Vita Brevis
Overview of films
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By The Ways, A Journey With William Eggleston
Outstanding, creative quest for – and analysis of – life and work of the photographer (and videomaker, artist and musician) William Egg
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Figner, the End of a Silent Century
A film about oblivion, illusions, memory, history and progress, the everyday drudge and Russian cinema, silence and standing still. And about the s
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Jaap Hillenius, poging om dichterbij te komen
About the life and work of the Dutch painter Jaap Hillenius, akin to George Seurat, who died in a car crash in 1999. The film is made up of three f
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Portrait of Dora Dolz
Film portrait of the Spanish visual artist Dora Dolz, made by her daughter, sketches a picture of the possibilities of taking your life and your fa
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Meticulously designed and committed lack & white drama about the 1950s confrontation between the Communist hunting Senator Joseph E. McCarthy
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Gie
One of the most ambitious films ever made in Indonesia is a biographical epic based on the posthumous diaries of the legendary journalist and activ
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Caravaggio, The Last Act
Caravaggio in Naples. Then and now. Neapolitan Martone makes a beautiful visual poem about the years that Caravaggio spent in his city after being
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Il silenzio dell’Allodola
A Czech actor beautifully plays the role of hunger strike and IRA member Bobby Sands in a furious, stylised, baroque debut film by a young Italian.
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My Nikifor
Nikifor was a Polish naive painter, here played by the fantastic eight-year-old Theatre actress (!) Feldman. The prize-winning film describes his a
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The Sun
In Sokurov’s series about 20th-century tyrants, this time crucial days from the life of Emperor Hirohito, just before and after the Japanese
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Klimt (director’s cut)
A virtuoso homage to an artist and his life, the film is set against the rich historical tapestry of the fin de siècle. Screening of the director&#
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William Eggleston in the Real World
Almereyda, who has directed Nadia and Hamlet, made her beautiful portrait of the legendary ‘father of modern colour photography’, Willi