Category: English
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Notes from Forever Film: “The Half-Breed”
The weight of knives and more saved ladies in Allan Dwan’s “The Half-Breed” presented by the Cinémathèque française. […]
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Notes from Forever Fim: “Expedicion Giró”
Parachuting dogs and doubts about the versatility of the program. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Maria do Mar”
What a fitting metaphor for a retrospective about international archival work is a film about a woman being saved from drowning. “Maria do Mar” is more than that, much more. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Lime Kiln Club Field Day”
MoMa brought their archival assembly of “Lime Kiln Club Field Day” to the retrospective. White producers stopped the shooting of this film made by a pioneering cast of African-American performers led by the famed Caribbean-American entertainer Bert Williams. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Valkoinen peura”
“Valkoinen peura” (The White Reindeer) is a beautiful and haunting film made in white and black. The contributions of Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti ask important questions about ethics in relation to working with film. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Sånt händer inte här”
“The disadvantage of film is that it remains.“, wrote Ingmar Bergman. “Sånt händer inte här” is a film he was embarrassed about to a degree that made him prohibit screenings of it. In the year of his centenary the Swedish Film Institute brought this rarely seen film as a gift. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “30 Years of Motion Pictures”
A definition of cinema as a means of capturing milestones in the progress of the world lies at the core of “30 Years of Motion Pictures,” the second compilation film of “Forever Film”. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “White Shadows in the South Seas”
Bringing the legendary “White Shadows in the South Sea” directed by W.S. Van Dyke and Robert J. Flaherty (who left the project) as a gift, the George Eastman Museum not only chose a unique print for presentation but also one that talks about the inevitability and beauty of decay in… […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Yadanabon”
Notes on one of the most special gifts for the retrospective: A 35mm copy of “Yadanabon,” a film from Myanmar in Burmese language with Czech subtitles presented by Národní filmový archiv. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Film and Reality”
Notes on “Film and Reality,” one of the first films produced by a film archive and a very early example of a compilation film. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Grauzone”
During our retrospective “Forever Film”, Patrick Holzapfel is going to publish notes to the screenings. His first entry deals with Fredi M. Murers fascinating “Grauzone.” […]
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Drawn in & at a Distance – On the seductive reflexivity in the work of Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman uses the technology of film as a jet pack which allows us to call into question the cast-iron laws by which we as humans define ourselves, our history, the present world we live in and thus our potentials. Alejandro Bachmann writes about her work. […]