Âmes de fous
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.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
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.
24'
France
IFFR 2019
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!
76'
Latvia
IFFR 2019
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.
8'
Japan
IFFR 2019
Production ceased when River Phoenix died during the shooting of Dark Blood. Two decades later, George Sluizer found a way to finish his film.
86'
USA
IFFR 2019
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps.
28'
Austria
IFFR 2019
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.
31'
Taiwan
IFFR 2019
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.
280'
Denmark
IFFR 2019
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.
75'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
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!
90'
Germany
IFFR 2019
A meta-movie comedy like no other: one actor, two productions (one scrapped), six parts. Avant-garde fun for the masses!
56'
USA
IFFR 2019
Glawogger offered non-professional cineastes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to shoot a few scenes from their dream projects. An unclassifiable masterpiece.
87'
Austria
IFFR 2019
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.
70'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitable genius.
34'
Latvia
IFFR 2019
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.
19'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
161'
France
IFFR 2019
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.
280'
USA
IFFR 2019
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?
62'
Poland
IFFR 2019
The unedited audio of an interview with Schoendoerffer meets the filming session’s few remaining images – slowed down. An essay on cinema and ruins.
58'
France
IFFR 2019
The archive find of 2018: Rossellini’s first TV work, left unfinished by the master and now moulded into a presentable shape. A revelation!
53'
France
IFFR 2019
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.
96'
Poland
IFFR 2019
After his student workshop project (based on a Gabriel García Márquez story) was terminated, Siṃgh found a small masterpiece in the material already shot.
45'
India
IFFR 2019
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.
81'
Argentina
IFFR 2019
As if by a miracle, several hours of outtakes from a visionary film by Sergei Parajanov resurfaced. A rare insight into a creative mind.
IFFR 2019
What looks like a by-the-book documentary on WWI turns out to be the biggest and most dazzling experimental film of 2018.
109'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2019
When Ramsaye embarked on this endeavour, he wanted to summarise film's first two decades – but cinema developed faster than he could edit.
96'
USA
IFFR 2019
A reworking of Giuseppe De Liguoro’s 1911 pictorial Dante interpretation by all means – analog and digital – currently available. A grand audiovisual spectacle!
64'
Canada
IFFR 2019