W.R. – MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA Serbia, Germany | 1972 | 84 min Four – or even more – films in one: a documentary on early seventies United States; an educational movie on Wilhelm Reich; a feature film on a Yugoslav Marxist woman who advocates free love in the spirit of Communism; and an essay on the […]
Tag: 64 Festival dei Popoli
POPSICLES
Cile | 1984-86 | 5 min As often happens with women artists, Popsicles represents a peculiar item in an otherwise lesser-known body of work produced by Chilean artist Gloria Camiruaga. Filmed between 1984 and 1986 in the States and Chile, her video is made of extreme close-ups of young women intent on sucking something that, […]
BETWEEN 10 AND 100 HERTZ
ENTRE 10 ET 100 HERTZ France | 2023 | 18 min The reinforced concrete structures of a neighbourhood are trembling to the rhythm of its imminent demolition. An engineer is carrying out geophonic recordings of the ground. During the measurements, he meets the people who live in the streets nearby, thus making up a portrait […]
THE SONG OF THE YEARS TO COME
EL CANTO DE LOS AÑOS NUEVOS Spain | 2023 | 23 min A journey to the mysterious island of Gomera, an ancestral, timeless place where past and present mingle, reconnecting the inhabitants with the ancient history of their ancestors. In the seclusion of the mountains, a man wanders through the caves dreaming of flying; some […]
TROUBLE
UK | 2023 | 30 min The aerial pictures from the Crawford Collection of the London University College Archaeology Institute are populated with ghostly, disturbing presences evoked by Miranda Pennell. Apparently worthless details surface from the archives of the British domination in the Middle East – clues to the hidden violence lurking in images that […]
LA RICOMPARSA DELLE LUCCIOLE
Italy | 2023 | 30 min It is a magical debut the one made by Cristiano Giamporcaro, a young director who has just graduated from the Palermo Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The dry landscape of the Sicilian hinterland, dramatically punctuated with ghostlike buildings, welcomes ten-year-old Giorgio and an elderly shepherd whose daily life unravels between […]
EVER SINCE, I HAVE BEEN FLYING
O GÜNDÜR BU GÜNDÜR UÇUYORUM Switzerland | 2023 | 19 min Vakıf, a sixty-year-old Kurd who grew up in a nomadic tribe on the mountains of south-eastern Turkey, remembers moments from his youth that marked his life. He goes back on his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field […]
I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU WILL BE TOMORROW
JE NE SAIS PAS OÙ VOUS SEREZ DEMAIN France | 2023 | 60 min Inside the Marseille immigrant detention centre (CRA), doctor Reem Mansour provides general medical advice for the migrants waiting to be repatriated. Their life is in standby. No one knows the destiny awaiting tomorrow. The woman does her best to help them, […]
IN LIMBO
Germany | 2023 | 32 min At the height of the Cold War, a man considers ending his life to escape enlistment in the national army. But is he really free to decide his own fate? The tape rewinds to tell a backstory with possible tragic consequences. Kiesling is called to arms and is subjected […]
STAND OUT OF MY SUNLIGHT
ÔTE-TOI DE MON SOLEIL Belgium | 2023 | 50 min Joseph is an elderly man who must leave his home. He has travelled across the city with his cart for years, piling up the most diverse reams of paper, collecting objects of all kinds, and transforming his apartment in a labyrinthine chaos. The camera explores […]