Lynch/Oz

May 15, 2023

1h 48m

★ 6.9

Overview

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Exhibit A Pictures

Lynch/Oz Trailers

Cast

Host (Chapter 1: 'Wind') (voice)

Amy Nicholson

Host (Chapter 2: 'Membranes') (voice)

Rodney Ascher

Host (Chapter 3: 'Kindred') (voice)

John Waters

Host (Chapter 4: 'Multitudes') (voice)

Karyn Kusama

Host (Chapter 5: 'Judy') (voice)

Justin Benson

Host (Chapter 5: 'Judy') (voice)

Aaron Moorhead

Host (Chapter 6: 'Dig') (voice)

David Lowery

self (archival footage)

David Lynch

Sailor Ripley [archival]

Nicolas Cage

Self (archive footage)

Clint Eastwood

Self (archive footage)

Dennis Hopper

Self (archive footage)

Christopher Reeve

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their possessions, their homes, their most treasured mementos. Three years later the reconstruction is progressing slowly. This is an attempt at exploring, what it means to irretrievably lose a part of ones’ past.

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This is Not a Game

Jun 25, 2021

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?

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Unpublished Visions

Jul 1, 2021

Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia (in the northwest of Spain) follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines of different nature. The result is four pieces around the creative process of these artists. Lois Patiño film their parents working on their paintings in their studio in Vigo, Jaione Camborda films dancer Janet Novás rehearsing for one of her pieces, Xisela Franco follows film director Margarita Ledo revisiting the location of her latest film Nation and Alfonso Zarauza reflects on the relationship between actress-director by putting together the work of Melania Cruz in two of their collaborations.

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Panoramas

Nov 29, 2019

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt travelled to obtain a clear view of nature, people and life in this immense country. 2019 naturalists and humanists attempted a transdisciplinary expedition on the trails of Humboldt. To capture the events various cameras were taken along. A non-chronological narration.

9.0

Im Reich Des Squatters

Apr 20, 2020

No overview available.

7.0

FFG: un retrato

Jan 1, 1976

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.

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Hovory o lékařské etice

Jan 1, 1997

No overview available.

6.5

The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Jan 6, 1998

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.

7.4

F for Fake

Sep 1, 1973

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

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Oachkatzlschwoaf

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Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less happy times. For Nenda Neururer, the word 'oachkatzlschwoaf' invokes a range of emotions. The German word is very hard to pronounce and is synonymous with the Austrian state of Tyrol where locals tease outsiders by asking them to pronounce it. Despite growing up in Tyrol, Nenda Neururer often felt like an outsider when confronted with this word. But when she moved to London she grew nostalgic for it and it became her little secret. Found in Translation is a series made as part of the In The Mix project, in partnership with BBC Studios TalentWorks, Black Creators Matter and the Barbican.

5.0

Visions of Europe

May 1, 2004

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

7.1

Arcadia

Oct 8, 2017

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.

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Pineapple

May 31, 2020

A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor qualities. I was smart for one day and read challenging stuff, and then for three days watched persisently TV series. I couldn't write. I found a handful of indispensable people. I didn't really understand much of this whole quarantine story; but I'm analytically only retroactive, so maybe it's going to happen. This movie made me feel alive for a few days."

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Clear Skies, Light Breeze

Mar 17, 2014

Clear Skies, Light Breeze, is a 2013 visual essay by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet about the debut of Monsieur Hulot

6.5

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

Jan 1, 1974

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

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Carne Mal Passada

Jul 28, 2022

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less clear: does he consume violence or does violence consume him?

10.0

Paris '50 - Existence imagined

Jan 9, 1981

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.