Cinema Regained

Overview of films

• Straight and Narrow

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  Tony Conrad | 10' | USA | -

  A subjective screen experience in motion and colour. Black & white flicker generates subtle but precise patterns of colour, using horizontal and vertical stripes.
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  Sukiyaki

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  Tony Conrad | USA | -

  Film performance work with food and burner, length indeterminate.
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  The Sum of Perfection

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  Franklin Miller | 3' | USA | None

  Vertical shots of water and fire are woven together, till all is water.

• Summer in the Fields

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  Wim van der Linden | 12' | Netherlands | -

  Sad movie: about all the good things that country life has to offer, especially in the summer.
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  Sunshine Singapore

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  Rajendra Gour | 7' | Singapore | None

  A portrait of Singapore – which today looks stridently different, making this an important historical record.
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  Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song

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  Melvin Van Peebles | 97' | USA | -

  Pioneer of the blaxploitation genre is a violent story of black power and oppression and sets the standard for films like Shaft, Superfly and The…
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  Switzerland Ponders

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  Henry Brandt | 22' | Switzerland | None

  A critical self-portrait of Switzerland in five short movements, made for the great National Exposition of 1964. A watershed documentary restored.
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  TABOO – Amos Guttman

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  Shauly Melamed | 76' | Israel | World premiere

  Romanian-born gay Israeli filmmaker Amos Guttman is remembered through excerpts from his last interview.
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  Taiwan Black Movies

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  Hou Chi-jan | 60' | Taiwan | European première

  A prickling documentary that brings back to life a Taiwanese film genre that was given up for dead. In a time of strict political censorship,…
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  Take Your Bags

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  Camille Billops | 10' | USA | None

  Essay on cultural heritage, its violent appropriation, and mixed feelings provoked by the works of Dalí or Picasso.
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  Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo

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  Yamanaka Sadao | 92' | Japan | None

  An axiomatic masterpiece of ironically humanist samurai cinema in a newly restored version that includes recently found scenes considered long lost.

• Tapestry

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  Francien van Everdingen | 3' | Netherlands | World premiere

  Small peepholes give us a glimpse of a hidden colourful world.