This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice officer that brings the eviction notice; d) the fight of classes of the houses of capitalists and working classes; e) the parks of the working class; f) the ho...
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As a preview of the 60th founding anniversary of the Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek (today: Arsenal), the installation of videos by the Japanese avant-garde pioneer, who died in July 2022, commemorates a screening at the Arsenal cinema on Welserstrae.
Slaughterhouses with concrete blades on top, monumental cemetery gates in the plains: Architect Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) shaped the image of the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. In part 34 of his “Photography and beyond” series, Heinz Emigholz once more probes architecture for biographical traces. Salamone, who immigrated from Sicily as a child, realised his ideas b...
A 16 mm silent film capturing the specific routines and daily practice of a ROTC cadet during the lockdowns and safety precautions of 2020. Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg was the USA Army base in Germany where Pleas Everson, the filmmaker's uncle, served in the 1960s.
Shadow and Act navigates through the remains of Chaya Jitrakorn, once a prominent photo studio constructed in 1940, Bangkok, and shuttered in 2012. The preferred studio of dictator Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, a forceful nationalist and modernizer, Chaya Jitrakorn translates as "the shadow of the artist". Located in Bangkok's Chinatown, Chaya Jitrakorn was built like a ...
In 1927, filmmaker Oskar Fischinger traveled for three weeks along the side roads between Munich and Berlin, filming frame by frame the people he met along the way and the places he passed through. In 2020, the director did a remake of this film during a month-long walk between Paris and Brest.
Everything starts from simplicity, but it becomes complicated with the flow of time and space, so does a city. The film takes Custer's concept of "flowing space" as the starting point, and decomposes, combines and reorganizes cities, so as to discuss how the human social system relates and influences each other with the ecological system on which they depend, and the contradict...