R(a/u)pture

28.11.2024

At the turn of the century, French-Swiss idiosyncratic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was invited by the Cannes Film Festival to make a film to open the festival, “commemorating cinema entering its second full century.” Godard delivered De l’origine du XXIe siècle: a fifteen-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Godard’s own À bout de souffle.

20.11.2024

In Very Nice, Very Nice, avant-garde filmmaker Arthur Lipsett mixes archival photos with unused sound fragments. Retrospectively, he muses on life and wonders if it was all better 30 years ago. His very first film earned Lipsett an Oscar nomination.

19.04.2024

Arnold Schwarzenegger won his first Mr. Universe title at the age of 20. He was also named Mr. Olympia seven times. During one of those many bodybuilder competitions, Dutch filmmaker Babeth Mondini-Vanloo filmed him up close.