Signals: First Things First
Overzicht van films
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Adulte
Carlos Reygadas | 7' | Mexico | None
Début by Carlos Reygadas is a short Super-8 film with a man, a coffin and a dramatic setting. -
The Adventure of Denchu Kozo
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 -
Der Ball
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 -
Brutalität in Stein
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… -
Crespià: The Film Not the Village
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 -
Cute Girl
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 -
La diga del ghiacciaio
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
Lisandro Alonso, Catriel Vildosola | 3' | Argentina | None
Début by Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos, Liverpool) is about the length of one take from his features. -
Douro, faina fluvial
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
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
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
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…