Deep Focus
Overzicht van films
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A Sunny Day
Ying Liang | 25' | Hong Kong | World premiere
A woman from Hong Kong planning to join the umbrella protests goes to visit her father, who is moving to an old folks’ home. -
La tempesta
Pere Portabella | 6' | Spain | None
Bodies, water, the music of Gioachino Rossini: a hearty cinematic symphony of spectacular beauty and sensuality. -
They Were Just People: an Excerpt
Leslie Thornton | 10' | USA | World premiere
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations: an eyewitness report of atom bom -
This Is Not a Song of Hope
Daniel Aragão | 21' | Brazil | World premiere
Layered, warm and both vital and melancholy short film about the three-cornered relationship between a Dutch female architect, an ambitious actress an -
To Love…
Mikhail Kalik | 73' | USSR | None
Four poignant stories about love and relationships. The film subtly blends fiction and documentary, poetry and sociology, as well as questioning notio -
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Tribute to Art #2
Frank Scheffer, Frans Zwartjes | 14' | Netherlands | World premiere
Homage to art approaches the undefinable phenomenon using a circular motion taking in images and sound. Compressed associations of a highly poetic nat -
Tuschinski – Ode aan de stad
Anne Mercedes Langhorst | Netherlands | None
With her abstract, graphic drawing, the Rotterdam artist refers to the era of art deco, while its changing light patterns refer to cinema. -
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Two Marxists in Hollywood
Zoe Beloff | 26' | USA | International premiere
Sergej Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht both separately tried their luck in Hollywood, in vain. Beloff reincarnated them as two lanky youths. -
Umbracle
Pere Portabella | 85' | Spain | None
Christopher Lee walks through an almost unbearably sunny, yet for the most part curiously empty, Barcelona. Critics discuss censorship. A long excerpt -
Vampir – Cuadecuc
Pere Portabella | 67' | Spain | None
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of trash-meister Jess Franco’s enjoyably mediocre El conde Dracula (1970) gives a decidedly different ironic