Portraits

Short film by Narcisa Hirsch

Portraits of the Rainbow

This film focuses on the "Out in Japan" project in which over 1,000 portraits of Japanese LGBT+ individuals were taken by photographer Leslie Kee and exhibited around the country. Many of the subjects share their storie

Mornings: Portraits of Mothers in Homelessness

Three families wake up in homeless shelters across New York City.

Portraits deutscher Alkoholiker

The people at the centre of this film are lawyers, civil servants, housewives, managing directors and mothers. They are also alcoholics. In her documentary, Carolin Schmitz explores the protagonists’ stories and their st

Portraits

Installation depicting photographic portraits of indigenous Amazonian communities at Sebastião Salgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with music from Rodolfo Stroeter.

Video Portraits - Men: Shuntaro Tanikawa

In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".

Video Portraits - Men: Ryoichi Enomoto

A playful portrait of designer Ryoichi Enomato, a former collaborator of the Shuji Terayama and the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe. Kyoko Michishita: “…when I asked Enomoto, the king of parody, to let me film him at the Jap

Lebensläufe - Die Geschichte der Kinder von Golzow in einzelnen Portraits

A sequence of nine individual biographical sketches with a prologue and epilogue on Golzow and the long-term observation. Deepening of the preceding chronicle. The Golzow people in the present, from which retrospective v

Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her photography. She considers the stereotype of superficial nude photograp

Portraits

A group of mourners provide different portraits of a deceased man at a funeral.

Unseen: The Aberfan Portraits

Following the Aberfan disaster in 1966, an artist from Llandudno embarked on an extraordinary mission to paint portraits of most of the 116 children who lost their lives, using photographs and locks of hair provided by t

Beyond the Anti-DuPont Movement: Portraits of Some Social Activists

Following the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan entered democratisation as grassroots movements flourished. Proposed by director Lee Daw-ming and funded by the Public Television Service, the film interviews key fig

Plymptoons

Sketches. We see human crash tests: a human hits a wall at five miles per hour, 50 mph, and 3000. A woman kisses a man as he listens to his Walkman; through the kiss, she experiences the music. We see the trouble with fa

Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain

Transitioning from a photographic exhibition to film, this documentary captures multi-generational stories of Slovak and Czech migrants building lives and finding belonging in Britain. It highlights individuals who have

Neo Portraits

"Cutting-edge technology" and "things that haven't changed" coexist in this depopulated town. Takumi, an eighth-year junior high school student, felt it strange that the adults in his town treated the android made in his

Identity Portraits: Janice and Paula

A loving portrait of two motorcycle-riding lesbians.

Portraits and Dreams

Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns

Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers

"Reverse Television" was created in the mid-1980's by video artist Bill Viola. The 30-second portraits were about portraiture and the idea of a person staring at the viewer (as the viewer stares at the TV screen). Concei

Eight Portraits

Children looking directly into the camera

Life in the Borderlands - Portraits of Patmos