Les statues meurent aussi
This notorious art documentary, for years banned in France, by Marker and Alain Resnais was based on an exhibition with the title ‘Why is black art in the Ethnological Museum and Greek or Egyptian art in the Louvre or The Metropolitan?’ The filmmakers reject the lack of interest in this art in the context of colonial relations.
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Douro, faina fluvial
Now 100 years old, the Portuguese master De Oliveira is still more innovative, fresher and active than the average debutant. His lyrical documentary d -
La diga del ghiacciaio
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… -
Song About a Flower
‘Sapovnela’ means ‘the flower that no one can find’. A combination of music and colour. First film by Otar Iosseliani. -
Machorka-Muff
Début by Straub already shows his cinematographic style and political preoccupations in a short film about the former Nazi colonel Machorka Muff who w -
Brutalität in Stein
Début by Kluge is an analysis of the Nazi system based on the architecture it left behind. This experimental documentary – ending a period of…
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1953
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
