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Retrospective 2017
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy Carole Roussopoulos

In response to the arrest of the philosopher and activist Angela Davis, the French writer Jean Genet read a text denouncing the US justice system.

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

Documentary Film
France
1970
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Vidéo Out Production
Director
Carole Roussopoulos
Cinematographer
Carole Roussopoulos
Editor
Carole Roussopoulos
Sound
Carole Roussopoulos
An agitprop film made by Carole Roussopoulos: In response to the arrest of the philosopher and activist Angela Davis (born 1944–), the French writer Jean Genet (1910–1986) read a text denouncing the US justice system.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2017
Black Panthers Agnès Varda

In the summer of 1968, the Black Panthers held several demonstrations in Oakland to raise awareness about the trial of Huey Newton.

Black Panthers

Documentary Film
France,
USA
1968
28 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Director
Agnès Varda
Cinematographer
David Myers, Agnès Varda
Editor
Paddy Monk
Sound
Paul Oppenheim, James Steward
Agnès Varda described her film as an inflammatory reportage: In the summer of 1968, the Black Panthers held several demonstrations in Oakland to raise awareness about the trial of Huey Newton (1942–1989), a co-founder of the party.

Ralph Eue

Oratorio for Prague

Documentary Film
France,
USA,
ČSSR
1968
29 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Claude Berri, Jean-Pierre Rassam
Director
Jan Němec
Music
Ladislav Štaidl
Cinematographer
Stanislav Szomolányi
The major key of enthusiasm turns into the minor key of crushed hopes in this film, shot clandestinely and smuggled abroad.

Ralph Eue

Our Nazi

Documentary Film
France,
FRG
1984
113 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Quasar Film, Reass Films
Director
Robert Kramer
Music
Barre Phillips
Cinematographer
Robert Kramer
Editor
Sheherazade Saadi
Script
Robert Kramer
Robert Kramer shot “Our Nazi” parallel to the shooting of Thomas Harlan’s “Gun Wound”. While a former Nazi war criminal who feels no regret for his acts even today plays himself in “Gun Wound”, Robert Kramer observes this film experiment in which guilt, danger and self-endangerment constantly produce each other.

Ralph Eue

Rosko’s Time

Documentary Film
France
1967
17 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, Radio Bremen
Director
Danielle Jaeggi, Ody Roos
Cast
Véronique Brouot, Michel Ganthier
A pop fantasy mix of cinéma vérité, anti Vietnam War posters and department store wigs. Caged hens at Pont Neuf in Paris play a role, too.

Ralph Eue

The Missing Picture

Documentary Film
Cambodia,
France
2013
96 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Catherine Dussart, Rithy Panh
Director
Rithy Panh
Music
Marc Marder
Cinematographer
Prum Mésa
Editor
Marie-Christine Rougerie, Rithy Panh
Script
Rithy Panh
Sound
Eric Tisserand
Photographer
Prum Mésa
Narrator
Christophe Bataille
Painted clay figures perform scenes of everyday horror under the Khmer Rouge. Cambodian director Rithy Panh contrasts this theatre with propaganda and original newsreels. Friction arises but also paradoxically a miraculous magic that is able to salvage humanity in the stylisation of monstrosity.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2018
The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory Jacques Willemont

Paris 1968: A female worker vehemently refuses to accept the compromise negotiated by her union and return to work.

The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory

Documentary Film
France
1968
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

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Producer
États généraux du cinéma
Director
Jacques Willemont
Cinematographer
Pierre Bonneau
Sound
Liane Willemont
Paris 1968: A female worker vehemently refuses to accept the compromise negotiated by her union and return to work.

Tobias Hering

The Sequence of the Paper Flower (Love and Anger)

Documentary Film
France,
Italy
1968
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

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Producer
Armando Bertuccioli, Castoro Film Rom, Anouchka Film Paris
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematographer
Guiseppe Ruzzolini
Script
Pier Paolo Pasolini
A faun in the streets of Rome: youthful exuberance meets contemporary horror images. At the end the voice of a punitive God.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2018
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon Chris Marker, François Reichenbach

Anti Vietnam film introduced by a Zen proverb: “If the five sides of a pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth.”

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon

Documentary Film
France
1968
27 minutes
Subtitles: 
VO_English

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Producer
Les Films de la Pléïade, S.L.O.N.
Director
Chris Marker, François Reichenbach
Cinematographer
Chris Marker, François Reichenbach, Christian Odasso, Tony Daval
Editor
Carlos De Los Llanos
Sound
Antoine Bonfanti, Harald Maury
Anti Vietnam film introduced by a Zen proverb: “If the five sides of a pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth.”

Ralph Eue

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

Documentary Film
France
2006
52 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Zorn Production International
Director
Robin Shuffield
Music
Cyril Orcel
Cinematographer
Marc Ridley, Robin Shuffield
Editor
Samuel Gantier, Serge Dietrich
Script
Robin Shuffield
A documentary film about Thomas Sankara (1949–1987) – "Africa's Che Guevara" and one of the most charismatic leaders of the anti-colonialist fight. He was president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2019
Wundkanal Thomas Harlan

Fiction or document? Perhaps both, or something monstrous in-between. An old man is kidnapped and interrogated by his kidnappers. The old man is the actor who plays the mass murderer he is himself.

Wundkanal

Documentary Film
France,
FRG
1984
103 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Quasar Film, Reass Films
Director
Thomas Harlan
Music
Bob Wade
Cinematographer
Henri Alekan
Editor
Patricia Mazuy
Script
Yvette Biro, Thomas Harlan
Fiction or document? Perhaps both, or something monstrous in-between. An old man is kidnapped and interrogated by his kidnappers. The old man is the actor who plays the mass murderer he is himself. The film not only lays bare the protagonist’s biography but weaves connections from National Socialism to the death of the RAF prisoners in Stammheim. Contagious in every respect!

Ralph Eue

Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

Documentary Film
France,
Germany,
Serbia
2013
62 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Director
Marta Popivoda
Music
Christian Obermaier, Jakov Munižaba
Editor
Nataša Damnjanović
Script
Ana Vujanović, Marta Popivoda
Sound
Jakov Munižaba
An essay film that explores how ideology staged itself in the public space of former Yugoslavia through mass choreography.

Ralph Eue