Libertas (2016)

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.

Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.

An essay-film about images and politicians.

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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

No Porto, Manoel de Oliveira está prestes a deixar a casa que ocupou durante décadas por causa de suas dívidas. Ao espectador, ele fala sobre sua história familiar, cinema e arquitetura, compartilha vídeos caseiros e reencena seu desentendimento com a ditadura militar.

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.

Uma jornada pessoal por meio da história do cinema iraniano popular e pré-Revolução, o documentário desvela um Irã raramente visto. Quase cem filmes, alguns garimpados entre fitas VHS do acervo do diretor, são reunidos para construir o retrato de uma sociedade em rápida transformação. Filmfarsi revela um cinema de excitação, ação e grandes emoções, espelho desafiador para um país que lutou para conciliar tradições religiosas e a turbulenta modernidade de influências ocidentais.

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.

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.