Sancho Panza enters a movie theatre in a provincial city. He is looking for Don Quixote and he finds him sitting off to the side and staring at the screen. The theatre is almost full; the balcony is entirely occupied by noisy children… La proiezione è cominciata (The Projection Has Begun) is an adaptation of The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema by Giorgio Agamben. It is a portrait in 24 daguerreotypes per second.

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Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when s...

Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War le...

The author Carl-Göran Ekerwald has written more than 50 books. At the age of 87, a new chapter in hi...