First Things First: Seventy Up

In this combined programme

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  Douro, faina fluvial

  • Signals: First Things First

  Now 100 years old, the Portuguese master De Oliveira is still more innovative, fresher and active than the average debutant. His lyrical documentary d
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  La diga del ghiacciaio

  • Signals: First Things First

  Oldest remaining film by the maker of The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a sober and stylish documentary made in his years as a film…
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  Les statues meurent aussi

  • Signals: First Things First

  First documentary by Marker and a cooperation with Resnais. About the role of the West in the demise of African art.
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  Song About a Flower

  • Signals: First Things First

  ‘Sapovnela’ means ‘the flower that no one can find’. A combination of music and colour. First film by Otar Iosseliani.

• Machorka-Muff

  • Signals: First Things First

  Début by Straub already shows his cinematographic style and political preoccupations in a short film about the former Nazi colonel Machorka Muff who w
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  Brutalität in Stein

  • Signals: First Things First

  Début by Kluge is an analysis of the Nazi system based on the architecture it left behind. This experimental documentary – ending a period of…