
02 Dec 2020

Mustapha El Atrassi - La Vie Est Folle
Immersion in Mustapha's mind during the lockdown period.
Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the video collects the dozens of appearances that the character of Sigmund Freud has made on small and big screens. After the 1950s, when pill vials replaced analytic couches, the father of psychoanalysis found a second career impersonating himself in everything from a John Huston clunker to a Star Trek episode. The video suggests that maybe it is in front of the camera, alongside surgically enhanced starlets and CGI chimeras, that “Herr Doktor” will find his final resting place. This video was produced by the Kadist Foundation and commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13).

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02 Dec 2020

Immersion in Mustapha's mind during the lockdown period.
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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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Three generations of women represent the past, present and future of hairstyling. Lisa Bruno, Jessica Fera and Keyra Bruno navigate a journey of growth in their careers and family; leading and learning from one another within their satisfyingly creative world of colours and cuts.

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01 Jan 2003
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Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century