Signals: First Things First

Overview of films

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  Adulte

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  Carlos Reygadas | 7' | Mexico | None

  Début by Carlos Reygadas is a short Super-8 film with a man, a coffin and a dramatic setting.
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  The Adventure of Denchu Kozo

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  Tsukamoto Shinya | 47' | Japan | None

  Made a year before Tsukamoto’s breakthrough with Tetsuo. Super-8 and no-budget spectacle about a bullied schoolboy, a nice girl, time travel and the b
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  Der Ball

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  Ulrich Seidl | 50' | Austria | None

  Seidl’s second academy film is about the high school graduation party in his birthplace Horn: ritualized hypocrisy and gluttony. This work got Seidl k
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  Brutalität in Stein

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  Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni | 12' | Germany | None

  Début by Kluge is an analysis of the Nazi system based on the architecture it left behind. This experimental documentary – ending a period of…
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  Crespià: The Film Not the Village

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  Albert Serra | 84' | Spain | None

  Loving cult film and idiosyncratic musical portrait of summer festivities in the Catalan village of Crespià, with early performances by the well-known
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  Cute Girl

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  Hou Hsiao-hsien | 90' | Taiwan | None

  Hou Hsiao-hsien started his unsurpassed career with three commercial, melodramatic trivialities that were intended as vehicles for the now almost forg
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  La diga del ghiacciaio

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  Ermanno Olmi | 11' | Italy | None

  Oldest remaining film by the maker of The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a sober and stylish documentary made in his years as a film…

• Dos en la vereda

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  Lisandro Alonso, Catriel Vildosola | 3' | Argentina | None

  Début by Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos, Liverpool) is about the length of one take from his features.
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  Douro, faina fluvial

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  Manoel de Oliveira | 18' | Portugal | None

  Now 100 years old, the Portuguese master De Oliveira is still more innovative, fresher and active than the average debutant. His lyrical documentary d

• Einsvierzig

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  Ulrich Seidl | 16' | Austria | None

  Portrait of a man 4 foot 7 inches tall, but without the relevant sympathetic paternalism. The very first Seidl.

• Les enfants désaccordés

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  Philippe Garrel | 15' | France | None

  Garrel, the ‘Rimbaud of cinema’, made his first short 35mm film when he was 16. A boy and a girl flee school and family.

• Fools

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  Alexey German Jr. | 28' | Russia | None

  Academy film by German Jr. (Last Train, Paper Soldier). Two losers are suddenly stuck: one finds the perfect woman, the other can finally make a…