In the politically fraught climate of Chicago in 1968, two young nuns crisscross the city in order to ask strangers the question, "Are you happy" The answers vary: "Happiness is the absence of fear," "Avoiding people," "Raspberries," "Joy in knowing Christ." They meet a lonely girl, a happy mother, young lovers, hippie musicians, a sociologist and even character actor Stepin F...
Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood.
A non-narrative patchwork of images, light, music, conversation, news headlines, the passing of generations, and, ultimately, a journey from New York City to Martha's Vineyard in an attempt to discover a man named Chandler Moore.
A lecture by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of Walter Benjamin given in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York. A rare document. German with English subtitles.
Expanded cinema: ‘As always, the screening takes place in the dark. Only the movie theatre has become a bit smaller. There’s only room inside for two hands. In order to see the film, meaning in this case to sense and feel it, the viewer (user) must guide his or her two hands into the movie theatre by way of the entrance. With that, the curtain, which up till now was raised only...
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still wor...
A 1968 entry in the BBC's venerable 'Omnibus' series, wherein film historian/collector/director/impresario and cheerleader without portfolio Kevin Brownlow asks the Musical question, Why has Abel Gance, this relentlessly inventive film artist of almost occult formal gift, been so comprehensively forgotten
It is a question, admittedly, more pressing in 1968 (when Gance really w...
A documentary on the most beautifil and most tragic aspects of a family from the country.
曾經擔任英國衛報記者，同時也是作家的彼特．藍儂，在1967年與法國新浪潮攝影師拉烏爾．庫塔爾合作，透過鏡頭記錄愛爾蘭的政客、教會、藝術家、學生等常民生活文化點滴。這部經典紀錄片體現了1950年代末期「英國自由電影」高呼自由創作的核心精神，在坎城影展與都柏林本地放映後引起截然不同的兩極評價。
