U.S.A. | 2023 | 113 min Looking peachy at 82, Joan Baez mustered the courage and looked at her past, revealing in front of the film camera how she managed to balance her public image as a singer-songwriter, and symbol of counterculture, with a private dimension loaded with sorrow and never-solved family traumas. An untold […]
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CAITI BLUES
France, Canada | 2023 | 84 min Like so many kids, Caiti Lord has a dream too. To pursue her dream, she moves to the West, directed to San Francisco. At some point she runs out of money. She makes a temporary stop in Madrid, New Mexico – only to make ends meet, she says […]
KISSING GORBACIOV
Italy | 2023 | 97 min CCCP in the USSR – this is how one could epitomize the historical scope of KISSING GORBACIOV, the document of a crazy season of Italian music. Creative streams would run throughout the 1980’s against the tide, in spite of the apparent hedonism of the Reagan era. The band composed […]
PETER DOHERTY: STRANGER IN MY OWN SKIN
France, UK | 2023 | 93 min It could be the same old story of rise-and-fall, sex-and-drugs-and-rock’n’roll, the swan song of rock music, haughty and furious like all last scions of dying dynasties. Instead, the point of view is a privileged one, i.e., that of filmmaker and musician Katia de Vidas, who began by filming […]
ANTIPOP
Italy | 2023 | 55 min Ivrea and its red towers, the venue of the most violent and craziest carnival than any Halloween ever, dominate the autobiographical story told by Marco Jacopo Bianchi, aka Cosmo. ANTI-POP is about a boy who has come up from a small town in Paranoid Piemonte to embrace music. The indie […]
OF DREAMS IN THE DREAM OF ANOTHER MIRROR
DE SONGES AU SONGE D’UN AUTRE MIROIR France | 2023 | 17 min Towards the film’s ending, one of the characters says, “you are telling a story without images through images, and I believe you will fail because our story goes beyond your narration.” Du Songe Au Songe d’un Autre Miroir is played on the […]
THE GHOST FROM MARIUPOL
LE FANTÔME DE MARIOUPOL Switzerland | 2023 | 10 min In the spring of 2022, dramatic accounts of Mariupol under siege are being relayed by media all over the world. In those same days, film director Marie Chemin opens her browser and walks down the streets of the city through Street View, searching for a […]
ARDENT OTHER
LE MAL DES ARDENTS France | 2022 | 16 min A crowd of ravished faces are looking at the cathedral of Notre Dame on fire, passing from incredulousness to grief, from mesmerisation to fear. With its back to the object that everyone is watching, the film draws us in a collective spectacle of gazes: every […]
LE TARANTOLE DORMONO SOTTO LE PIETRE
Belgium , Italy | 2023 | 27 min A film that delineate a matrilineal genealogy developed around the phenomenon of tarantism. An anthropological research that is based on an intimate investigation and takes the shape of an experiment in which images are multiplied on a screen that holds up to three shots simultaneously, combining artist’s […]
MY RAGE IS UNDERGROUND
MINHA RAIVA É UNDERGROUND Portugal | 2023 | 13 min “You leave the club at 6am. You walk home. It takes 15 minutes. You still hear the hubbub of people getting out of the club. You stop listening. Three cars pass by on your way. The bakery next door is already open. You are a […]
