A Belarusian version of Chantal Akerman’s NEWS FROM HOME. The world is empty and cold, covered with snow, and soon you will be covered with it, too. Nearly everyone who attended your last year’s birthday party is not dead but emigrated, which is almost the same thing. If you were to film all the important places and nonplaces in your life, the most crucial question would be: where to place the camera?
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The Scenic Route 1978
It's uncanny how this little film anticipates Raul Ruiz's entire post-1977 oeuvre: moving walls, knife stabbings, tableaux vivants, Max Ernst, deadpan humor, nonstop interplay between the real and the imagined, the quotidian and the artifice, classicism and vulgarity, opera and soap opera...
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The Doll's Breath 2019
With their STREET OF CROCODILES in the 1980s, the Quays made everyone (re)discover the writings of Bruno Schulz. I suspect they may do the same for Felisberto Hernández (this is their second work based on his writings). The fever dream of a story is hard - or rather impossible - to follow but it appears to be about a puppet creating another puppet, a simulacrum, and being consumed by delirium. Two paintings by Balthus are referenced, among many others. This…
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