Vivienne Dick's first film after the New York series takes her back to her native Ireland. Using Super-8 film as a parody of the 'travelogue' or home-movie style film, Dick takes a expatriate, tourist look at her homeland. The narrative follows Margaret Ann Irinsky as the American tourist trekking from a Dublin populated by Hare Krishnas and rock music, to the horse-drawn carri...
Absent in most of the film seasons and retrospectives devoted to her work, the first three shorts by Patricia Mazuy, Dead Cats, La Scarpa and Colin Maillard, seem to have become ghost films. The first two were self-financed with the money the director herself made from other jobs, while Colin Maillard was made thanks to the modest financial contribution of her father. The first...
A creative and skilful montage as well as dramatically spot-on sound and music effects are combined in a snappy plot to offer a mordant commentary on the constitutionally enshrined equality of men and women in the GDR. The film was awarded a medal at the 1982 congress of UNICA, the Union Internationale du Cinéma, in Aachen.
"Wild Is the Wind" - a composition written by Dmitry Temkin and Ned Washington. The original composition was recorded by Johnny Mathis for the film "Wild Wind", in 1957. The song was a great success and was one of the five compositions nominated for an Oscar, although the song did not win the statuette, Johnny Mathis performed it at the award ceremony of the Academy Awards in M...
Nina's first collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes, the film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka, and also expresses how art is a transformative response to life. In the movie, Tinka plays Nina--not for the last time. A SOFT WARRIOR was selected as one of the top first UCLA projects, and was also presented at FILMEX, and many othe...
