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Ken Jacobs – Seeking the Monkey King (2011)

August 17, 2019, 1:00 am
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The film could have well been called KICKING AND SCREAMING but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrode all objection. The piece demanded J.G. Thirlwell’s music, normally way too overtly expressive for me as most of my stuff comes out of painting and is also to be absorbed in silence. Who will even notice visual innovation now, or what’s happening with time? Determining a place between two and three dimensions, pushing time to take on substance, is what I do. SEEKING THE MONKEY KING is a reversion to my mid-twenties and that sense of horror that drove the making of STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH. –Ken Jacobs

459MB | 39 min 42 s | 960×540 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/02F905B4F26614E/Ken_Jacobs_-_Seeking_the_Monkey_King_540p.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Vandet på landet AKA Water from the land (1946)

August 17, 2019, 2:17 am
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Sharply critical film about rural water pollution in the Jutland countryside district of medical officer Jens Jensen. Situations of everyday water use are illustrated by graphic representations of a well and surrounding soil layers. A new well is correctly constructed in the farmyard.

The Farming Organisations, but above all the National Board of Health, killed the film because of its critical (read: realistic) depiction of water-well conditions in the country.

157MB | 0:14:0 | 640×480 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/7364A1589A3A282/Carl_Dreyer_-_1946_-_Vandet_paa_Landet.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/D5DA31B41C0A905/Carl_Dreyer_-_1946_-_Vandet_paa_Landet.srt

Language:Danish
Subtitles:English

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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Mødrehjælpen AKA Good Mothers (1942)

August 17, 2019, 2:36 am
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The Mothers’ Aid is a state-funded institution with branches all over Denmark. Erna, a young pregnant woman, has asked a doctor to carry out an abortion, but instead he advised her to go to the Mothers’ Aid for consultation. She is unmarried, and afraid of losing her job, if she is going to have a baby. The female adviser suggests that she should give birth to the child, and then decide if she should keep it, or have it adopted by someone else. Erna takes part in a course, where she learns how to look after a baby. The last six weeks before the birth she lives in a home for expectant mothers at no expenses for her. The child is born and Erna decides to keep it. She and her child spend the first months in a home for mothers and their babies, which is also free of charge.

564MB | 11mn 46s | 958×720 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/ACB72C5AF12C28E/M%C3%B8drehj%C3%A6lpen_%281942%29.mkv

Language:Danish
Subtitles:English

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Aryan Kaganof – La séquence des barres parallèles (1992)

August 18, 2019, 12:02 pm
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The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilleto’ed foot… She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.

130MB | 7 min 43 s | 756×526 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/53FC58772099644/La.Sequence.Des.Barres.Paralleles.1992.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:No dialogue
Subtitles:None

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Aryan Kaganof – Nicola’s First Orgasm (2003)

August 18, 2019, 12:16 pm
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Aryan Kaganof & Nicola Deane | 2003 | 5 min. | video | no dialogue

“We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and yet which would effect, in the mystery of her own invisibility, the condensation of all objectivity.”

Aryan Kaganof plays with the contradiction and relationship between the vulnerable, private realm and the voyeuristic, objectified domain in a film about a young woman’s sexual initiation.

21.8MB | 5mn 41s | 640×470 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/382187BD59DA1A0/Nicola%E2%80%99s_First_Orgasm_%282003%29_Aryan_Kaganof.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Stan Brakhage – The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)

August 23, 2019, 12:55 pm
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Stan Brakhage’s 1974 film The Stars Are Beautiful is unusual among his works, primarily because it features a soundtrack, in the form of a narration (as well as direct sound which accompanies home-video footage of his children clipping a chicken’s wings). He wrote the voiceover himself over the course of a month or two: growing tired of the same old creation myths, he invented a new one every night – imaginative speculations on where the stars, sun, and moon came from. The film itself is not one of his strongest works but the narration is inventive, humorous, often silly, and occasionally quite stirring

0.99GB | 18 min 30 s | 958×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/10BA99101C5FB92/Stan_Brakhage%2C_The_Stars_Are_Beautiful_%281974%29.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Landsbykirken AKA The Village Church (1947)

August 24, 2019, 12:20 am
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“Landsbykirken” or “The Village Church” takes us back to the Danish old churches built in the Middle Age and their transformations through the years and through the dominant groups of a certain period, like the Christians and the Protestants, and the new things they were modifying in those constructions.

Since there isn’t much info on this short film I presume that Carl Theodor Dreyer was making a part documentary film with non actors peasants performing rituals, praying, showing how the church procedures were back at 700 years ago in those exact same places. Sounds hard to believe, but according to the narrator there’s plenty of medieval churches with part of its original material still existing in Denmark. I say that it’s “acting” and not a full documented work because of some scenes when it is explained the parts of the cathedral and there’s one moment when it’s told that during conflicts or wars people hide themselves in special parts of the church for protection, and we see people running and hiding in a compartment.

The creator of “Ordet” allows us to visualize the interiors and exteriors of many of those places, its rich architecture, making some positive remarks about how they changed through the years (the baptism sink that later evolved with a plate over it and we see a baptism performed on the same place before and after the change).

There isn’t to much be said, cinematically, other than Dreyer makes a great work, a great piece of document, barely seen by viewers. This was made in the 1940’s but parts of the camera work resembles silent movies techniques. An small historic film but very well made.

665MB | 13mn 53s | 958×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/197266516F2EAAE/Landsbykirken_%281947%29.mkv

Language:Danish
Subtitles:English

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Maminihaina Jean Aimé Rakotonirina – Ho ela velona ny razana AKA Longue vie aux morts (2016)

August 26, 2019, 6:26 am
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For Malagasy people who honor their ancestors, when the deceased are in the grave, their spirits are always alive and present, they maintain their individualities and their kinship connections. At Alasora, in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, Marie takes care of a royal tomb that was entrusted to her and welcomes visitors who have come to ask a favor from the ancestors.

344MB | 27 min 56 s | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/79C0A75703ABDAD/Longue_vie_aux_morts.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/BBA112BC5D87427/Longue_vie_aux_morts.zip

Language:Malagasy
Subtitles:French (hardcoded),English

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Francis Thompson – N.Y., N.Y. (1957)

August 26, 2019, 10:13 pm
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A nearly-wordless collage that follows a day in New York City from early morning to late at night. The day starts with a look at power generators, ready to light the city. At eight, an alarm clock goes off, people go to work on the subway, type, and break for lunch. In the evening, night clubs and jazz take over. The images are fanciful, abstract, and multiple, suggesting a kaleidoscope of color and activity. The soundtrack is light, breezy, and staccato. New York City is a place of bridges, skyscrapers, and motion.

344MB | 15 min 14 s | 772×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/E092C2AD1D09802/N.y.%2C_N.y._-_A_Day_In_New_York_1957.576p.bluray.AC3.x264.mkv

Language:No dialogue
Subtitles:None

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Jack Clayton – The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)

August 28, 2019, 10:30 pm
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Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.

1.01GB | 37 min 30 s | 770×576 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/F34BDACD002B986/The.Bespoke.Overcoat.1954.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264.AquA.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/1DEAF1BBB922468/The.Bespoke.Overcoat.1954.576p.BluRay.AC3.x264.AquA.part2.rar

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Ke Guo – San Shi Er aka Thirty Two (2013)

August 29, 2019, 12:22 am
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Guo Ke follows his multiple-award winning short Thirty Two with the searching and highly moving documentary Twenty Two, which again focuses on the subject of Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World War II.

At the time of filming, only 22 of the 200,000 Chinese victims forced into sexual slavery during World War II remained alive. Through a restrained and careful approach, Twenty Two offers a look at the current situation and lives of these 22 elderly women. Quietly humanistic, the engaging and challenging film follows the subjects as they go about their daily lives, listening to them talk about their experiences and their own perspectives on life, including both suffering and happiness. Skilfully avoiding becoming intrusive, Guo Ke’s film attempts to trace, assemble and preserve fragments of histories both factual and highly personal, and ensuring their voices are heard. With a strong sense of character and obvious investment in its subject matter, the film invites the viewer to listen to the stories of these women, and pays tribute to their bravery.

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December 1944, 24-year-old Wei Shaolan and her 1-year-old daughter were seized and sent to a Japanese camp, where Wei was forced to work as a ‘comfort woman’ — a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II. Despite being physically and mentally abused, Wei unbelievably escaped the heavily guarded ‘Comfort Station’ pregnant, shamed, and unsure of what fate awaited her return home. This documentary presents the true legendary story of Wei Shaolan and follows her traumatic and courageous journey from forced prostitution to life today with her Japanese son. ‘Real Heroes’ are people who can face life bravely even after a tormented life, and Wei’s story offers inspiration to those faced with seemingly hopeless adversity.

733MB | 43 min 8 s | 1920×800 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F406E7A20EECA85/Thirty.Two.2012.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.H264-OurTV.mkv

Language:Chinese, Mandarin

Subtitles:Chinese, English

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Nanni Moretti – Il grido d’angoscia dell’uccello predatore (20 tagli d’Aprile) AKA Anguished Cry Of Predator Bird (2003)

August 29, 2019, 1:30 am
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Lindsay Anderson – Thursday’s Children (1954)

August 30, 2019, 11:30 pm
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Narrated by Richard Burton, Thursday’s Children is a documentary about the Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, England. Filmed without sound and using narration sparingly, the documentary explores the silent world of these children (and their teachers) as they come to learn what sound is, even before they are able to articulate anything themselves. The narration explains that there can be no thought without words, only feelings, and that sounds must be taught visually, through pictures or example, or experienced through vibrations. The bulk of the film, however, concerns itself with the determination of the children and the joy they feel when their attempts at communication produce breakthroughs.

~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide

630MB | 22mn 9s | 764×576 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/A0CEEB37489E15D/Thursdays.Children.1954.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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So-yeon Kim – Moon-young (2015)

August 31, 2019, 3:27 am
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Moon-young is a mute girl, and always has a small camcorder in her hands to secretly film people’s faces. One day, she could not stand her father’s drunken rant and ran out of the house. There she meets Hee-soo breaking up with her boyfriend with tears. They gradually get related to each other.

2.64GB | 1 h 4 min | 1280×688 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0B25D0F8BF7F8C8/moon-young.2015.720p.bluray.x264-jrp.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/DFABAC1D1B644EC/moon-young.2015.720p.bluray.x264-jrp.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/12199C7C9A144B9/moon-young.2015.720p.bluray.x264-jrp.part3.rar

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Storstrømsbroen AKA The Storstrom Bridge (1950)

August 31, 2019, 3:46 am
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Carl Th. Dreyer’s beautiful documentary uses no words to show different aspects of this beautiful bridge in Denmark. It is one of over a dozen state-commissioned documentary shorts made by the famous director.

The Storstrom Bridge was built between 1933-37 to the designs of Anker Engelund with construction under the direction of civil engineer Guy Anson Maunsell.

Storstrom Bridge connects the island of Sjaelland (Zealand) at Vordingborg to the smaller island of Falster to the south. Some two miles long (3199 metres or 3520 yards), at the time it was built it was the longest bridge in Europe.

It is an arch bridge with a suspended deck with both a road and railroad. The reinforced concrete central section was built on shore and floated out to be sunk in position.

Carl Dreyer shows the bridge from afar and in close up, from the air and from a ship in the Storstrom, with trains, vehicles, cyclists and a fisherman using the bridge.

340MB | 7mn 6s | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9CE836E0B97B47A/Storstr%C3%B8msbroen_%281950%29.mkv

Language:Danish
Subtitles:English

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Werner Nekes – Makimono (1974)

September 8, 2019, 1:30 am
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“The title refers to Japanese landscape painting on rolls. Furthermore it indicates the film’s theme, the balance of colors (blurred tones of blue, green and grey) and the type of montage that gives priority to continuity of development rather than to disruption and contrast. This continuity is achieved by dissolvings and double exposures and by extremely long pans. The rhythm accelerates: a meditation on landscape, which unfolds before the eye or is visually paced out, gives way to fluidity and pure motion, to a feeling of dizziness, the result of two contrasting camera movements. The world resembles a reflection in the water; then, however, rapid montage creates a calligraphy consisting of the quick and sharp black strokes of a Hartung painting, until one finally arrives at the glittering simplicity of an early movie where each frame still retains the weight of its individual tracks, of earth and of the world. Anthony Moore’s Soundtrack strikingly agrees with the images presented and by means of three consecutive modulations bestows unto them the structure of a concerto.”
– Helmuth Fenster

851MB | 36 min 7 s | 765×574 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/66B4AC84FF21754/Werner_Nekes_-_%281974%29_Makimono.mkv

Language:None
Subtitles:None

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Jean-Luc Godard – Charlotte et son Jules AKA Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1960)

September 9, 2019, 12:35 am
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“Charlotte et son Jules was made the year before Breathless and in many ways prefigures the arrival of that major film. Shot entirely in or from a single hotel room, it centres on Jules, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo who delivers a rapid-fire tirade about his girlfriend and their relationship when she turns up back in the apartment. The poverty of the production is indicated by the fact that the voice of the Belmondo character is that of Godard himself. But its machine gun dialogue and restless jump-cutting camera is almost an advance preview of the long sort of love scene between Michel and Patricia in Patricia’s tiny apartment in Breathless.”

292MB | 12 min 41 s | 774×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5090BF234A277BD/Charlotte.et.son.jules.1960.576p.bluray.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Su Friedrich – Damned If You Don’t (1987)

September 10, 2019, 9:25 am
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DAMNED IF YOU DON’T is Friedrich’s subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano.

“Damned If You Don’t was an important contribution to the inauguration of a feminist cinema of visual and sexual pleasure, a contentious issue for feminist filmmakers and theorists more than a decade after Laura Mulvey’s germinal “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). Featuring a narrative structure and the depiction of women’s bodies—forms and images proscribed by Mulvey’s essay—the film reclaims the pleasures of character identification and of the sensual visual field. The heart of the film’s narrative follows the episodic seduction of a young nun (played by Peggy Healey) by a woman (Ela Troyano), but Friedrich interweaves the story with both experimental cinema’s use of poetic images and documentary’s analytical contextualization. The film begins with a humorous deconstruction of a classical narrative, Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947), as a voiceover emphasizes how, in the film’s conflict between a “good nun” and a “bad nun,” evil becomes associated with acting on forbidden desire. This binary of good and bad, sexual repression and sexual expression, is metaphorically expressed in the film’s gorgeously optically-printed high contrast shots of seals, swans, and snakes gliding in water, their sensuous energies barely contained by the frame. Meanwhile, another voiceover text cites Judith Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, a text which functions, like Black Narcissus, as a framing device for the central narrative seduction. Uncovering the sexual energies thinly disguised in nuns’ submission to Christ, Immodest Acts adds an historical dimension to Friedrich’s story, suggesting how the prohibitions on lesbian sexual desire have been negotiated and transgressed for centuries (often precisely through the indirection and mediation of metaphorical imagery).”

350MB | 41:03 | 448×336 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/1DEC55422D923B1/Damned_if_you_Don%27t.1987.DVDRip.Xvid-TBMs.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Carl Theodor Dreyer & Jørgen Roos – Et slot i et slot: Krogen og Kronborg AKA The Castle Within the Castle (1954)

September 10, 2019, 10:27 pm
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André Marques – Luminita (2013)

September 13, 2019, 12:30 am
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Two brothers, who haven’t spoken in years, meet at their mother’s funeral where they must deal with their mourning family, their obligations as sons and their own feelings of loss.

1.26GB | 20 min 4 s | 1920×800 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/71E5ED35ED433A6/Luminita.2013.1080p.HDTV.x264-MaZ.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/242016A962B9727/Luminita.2013.1080p.HDTV.x264-MaZ.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/FBBF6E033F3526C/Luminita.2013.1080p.HDTV.x264-MaZ.srt

Language:Romanian
Subtitles:Portuguese (Hardcoded),English

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