Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Overview of films
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Âmes de fous
Germaine Dulac | 24' | France | None
A few scenes and photos is all that remains of the film Âmes de fou. What might it have been? This performance reconstruction offers one… -
Apple in the River
Aivars Freimanis | 76' | Latvia | None
When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest o -
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! -
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. -
The Better Way Back to the Soil
Hirakawa Youki | 8' | Japan | None
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme. -
Dark Blood
George Sluizer | 86' | Netherlands | None
Production ceased when River Phoenix died during the shooting of Dark Blood. Two decades later, George Sluizer found a way to finish his film. -
Die gekreuzigt werden
Georg Kundert | 28' | Austria | None
The remnants of a propaganda film against anti-Semitism. We know the story well enough to fill in the gaps. -
Double Ghosts
George Clark | 31' | Chile | World premiere
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… -
The Gentle Pain
Carsten Brandt | 280' | Denmark | World premiere
A filmmaker’s soul-searching becomes intertwined with his attempts to tell the story of Danish non-fiction novelist Thorkild Hansen. His journey -
German Concentration Camp Factual Survey
Sidney Bernstein | 75' | United Kingdom | None
An attempt by the Imperial War Museum to create a version of an unfinished Holocaust documentary comes as close as possible to the project’s ori -
Happy Lamento
Alexander Kluge | 90' | Germany | None
Clash of the titans: Kluge mixes some of his weirder TV-skits with scenes from one of IFFR-darling Khavn’s more outrageous features. BOOM! -
His Nibs
Gregory La Cava | 56' | USA | None
A meta-movie comedy like no other: one actor, two productions (one scrapped), six parts. Avant-garde fun for the masses!