A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in the Federal Republic of Germany’s postwar history and architecture. The narrator shifts among reflections on modern architecture and property relations, detailed scenes from childhood, and a passed-down memory of a “hemmed-in West Germany,” recalling the years of her parents’ membership in a 1970s communist splinter group.

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following t...

A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; t...

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica o...

The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle li...

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored ...

Documentary about the victorious German national football team - called "Die Mannschaft" - and their...

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers eve...
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best ani...

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by E...
From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a...

Stand-up comedian Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years, ...

Through the footage from his family's Handycam, the director creates a portrait of his family that i...

Minimalist documentary by Rax Rinnekangas about the wooden cottage "La Cabanon" designed and built i...

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, ...
A documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors, which portrays life in the bor...