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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: -
I Am a Spy
In a diaristic film that reflects on archives, surveillance and history making, Sarah Wood asks, ‘We invented cinema, but in an age when we can…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: -
Lucía
In his first feature, Niles Atallah sketches a sensitive portrait of Lucía, a young seamstress who lives with her father Luis in an old house…Published on: -
Jean Gentil
After he is dismissed as a French teacher, middle-aged Haitian man Jean Gentil embarks on a desperate quest for work in Santo Domingo in the…Published on: -
If the Seed Doesn’t Die
Romania about 200 years ago. Peasants drag a wooden church across a frozen lake to their village. They’re not allowed to build one, because they…Published on: -
Los pasos dobles
The French writer and artist François Augiéras (1925-1971) loved adventure, grand gestures and mystification. He once made a series of enormous frescoes in a bunker…Published on: -
Abrir puertas y ventanas
After their grandma dies, the sisters Sofia, Marina and Violeta try to pick up their lives again in the house where the old woman had…Published on: -
Cornelia frente al espejo
She has brought a phial of poison with her. Cornelia has come to her parental home with only one intention: to commit suicide. Why would…Published on: