How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which ended in the massacre of hundreds or thousands of workers in 1922 (and of which there are no moving images), I turn to other work from that same year. Inspired by Hito Steyerl's essay "In Defense of the Poor Image", this found-footage essay-film reclaims the "poor image" in the context of past and present class struggles in Ecuador.
How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which ended in the massacre of hundreds or thousands of workers in 1922 (and of which there are no moving images), I turn to other work from that same year. Inspired by Hito Steyerl's essay "In Defense of the Poor Image", this found-footage essay-film reclaims the "poor image" in the context of past and present class struggles in Ecuador.
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—'courage, never submit, or yield'.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
สารคดีที่ได้รับอนุญาตนี้ เฉลิมฉลองภาพยนตร์ที่สร้างนิยามใหม่ให้กับฮอลลีวูด 50 ปีหลังจากรอบปฐมทัศน์ นำเสนอฟุตเทจหายากจากคลังเก็บถาวรและบทสัมภาษณ์ผู้กำกับฮอลลีวูดชื่อดัง ร่วมกับสตีเวน สปีลเบิร์ก นักวิทยาศาสตร์ด้านฉลามชั้นนำ และนักอนุรักษ์ ภาพยนตร์เรื่องนี้เปิดเผยเบื้องหลังความวุ่นวาย และวิธีที่ภาพยนตร์เรื่องนี้เปิดตัวภาพยนตร์ฟอร์มยักษ์ช่วงซัมเมอร์ สร้างแรงบันดาลใจให้กับผู้สร้างภาพยนตร์รุ่นใหม่ และปูทางไปสู่การอนุรักษ์ฉลามที่ยังคงดำเนินมาจนถึงปัจจุบัน
Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.
เรื่องราวความทรงจำอันน่าเศร้าสลดของผู้รอดชีวิตที่ถูกพรากจากครอบครัวขณะมีอายุเพียงห้าปี เมื่อยุคเขมรแดงมีอำนาจในปี 1975
เด็กสาวชื่อ ไวโอเล็ต Violet เธอเกิดในซ่อง และเจริญเติบโต กลายเป็นโสเภณีรับบทโดย Brooke Shields ดาราสาว ที่ได้ชื่อว่า ผู้หญิงที่สวยที่สุดในโลกซึ่งขณะนั้นอายุเพียง 12 ปี
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the middle of chaotic clashes between forces backed by the government (including Inkatha Zulu warriors) and those in support of Mandela's African National Congress.