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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Named the best documentary film of all time by Sight and Sound, it is presented here in its entirety for the first time since its original premiere. Discovered and restored at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam--with extensive digital treatment by Lobster Films--the 35mm print from which this edition is, in part, sourced is the only known complete version of the film. The Man with the Movie Camera features musical accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra....
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Winner of Best International Documentary at the Torino Film Festival, this acclaimed film follows a man at three disparate moments in his life; as a member of a small nudist commune on an Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland, and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present. Winner of the New Vision Award at **CPH:DOX - Copenhagen...
123) Mama Has a Mustache
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A short, animated documentary that consists entirely of archival film, hand drawings, clip art, and the voices of children talking about family and parenting outside of the traditional binary. The film premiered at Outfest where it was voted “One of 10 Must-See Films” by Indiewire, played at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Mill Valley, and over fifty film festivals around the world....
124) Arcadia
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Award-winning director Paul Wright (For Those in Peril) explores the complex connection to the British countryside with an archival remix drawn from more than 100 years of Britain on film. With a new score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), ARCADIA embarks on a visceral sensory journey through the seasons, exploring the beauty, brutality, magic and madness of our changing relationship with both the land and each other. ...
125) Alexander the Grape
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Reconstructed from film, audio, and storyboard elements, this unfinished 1965 cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions.
126) Jim Henson Shorts
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
While Jim Henson is best known as an innovator who created some of the most widely beloved television series and films of all time including The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, he also made a string of experimental films that pushed the boundaries of what the wider public associated with his name and the film medium in general. This collection features a number of these short films, bringing the visionary’s early experimental...
127) The Brother
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Living with an illness that is causing him to lose the use of his body, Kaïs is awoken every morning by a different member of his family. Though paralyzed, he dreams he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers: Fehd, the bodybuilder and Zaïd, the ninja.
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Many of us know the freedom of our twenties—unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michał resolve to experience life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michał,...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Buried deep in the excess of pop culture, extraordinary artists and filmmakers use music videos as a playground for creative and technical innovation, crafting passionate films that redefine the genre. This second collection of outstanding music videos was curated by the editors of Stash Magazine exclusively for Kanopy viewers.
130) Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
An acclaimed experimental documentary tracing the history of airplane hijacking as portrayed by mainstream television media. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam** and **Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival**.
131) Wittgenstein
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**....
133) Therapy Dogs
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Chronicles the last year of high school as two best friends Ethan Eng and Justin Morrice aim to create the ultimate senior video while also trying to make sense of their empty teenage lives. Shot in a real high school over the course of a year, they embark on a no-brakes adventure through the wastelands of Toronto’s suburbia. Collaging the fears, dreams, and memories of teenage experience. As the year unfolds, pressures on their friendship weigh,...
134) Caravaggio
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own visuals, while touching on all of Jarman's major concerns: history, homosexuality, violence and the relationship between painting and film. Featuring Tilda...
135) Salaryman
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Tokyo work culture's most compelling and complex protagonist; the Salaryman. A nameless, voiceless, over-worked and under-valued cog in the labour pool, expected to compromise home and social lives. Late nights and intense drinking sessions leave many of them passed out in the city streets. This slick, incisive documentary raises questions around the ethics of our global working practices in a capitalist society.
136) Venus
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Two female directors hold an open casting session for an erotic film based on real sexual experiences. 100 curious women turn up, but the auditions take on a life of their own. As the women begin to take control, the casting couch becomes an intimate arena for self-reflection. From an unexpected chorus of honesty comes the potential to rethink the language of female sexuality.
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic *A Clockwork Orange*. An unknown club dancer at...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Follow a classically-trained composer as he mounts Zane Grey’s frontier novel for the operatic stage. The composer and librettist, along with a team of designers, musicians, singers, and fine art painter Ed Mell, translate America's cowboy culture and sprawling beauty of the West into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
As of the late 1970s, young East German artists, especially in the larger cities, created spaces for cultural experimentation that were separate from official art channels. Through their art, they rebelled against both the existing art market, and the country’s political climate. Leipzig, for example, became an important center of this subculture created by painters, photographers, musicians and poets. From 1985 to 1989, the EIGEN+ART gallery in...
140) Ailey
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.
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