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Category - Documentary: Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

One of the world's greatest living painters the German artist Gerhard Richter has spent over half's century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. Infamously media-shy, he agreed to appear on camera for the first time in 15 years for a 2007 short film by filmmaker Corinna Belz called Gerhard Richter's Window.

Her follow-up, Gerhard Richter Painting, is exactly that: a thrilling document of Richter's creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations (with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman) and rare archive material. From our fly-on-the-wall perspective, we watch the 79-years-old create a series of large-scale abstract canvasses, using fat brushes and a massive squeegee to apply (and then scrape off) layer after layer of brightly colored paint. This mesmerizing footage, of a highly charged process of creation and destruction, turns Belz's portrait of an artist into a work of art itself.


CREDITS: KINO LORBER PRESENTS A ZERO ONE FILM IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH TERZ FILM WDR MDR IN COOPERATION WITH ARTE, SOUND DESIGN DOMINIC SCHLEIER, RE-RECORDING MIXER MARTIN STEYER, EDITOR STEPHAN KRUMBIEGEL, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JOHANN FEINDT (BVK) FRANK KRANSTEDT DIETER STÜRMER ANDY SCHOCKEN, LINE PRODUCER TASSILO ASCHAUSER, PRODUCED BY THOMAS KUFUS, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CORINNA BELZ

*The following screening is for educational purposes only.

Category - Film: You, the Living (2007) Sweden

You, the Living (Swedish: Du levande) is a 2007 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered on the lives of a group of individuals, such as an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist,a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, and a school teacher with emotional issues and her rug-selling husband. The basis for the film is an Old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from Poetic Edda poem Hávamál. The title comes from stanza in Goethe's Roman Elegies, which also appears as a title card in the beginning of the film: "Therefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe's cold wave wets your fleeing foot. For more info please visit here.

Cast: Director Roy Andersson, Writer Roy Andersson Stars: Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jan Wikbladh see full cast crew here.

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Category - Documentary: Arena (2006)

A profile of British painter Frances Bacon.

Category - Documentary:  Metagraffiti.

Metagraffiti collects more than 20 short films from all over the world. With two long essays about graffiti film and a running time of over 120 minutes. Metagraffiti is a vibrant testimony of the development of today's graffiti art. Directors for the DVD is amazing Andreas Johnsen and Akay, its published by DoKument in Sweden.



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Category - Film:  Venus In Furs.                                                         

Obsessed with the novel VENUS IN FURS, a muscular but meek shoe salesman loses himself in a surreal world of pain and pleasure when he spends a weekend at the mysterious Marna's country mansion and discovers it to be a kinky fun house for fetishists.




Harry Noovak presents VENUS IN FURS starting Elinore, Shep Wild, Stephanie Smythe, Director of photography George Cirello, screenplay by Joe Marzano, Elinore, Produced by Lou Campa, Directed by Joe Marzano, 66 minutes. 

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WARNING: This program contains Nudity, Sexual Situations, and the Sort of People You'll Never Meet In Real Life!

Category - Film: Wonderwall (1968).                                                                            

Wonderwall is a 1968 film by first time director Joe Massot that stars Jane Birkin, Jack MacGowran, and Iain Quarrier, and features Richard Wattis and Irene Handl and cameos by Anita Pallenberg and the Dutch collective The Fool, who were also set designers for the film.

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The reclusive, eccentric scientist Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) has for the next-door neighbors a pop photographer (Iain Quarrier)and his girlfriend/model Penny Lane (Jane Birkin). Discovering a beam of light streaming through a hole in the wall between them, Collins follows the light and spots Penny modeling for a photo shoot. Intrigued, he begins to make more holes, as days go by and they do more photo sessions. Oscar gradually becomes infatuated with the girl, and feels a part of the couple's lives, even forsaking work to observe them. When they quarrel and the couple split, Penny takes an overdose of pills and passed out, but Oscar comes to her rescue. For more please visit  (Source Wikipedia).


Directed by Joe Massot, Produced by Andrew Braunsberg,  Screenplay by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Story by Gerard Brach,  Starring: Jane Birkin, Jack MacGowen, Iain Quarrier, Music by George Harrison, The Remo Four, Eric Clapton, Cinematography Harry Waxman, Edited by Rusty Coppleman, Distributed by Compton-Cameo Films, Release dates 17 May 1968 (Cannes), 12 January 1969 (UK), Running time 85 minutes, Country UK, Language English.


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