Movies: Archive footage

In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking. What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? How can one ever know another? The v...

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"It's very strange, on stage I always feel very good, but during the two hours before, there is fear, uneasiness, a great sadness" declared Yves Montand to the press in 1980. To commemorate the 100 years of his birth, this portrait rich in archives a...

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For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the pillars of the USSR, an object of both fear and admiration, a symbol of both liberation and coercion. This documentary explores its history, combining epic storytelling with the deconstruction of myth. While ...

"[T]he emotional climax of my larger work Gloria’s Stupid World 2: World Stupider. Told through a relentless barrage of 1-4 frame clips from television, film, advertising, YouTube videos and stock footage, the film explores themes of paranoia, social...

'Atlal (Remnants)' is a fictional documentary that follows Bassam, a Palestinian man in his fifties, on a journey between the past and present. An abandoned school, the remains of a beach club, and a dusty cinema hold Bassam's cherished memories from...

Older adults cannot believe the things younger people do, but they probably have forgotten they were the same way when they were younger....

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The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race....

A journey into the 1920s and 1930s featuring restored and edited home movies taken by Japanese American immigrant pioneers....

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After Burindh, a Thammasat university student has escaped from the 6th October massacre by jumping into the Chao Phraya river, he becomes a goby fish with golden skin, and voyages through the memories of his own....

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Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how people with different levels of hearing experience art....

A portrait of the performance artists in colorful clothes and painted faces whom have transitioned from a symbol for joy and laughter, to horror and terror, to melancholy and sadness....

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It's as if the world and the pain are reflected in the pool's water, but I still swim in it to stir up my memories....

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