Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Overview of films
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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 edit.
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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 Parajanov film.
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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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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.
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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 lik
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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 essay
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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.
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Maritime Climates
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitable
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Die gekreuzigt werden
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps.
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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 pe
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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.
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His Nibs
A meta-movie comedy like no other: one actor, two productions (one scrapped), six parts. Avant-garde fun for the masses!