BEI BEI is a legal and political documentary with two extraordinary women at its center: one, a Chinese immigrant charged with first degree murder and feticide after attempting suicide while pregnant, and the other, a successful white collar lawyer who unwittingly finds herself defending a woman against…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/balkan-rhapsodies-78-measures-of-war-p184.aspx Jeff Daniel Silva color, 55 min, 2008 Balkan Rhapsodies is an episodic documentary poem that interweaves a mosaic of encounters, observations, and reflections…
Adrien, Carole, Gaëtan et Françoise évoluent au quotidien dans un milieu protégé. Depuis quelques années, ils participent à des ateliers de pratique artistique. Leur désir d'imaginaire est si débordant que la fiction, sous forme de comédie…
LEVENDE ORD - FÆLLESSKAB OG DEMOKRATI ser nærmere på hvad ordet demokrati reelt betød i slutningen af det 20. århundrede? Filmen følger en insisterende nysgerrig Ebbe Kløvedal Reich. Først i dialog med danske politikere. Senere på rejse i Afrika,…
LEVENDE ORD II - MILJØ OG UDVIKLING er et vindue ind i en virkelighed, hvor der for hvert menneske, der dør i trafikken i Delhi i Indien, dør fem af luftforurening forårsaget af trafik... I denne dokumentarfilm mødes den danske journalist og tidligere formand for Mellemfolkeligt…
LEVENDE ORD III - MØDET MED DET FREMMEDE ser nærmere på, hvordan den øgede migration i verden, mødet med det fremmede og tilpasningen til et nyt liv ofte resulterer i psykiske lidelser, som de færreste psykiatriske behandlingsapparater endnu kan håndtere.…
A long-lost 16mm film shows the 1939 New York World’s Fair as it really was – fun! Filmmaker and world’s fair historian, Mark Bussler (Expo: Magic of the White City, Westinghouse, Classic Game Room, Chicago 1933: A Century of Progress in Photographs) takes viewers on a raucous adventure…
I was at the lake, a small one in the depths of the forest. I was deep in an interesting conversation with two beautiful ladies about yoga. As usual I always have a camera with me in this digital era, and asked the ladies if I could record some of the conversation, and make it into a movie. We ended…
Howard Hodgkin is one of the world’s leading painters, whose art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly coloured, sweeping compositions, which…
In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense colour and enveloping…
Many of Sam Taylor-Wood’s distinctive photographs and films depict an affluent and fashionable social scene. But her concerns are often isolation and anxiety, conflict and alienation. Her art is alluring and disarming, and also frequently formally inventive. She uses multiple screens, still images…
In October 2002 Anish Kapoor completed his extraordinary sculpture Marsyas for The Unilever Series of commissions in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. A challenging and overwhelming artwork, Marsyas is a vast red PVC membrane stretched between three massive steel rings. The title refers to a satyr…
