Conversations sur le Cinéma #2

Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments

Against a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.

Into the Woods: A Conversationpiece

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine discuss their stage musical Into the Woods

Conversations on a Boat

Two women in their sixties meet on a boat in the Oslofjord, where an apparently calm reunion gradually reveals a complex relationship marked by desire, longing, and unresolved love. The film explores time, aging, and the

Masturbation Conversations

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Erika Lust community. They share personal experiences with self-pleasure, exploring why they masturbate, how their views h

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist

An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.

Conversations With the Sages

Grigory Pomerants and Zinaida Mirkina are wise men. The topics of their reflections are the need for loneliness, the fate of civilization, the meaning of suffering, and whether a clear conscience is possible.

My Conversations on Film

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as w

First Date Conversations

Zoe and Scott's first date is upended when she receives a difficult phone call about her estranged father. As the two delve into questions of morality, family, and conviction, the night becomes a self examination of choi

Fishing and Fishermen's Conversations

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic impotence and uneasy relationship with common fishermen.

Silent Conversations

Hand-processed and self-printed 16mm reversal and negative colour films, Silent Conversations is a study of twenty-second sequences of embraces that unfolds as a series of time-based portraits.

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).

Conversations on Hatred

“Conversations on Hatred” by Vera Fogwill from Argentina narrates a real-time story of a farewell between two terminally ill women. In this intimate and deep conversation, they discuss their views on maternity, friendshi

Conversations Centered Around Black Bodies: Black Womxn

When a white finger points accusation towards an influential Black man, two Black Womxn fall on different sides of a debate around where guilt should land. This vignette explores the intersection of Blackness and Womxnho

Conversations with Ruth de Souza

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an important part of the achievements for black women over almost a century of l

The Carrot Cake Conversations

The story of 4 strangers who find themselves stranded in Singapore, two days before Christmas, and how each of them finds companionship with one another, over a plate of carrot cake and a conversation.

Rehearsing Conversations

A couple rehearses their argument.

Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route

"Detroit 48202" examines the rise, demise and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of mail carrier Wendell Watkins and the residents he has faithfully served for 30 years. The resilient Detroiters on Wendell’

Refugee Conversations

REFUGEE CONVERSATIONS / PAKOLAISKESKUSTELUJA is a 90-minute documentary film. Its themes are: refugees, racism, xenophobia, Islam, Christianity and compassion — or the lack of it. What is the meaning and role of these i

The Rocks of Eternity: Conversations with Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar, nuclear disarmament advocate and pacifist speaks at length in England. Mini-DV and Super-8.