Brakhage (1998)

En 1962, los cineastas Alfred Hitchcock y François Truffaut se encerraron para tener una larga conversación de cincuenta horas y quinientas preguntas sobre el cine del maestro del suspense. Hitchcock se encontraba en la cima de su creatividad, y Truffaut ya había hecho Los 400 golpes y Tirad sobre el pianista. El resultado fue el libro El cine según Hitchcock, un texto imprescindible para los amantes y estudiosos del séptimo arte.

Documental que narra el complicado rodaje de la película "The Boondock Saints" (1999).

Durante el octubre de 1994, tres estudiantes de cine en el Montgomery College, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard y Michael Williams realizaron la propuesta de crear un proyecto para presentarla en la clase de cine, el proyecto llamado por Heather "El Proyecto de la Bruja de Blair" contaba de entrevistas con los residentes del pueblo de Burkittsville, Maryland, sobre la bruja local.

Documental sobre el rodaje de "Abierto hasta el amanecer", que describe el enloquecido ambiente de sus 10 semanas de rodaje. En algunos países se exhibió en salas de cine.

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.

Una directora de cine en apuros siente que sus compañeros están perdiendo la fe en su capacidad para triunfar, así que decide probarse a sí misma terminando su última película abandonada... y cometiendo el asesinato perfecto.

Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.

Conocido por la realización de éxitos como "El sexto sentido", "Señales" o "El protegido", el guionista, productor y director de cine de origen indio, M. Night Shyamalan, es el creador de un mundo etéreo de suspense, sólo comparable al suyo propio. "El secreto de M. Night Shyamalan" es un thriller al estilo de la película "El Proyecto de la bruja de Blair", que muestra a un personaje rodeado de secretos. El documental se inicia cuando el director, Nathaniel Khan, trata de entrevistarlo durante el rodaje de "El bosque". El equipo se traslada al lugar y, mientras espera, recoge con sus cámaras los misterios que lo rodean. En el documental tratan de hacer creer al espectador que Shyamalan posee poderes, curiosamente, los mismos que algunos de sus personajes; aderezado con entrevistas supuestamente no autorizadas a actores de la talla de Johnny Depp, o la supuesta foto fantasma en la que Shyamalan sale algo borroso.

A principios de los ochenta, una estudiante de cine encuentra la forma de expresarse cuando se involucra emocionalmente con un hombre sofisticado pero turbio.

Una pareja se adentra en los bosques de Willow Creek en busca de la foto que demuestre la existencia del bigfoot.

Documental que echa un vistazo a algunas de las más grandes películas para adultos realizadas, y a la evolución de la tecnología utilizada en el género.

El cineasta Sandy Bates, legendario creador de comedias, está harto de ser gracioso. Al borde de un ataque de nervios, Bates asiste a una retrospectiva de su obra que se celebra un fin de semana, y que le obligará a reflexionar sobre la misma, sobre los recuerdos de su gran amor Dorrie y sobre las virtudes de sentar la cabeza con su nueva novia Isabel. Bates se debatirá por encontrar una razón por la que seguir viviendo.

Documental que recoge la vida de Bruce Lee, una de las mayores leyendas de las artes marciales. El especial cuenta con la participación de familiares, amigos y personalidades del cine y el deporte como Mickey Rourke o Kobe Bryant.

Documental de detrás de las escenas sobre la creación de Avatar. Utiliza imágenes del desarrollo de la película, así como material de archivo de la producción de Titanic en 1995. También se incluyen numerosas entrevistas con actores, artistas y otros miembros del equipo. El documental fue lanzado como una característica de bonificación en la edición extendida de coleccionista de Avatar.

A documentary directed by Winding Refn's wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.

Un chico acaba de mudarse a su nueva casa pero se da cuenta de que algo muy extraño ocurre en la casa de sus vecinos.

Rob Grant and Mike Kovac receive a disturbing fan video inspired by their previous horror movie Mon Ami, motivating them to investigate the responsibility of filmmakers in portraying violence in movies. In their pursuit of the truth they are unwittingly introduced to the real world of violent criminals and their victims.

A young man recruits a film student to help him prove the existence of an urban legend.

Max Spencer, a YouTube celebrity psychologist, host of the show ‘Psychology-Inside/Out’, sets himself the challenge of getting an intensely agoraphobic woman to leave her home in just ten days. However, as the minutes, hours and seconds count down, a creepy local legend about the black magic practicing Green Eyes that holds the town in it's grip, starts to become a horrifying reality... Combining the best elements of the cursed found footage genre with spellbinding pagan visuals, this is something of a dark fairytale for adults. Starring FrightFest favourites, presenter Emily Booth and HELLRAISER’s Nicholas Vince.

A documentary about the making of The Turin Horse, the last film directed by Hungarian master Béla Tarr.

In a 13-minute navigation, Nestler takes us downstream the Rhine River. The opportunity of cheap water transport kept prices of raw material down and made the Rhine one of the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world.

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 film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives Ivankovic); the second plot line deals with a drug addict called Maja (Marija Skaricic) who decides to have sex with an US Navy sailor called Franky (Coolio) in exchange for some heroin; the third one shows a young couple, Luka and Andela (Vicko Bilandzic and Ivana Roscic) who spend the night desperately looking for a place to celebrate the New Year by having their first sexual experience. The plots are connected through Dino Dvornik's concert, where all of them pass through at some point, and through the omnipresent fireworks that dot the night sky over the course of the film.

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to rise, then sinks; convulsions follow and then she rises and hovers above the pool. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot, a car visible on either side. Convulsions begin. The cars back up, still facing him and each other. They pause; they race toward him. He leaps. A youth, shirtless and in white shorts, stands in front of a tall building. Doors open, he enters and walks to an elevator. Convulsions strike him as he rides to a top floor, exits the elevator, pauses, and runs toward a window. He crashes through.

This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".

July ’71 is as much a record of the daily experiences of light and shadow as it is a catalogue of domestic life. More involved with “straight photography” than Brakhage, but far more engaged with tactility and the plastics of the image than Jonas Mekas, this early work embraces the mundane—making bread in the kitchen, riding bikes by the San Francisco Bay, hanging out in a cheap-looking flat with friends, plucking a game fowl for supper—while also paying attention to the wind, water, and trees that surround these fleeting moments.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.

Maarten, a 34 year old cell biologist, works on cloning. One night he dreams he has only seven days left to live.

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to reflect the meditative interiority of the artist independent of any human presence. ... New York is framed in the dark nights of a lonely winter. The pulse of street life finds no role in NEW YORK PORTRAIT; the dense metropolitan population and imposing urban locale disappear before Hutton's concern for the primal force of a universal presence. With an eye for the ordinary, Hutton can point his camera toward the clouds finding flocks of birds, or turn back to the simple objects around his apartment struggling to elicit a personal intuition from their presence. ... Hutton finds a harmonious, if at times melancholy, rapport with the natural elements that retain their grace in spite of the city's artificial environment. The city becomes a ghost town that the filmmaker transforms into a vehicle reflecting his personal mood.

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

In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm, his efforts to draw on the experience of the old hands there meet with little success. Indeed, so outraged are they at the changeover to communism that they harass him at every turn, especially after he treats a local barmaid as if she were a whore of some kind. After administering a beating to him, the old hands are nonetheless incensed when he calls on the police. The director doesn't get enough help, however, because the stable hands stab him before running off for the border.

The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.

As if we were in a small town. An ordinary day in a kid’s life. An incredibly hot day. Here everything is unique. One gang. One game. One field. One girl. In the span of one day, how can this boy arrive at such a changing point in his life from which there is no return?

BOSTON FIRE finds grandeur in smoke rising eloquently from a city blaze. Billowing puffs of darkness blend with fountains of water streaming in from offscreen to orchestrate a play of primal elements. The beautiful texture of the smoke coupled with the isolation from the source of the fire erases the destructive impact of the event. The camera, lost in the immense dark clouds, produces images for meditation removed from the causes or consequences of the scene. The tiny firemen, seen as distant silhouettes, gaze in awe, helpless before nature’s power.

A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

HBO Hungary looks at the popularity of Pierre Woodman, a French porn director known for his amateur "casting" shoots and contract work with Private and Hustler. Woodman prowls the malls and cafés of Eastern Europe seeking attractive, persuadable 19-year-olds to film in his hotel room.

Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy world I will let down the net.

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.