Cinéma du réel

Et la vie

2009-02-09T11:44:37Z

Denis Gheerbrant

90'

- France

- Prod: Les Films d'Ici

1991

For one year, from Marseilles to Charleroi, through rundown suburbs, abandoned factories and landscapes from the back and beyond, the filmmaker journeys from encounter to encounter, in search of what keeps people's hopes alive at the close of the 20th century.

Dialogues with Soljenitsyne - The Knot (Besedy s Solzenicynym - Uzel)

2009-02-09T11:44:30Z

Alexandre Sokourov 180' - Russie - Prod: Lenfilm 1998 Sokurov reads a poem on the inner world of Solzhenitsyn and invites us to discover his everyday surroundings: his garden, the forest around his house, the study where he works, his library, the room where his wife works… - The Place of Speech / ML, Sokourov, Alexandre , Russia

Moscow X

2009-02-09T11:44:19Z

Ken Kobland 58' - États-Unis - Prod: Ken Kobland Films, ITVS 1994 A diary and chronicle of public opinion in Moscow during a time of huge political, economic, and hence cultural, changes in the former Soviet Union. - Ken Kobland : eye, tempo / ML, United States, Kobland, Ken

Stupa

2009-02-09T11:44:18Z

Ken Kobland 60' - États-Unis - Prod: Ken Kobland Films, La Sept 1992 A one-hour helicopter flight over the suburban sprawl of Long Island to Fresh Kills, the New York City Landfill on Staten Island; accompanied by an operatic audio-mix of bad-mouth talk-radio mayhem. - Ken Kobland : eye, tempo / ML, United States, Kobland, Ken

News From Home

2009-02-09T11:44:12Z

Chantal Akerman 85' - Belgique - Prod: Paradise Films 1976 A mother writes to her daughter who has left for the Americas… A mother's letters, simple letters, love letters. A small voice from Europe still trying to make itself heard. - The Movement of Exile #2 / ML, Belgium, Akerman, Chantal

C'est vrai

2009-02-09T11:44:06Z

Robert Frank

60'

- France

- Prod: La Sept, Prony Production

1990

A single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July 1990.

Plot Point

2009-02-09T11:44:04Z

Nicolas Provost 15' - Belgique, États-Unis - Prod: Provost 2007 New York and American cop land with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances, and crowded streets very soon turns into a perfect filmic scenery of a nation in fear. We are so familiar with and influenced by the fiction film language that reality completely disappears if we want it (...) - America. It's all True / ML, Belgium, Provost, Nicolas

Chicago

2009-02-09T11:43:58Z

Jürgen Reble 13' - Allemagne 1996 "This film is the result of a journey on the overhead railway in downtown Chicago. I filmed a 12-minute sequence shot in the direction of travel. Three years later, I returned to the images I had taken." (Jürgen Reble) - City Landscapes / ML, Germany, Reble, Jürgen

Manhatta

2009-02-09T11:43:57Z

Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler 10' - États-Unis 1921 A short silent film that presents a day in the life of lower Manhattan. Inspired by Walt Whitman's book Leaves of Grass, the film includes multiple segments that express the character of New York. - City Landscapes / ML, United States, Sheeler, Charles , Strand, Paul

Stupa

Cinéma du réel — 2009-02-09T11:43:55Z

- City Landscapes