ATAVISM

Aug 19, 2024

0h 2m

★ 10.0

Overview

Within the video, two screens coexist. On the primary screen, a repetitive action takes place - the photo in the hands is periodically blurred. The focus of the viewer's attention is shifted to the secondary screen, which is more dynamic. The face in front of the camera, resembling clay, tries to take on images from archival photographs and video recordings.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Himself

Ivan Donskikh

Ten years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was just one of the many faces on Ukrainian television screens. He became a star thanks to the 2015 satirical series Servant of the People, in which he played a history teacher who becomes president. Four years later, what began as fiction became a reality. This French documentary follows the transformation of a popular TV comedian into a statesman on the front lines of the Russian invasion. Archival footage, family photos, television appearances, and interviews with Zelensky and those closest to him create a multi-layered portrait of a man who always longed for a large audience. At the same time, the film places his personal development in the broader context of post-Soviet Ukraine, which is also searching for its own identity.

4.4

Mind Games - The Experiment

Jan 19, 2023

Can exercise sharpen the brightest minds? In this ground-breaking experiment, four world-class gamers, competing in eSports, Chess, Mahjong and Memory Games, put this to the test.

0.0

Please Hold

Mar 8, 2025

An experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers, as we all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, hi-8, digital, Zoom—to address these and other questions: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go?

0.0

Tricky Memory

Jan 1, 2016

The lastest neuroscience discoveries show surprising results: false memories, distortion, modification, déjà vus. Our memory is affected in many ways, and deceives us every day. The very fact of recalling souvenirs modifies them. The everyday consequences are manyfold. To what extent can we rely on our souvenirs? How much credit can we give them during trials? Even more shocking, scientists have proved to be able to manipulate our memory: creating artificial souvenirs, deleting, emphasizing or restoring them on demand.

5.5

L'heure exquise

Dec 2, 1981

In the streets of Marseille, René Allio encounters, once again, the spaces of his childhood, and remembers his family history.

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10.0

As You Are

Jan 20, 2023

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are muddled, and faces are broken. How is memory created? How are they separated from one another?

7.8

Flee

Jun 17, 2021

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

6.5

306 Hollywood

Jan 18, 2018

When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house, they embark on a magical-realist journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.

0.0

Amédée

Jun 6, 2024

In 1952, Amédée took his own life by jumping into the Seine. No one knows the reason for this tragic act. His story comes to us in bits and pieces.

4.5

Forms of Forgetting

Jun 17, 2023

Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an equal role.

0.0

Leftovers

May 23, 2017

A manufactured memory.

10.0

Anamnesis

Jul 10, 2021

An audiovisual representation of the degenerative dementia process based on real reports from people affected with this condition.

0.0

Cycle of Memory

Jul 18, 2022

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's. Now over seventy-five years later, his grandchildren set out to recreate his life-changing journey and find those memories before they slip away. Cycle of Memory explores the importance of intergenerational connection, healing painful pasts, and leaving a meaningful time capsule for the future.

0.0

Ballymanus

Sep 13, 2023

10 May 1943. Something is spotted drifting ashore off the coast of Northwest Donegal, Ireland. Something that would change the lives of the local people forever.

6.0

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

Feb 18, 1991

A retrospective special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

0.0

Maccaia

Feb 21, 2024

No overview available.

8.2

Pictures of Ghosts

Aug 24, 2023

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

0.0

Time Here No Longer

Jul 21, 2022

A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death

ATAVISM

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