This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.
Documentary about the Szymon Wiesenthal Center and the obstacles, often set by governments not inter...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys is the colourful and surprising true story of a man named ...

It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskay...

A film about what it means to be a woman cycling in different countries around the world. When Manon...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

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A compilation of found footage from musicals, home movies, animated shorts, educational films, comme...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activi...

In the course of Alaide Foppa's life, she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico. She was an immig...

In this film, Sara Gómez documents the everyday life of the Isla de Pinos, the discussions about the...

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting col...

When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...

TOMBOY explores the obstacles that young girls encounter on the recreational stage, the stereotypes,...

The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million fro...

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracki...

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