Get Out of the Car (2010)

Realizado entre los años 1975 y 1982, "Koyaanisqatsi" -primera parte de lo que sería luego una trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)- es un singular documental que refleja la colisión entre dos mundos obligados a convivir: por un lado la vida de los hombres en la sociedad moderna, la vida urbana y occidental, llena de tecnología, ciencia y consumismo. Por otro la naturaleza y el medio ambiente del planeta Tierra. Sin voz humana, tan sólo con el poder de las imágenes y la banda sonora minimalista de Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio presentó este documental ante 5000 personas el 4 de Octubre de 1982 en el Radio City Hall de Nueva York, convirtiéndose al instante en un documental de culto.

Conmovedora visión de Niza, la atmósfera y el tipo de vida de la ciudad. La película se centra principalmente en el contraste entre los ricos ociosos que toman el sol y disfrutan de los lujos de hoteles y casinos, y los barrios pobres de Niza.

Estructurada en tres partes (Creación, Paraíso y La era dorada) y rodada en el desierto del Sahara, esta es sin duda la película menos convencional del director alemán. Sin argumento ni guión determinado, Herzog nos regala una serie de imágenes, palabras y música que funcionan conjuntamente dando un resultado singular. La sensación resultante viene reforzada por una banda sonora con temas de Leonard Cohen, Mozart o la Third Ear Band

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

Inspirado en el documental soviético "Kino-Nedelia" (1918) de Dziga Vertov, Ruttmann realizó en 1927, contando con los mejores fotógrafos alemanes de la época, un documental basado en la vida, durante un día, de la ciudad de Berlín.

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid shots, which also begin to show more and more of the surrounding city, in addition to the skyscrapers themselves.

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and white super 8 film as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of the Antarctic Summer, the film is a startling look at life at the edge of the world.

El 24 de julio de 2010 miles de personas de todo el mundo grabaron un momento de su día para poder enviarlos al proyecto de "Life in a Day", un experimento cinematográfico histórico para crear una película documental sobre un solo día en la tierra. Desde entonces, el director ganador del Oscar Kevin Macdonald y un equipo de editores han visionado más de 80.000 clips (y más de 4.500 horas de grabación) en una película de 90 minutos que ofrece una visión honesta e inspiradora de nuestro mundo.

Tercera parte de la trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002).

Tres niños en una carretera en Islandia, una tripulación somnolienta a bordo de un ferry, un emú en Île de France, un bello rostro de las islas Bijagos, un cementerio de gatos a las afuera de Tokio, vagabundos en Namidabashi, los habitantes de la Isla de Fogo, Cabo Verde, un carnaval en Bissau... Así inicia el relato una mujer desconocida que lee las cartas remitidas por un operador de cámara, Sandor Krasna, que a través del registro de las imágenes de sus viajes se interroga sobre la memoria y la función del recuerdo, "que no es lo contrario del olvido, sino su opuesto", para conformar, como Sei Shônagon, su particular lista de "cosas que hacen latir el corazón".

Aclamado documental sobre la naturaleza del planeta Tierra. Rodada en 24 países diferentes, trata de captar la esencia de la naturaleza y la cultura de la humanidad y sus costumbres, al tiempo que señala las formas en las que el ser humano se relaciona con su medio ambiente. La aparente fragilidad de la vida humana es contrastada con la grandeza de sus obras, subrayándose la desigual relación entre hombre y naturaleza. Baraka no tiene argumento lineal, ni personajes ni diálogos, pero, en medio de estos enormes contrastes, la espiritualidad de la humanidad surge como el elemento más importante que la distingue de otras especies. Un mundo más allá de las palabras.

Nuevo documental del responsable de Baraka, filmado a lo largo de cinco años en veinticinco países de cinco continentes.

Segunda parte de la trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)

Aclamadísimo documental de naturaleza sobre el mundo de los insectos y de las criaturas microscópicas que habitan en un simple jardín.

La ganadora del concurso Miss Virginidad Mundial se casa, se escapa de su marido masoquista y termina involucrada en un mundo de libertinaje.

Un niño que trabaja en el circo de su padre como mago y mimo, y cuya madre es una fanática religiosa que lidera una secta apocalíptica llamada "Santa Sangre", experimenta una serie de atroces vivencias que lo llevan a ser recluido en un hospital psiquiátrico. Ya adulto, emprende un viaje interior cuya meta es liberarse de los fantasmas que lo atosigan. (FILMAFFINITY)

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. Created in 1930, the film was originally planned as the sixth and final part of a much longer work depicting the new space-time.

"Necrology" es un film experimental y antropológico sobre la vida y la muerte en Nueva Yok. Filmado en la Grand Central Station neoyorkina, captura durante casi 12 minutos a numerosas personas anónimas en su rutina diaria en las escaleras mecánicas del metro neoyorkino.

El 25 de julio de 2020, Ridley Scott y el ganador del Premio de la Academia Kevin Macdonald lo invitan a ser parte de Life in a Day, un documental histórico y global que captura un solo día en la Tierra. Vídeos de todo el mundo se entretejen en un largometraje.

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living.

Terminada la guerra, Antonio (Fernando Fernán-Gómez) y Josefina (Analí­a Gadé), abogado y médico respectivamente, buscan trabajo para poder comprarse un piso y vivir juntos, pero tropiezan con enormes dificultades.

The oldest Greek feature film to be saved, starring a burlesque comedian Sfakianos (or Villar), who had trained in France. Villar gets a job at a dry cleaner’s and wanders through Athens. He makes one gaffe after the other and gets involved in various adventures.

Less and Less, Luc Moullet’s 40th film, concerns development and expansion, from 1968 to 2010, of the devices based on computers, automats, interactive terminals and others that can be found everywhere.

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe to numerous museums and private owners in order to film the works of art. In the work of the great painter, Haanstra recognizes his particular interest in man as an individual human being, cutting straight through all the religious motives. And Haanstra also wants to see Rembrandt as an individual.

The real story of Quilombo Olho d'Água from Serra do Talhado, in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, which became institutionally isolated from the rest of the country. Quilombos were runaway slave communities in colonial Brazil.

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. Entitled The Open Road, his remarkable travelogue was conceived as a series of shorts, 26 episodes in all, to be shown weekly at the cinema. The result is a fascinating portrait of inter-war Britain, in which town and country, people and landscapes are captured as never before, in a truly unique and rich colour palette.

Un fascinante mosaico de fotografías nos muestra a los clientes habituales del neoyorkino bar Terminal, desde bebedores compulsivos de clase media trabajadora irlandeses hasta afroamericanos gays, quienes continuamente fueron transformando la vida social del barrio durante los diez años de esplendor del Terminal.

In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.

A young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.

This Oscar-nominated documentary short tracks the shift in the relationship of an individual to his work between the 19th century and today. Focusing on how nails are made, we first see a blacksmith laboring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene then shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a 20th century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow.

A film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these small bits, he builds up a broad picture of life in Israel in the '70s and '80s.

Short directed by Mansour Sora Wade.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.

Standard Gauge is an autobiographical film that examines Morgan Fisher’s work as an editor in the film industry. The film goes through scraps of rejected material along with commentary on the meaning of all the scrapped images. This film is an account and critique of the processes of meaning within film production through an examination of both materialism and the institution of film itself.

Photographed by an all-female crew and directed by the author of Sexual Politics, these are autobiographical interiews with three very different women who talk frankly about their lives, conflicts, and contrasting life styles.

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland, as well as a recent work about the Hudson River.