The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929 represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism.
When a mysterious woman abandons a baby in the backseat of his cab one night, Tehran taxi driver Hashem is launched on a journey through the city’s unfeeling bureaucracy as he attempts to find a home for the infant—a situation that soon puts him in conflict with his nurturing girlfriend Taji.
Curated by MFA candidate Tom Dixon, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department’s Cinema Arts Archive.
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a Frankenstein movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a Frankenstein movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Estrella Arenas, a rural Spanish teenager with a rich imagination, dreams of her mysterious father Agustín, a man who in recent years has drifted away from her. Estrella struggles to piece together Agustín’s secret history and recalls her family’s sudden unexplained move from Seville, Spain, to the northern countryside in her youth.
With only his fellow immigrant housemates as a patchwork community, Husseyin perseveres with quiet dignity in the face of an alienating country.
Direct Action is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective.
