Lost Worlds of Archival Cinema
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- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsJoseph StalinNikita KhrushchevLavrenti BeriaThe enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsAlgirdas BrazauskasMikhail GorbachevVytautas LandsbergisDocumentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union. Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the 'singing revolution'. As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytautas Landsbergis was at the heart of the historical upheaval. His incisive reflections are complemented by extensive archive footage of demonstrations, party congresses and the Soviet military intervention.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaThe city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
- DirectorÉléonore WeberStarsNathalie RichardTo shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Eléonore Weber's (Les Hommes Sans Gravité, IndieLisboa 2008) documentary is exclusively based upon footage recorded by French and American soldiers in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. From the top of their helicopters, a viewfinder scans the night and watches for suspicious activity from moving heat dots. They have the power to take or keep lives.
- DirectorFederico FerroneMichele ManzoliniStarsEmidio Clementi1941. An Italian soldier heads to the Eastern Front, the bloodiest theater of conflict of World War II. 2018. Another war starts in the same area, reopening old wounds in Europe.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorMatthias MüllerDirk SchaeferStarsLana TurnerTippi HedrenSandra DeeFound-footage collage film of Lana Turner and other actresses going through the same repeated motions in classical Hollywood melodramas and thrillers.
- DirectorAntony BalchStarsWilliam S. BurroughsBrion GysinThe savage deconstruction of the relationship between image and reality. "Yes, Hello?", "Look at that picture," "Does it seem to be persisting?", "Good. Thank you".