documentaries

[Jordan]

Joe Coleman - R.I.P. - Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman (1997).

http://www.ubu.com/film/coleman_rip.html

Somehow I didn't even know about this, thanks.

[yog]

Girl Model (2011)

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian contryside and dropped into the centre of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley's initial discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound. As Nadya's optimism about rescuing her family from their financial difficulties grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley's more jaded outlook about the industry's corrosive influence.

Girl Model is a lyrical exploration of a world defined by glass surfaces and camera lenses, reflecting back differing versions of reality to the young women caught in their scope. As we enter further into this world, it more and more resembles a hall of mirrors, where appearances can't be trusted, perception become distorted, and there is no clear way out. Will Nadya, and the other girls like her, be able to find anyone to help them navigate this maze, or will they follow a path like Ashley's, having learned the tricks of the labyrinth but unable to escape its lure?

http://tracker.zaerc.com/torrents-details.php?id=15583

[RyanWreck]

Does anyone know where to find a full copy of Tearoom from 1962? I know that it was once uploaded to Megaupload and Mediafire and a torrent (no seeds) so it is out there I just don't know where.

For those who don't know what the film is it was basically a compilation of "footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest.  In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a restroom under the main square of the city.  The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror.  The film they shot was used in court as evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary.  The original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this case for a documentary project. "

Here is a small 8 minute piece from it (the japs can get away with putting anything on Youtube):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FebkXNOoTa8

[bitewerksMTB]

Always liked Joe Coleman. I use to correspond with him. He'd write back on postcards of his paintings. He had terrible handwriting & turned me onto a true crime book dealer who sold me "The Sexual Criminal". I have the Cosmic Retribution book. Doing a quick search, doesn't look like he's super active. Seems like there would be a recent book of paintings or something. I like that photo of him in the Re/Search "Pranks" book where you can see his bookshelf.

That video excerpt of "Tearoom" is excellant. Everyone seems so disinterested in what they're doing. A special edition blu-ray would be nice...

[online prowler]

Girl model - despair and consequence. Looks great Yog. Tearoom I haven't heard of previously. Thanx Ryan for the mention. Fun Coleman story BiteWerks, enjoyed the book title he recommended to you.  

Titicut Follies (1967)

by Frederick Wiseman.



US documentary about patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane. Massachusetts, US. Beholds both the view of the system, and the array-spectral-logic of the inmates. Within the strict sphere these inmates wobble, the moments of anarchy and bizarre abruptions are pure poetry. Quite an interesting insight (of some sort) on how people whom had psychological diagnosis where looked upon, treated and understood earlier; in a person-to-person relationship as well as in the context of society. Raw, crude, sympathetic .. fill in the blanks yrself peepers.  

Full movie on yucktube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC33HqwJMnM

[RyanWreck]

Yea unfortunately I am not a member of that place. Would definitely appreciate you putting it on dropbox if you have the time.

[online prowler]

Over your cities grass will grow

documentary by Sophie Fiennes on the German artist Anslem Kiefer.



http://overyourcities.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pbbfXAONmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7xMMNDB2CE

Haven't come around to seeing this yet, but it is on top of my list. Kiefer's works have been a long time fav. Enjoy the trailer.

[tiny_tove]

Does anyone know where to find a full copy of Tearoom from 1962? I know that it was once uploaded to Megaupload and Mediafire and a torrent (no seeds) so it is out there I just don't know where.

For those who don't know what the film is it was basically a compilation of "footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest.  In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a restroom under the main square of the city.  The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror.  The film they shot was used in court as evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary.  The original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this case for a documentary project. "

Here is a small 8 minute piece from it (the japs can get away with putting anything on Youtube):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FebkXNOoTa8

There's a torrent of it on the private tracker Karagarga with seeders. Unless someone else does it before me, I'll try and download it and stick it on Dropbox for you sometime soon (or if the file's identical then I'll reseed it on an existing public torrent).

PLEASE DO!

[online prowler]

L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (2009).

Documentary about French director Clouzot's unrealized film project L'Enfer. Highly recommended. Contains film footage from actual film, visual experiments, screen tests and interviews.


Romy Schneider..

..screen tests and visual experiments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ38CcJ-2vw&feature=related

[narcolepsia]

theotherjohn :

I would like to get a link for "tearoom" as well if that is possible. also the link for those british TV episodes on paedophilia is not working.

[RyanWreck]

theotherjohn :

also the link for those british TV episodes on paedophilia is not working.

Just register here thebox.bz and then search for it once you're signed in.

[online prowler]

Thanx for the Girl Model pitch. Just checked it out. Lacks a bit of weight and didn't particular like the undercurrent mindset the filmmaker tried to establish in the viewer. A bit moralistic at times, but I presume this was done as method in distancing the production from the model industry and have a humane storyline to it. Something edible and for viewers and film festivals. Found the hopes and experiences, as well as the contradictory contours of the characters the most interesting. Especially the model scout Ashely opposed to the sunrise-innosence Nadya. Good dynamics. Worth a watch, check it out.  

Nadya of Switch Models:

http://www.switchmodels.co.jp/town/nadya.html#

[online prowler]

Scarlet Road: A Sex Worker's Journey (2011)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkkKNJqoyp4

Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton's clients have disabilities ... 

[online prowler]

Werner Herzog - On Death Row (2012)

Tv series. Episode 1: Portrait Hank Skinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqRCXm5npc



Found this recently. Could be interesting. Since I haven't seen it yet, I can't vouch for the series. Nevertheless, I think it holds a certain regard- even though one might have to see between the fingers on the production.

Putin, Russia and the West (2012).

Vladimir Putin, after eight years as President of Russia and four more as Prime Minister, is stubbornly holding onto power. He has announced his intention to return as President and declared his United Russia party the winner in parliamentary elections that have widely been seen as fraudulent, causing mass protests in Moscow and elsewhere with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets.

By Paul Mitchell and Wanda Koscia.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_yJYola90

[Andrew McIntosh]

http://www.theage.com.au/tv/Documentary/Hoon-Capital-4262604.html

Aussie working class hoon culture - cars, burn-outs, night wars, Molotov cocktails and burning toilet rolls, massive beer consumption, and what happens when you try to police it.