- Learn how to use high end Super8 cameras including how to film long exposures, time-lapse and slow motion, and hand-process the black and white film in coffee! Known as ‘Caffenol’, this DIY film processing mixture is an environmentally responsible way of processing black and white film that gets great results, and the ingredients are readily [...]Click to read more about this film »
- From the producers of Man Bites Dog, A Town Called Panic and Calvaire comes a blacker-than-black comedy that fans who remember previous Fanomenon hits Aaltra and Adam’s Apples will adore. Dr. Kruger runs a special ‘assisted death’ clinic deep in the remote Swiss woods. His wealthy but suicidal patients wait until it is their time [...]Click to read more about this film »
- An evocative wilderness documentary about the life of the indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga directed by Russian filmmaker Dmitry Vasyukov, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. The camera follows a trapper through all four seasons of a year, beginning and ending in the small village of Bakhtia, population 300, a [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Take the opportunity to see two episodes of director Krzysztof Kieslowski and writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s masterpiece on the big screen in conjunction with the University’s presentation on the duo’s work. Originally made for Polish television at the end of the communist era in 1988, this extraordinary series of films loosely based on the ten commandments [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Father is one of the great films of leading Hungarian director István Szabó, combining humour and poetic nostalgia to underscore a symbolic tale of identity crisis. The father of the title was killed in the Second World War and the film centres on his son Tako in the post-war years, who concocts a fantasy ideal [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Challenging expectations on the borderlines of documentary, fiction and experimental cinema, José María de Orbe’s Father is a beautiful meditation on history, identity and a sense of place. It’s a ghostly story about the soul of a former Basque fortress from the 13th century unexpectedly incorporating silent projections of old Basque films against the walls [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The Swiss fable of the Sennentuntsci tells of a woman created from straw who is made flesh by the devil to do her creators’ bidding. All goes well until they mistreat her and she takes her bloody revenge. Here, director Michael Seiner adds his own twist to the tale, tranposing the action to a remote [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Polanski’s disturbing and hallucinatory psychological thriller was his explosive introduction to an English speaking audience. It’s an unparalleled depiction of mental disintegration featuring an extraordinary performance by the young Catherine Deneuve. Polanski skillfully manipulates an arsenal of virtuoso filmmaking techniques inspired by everything from Hitchcockian thriller to Bunuelian surrealism, depicting a sexually repressed young Belgian [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A lyrical and redemptive tale of southern gothic sensibilities, Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs boasts evocative cinematography, a haunting soundtrack and a soulful central performance by Peter Stormare. Walter is police chief in an Ontario Mennonite community, struggling to keep a lid on simmering local tensions and a violent past that returns to haunt [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Discover Devil’s Tower all over again in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction classic. Richard Dreyfuss stars as typical everyman Roy Neary who experiences, with a small group of others, a close encounter of the first kind. As Roy attempts to fathom out the haunting visions that plague him, we see just the right amount of sentimentality [...]Click to read more about this film »
