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Showing This Week
Wed 29, 8:30pm: Menelaos Karamaghiolis: ROM
ROM, Menelaos Karamaghiolis’ award-winning 1989 documentary, was hailed as “a turning point and landmark for Greek documentary film history.” In 1979, the UN recognised the Romani tribe by its ancestral name, ROM. A decade later, this daring documentary pioneered in using the term for the first time in the Greek public sphere and attempted to give a true picture of the Romani people in Europe
Thu 30, 8:30pm: Menelaos Karamaghiolis: Short Films
A special selection of Menelaos Karamaghiolis’ short films from 1986 to today. In addition to feature-length documentary and fiction, Karamaghiolis’ practice encompasses artist films that often foreground stories of invisible, everyday heroes, located within the ongoing crises that define the social fabric of Greece.
Fri 31, 8:15pm: Detective
“I’m a renaissance painter looking for commissions,” said Godard of this project, which began as a gleam in producer Alain Sarde’s eye: Paris, pulp fiction, Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Halliday, and an aging Jean-Pierre Léaud (in various disguises).
Sat 1, 6:30pm: GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
Jeff Keen's unique and imaginative filmmaking has outlived the various scenes in which it thrived – the Sixties counterculture, punk and beyond. Making work of immediate power and raw intensity on a range of film stocks, this World War II veteran, self-taught artist and pioneer of radical British independent filmmaking continues to defy categorisation.
Sat 1, 8:15pm: Vivre sa vie
Using interview techniques, direct sound, long takes, texts, quotations, and statistics, Godard creates a documentary tone for this film about Nana S. (Karina), a girl from the provinces who can't pay her rent and is initiated into prostitution in Paris.
Sun 2, 5:45pm: The Marriage of Maria Braun
A parable of post-World War II Germany, Fassbinder's film recounts the transformation of an impoverished war bride into a mercenary business woman. The best known of Fassbinder's trilogy of historical films about the Federal Republic's "economic miracle" of the 1950s and one of the major productions of the New German Cinema, The Marriage of Maria Braun is equally a melodrama of the highest order.
Sun 2, 8:15pm: Three Colours: Blue
In the devastating first film of the Three Colours trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience.
Calendar
Wed 29 Mar 8:30pm
Menelaos Karamaghiolis: ROM
Menelaos Karamaghiolis: ROM
Thu 30 Mar 8:30pm
Menelaos Karamaghiolis: Short Films
Menelaos Karamaghiolis: Short Films
Fri 31 Mar 8:15pm
Detective
Detective
Sat 01 Apr 6:30pm
GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
Sat 01 Apr 8:15pm
Vivre sa vie
Vivre sa vie
Sun 02 Apr 5:45pm
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Sun 02 Apr 8:15pm
Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue
