Once I Entered in a Garden (2013)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 39M
Director : Avi Mograbi
Sinopsis
Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.
Pascal y Carole son pastores. En noviembre de 2010 se embarcan en la larga trashumancia invernal: cuatro meses durante los cuales tendrán que recorrer 600 km de la región suizo-francesa, acompañados de tres burros, cuatro perros y ochocientas ovejas.
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.
En 1984 el director alemán Phillip Gröning pidió permiso a la Orden de los Cartujos para rodar una película en el interior de uno de sus monasterios. Le dijeron que era demasiado pronto. Quizás más adelante. Dieciséis años después recibió una llamada. Había llegado la hora... Los preparativos llevaron dos años, el rodaje uno y la postproducción dos más. Han transcurrido, por tanto, veintiún años hasta su completa finalización. El Gran Silencio muestra por primera vez el día a día dentro del "Grande Chartreuse", el monasterio de referencia en los Alpes franceses de la legendaria Orden de los Cartujos.
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.
It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets, in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality. The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machine-Metropolis is the shadow of daytime activity: a juggernaut plunging through a darkened village, a plague of small birds in the predawn light. The whole thing is underscored by a beautiful ‘composed’ soundtrack, from quietly humming streetlights to reggae and the rumble of armoured cars in Belfast. A strange and remarkable combination of dream, documentary and science-fiction.
Un relato de la vida y la obra del pintor, escultor, arquitecto y diseñador suizo H. R. Giger (1940-2014), padre atormentado de criaturas tan temibles como fascinantes, habitantes de mundos biomecánicos de pesadilla.
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.
The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.
“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The film creates polyphonies of soulful landscapes made up of each individual's highs and lows.
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels deep down under the shiny strip of Sin City. Dave in the dry and lonesome Californian desert and April in simulation for a Mars mission in the Utah desert. Through the hustle, the pain and the laughs, we are whisked away to an unfamiliar world, yet quickly discover the souls we encounter are perhaps not that different from our own.
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.
Fernand Melgar ha seguido durante tres meses, día tras día, a un grupo de inmigrantes precarios antes de poder contar con su confianza, necesaria para la realización de su película. "L’abri" se sumerge en el corazón de un centro de asistencia a los sin techo de Lausana en el que cada noche, durante muchas horas, perforados por el frío punzante, estos hombres y mujeres buscan refugio. Los guardianes, impotentes, se ven en la obligación de plegarse cada noche al ritual cotidiano y terrible de elegir a los pocos que podrán acceder finalmente al búnker (como comúnmente lo llaman los propios inmigrantes) y recibir una comida caliente y una cama. (FILMAFFINITY)
