Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Overview of films
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Piet Zwart Symposium: Towards a Matenadaran of Film
Join an international ensemble of filmmakers and programmers for a day-long exploration of the challenges and opportunities of restoring a Parajano
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Enjoy the very special beauty of incomplete films, and find out how movies can serve as accidental archives. A programme of surprises!
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Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (The March of the Movies)
When Ramsaye embarked on this endeavour, he wanted to summarise film’s first two decades – but cinema developed faster than he could ed
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Revisited
Film-in-Film2: Zanussi has the protagonist of his previous film meet characters from several earlier movies for a debate on the meaning of life.
Double Ghosts
In 1995, Raúl Ruiz shot La comedie des ombres in Taiwan, but never edited the material. George Clark wonders what this work could have been
Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes
The unedited audio of an interview with Schoendoerffer meets the filming session’s few remaining images – slowed down. An ess
Temple of Cinema #1: Sayat Nova Outtakes
As if by a miracle, several hours of outtakes from a visionary film by Sergei Parajanov resurfaced. A rare insight into a creative mind.
Maritime Climates
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitab
Die gekreuzigt werden
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps.
Montage muet français Palais des Congrès
On 2 March 1974, Henri Langlois screened a partly impromptu edit of choice cuts from France’s silent film production. An essayist/educational
Mixed Nuts
An early Stan Laurel comedy made using material from two other films – one of which is now considered lost. A true treat in many ways.
His Nibs
A meta-movie comedy like no other: one actor, two productions (one scrapped), six parts. Avant-garde fun for the masses!