René (2002)

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

미국 구축함의 함장과 독일군 유보트 함장간의 치열한 두뇌싸움이 그려진 잠수함 소재 영화.

In Dulce - New Mexico, Leon Reval loses the tribal elections and his position as councilman. The uncertainty of his future echoes with the one of Jicarillas tribe. Today, they try - in vain - to keep on the fight that began with Geronimo against Mexico and United States, in order to preserve the Native American's rights.

Jacob, an elderly man living in a luxurious villa near Geneva called Rosebud, has just changed his name for the third time and become a Swiss citizen. His granddaughter comes to visit to make a portrait of him. As she searches for a way to bring his story to life, Jacob abandons the project…

An oneiric journey through Alex’s life as a former FARC guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. Alex tells his story of war and its legacy inside of a truck transformed into a camera obscura, a space where dreams suffuse with reality and a life in limbo is illuminated.

A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past. Memories accost him-memories of his school days, of loved ones long gone, of wonder, callousness, and defeat. The painful invasion gives rise to a series reflections on the limits of cinema and the poverty, and inescapability, of the life of the mind. No matter how much he has tried to change, the young man-who may or may not be the filmmaker himself-always returns to the same places, same questions, same faces, same recollections-the same nails in his brain.

French poet Thierry Metz killed himself in 1997. He'd moved to the country with his wife and 3 kids but after the youngest is struck dead by a car, the sensitive artist sinks into depression and alcohol, leading to time in a facility.

One image, in particular, is likely to haunt viewers: that of many men huddled together on the back of a truck. The men are headed northward, from Niger to the coast of Algeria. Just how long they will be travelling depends on countless unknowns. And once they’ve reached the African coast of the Mediterranean, they’ll still be far from their goal, for it is only then that their dangerous attempt to cross the sea to Europe begins. Theirs is a journey in hopes of a better life – one that frequently ends in death.

Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this work reflects a parallaxing image of the histories of field recording, ethnographic film, and colonialism.

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

On the island of Amorgos, during summer. Small monuments were erected at the scene of a fatal accident: a photograph, a few words, flowers, religious or pagan objects. The deceased "stayed there": dead in transit, on a road, frozen forever.

Time as punishment — of juvenile inmates and bodies that become heavy in prescribed spaces.

Elvis Sabin’s assured debut follows Albert and André, two Central African Aka Pygmies, as they attempt to establish a new education system in their forest community. The last in their village still attending school, they are determined to pass their knowledge on, holding classes for other Aka children every afternoon. But their project requires funding and they are counting on the year’s caterpillar (known as “Makongo”) harvest to provide much needed income. Evocatively capturing the visual and sonic textures of the forest, Makongo is a layered ethnographic study of two men working to build a sustainable future for their community.

An observational documentary that focuses on the Tentative Association, which helps young people with autism develop independence and socialization skills. Seven autistic people live in a big house and, together with their helpers, they fill their days with household tasks.

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

The wolf no longer inhabits the land that once formed part of its territory, and only through its outlines can we get closer to it; remnants of wolf traps, predator urine imported from the US, a dung-hill used to feed scavenger birds and archers that shoot at replicas of animals. Reserve constructs a story about the fragile balance of a territory after the disappearance of the predator, where the complex co-existence between humans and non-humans presents a distinctly marked anthropogenic ecosystem.

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.

Jangarh Singh Shyam, a famous Indian artist born in an isolated tribal village, committed suicide in a Japanese museum in 2001. I found on an old MiniDV tape the images of a trip I had undertaken in 2008, when I had gone looking for him in his native region.

영화의 원제 ‘발견의 해’는 콜럼버스가 아메리카 대륙을 발견한 1492년을 지칭한다. 반면 현대 역사에서 ‘발견의 해’로 얘기되는 1992년은 바르셀로나 올림픽과 세비아 엑스포가 열려 ‘강국 스페인’으로서의 이미지를 다시금 내세운 해였다. 또한 무르시아 지역 산업 위기로 엄청난 규모의 노동자 시위가 일어난 때였으나 미디어는 ‘잔치’만을 기록하기에 바빴다. 영화는 1992년과 현재를 오가며 무르시아 시내 한 카페에서 다양한 연령대의 사람들이 나누는 대화를 기록한다. 일상 얘기부터 노동조합, 인종 차별, 파시스트, 독재로 이어지는 토론까지 카메라는 화자와 청자를 클로즈업해 보여준다.

크레이그 슈바르츠는 거리에서 인형을 다루는 퍼펫티어. 재능은 있지만 야망도 사랑도 없이 무기력하게 살아가던 그는 어느날 주특기인 손놀림으로 레스터 회사에 서류정리 사원으로 일자리를 얻게 된다. 뉴욕시의 한 빌딩에 위치한 회사는 7과 1/2층 사이에 사무실이 위치하는 기괴한 곳. 그는 오리엔테이션에서 여직원인 맥신에게 열정적인 사랑을 느끼게 되지만 그녀는 냉담하기만 하다. 낙심한 그는 우연히 캐비닛 뒤의 작은 문을 발견하게 된다. 문을 열고 통로 안으로 들어가자, 갑자기 어둡고 습한 터널로 빨려 들어간다. 그곳은 바로 배우 존 말코비치의 뇌로 들어가는 관문이었는데...