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Go Shibata - NN-891102 (1999)

This film's cryptic title refers to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (Nagasaki Nuclear 8 [August] 9 [the day] 11:02 [the time]). A 5-year-old boy survives the fateful blast and thinks that its sound has been captured on his father's tape recorder, only to become obsessed with reproducing it when the tape appears to be empty.

Gaspar Noé - Enter the Void (2010)

A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void unfolds in four major parts. Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is a young, drug-dealing American in Tokyo with an unusually close relationship to his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), and a taste for the chemical hallucinogen DMT. First, we follow him through an average night, from stoner philosophizing ("DMT only lasts for a few minutes, but it feels like eternity—it's a little like dying would be the ultimate trip") to a drug deal gone horribly wrong.

Jean-Luc Godard - For Ever Mozart (1996)

A grizzled film director sets out with several members of his household (including the fictitious granddaughter of Albert Camus) to stage a Musset play in embattled Sarajevo.

As these modern-day Quixotes proceed on their fool?s quest through the bloody chaos of Bosnia, Godard provides witty, wintry updates of earlier masterpieces, including Weekend (journey of bourgeois buffoons through an apocalyptic, neo-barbarian landscape), Les Carabiniers (absurdist war film with offhand atrocities), and Contempt (contentious filmmaking by the sea, with ranting producer, exasperated actress, and pornographic dialogue).

Clio Barnard - The Arbor (2010)

 Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright whose work reflected the gritty realities of life in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dunbar knew of what she wrote -- she grew up in a Bradford housing project, had children by three different men, was a victim of domestic violence, and struggled with alcoholism before she died in 1990 when she was only 29. Andrea's daughter Lorraine Dunbar inherited her gift with language, but also her weaknesses; she also dealt with unhappy relationships with men, worked as a prostitute, became addicted to hard drugs, and served time for manslaughter when her two-year-old son died after drinking her methadone.

Andrea Tonacci - Bang Bang [+Extras] (1970)

Fun bit of trivia: When the film was submitted to the Brazilian board of censors for the first time, the military dictatorship allowed its exhibition, but prohibited its exportation.

Harmony Korine - Trash Humpers (2009)

A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before.

Filmed and edited entirely on VHS.

Alain Robbe-Grillet - N. a pris les dés... AKA N. Took the Dice (1971)

This film is a reworking of Robbe-Grillet's previous film "L'Eden et après", using alternate takes and re-editing that has the order of scenes to be governed by "a throw of the dice".

Jonas Mekas - Walden - Diaries Notes and Sketches (1964)

Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of filmmaking. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing.... Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order." — Jonas Mekas

Alain Fleischer - Morceaux de conversations avec Jean-Luc Godard AKA Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard (2007)

A travers ses rencontres avec divers interlocuteurs, Jean-Luc Godard développe la réflexion sur l'histoire, la politique, le cinéma, l'image et le temps, qui le conduira à s'exposer comme artiste au centre Pompidou. Les échanges avec Dominique Païni, Jean Narboni, André S. Labarthe, Jean-Marie Straub, Danielle Huillet et Christophe Kantcheff ont été filmés chez Jean-Luc Godard à Rolle, dans son studio de travail, puis au Fresnoy (face aux étudiants) et au centre Pompidou dans les espaces de l'exposition.

James Benning - RR (2007)



RR consists of 37 static shots, filmed in 37 locations in the USA, crossed by passing freight trains. “This land is your land, this land is my land.” In his new film, the mathematician and railroad enthusiast James Benning grants a large part of the authorship to his object. While in his earlier films he fixed the duration of his shots of American city and landscapes exactly, this time they’re limited by the length and speed of passing trains. A shot is as long as a train takes to appear on one edge of the frame and to disappear again from the other edge. Form and content defined by one and the same gauge. The size of the screen and the breadth of the American landscape are measured congruently in height, width, and depth. Alongside the fascinating idea of how much weight a single locomotive with innumerable cars can move from one point on the continent to another, the soundtrack opens further spaces of perception and association. Among the sounds of the railroad, we hear fragments of a Mormon choir, the broadcast of a baseball game in 1992, an advertising jingle, Gregory Peck reading from the Book of Revelations, a version of the song “This Land is Your Land,” Eisenhower’s farewell speech, and the N.W.A. rap “Fuck the Police.”


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http://www.filesonic.com/file/114864541/RR.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/114841351/RR.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/114883711/RR.part3.rar

Uruphong Raksasad - Sawan baan na AKA Agrarian Utopia (2009)

Facing seizure of their own lands, two families find themselves farming together on the same field, hoping just to get through another rice-farming season. But no matter how much the world is evolving, how much the country is going through economic, political, and social changes, they still cannot grasp the new ideology of "happiness." How can you dream of utopia when your stomach is still grumbling? 

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http://www.filesonic.com/file/111268931/Agrarian_Utopia.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/111270171/Agrarian_Utopia.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/111316871/Agrarian_Utopia.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/111317181/Agrarian_Utopia.part4.rar

Uri Zohar - Hor B'Levana AKA Hole in the Moon (1964)








I can't stress enough how  wonderful, anarchic and unique is this early Israeli film. It blends lots of genres and pokes
fun at many sacred cows while dealing with connections between cinema, reality and its ideological representations.
There simply isn't any other film like that, and it's the first time it's on the net, with subs.
Not much information in English, so I edited an article I've found, but it dosen't do the movie justice:
A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvization to ilustrate the clash between
fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas' "Hallelujah the hills" (1962), it's an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray film as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics- parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality (?). Although not a commercial success, there's no equal to it in all of the Israeli films made since then.
A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to ausition for parts in the "film" (cinema verite' style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to viold appartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and  "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality.


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http://www.filesonic.com/file/109370361/hole_in_the_moon.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/109360831/hole_in_the_moon.part2.rar