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Flashback #79
Bush Mama (1976) Haile Gerima English “The wig is off my head.” Ethiopian-born Haile Gerima, who was a part of the UCLA rebellion alongside the likes of Charles Burnett and Julie Dash, made Bush Mama...
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Flashback #80
Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks (2003) Wang Bing Mandarin “We have to leave sooner or later anyway. Can’t hold back the tides of progress.” I’d so far thought that it was Jia’s The World (2004) that...
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Flashback #81
Workingman’s Death (2005) Michael Glawogger Pashtu/Yoruba/German/English/Ibo/Indonesian/Mandarin/Russian “We imitate the figures and pose like the soldiers and our ancestors up there. We think these...
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Flashback #82
Historias Extraordinarias (2008) (aka Extraordinary Stories) Mariano Llinás Spanish “Thrilled, X thinks, “She’s done it. She managed to escape. The case is closed. She fooled them all.” Then adds with...
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Flashback #83
Instructions For A Light And Sound Machine (2005) Peter Tscherkassky Silent “…” Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky has the most bizarre working method I’ve come across. He apparently...
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Flashback #84
Thampu (1978) (aka The Circus Tent) Govindan Aravindan Malayalam “World-famous performers. Hilarious clowns. Leopards, Goats, Monkeys and other exotic animals. Miracles, acrobatics you have never seen...
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Flashback #85
Explorer (1968) Pramod Pati Silent “…” Pramod Pati’s pocket-sized dynamite, Explorer (1968), opens with a rather representative image: alternating horizontal black and white strips, resembling window...
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Flashback #86
At Sea (2007) Peter Hutton Silent “…” Peter Hutton’s hour-long At Sea (2007), voted the best avant-garde film of the decade by Film Comment, draws upon the director’s city portraits, landscape films...
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Flashback #87
Far From Heaven (2002) Todd Haynes English “Do you think we ever really do see beyond those things, the surface of things?” Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven (2002) opens with a shot of red autumnal...
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Flashback #88
Arbeiter Verlassen Die Fabrik (1995) (aka Workers Leaving The Factory) Harun Farocki German “Never can one better perceive the numbers of workers than when they are leaving the factory. The...
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