Nostalghia
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union & Italy, 1983, 125 min

The Russian poet Gortchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer. In a ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in a barn to save them from the evils of the world. As Eugenia seeks to tempt Gortchakov into infidelity, he, seeing some deep truth in Domenico’s act, becomes drawn to the lunatic. In a series of dreams, the poet’s nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and her Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined …

La mémoire des anges
Luc Bourdon, Canada, 2008, 80 min 23 s

À la façon des disc-jockeys qui revitalisent la musique actuelle en reformatant et en recyclant les sons, Luc Bourdon a procédé à un assemblage d’archives et d’extraits tirés de 120 films produits par l’ONF pour nous présenter la ville de Montréal des années 1950 et 1960. À la fois documentaire, poème et essai, La mémoire des anges est une expérience unique permettant de revisiter l’histoire de Montréal, avec ses grandes figures, ses lieux emblématiques et ses citoyens ordinaires.

Visitor of a Museum (Posetitel Muzeya)
Konstantin Lopushansky, Switzerland & West Germany & Soviet Union, 1989, 136 Min

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide. – IMDb

Cinéma des fêtes

R.I.P., Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
Robert-Adrian Pejo, Austria, 1997, 89 min

Consider this documentary nothing less than a love letter to the oddball, and to one in particular – artist JOE COLEMAN. The documentary focuses mainly on the many artistic endeavors of Mr. Coleman. Known in his early years as a provocative performance artist, Coleman was not a stranger to controversy. Drawn to the world of sideshows, Coleman took the idea of becoming a ‘geek’ to new levels – biting the heads off of live mice, wiring his body for explosives, and basically pushing people into a place where they had no choice but to confront his art. Since those early days Coleman has found other artistic pursuits to take up his time, and a better forum to let people see his demons. In moving from a performance artist to a painter, Coleman has found the perfect outlet for his view of the world. Creating paintings that are like the works of a madman, Coleman has taken his darker thoughts and view of the world and has created a nightmarish world of serial killers and the world that needs them.

Each painting is done with obsessive attention to detail, the viewer having to get almost inside the painting just to catch all of the messages and imagery hidden within. Coleman’s paintings are certainly not for everyone, as they deal with, as I stated before, the darker nature of humanity. Many feature killers or killed, his paintings as much tribute as damnation. His view that humans have created serial killers to thin the human herd playing a very strong role in much of his art’ …