Paradocs

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    The Paradocs program returns with a selection of 10 films, showcasing the year’s leading experimental documentary art. From surrealist works about subterranean spaces to nostalgic homages to a city, this section is truly genre-bending. Explore the selection below.

    Selected for Paradocs

    Danse Macabre

    • Thunska Pansittivorakul, PHASSARAWIN KULSOMBOON
    • 2021

      A wild collage of scenes of state oppression and suspicious deaths that have taken place in Thailand over the last 90 years. Archive footage of violence and pornography is interspersed with dance scenes and video clips, creating an audacious blend.

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      Europe

      • Philip Scheffner
      • 2022

        From one day to the next, an Algerian woman is driven into illegality. The life Zohra planned in France becomes an imaginary existence. Her isolation is made palpable as she literally vanishes from view.

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        A Little Love Package

        • Gastón Solnicki
        • 2022

          A meandering ode to Vienna and its disappearing café culture. Angeliki’s search for the perfect apartment provides the springboard for this film—part fiction, part documentary—in travels from Vienna to Andalusia.

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          Maria Schneider, 1983

          • Elisabeth Subrin
          • 2022

            Actor Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) talks about abusive practices in the film industry, in an interview recorded in 1983. Elisabeth Subrin’s ingenious interventions in the archive material bring it into the here and now.

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            Private Footage

            • Janaína Nagata
            • 2022

              A desktop documentary using open source research to expose the appalling reality beyond the frames of a carefree family vacation film, shot in early-1960s South Africa.

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              A Stretch of Time

              • Ali Eslami
              • 2022

                Underground, a disembodied figure performs a Sisyphean task in the service of a living network archive that stores fragments of memories. This production, shot in a virtual world, blends cinema, video games and virtual reality.

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                Striking Land

                • Raul Domingues
                • 2022

                  A beautiful observation of the Portuguese countryside, where the land and forests are worked with attention and respect. The film shows the intimate and reciprocal relationship between people and nature as a harmonious balance of give and take.

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                  The United States of America

                  • James Benning
                  • 2022

                    Thoughtful shots of every state merge to become an alternative portrait of the USA. Benning shows America as we think it looks. A film to immerse yourself in, with a brilliant twist in the credits.

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                    The Unstable Object II

                    • Daniel Eisenberg
                    • 2022

                      Prosthetics, leather gloves, and distressed jeans are all produced in factories, but in each case the relationship between product, producer and customer is dramatically different.

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