Overview
A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of documentary, fictional and performative languages. The film follows the trajectory of the main character who uses her own body to formulate universes and investigate the meanings that are drawn in it. In a kind of subjective diary written on her skin, she records sensations and reflections, building relationships with thinkers, performances and archival materials, which lead her to other bodies and other stories.
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Fall 2 (1970)
Documentary · N/A
Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.
- Runtime
- 1m
- Director
- Bas Jan Ader
I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971)
Documentary · N/A
This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the title of the work as a caption. The film was initially ten minutes long, and included Ader rubbing his eyes to produce the tears, but was cut down to three and a half minutes. This shorter ve...
- Runtime
- 3m
- Director
- Bas Jan Ader
Broken Fall (Organic) (1971)
Documentary
Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.
- Runtime
- 2m
- Director
- Bas Jan Ader
Nightfall (1971)
Documentary · N/A
Shot in his garage-studio, the camera records Ader painstakingly hoisting a large brick over his shoulder. His figure is harshly lit by two tangles of light bulbs. He drops the brick, crushing one strand of lights. He again lifts the brick, allowing tension to accrue. The climax inevitable—the brick falls and crushes the second set of ...
- Runtime
- 4m
- Director
- Bas Jan Ader
Pussy Versus Putin (2013)
Documentary · Music · Not Rated
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". Russian film collective Gogol’s Wives follow each step of the feminist punk band’s battle against Putin including their first disruptive performances on a trolley bus, shooting...
- Runtime
- 1h
- Cast
- Mariya Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich
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