These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horros, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture.

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-ri...

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

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city ins...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of ye...

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is p...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structu...

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble ...

Inspired by a tumultuous period in the director's relationship with her mother, the film draws a poi...

Mara—the spirit of the night, the weaver of darkened dreams—pressed upon my chest as sleep held me c...

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery...

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Since its publication 200 years ago, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has influenced vast swathes of popu...

She is defined; from birth on. The role she has to play, who she is and what she is made of is not d...

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about ...

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experie...

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the ori...