A Walk in the Woods
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Bridges Over Oblivion
Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”
Intoxication
Short documentary by Gaspar Noé filmed around the the same time as Irréversible (in 16mm Scope), in which his friend Stéphane Drouot, the director of the cult film "La Banlieue des Étoiles / Star Suburb", discusses his life with AIDS and struggles to make films.
Last Resort
In the Beginning There Was Light
This documentary investigates the mysterious phenomenon of "Breatharianism".
Grumbles
"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"
The Flame of a Candle
Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with its rooms, its furniture, what plays out there and what has already played out there. From one room to another, from one era to another, the film delves deep into this enclosed space, a kind of suffocating box.
Time is the Thief of Memory
A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.
Philosophical reflection on art and its transience
A portrait of a couple of ceramic artists living in the French countryside. Structured around snippets of their daily lives, the documentary evolves into a deeper reflection on art and its transience
Before Autumn Ends
L'étang d'or (dort ou d'art)
Hamvas Béla út 11.
Hamvas Béla út 11. is a meditative avant-garde exploration bridging two great Hungarian visionaries, released in honor of director Béla Tarr’s legacy and philosopher Béla Hamvas. Set within a socialist-era housing estate where a fifth of the population lives in uniform concrete panels, the film offers an intimate portrait of an unnamed protagonist maintaining human dignity amid isolation. His daily rituals carefully preparing instant soup, washing dishes, and reading in bed are performed with a poise that serves as a shield against spiritual decay. He navigates the building’s decline, from paper-thin walls to a rickety elevator, with stoic calm. From his balcony at sunset, he gazes past the concrete sprawl toward the Citadella. The final shot captures the night estate as a massive grid of glowing windows where residents return to individual concrete cages, creating a surreal image in its raw reality where image and silence converge to evoke the metaphysical depths of existence.