A portrait of 99-year-old polish textile artist Krystyna-Wojtyna Drouet in her day-to-day life in a small studio in Warsaw. Her hands weave wool threads on the loom, intertwining with verses of her poetry, memories, photos from travels and recipes for natural dyes, revealing a sensorial and poetic glimpse into her inner world.
A portrait of 99-year-old polish textile artist Krystyna-Wojtyna Drouet in her day-to-day life in a small studio in Warsaw. Her hands weave wool threads on the loom, intertwining with verses of her poetry, memories, photos from travels and recipes for natural dyes, revealing a sensorial and poetic glimpse into her inner world.
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.