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Here Come The Videofreex
In 1968, Sony introduced the first portable video camera, the PortaPak. A few took advantage of the new medium to tell their own stories and…Published on: -
Internationale
In the 1960s, Alexander Shein founded the film studio SOVPOLIKADR to produce propaganda films. But in fact he used it for avant-garde experiments with multi-screen…Published on: -
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Polish-born director Walérian Borowczyk (1923-2006) had one of the strangest careers in cinema, from acclaimed animation films alongside Chris Marker in the 1950s to erotic…Published on: -
Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark.
On 24 August 1992, a group of rioters in Rostock, cheered on by more than 3,000 spectators, set fire to an apartment building where 150…Published on: -
Night and Fog in Zona
After the South Korean film critic Jung Sung-il saw Wang Bing’s monumental, nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks at IFFR 2003, he…Published on: -
Flowers of Taipei – Taiwan New Cinema
It is more than 30 years ago that the Taiwan New Cinema movement emerged and flourished, closely related to the changing political climate in Taiwan.…Published on: -
Loin des hommes
French colonial Algeria, 1954: the War of Independence is about to break out. This is the birthplace of Albert Camus, author of the short story…Published on: -
Speak in Tongues
When someone speaks in tongues, they speak a language unknown, possessed, as it were, by a foreign idiom. In six panoramas by the filmmakers of…Published on: -
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
It almost sounds like a Coen Brothers movie set in the Middle East. The Palestinian car thief Mousa tries to amass as much money as…Published on: -
Qarantina
In today’s Iraq, a hitman and a family are condemned to each other by circumstance. He looks down from above on the courtyard where the…Published on: