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Land of Desire – Happy Is the New Black
Land of Desire questions today’s increasingly consumerist society and our desire-driven media landscape. To what behaviour does desire lead us? SeeingPublished on: -
Innocence of Memories
Grant Gee’s audiovisual love letter to the nights of Istanbul borrows its story from The Museum of Innocence, the name of both the book by…Published on: -
Umbracle
Christopher Lee walks through an almost unbearably sunny, yet for the most part curiously empty, Barcelona. Critics discuss censorship. A long excerptPublished on: -
The Masked Monkeys
Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death mePublished on: -
We Make Couples
We Make Couples is a master documentary maker’s six-years-in-the-making Marxist love story. Crammed full of thoughts on cinema, politics and the pleasPublished on: -
Malgré la nuit
The term is used too often, but the stylish Malgré la nuit really is a Lynchian film, about loss and jealousy. Lenz returns to Paris…Published on: -
Suburra
Mafia and politics collide on a real estate project in Rome, leading to uneasy alliances, treason and bloodbaths. After adapting the crime hits RomanzPublished on: -
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin
Guy Maddin creates artificial worlds reminiscent of films from a distant past. Full of dream logic, spirits and perversions – but always humour. In thPublished on: -
The Other Side
The seamy side of the American dream is exposed in this intimate portrait of people who have been forgotten by society in the deep south…Published on: -
B-ROLL with Andre
A documentary-style detective with anonymous testimony about Andre, who proves more than just a brilliant crook. Clichés scrutinised with humour.Published on: