the cruel machine

Overview of films

• The Act of Seeing with Ones Own Eyes

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  Stan Brakhage | -
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  After Brenda

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  Donigan Cumming | 40' | Canada | -

  Hyper-realistic docu-comedies. Video-maker deliberately crosses the boundaries of good taste. About and from the seamy side. See also A Prayer for Net

• Ah Sunflower

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  Robert Klinkert | 30' | Netherlands | -

  Original and antique documentary about Allen Ginsberg made at the height of the hippy era in London. with LSD-psychiatrist Ronald Lang and Black Panth

• Assassin(s)

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  Mathieu Kassovitz | 134' | France | -

  Master assassin takes on an apprentice. The apprentice has no truck with his master’s morals. Cat-calls greeted the film at Cannes. By the maker of…

• The Atrocity Exhibition

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  Jonathan Weiss | 110' | USA | World premiere

  Arty science-fiction based on a book by J.G. – Crash – Ballard. Brain researcher looks back from the future nauseated to our cruel age.

• Bad Mood Woman

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  Alison Murray | 1' | USA | -

  Deadly mood. Anti-sanitary-towel commercial.

• Barracuda

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  Philippe Haïm | 100' | France | -

  New young tenant gets to know his eccentric neighbour and never escapes again. Dutroux looks like Fred Astaire.

• Bay of Blood

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  Mario Bava | 81' | Italy | -

• Bernie

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  Albert Dupontel | 87' | France | -

  Black comedy. Bernie doesn’t stop at anything to find his mum and dad who once put him out with the rubbish. Horrible joke.

• Bilder einer Ausstellung

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  Ulrich Seidl | 47' | Austria | -

  Is this a nice way to present modern art or is it a way to abuse people?

• The Black Glove

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  Maria Beatty | 27' | USA | -

  See Let the Punishment Fit the Child.

• Blood and Black Lace

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  120' | -

  Professor of film analysis from Edinburgh, Paul Willemen, introduces his favourite very anti-feminist Italian B-film.