Laboratory of Unseen Beauty
Overview of films
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Kino im Kopf
Michael Glawogger | 87' | Austria | None
Glawogger offered non-professional cineastes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to shoot a few scenes from their dream projects. An unclassifiable mast -
KINORAMA − Cinema Fora de Órbita
Edgar Pêra | 70' | Portugal | World premiere
What will cinema become in the future – and where will it happen? In this mad mix of research/enquiry/essay, Pêra offers a plethora of ans -
Maritime Climates
Rolands Kalnins | 34' | Latvia | None
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitable -
Mixed Nuts
James Parrott | 19' | USA | None
An early Stan Laurel comedy made using material from two other films – one of which is now considered lost. A true treat in many… -
Montage muet français Palais des Congrès
Henri Langlois | 161' | France | None
On 2 March 1974, Henri Langlois screened a partly impromptu edit of choice cuts from France’s silent film production. An essayist/educational pe -
The Movie Orgy − Ultimate Version
Joe Dante | 280' | USA | None
During the late sixties, Dante performed all-nighters, remixing B-movies, commercials, instructional films, etc. This now makes up the The Movie Orgy -
Passenger
Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz | 62' | Poland | None
After Munk died while shooting Pasażerka, Lesiewicz completed the film using stills. Would this axiom of concentration camp cinema be as epochal if fi -
Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes
Laurent Roth | 58' | France | International premiere
The unedited audio of an interview with Schoendoerffer meets the filming session’s few remaining images – slowed down. An essay -
Le psychodrame
Roberto Rossellini | 53' | France | None
The archive find of 2018: Rossellini’s first TV work, left unfinished by the master and now moulded into a presentable shape. A revelation! -
Revisited
Krzysztof Zanussi | 96' | Poland | None
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. -
Sea of Lost Time
Gurvinder Singh | 45' | India | World premiere
After his student workshop project (based on a Gabriel García Márquez story) was terminated, Siṃgh found a small masterpiece in the mate -
Soy tóxico
Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés | 81' | Argentina | European premiere
A splendid post-mega-disaster wasteland zombie film based on a comic book which, in turn, was inspired by an earlier attempt to film the same story.&n