Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1976)

F for Fake é um documentário ensaístico, um filme sobre a fraude, a mentira, nos seus vários ângulos. Centra-se na vida do famoso falsificador de arte Elmyr de Hory.Welles surge em vários locais, inclusive num restaurante, até numa suposta sala de edição, criando um filme dentro do filme.

O "Dela" no título do filme se refere à Paris dos anos 60, um retrato da sociedade de consumo, em meio à pobreza das massas e conflitos como a Guerra do Vietnã. Um dos exemplos dessa atmosfera é Vlady, uma dona-de-casa que se divide entre cuidar da família e a prostituição, o meio mais fácil que encontra para poder ganhar dinheiro e satisfazer suas necessidades mais frívolas.

Um ensaio atmosférico, servindo como uma versão alternativa do “Conde Drácula”, um filme dirigido por Jess Franco em 1970; uma narração fantasmagórica entre ficção e realidade.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

An essay-film about images and politicians.

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain aspects related to making films as style, ideas, emotions and practicalities; an ambitious exploration of the universal language of cinema by analyzing pieces of work that cross every artistic and cultural boundaries.

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us – and why we let them.

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

Cremaster foi feito durante um período de oito anos (1994-2002) e culminou em uma grande exposição do museu organizado por Nancy Spector do Museu Solomon R. Guggenheim , em Nova York, que viajou para o Museu Ludwig , em Colónia e do Musée Moderne arte d' em Paris, de 2002-03. Colaborador de longa data do Barney Jonathan Bepler compostas e arranjadas as trilhas sonoras para os filmes.

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the ‘mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art.

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

As imagens, todas elas de arquivo, revelam não só o estado de espírito das pessoas filmadas – alegria, encantamento, medo, decepção, desalento – como também a relação entre registro e circunstância política. O que se pode dizer de Paris, Praga, Rio de Janeiro e Pequim a partir das imagens daquele período?

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.

O pintor surrealista René Magritte questiona a realidade objetiva e enfatiza a arbitrariedade da relação entre um objeto, sua imagem e seu nome: a evocação do mistério consiste em imagens de coisas familiares reunidas ou transformadas de tal forma que não se conformam mais com nossas idéias, sejam elas ingênuas ou sábias.

An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open.

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.