Portraits Archives

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)

Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what

The Umpire Whispers

‘The Umpire Whispers’ is an exploration of the intimacy that arises between a swimming coach and an athlete. In the film, Manna returns to meet her coach

Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial

Ninna Nanna

Margaret Salmon’s three films collectively titled Ninna Nanna, depict the experience of three Italian mothers raising their children, with the films linked by a traditional

Ray’s Birds

Ray Lowden keeps seventy-two large birds of prey, five deer and some wallabies at his place in Northumberland, England. He’s had ten days off in

Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina

Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina, (2021) was commissioned as part of a project by Punto de Vista Film Festival in which several filmmakers were asked by

For Eileen

A portrait of American poet Eileen Myles. Outtakes from the filming of I HOPE I’M LOUD WHEN I’M DEAD.

For CA

A portrait of American poet CAConrad. Outtakes from the filming of I HOPE I’M LOUD WHEN I’M DEAD.

And still, it remains

‘And still, it remains’ tells the story of Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara and home to the Escamaran

MARIA

MARIA is Nina Danino’s 5th feature length film and a sister film to the recent SOLITUDE (2022) with Nico (Velvet Underground) as icon, screen and

N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild)

N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) in many ways stands in the tradition of Fowler’s impressionist portraits of persons who have made an impact on his personal

Limbo

The journal and readings come together in ‘Limbo’ between a film and a journal. The film shows the outward journey as a positive image, with

Grace

This project emerged through Naeem Mohaiemen’s collaboration with Maine resident Karen Wentworth (1956-2023). Four years ago, Karen received a terminal cancer diagnosis, which she approached with a

Portraits

Series of portraits originating on standard 8mm, 16mm, mini-dv tape and 35mm still photograph: Jim Mellors/Victoria Ashley, surrealist artist. Tony Gross, optician. Vivienne Westwood, fashion

Double Exposure

Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001.

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