Movies: Erik Satie

In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989....

It's an intimate film that brings out the deeper vibrations of my person. It was for me at the same time a beautiful but disturbing experience. To deliver to such an extent what is behind the veil. I would add that it is not the portrait of a dressed...

A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his work. Studies pictures from the beginning of his career, and follows the spontaneous flowering of color....

A silent short film from artist Adaline Kent with moments captured from her wedding to Robert Boardman Howard and their subsequent honeymoon....

The heart is still beating; the eyes can see, the ears can hear. Nights of the full moon, horror stories, disquiet. The spirits from the past are returning. Death is implicated... and grief....

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life....

Story of a woman during the Russian Revolution....

The adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant study of the moral illusion and reality in a small town near Vienna at the end of the century. - After the famous radio adaption by Max Ophüls in 1954....

An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas....

Various objects are observed using a high-resolution electron microscope: some paint pigments from a supposed 19th-century painting, a dollar bill, and a piece of old film celluloid in the process of decomposition. Microscopic observation will reveal...

Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert....

Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film. Such a portrait seems necessary from time to time to...

Erik Satie’s work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a visionary misanthrope? The film tries to sketch an identikit of the musician through his notes and the places he lived in. Musicologists mostly agree in...

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The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the anima...

A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life....

A wandering through the primal emotions of birth, motherhood, body, nature, metamorphosis and dance....

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"Ghost Body" is a personal meditation on the ambivalences of interracial male homosexuality....

Not to be confused with the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. This year's theme was "baby."...