“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”
L’Arrivée is Tscherkassky's second hommage to the Lumiére-brothers. First you see the arrival of the film itself, which shows the arrival of a train at a station.
A tribute to the Corsican ethnomusicologist Michel Giacommetti. After arriving in Portugal in 1959, Giacometti spent thirty years of his life collecting and studying music, tales, stories and poetry across the country to save forgotten traditions.
Os Mutantes examines the lives of Pedro, Ricardo and Andreia, three kids in their early teens who have rejected life in juvenile homes or with foster families to take their chances on their own.
Film ist. could be seen as a philosophical essay on cinema. Each of the twelve chapter titles completes the phrase “Film is...”, and offers an opening; a concise proposition of what cinema could entail.
“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”
“The Power of Kangwon Province (1998): leaving with a friend to tour this tourist-province par excellence, the hero puts a secretary at his university in charge of taking care of two goldfish.