Deep Focus
Overzicht van films
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Rebel Citizen
Pamela Yates | 76' | USA | European premiere
Lauded as cinematographer for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, American Graffiti and The Conversation, Haskell Wexler was also despised by the Hollywo -
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Adachi Masao, Wakamatsu Koji | 71' | Japan | None
Foreshadowing Adachi Masao’s own decision to participate in the Japanese Red Army and the Palestinian resistance, the curious newsreel propaganda film -
Remembering the Pentagons
Azadeh Navai | 23' | Iran | International premiere
Sensual, lyrical depiction of the filmmaker’s earliest memories of the overwhelming smells and colours of Iran. -
Rotterdam Classics: Wederopbouw
70' | Netherlands | None
Cinematographic collages show post-war reconstruction of the Netherlands. Shots of buildings are intercut at high speed, making the nation look like o -
Scales in the Spectrum of Space
Fern Silva | 7' | USA | International premiere
A dive into the collective memory of the City of Chicago. In a very associative way, Silva samples 35 films to compile a mini city… -
Sex Game
Adachi Masao | 71' | Japan | None
Sex and radical politics intertwine in Adachi Masao’s pink film that taps into the zeitgeist of 1960s Japan. Shot behind the barricades during a real- -
Simulacrum Tremendum
Khavn | 780' | Philippines | World premiere
Thirteen hours is quite something, and in this case certainly not only for the viewer. Filmmaker-poet-composer Khavn will accompany the film on the pi -
Sixty Six
Lewis Klahr | 90' | USA | International premiere
Twelve cutout animations form a set of stories in which figures from Greek mythology and pulp novels of the 1960s meet in old advertising photos.… -
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Ben Rivers | 96' | United Kingdom | None
In a film as mysterious as its title suggests, Ben Rivers portrays making a film as an exhausting and endless odyssey. Even though Rivers’ colleague, -
Something Between Us
Jodie Mack | 10' | USA | European premiere
Abstract animation artist Jodie Mack created a choreographed motion study of light and costume jewelry without using a single frame of animation. Rain -
El sopar
Pere Portabella | 50' | Spain | None
Five political activists discuss their experiences in and outside prison – clandestinely. A key masterpiece of cinematic activism. Screens together wi -
Still Light
Nova Paul | 7' | New Zealand | None
Homage to New Zealand poet and filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul has the same radical simplicity as her work. Fresh, sweet film poem with a beautiful…