In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal ‘end scenes’, that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.
Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They ...
René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn’t care about his parents (just...
Lada is a product of "educational“ or "corrective“ institutions. Not only is he not educated or cor...
An extremely rare subject by the famed still photographer. A 1934 short.
A 1980 short about the life and work of 80-year-old practicing psychiatrist Lila Bonner-Miller, who ...
A blunt and human encounter between a nurse and an aging man.
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth...
Showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India onc...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
This documentary tells the story of the making of Irving Berlin's Easter Parade.
Main Characters/Performers: 1. Xiao Mei - first appearing as new star dancer in lavish Peony Pavilio...
A 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work.
Director/producer Olympia Stone explores the 46-year career of her father, Allan Stone, a famed New ...
Run Wrake is an English filmmaker, animation director, and music video director. He studied graphic ...
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the ...
Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary bri...
In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...
In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. ...