Miklós Erdély, a leading exponent of Hungarian Neo-Avant-garde, made a major contribution to the burgeoning in Hungary of experimental filmmaking in the 1970s and 80s through his works created in the Balázs Béla Studio. In this film he asked people to recount dreams and then an attempt was made at playing out and reconstructing these dreams. The situations that arise in front of the lens pose questions for both psychology and epistemology.
Tag: 1970s
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Actress Diane Gardner talks extemporaneously about life, career goals and struggles in the world of show business, while colorful, animated images comment on, mirror, and probe the hidden meanings of her words.
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to the start of “televangelism”.
Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.
After his snowmobile breaks down during a hunting trip, an Inuk hunter leaves his family in Cape Dorset and travels to Frobisher Bay to earn money for repairs. With the help of his cousin, he becomes a taxi driver, but his attempt to adapt to city life soon leads him into drinking and trouble.
This sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a proper, but lonely housewife whose husband is away at war. She finds solace in a friendship with a more worldly female photographer, only to have her entire world turned upside down when the friendship becomes genuine love and she is forced to choose. Groundbreaking for its powerful yet non-prurient portrayal of lesbian first love.