Moskwood DVD releases in juni

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DE NAALD / IGLA

Synopsis
Na een lange tijd van afwezigheid keert Moro in Almaty terug en ontdekt dat zijn oude vriendin Dina verslaafd is. In een poging haar te redden neemt hij haar mee het Aralmeer, waar de contouren van een ecologische ramp zichtbaar zijn. Weer in de stad valt Dina door toedoen van haar baas Arthur weer in het oude patroon terug. Moro weet dat deze droomwereld geen oplossing is en gaat in verzet.

In deze film worden twee belangrijkste rollen door Russische popmuzikanten gespeeld: Victor Tsoi van Kino als Moro en Pjotr Mamonov van Zvuki Mu als Arthur.

Kazachstan (USSR) 1988

Specificaties:
DVD5 • NTSC • R0 • kleur
Geluid: Dolby 5.1 & 2.0
Speelduur: 80 min.
Taal: Russisch gesproken
Ondertiteling: Nederlands, Engels, Frans, Zweeds

BEAT FILMS

Dating from 1953, this may in fact be the first genuine beat film, profoundly inventive and advanced for its time. Maclaine outlook is bleak and his techniques are crude, creating a film which is deliciously inept, but glorious. One of cinema starkest evocations of the Cold War period and its effect on creative thought, situated in the beat milieu of 1950s San Francisco but speaking in direct terms to generations of lost souls. - Mark Webber

With Maclaine, we are going back to the source of the Beats; he was the filmmaker who chronicled the movement as it happened and created a center of one of the aspects of the Beat myth seven or eight years before the grand epic of Beat became nationally known with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.... I have seen The End more than fifty times, and there are moments when I still begin to tremble at the psychological blockages and outright terror of it. Unquestionably, it is Maclaine masterpiece. - Stan Brakhage

One can feel behind the film images and its sounds the movements of a complex and beautiful spirit, the movements which lead you to your own unexpected, exalted, chance discoveries. The beauty of The End is stronger than the crooked silliness of governments, the blabberings of sociologists and politicians. - Jonas Mekas


The End 1953 16mm 35'
The Man Who Invented Gold 1957 16mm 14'
Beat 1958 16mm 6'
Scoth Hop 1959 16mm 6'

Contains a 32-page booklet with a text by Stan Brakhage recounting his friendship with Maclaine.

SCREENING THE POOR 1888-1914 (2DVD)

Around 1900, the issues of poverty and poor relief were the source of heated controversy.
This beautiful 2DVD set illustrates in seven chapters how examinations of the 'Social Question' were presented in magic lantern slide sets and early films. On the screens of auditoriums, Sunday schools, music-halls, cinemas and churches, visitors could witness orphans freezing to death in the snow, drunkards plunging their families into misery and helpless old people begging for a scrap of bread. Audiences experienced poignant moving pictures in performances with music, singing and recitations. The photographic and film industries delivered glass slide sets and films in very large runs on a variety of themes relating to poverty.
This DVD set recalls the forgotten art of projection and presents it a new on the modern electronic screen: drawing on original images and using authentic projection equipment, Ensemble illuminago shows enchanting Victorian slide shows and films in a live musical performance at the Munich Film Museum. Digital slideshows reconstruct the interaction between slide sets und text recitals, and early silent films are accompanied with music as they were a century ago: piano and violin underscore the moods that find visual expression in the films.

Nowadays it is rather unusual to find both films and slide sets presented on one DVD set. Around 1900 it was common knowledge that the "moving pictures" in a film had evolved from photographic slide sets. Showmen, touring lecturers, music-hall entrepreneurs and cinema operators often used both projection media alternately in their live shows.
The content was curated by Martin Loiperdinger and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek.

DVD 1
>Slumming
The Magic Wand GB 1889, 6'
Comment les pauvres mangent à Paris FR 1910, 4'
Le Violoniste della carità IT 1911, 10'
La tournée des Grand Ducs FR 1910, 10'
>Children in Misery
Ora Pro Nobis GB 1897, 6'
Le Bagne des gosses FR 1907, 11'
Bébé veut imiter St. Martin FR 1910, 6'
Billys's Rose GB 1888, 8'
>Child Labour
The Cry of the Children US 1912, 28'
The Little Match Girl US 1905, 9'
The Little Match Girl GB 1914, 10'
>Charity and Social Care
Le Chemineau FR 1905, 6'
Rigadin a l'ame sensible FR 1910, 9'
In the Workhouse GB 1890, 7'
Christmas Day in the Workhouse GB 1914, 14'
Ahlbeck. Der Kaiser bei den Berliner Arbeiterkindern DE 1912, 2'

DVD 2
>Drink and Temperance Movement
Manchester Band of Hope Procession GB 1901, 2'
Enter not the Dramshop GB 1890, 5'
Les Victimes de l'alcoolisme FR 1902, 6'
Ein vergeudetes Leben DK 1910, 8'
Buy Your Own Cherries! GB 1905, 28'
Buy Your Own Cherries! GB 1904, 5'
Dustman's Darling GB 1894, 5'
A Drunkard's Reformation US 1909, 15'
>Perils of Wage Labour
A Bunch of Primroses GB 1889, 8'
Au pays noir FR 1905, 14'
Die Beerdigung der Opfer des Grubenunglücks auf der Zeche Radbod DE 1908, 6'
Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad GB 1910, 5'
>Escape
The Two Roses US 1910, 12'
Deux petits Jésus FR 1910, 17'
The Emigrant Ship GB 1890, 13'
Geheimnisvolle Streichholzdose DE 1910, 5'
Scores by Günter A. Buchwald and Judith Herrmann
Live performances and speakers: Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Karin Bienek, Mervyn Heard
16-page bilingual booklet
Extensive documents about each title as ROM features

Specificaties:
Beeld: 16:9 (PAL) 1.33:1
Geluid: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo)
Franse tussentitels
Ondertiteling: Engels, Duits

MATERIAL

"Images from the late 1980s in East Germany to the immediate present, 2008, in Germany. What remains besieges my head. In it, all these images come together again as something different from what they were originally intended to be. They remain in motion. They become history. The material remains incomplete. It is what I picked up, what remained important to me. My picture." (Thomas Heise)

The DVD set also offers rare early works by Thomas Heise, unique and authentic images of everyday's life in the GDR, immediately banned in the GDR.

DVD 1
Material 2009, 166'
16 page booklet with Thomas Heise (Du/En/Fr)

DVD 2
Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film? 1980, 34'
Das Haus / 1984 56'
Volkspolizei / 1985 60'

Specificaties:
Beeld: 4:3 (PAL) / 1,37:1
Geluid: Dolby Digital 2.0
Taal: Duits
Ondertiteling: Engels, Frans, Spaans

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