The well-known illustrator Werner Klemke uses his drawings to teach the youngest bookworms about the value of reading. Taking this as a starting point, Lotte Thiel presents the GDR as a land of books whose capital is Leipzig. Figures and images from the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition underscore the significance accorded to books as a tool for shaping the “socialist personality”.
Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, Lotte Thiel follows the preparations for the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition, prominently supported on screen and on the soundtrack. The tradition of this fair is recalled, from its predecessor BUGRA 1914 to the first IBA in 1927 and the subsequent events that took place every five to six years starting in 1959. Award-winning illustrations can be viewed in detail.
A parody of the creative freedom of fashion in overly in-depth amateur movies.
Abstract, geometric forms, became the basis for the most outstanding works of the avant-garde sculptor Katarzyna Kobro. With her 'Spatial Compositions', she created her own artistic language, with which she aroused a lot of criticism, which was based on the traditional assumption that a sculpture should be a compact, modelled mass. However, the task of "Composition" was to shape forms that were to come into being. Kobro, however, still wanted to change the space surrounding people with her own art.
A Dispute in the Village Council — how should the village be redeveloped, what kind of new houses does it need? People want a basement, a small garden plot, a place to keep a piglet — and everything nearby, so they don’t have to run half a kilometer when a neighbor comes over and they need to fetch some pickles from the cellar for a snack. And they don’t want to go up to the ninth floor, even if there’s an elevator. But everything has already been decided — no one will build two- or three-story houses, let alone separate ones. Only five- to nine-story buildings. The plan has been approved, and new residents are already moving into urban-style apartment blocks. So why did they even have the discussion?
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A good man has built a house, planted an apple tree, poured himself a beer. A neighbour, who has built a larger house, appeared in the neighbourhood. Each of them continued to build additional floors in their buildings, until both buildings collapsed and crushed their owners.
A documentary chronicle of the excavation of a Western Han dynasty tomb in Hunan province and the camera-observed autopsy of a remarkably preserved female corpse — a 2,100-year-old noblewoman whose burial goods and condition revealed details of elite life in the Han era.
Short documentary.
Second work made by Yanagisawa after he turned from PR films to independent documentaries. The film was shot at the Nishitaga Hospital in Sendai, and depicts daily life and learning for children with progressive muscular dystrophy.
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.
A leisurely video journey through London, featuring uncommon footage from an early Gay Pride parade.
A young man arrives at a mansion on an errand. As it gets late, the charming lady of the house invites him to stay and seduces him, while her elderly husband is left to wither away, consumed by his memories.
The actor in question is George C. Scott. Many of his co-workers on the film The Last Run (1971) talk about what it is like to work with the famed actor.
A group of young friends got together for a hike and decided to invite a colleague who had never been on such a trip before. To be on the safe side, the newcomer took everything he needed with him, including many books on first aid in the wild. At first, the young people made fun of the "overly proper" tourist, but in the end, he turned out to be the most experienced.
In the film, the spirit of the old Guatavita, which also inhabits the new one, is materialized in the form of a peasant woman who sees how the old city is sinking under the waters, only to resurface through a ballet in traditional costumes that moves through the spaces of the new city.
experimental film by Etsutomu Kashihara
