the cruel machine

Overview of films

• Der Busenfreund

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  Ulrich Seidl | 60' | Austria | -

  New high point in the oeuvre of a notorious documentary-maker. Portrait of strange bosom-lover and mother-hater. From the city of Freud.

• Cat Food Woman

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  Alison Murray | 1' | United Kingdom | -

  Anti-cat-food commercial. Eat the crap yourself!

• Um céu de estrelas

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  Tata Amaral | 70' | Brazil | -

  War between a man and a woman. When she packs her suitcase, her ex rings the bell; the ex from hell.

• Chronic

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  Jennifer Reeves | 38' | USA | -

  Experimental chronicle of insanity. Film-maker plays the role of a woman who mutilates herself.

• Cinema of Transgression

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  180' | -

  Stephen Dwoskin, the most screened cineaste in Rotterdam and maker of Pain is… comments on the films of shocking Americans.

• Cloven Hoofed

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  Dietmar Post | 12' | USA | European premiere

  Insane rantings of a tortured and violent junkie.

• Cure

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  Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 115' | Japan | International premiere

  Original variation on the serial-killer film. Insane psychology student has dangerous hypnotic powers.
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  Cut the Parrot

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  Donigan Cumming | 40' | Canada | -

  See After Brenda.

• Dear…

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  Ansuya Blom | 48' | Netherlands | World premiere

  Visual depiction of a woman suffering from the world. She withdraws from the nightmare into a womb she made herself.

• The Devil Is a Woman

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  Josef von Sternberg | -

• Dobermann

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  Jan Kounen | 103' | France | -

  For anyone who thinks that you can’t go over the top after the ultimate exaggeration. Crime swings. By the maker of Vibroboy.

• The Elegant Spanking

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  Maria Beatty | 30' | USA | -

  See Let the Punishment Fit the Child.