard Crawford

After a brief run, Crawford's original psychedelic anti-Vietnam film from 1970 disappeared from the circuit for some dubious reasons and ended up on the shelf. Fortunately the director recently managed to get back the rights. With 'sounds-on-weed and activism' by Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Steve Miller Band and Country Joe &amp; The Fish.

Captain Milkshake

Mark LaPore

Largely a portrait of Calcutta, but the film can also lead us to make personal assumptions about a 'lost' New York.

The Glass System

Sequences that are mostly filmed from a vehicle in motion

Go! Go! Go!

Roberto Rossellini

Between 1957 and 1959 Roberto Rossellini made a special four-episodes portrait of India, documenting the interaction between human and animal, tradition and technology. An intriguing combination of documentary and fictional story elements was an instant film classic.

India matri bhumi

Mary Jordan

The documentary portrait made with a great deal of research of one of the most prominent figures from the American avant-garde scene, actor/photographer/film maker Jack Smith (1932-1989), made up of many fragments from his extravagant films and interviews with connoisseurs and friends. Just before the festival it came out that some last elements could not be added to the film in time, therefore a work-in-progress screening.

Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis (work in progress)

This film, a portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), searches the streets of the city to see how people are doing and reflects the changing landscape of a city that is both mediaeval and modern.

Kolkata

Yang Chia-yun

One of the most typical so-called Taiwan Black Movies (see also the documentary in this programme about a B-film genre that has disappeared) in terms of the theme of the `female avenger'. Includes a very unpleasant rape scene and an exciting revenge sequence with a hidden ideology.

The Lady Avenger

And magical loop of time changing form with a snow daughter, an orphan of the storm. Reminiscent of the fairy tale by Anderson about the little match girl.

Lunatic Princess

Joe Dante

Part of a 13 part series. Where other directors chose for ` blood and Gore' Dante committed himself with the worrying reality with brilliant and anti-Iraq-War horror that shakes up the insensitivity and hypocrisy of the Bush White House: Iraq veterans stand up from the dead and sabotage the American elections.

Masters of Horror: Homecoming

Mary Menken: 'Game and fantasy that seeks its solace in pixilation.'

Moonplay

K. Asif

Biggest Indian film hit of all time returns in a restored and completely coloured version!It took nine years to make the original (1960) and the romantic story made use of breathtaking sets, historic costumes, thousands of extras, camels and horses.

Mughal-e-Azam

Guy Maddin

Charming homage by Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin to the great Italian film maker Roberto Rossellini.

My Dad Is 100 Years Old

Toe-curling enjoyment with the enthusiastic incompetence of Z-film makers from all over the world but also a surprising - and occasionally shocking - confrontation with the boundaries of exploitation filming.

Nacht van de Wansmaak: The Final Chapter

Marie Menken: 'These notes are too minuscule to comment on, but one or two have come to be among my favourite films.'

Notebook

Martina Kudlácek

Diary like portrait in which friends reminisce about the grand old lady of the American avant-garde: Marie Menken (1909-1970). She inspired artists such as Brakhage and Warhol and was the model for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Notes on Marie Menken

Andrei Ujica

Exciting moment in history with cosmonauts who left as Soviet citizens and returned as Russians.

Out of the Present

Sophie Fiennes

A unique journey through film history. Been now world-famous psychoanalyst and culture theoretician Slavoj Zizek takes us using famous film fragments to the deepest crypts of the human psyche.

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema Part 1 & 2

Christiaan van Schermbeek

Moois Media left in late December for a few European capitals to investigate the spirit of the Rotterdam Festival with 10 illustrious film directors. No comprehensive list, but a collection of energetic individualists who stand up for the wayward, committed and innovative cinema that is the heart of the Rotterdam Festival.

Simply Cinema

Shots of the countryside of Sudan, Eastern Europe and Chinatown in New York, serenade human uprooting, insufficient information and the mutual influence of the First and Third worlds.

The Sleepers

Hou Chi-jan

A prickling documentary that brings back to life a Taiwanese film genre that was given up for dead. In a time of strict political censorship, an unexpected amount suddenly seems possible in the unsuspected corner of sex and violence exploitation films. Together with The Lady Avenger, a high point from the genre.

Taiwan Black Movies

Philip Solomon

A valentine card or a greetings card, a well meant homage to courage and perseverance in the form of a videogame that Wittgenstein could play.

Untitled (for David Gatten)

William Eggleston

Robert Gordon

The famous photographer Eggleston started work in 1973 with the first consumer video camera. These recently edited images show an unadorned parade of family and (extravagant) friends in the Deep South of the USA, where not most notice was taken of a glass or a pill.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025