What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Garbo and Sergei Michajlovič Eisenstein, could have declared their love for each other? The world's most famous actress, an honorary Russian citizen of cinema for her many performances; the world's most radical director, who could have immortalized her face in one of his famous close-ups? Sphinx Garbo did not want to be alone: she just wanted to marry the great Sergei. Perhaps she could have played Trotsky or Pancho Villa in one of his films. Perhaps their friends Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and Josef von Sternberg would have approved their love. Maybe they could have had a child together. Maybe all this could still have happened, in a Mark Rappaport film.
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stend...
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...
An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of w...
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Documentary on a murder associated with members of Savannah, Georgia society. This becomes an occasi...
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Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscove...
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive d...
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) ...
This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Fil...
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to...
Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion...Let everyone ask them...
A filmmaker reconstructs a common memory about the formerly industrialized Lake Constance region, wh...
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palesti...
Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent fi...
Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship...
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From...