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Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

    With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film – an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan – stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.

  • Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola

    The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as an early prodigy to a first rate artist, his celebrated compositions and the final years with a declining health.

  • Uzeyir’s Life

    The historical film about Azerbaijan composer Uzeyir Hadjibeyov’s life.

  • Over-Ice

  • O Sport, You Are Peace!

    A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

  • Faces of Death II

    Brief scenes of death related material: mortuaries, accidents and police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of it is most likely fake, some not as much.

  • Television: The Enchanted Mirror

    Details the impact of television on people and social institutions.

  • Max Frisch, Journal I-III

    A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch’s novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. Instead, Dindo returns to the locations the author describes in his texts, searching for traces of past events that may turn out to have been more imagined than real.

  • The Decline of Western Civilization

    The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

  • The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

    Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?