1973. La famille Loud devient un phénomène télévisuel d'un nouveau genre. Bien avant qu'une star du rock-metal montre sa famille excentrique sur le petit écran et plusieurs décennies avant les que les "housewives" se lancent des piques devant la caméra en public..
In 2010, Klaus Wyborny filmed the world premiere of his cinematic work STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES (STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST), 2010 in Vienna’s (meanwhile closed) Stadtkino at Schwarzenbergplatz. He liked the images from the dark movie theater, only partly lit by the film, so much that he did the same at later screenings, presented between Portugal and the United States, in order to weave these images into a fabric of places and times – into a vision of cinema gliding over continents through the light of the projector.What’s celebrated here is a practice that has to be defended for its inherent democratic spirit. In CINÉMA VÉRITÉ, Wyborny has now condensed this cinematic utopia into trailer length, to manifesto density. Cinema, as Wyborny understands it and as the Viennale practices it, is a constant departure into reality..
As 3rd year Boxton University student Chek Geronimo loses interest in his education, he begins to question his relationship with Celine; a projectionist at Boxton's last independent cinema..
A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others..
The filmmaker Ascan Breuer searches for the spirit of a tiger said to have haunted the house of his ancestors on Java. This search combines an autobiographical narrative thread involving the history of the filmmaker's family and a historical narrative about migration that spans the globe..
