Ecos Desde el Azulado Prado

The Right Timing

October 1942 •English

The importance of timing in athletics

Ladakh: The Lotus of the Himalaya

January 1974 •Dutch

Short documentary on the Ladakh.region.

Salvaje

July 2021 •Spanish

Norte

July 2020 •Spanish

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema

May 1997 •French

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

May 1997 •French

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

November 1998 •French

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.

Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata)

September 2021 •Italian

The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.

Marijuana

December 1968 •English

Sonny Bono appears onscreen to tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead" and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance, Sonny appears to have ingested unknown substances before the cameras started rolling tends to limit the film's crediblity somewhat).

Broadway by Light

January 1958 •French

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

April 2009 •English

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal, Canada. Using the images of maple trees in the park as main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception of the space portrayed

Lonely Boy

May 1962 •English

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. Taking a candid look at both sides of the footlights, this film examines the marketing machine behind a generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal their perspective on the industry.

František Hrubín

January 1964 •English

A short film on writer and poet František Hrubín.

Lorelei Lee

February 2009 •English

Porn actress Lorelei Lee talks about her life, her job and her ambitions.

A Diary for Timothy

December 1945 •English

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

Se Siembran Flores

August 2021 •Spanish

In the midst of the social unrest caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Calpan, Puebla, there is a small corner where hope is harvested daily: the people's asylum.

Housing Problems

January 1935 •English

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Rain

December 1929 •Dutch

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Case Study: Heroin

December 1969 •English

A man talks about heroin abuse and withdrawal.

Very Nice, Very Nice

January 1961 •English

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, "Very nice, very nice." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.