Author: Doc Studies

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES — 

HERE AND ELSEWHERE: THE FILMS OF JEAN ROUCH, PART II / November 8 – November 15

Anthology Film Archives partners with the French Institute/Alliance Française (FIAF) for an extended look at the extraordinary films of anthropologist Jean Rouch, one of French cinema’s true visionaries. The selected films build their energy from the friction of unexpected encounters. Like the retrospective itself, these films pair here and elsewhere, bringing radically immediate images of contemporary life into contact with dreams, trances, flashbacks, and utopias. Continue reading “The Films of Jean Rouch” →

UNION DOCS   —    BROOKLYN

“A classic of nonfiction cinema.” FOREST OF BLISS directed by Robert Gardner

“ … an unsparing but ultimately redeeming account of the inevitable griefs and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, one of the world’s most holy cities. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give anyone who sees it a wholly authentic though greatly magnified view of the matters of life and death that are portrayed.” Continue reading “Forest Of Bliss” →