Icarus Films: Tosca’s Kiss
Directed by Daniel Schmid 87 minutes / ColorItalian / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 1984 Meet the inhabitants of the “Casa di Riposa” in Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca’s Kiss, which has developed an underground
Icarus Films: Sol LeWitt
Directed by Chris Teerink 72 minutes / ColorDutch; Italian / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2012 “Conceptual artists leap to conclusions logic cannot reach,” Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) said in a rare audio-interview from 1974. Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in Chris Teerink’s sensitive cinematic portrait, the pioneering
Icarus Films: Forced Confessions
Directed by Maziar Bahari 58 minutes / Color/B&WRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 “My confession damaged me permanently… The physical pain is quickly forgotten, but not the psychological damage.” —Faraj Sarkoohi Since its earliest days, the Iranian regime has relied on forced, televised confessions to humiliate and discredit its opponents and instill fear
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Icarus Films: The Forgotten Space
Directed by Allan Sekula & Noel Burch 112 minutes / ColorRelease: 2012Copyright: 2010 The “forgotten space” of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s essay film is the sea, the oceans through which 90% of the world’s cargo now passes. At the heart of this space is the container box, which, since
Icarus Films: Miners Shot Down
Directed by Rehad Desai 86 minutes / ColorEnglish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2014 In August 2012, mine workers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress it, killing 34 and
Icarus Films: Lomax the Songhunter
“Mr. Kappers, in an inspired stroke, travels to places Mr. Lomax visited during a long career of collecting the world’s folk music on tape. He finds some of the people Mr. Lomax captured and plays the old recordings for them. Watching their faces light up is beautiful.” —Neil Genzlinger, The New
Icarus Films: The Absent House
Directed by Ruben Abruna 55 minutes / ColorSpanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 When Puerto Rican architect Fernando Abruna Charneco began designing buildings in the 1970s, many called him as crazy for putting nature first… a practice which later would be heralded as “sustainable green architecture.” For more than 30
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Maren Grainger-Monsen, a physician and award-winning filmmaker, is currently Filmmaker in Residence and Director of the Program in Bioethics and Film at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. She studied film at the London International Film School and received medical training at the University of Washington and Stanford University
Icarus Films: Bastards: Outcast in Morocco
The acclaimed film BASTARDS: OUTCAST IN MOROCCO, by BBC producer Deborah Perkin, documents one woman’s fight to have her sham marriage recognized and her daughter legitimized by the Moroccan judicial system. It is also a complex and compelling portrait of Moroccan society and its attitudes to women, female sexuality, their
