Signals: First Things First
Overview of films
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The Adventure of Denchu Kozo
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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Rey muerto
First short fiction film that Martel was able to realise when she won a screen play competition is often regarded as the starting point of the New Arg
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Koza
With his lyrical short film début, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak, Three Monkees) won the Golden Palm at Cannes. An elderly couple live separately. They have
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Brutalität in Stein
Début by Kluge is an analysis of the Nazi system based on the architecture it left behind. This experimental documentary – ending a period of denial i
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Song About a Flower
‘Sapovnela’ means ‘the flower that no one can find’. A combination of music and colour. First film by Otar Iosseliani.
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The Phantom of Regular Size
The prototype, as it were, of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the classic cyberpunk film that was to make Tsukamoto famous.
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Weg nach Rio
A son revises his father’s graduation film. Shot in 1968 in Zurich and in 2008 in Umbria. A gangster fleeing after a failed raid.
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Pacific Motion
Glawogger, a mate of Seidl since the 1980s and maker of for instance Workingman’s Death, started his career with beautiful studies like this.
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Images of Liberation
Graduation film by Lars Trier. Even then it was unusual, controversial and not always equally understandable in its intentions. About the last days of
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Dos en la vereda
Début by Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos, Liverpool) is about the length of one take from his features.
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Les enfants désaccordés
Garrel, the ‘Rimbaud of cinema’, made his first short 35mm film when he was 16. A boy and a girl flee school and family.
