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Golden Sixties: Jan Němec
In a documentary from a series of 26 portraits of the Czechoslovak New Wave filmmakers, director Martin Šulík interviews Jan NěmecPublished on: -
Heart Above the Castle
At the end of his presidency, Václav Havel hosted a NATO summit in Prague. His distant cousin Jan Němec gets behind the scenes to shoot ‘aPublished on: -
Oral History
Asking passers-by on the streets of Japan “What happened in and around Japan between 1900 and 1945?”, artist Meiro Koizumi unveils Japan&rPublished on: -
Belle dormant
Ever since the 1970s, the Spaniard Arrieta has been building an oeuvre that is admired in underground circles and by his colleagues. Now he is…Published on: -
Le Ciel Flamand
In the flat Flemish landscape, along a long straight road, is the brothel Le Ciel Flamand, run by Sylvie and her mother. Sylvie’s six-year-old dPublished on: -
Pearls of the Deep
A manifesto of the Czechoslovak New Wave, this omnibus film consists of five shorts by five filmmakers. Němec’s segment, Impostors, is a portrait of tPublished on: -
Câini
A man inherits a property from his grandfather and discovers the latter was a crime lord. The late grandfather’s accomplices are not ready to giPublished on: -
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
A narrative resistance group tries to change the history and fate of its people in the future by manipulating its past through underground porcelain dPublished on: -
A Boy, a Wall and a Donkey
Three young boys want to make a film in a village without cameras. There is a place they know with plenty of cameras.Published on: -
Die Pferde des Rittmeisters
WWII documentary footage filmed behind the front lines. Von Wedemeyer examines pictorial spaces and boundaries of the subjective camera at war.Published on: