Hai cercato: Monument
Macao - Progress and Monuments / 1923
The film shows the development of the Chinese city while highlighting the Portuguese presence: the official buildings, personalities of the colonial administration. The bust of the great poet Luis de Camões recalls the epic discoveries and the glory of navigators. The director observes the Chinese people, their activities, their hobbies. He seems fascinated and, perhaps in spite of himself, shows us a very dynamic Chinese city where the Portuguese seem to be tourists.
Monument of Distance / 2018
Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of the song Ayrılıq – Separation. The performance is from 1970s television show and it has been copied several times from one videotape to another. Ayrılıq could be a love song but it is told that composer Ali Salimi (who at the age of 16 moved from Soviet Azerbaijan to Iran with his family and left many of his loved ones behind) wanted to make music about his sense of longing. I was searching for another song when I found this performance on YouTube. I could watch the video again and again and try to get a deeper understanding of it. I could use the performance as a mirror for the part in me that is of Iranian and Azeri origin. I could compare my sense of longing with the degraded video image and the lyrics of the song. And in my eyes the found video grew into a monument of distance – a presentation of disconnection, images, memory and mixed identification.
Monument for a Gorilla / 1987
In Burgers Zoo the new residence of the gorillas is put in operation. Also the country of origin, Cameroon, is visited.
How the Monuments Came Down / 2021
How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Confederate leaders stood for more than a century, and why they fell.
17 Monuments / 2012
Seventeen tripod-bound shots of fixed length observe the diverse and disparate settings in which 17 monuments, each bearing the words 'Memory', 'Truth' and 'Justice', were built by law to mark locations used as detention and torture centres during Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
II monumentalismo / 1974
The film, shot ‘inside and outside’ Milan’s central station, uses this particular architecture as a model for discovering that within the environment we inhabit and work in, there almost never exists a relationship between space and its use. It pinpoints the ‘detachment’ which means expressing one’s own critical attitude towards the kind of architecture that refuses to accept any ‘vital’ aspects but reduces itself to a ‘monumental structure’ that is not able to contain the dynamics of human relationships.
Karelia: International with Monument / 2019
Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin's bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony.
Monument of Pride / 2017
Monument of Pride tells the uncensored story of the 'pink revolution' in the Netherlands. Historical images alternate with current events held on the Amsterdam Homomonument and portraits of today’s activists. The film is a tribute to the 30-year-old Homomonument in Amsterdam and to everyone who has fought for the freedom we now often take for granted.
Pay-Less Monument / 2019
Théodora Barat pulls us in a strange exploration of New Jersey, a meta- universal place and at once unique suburb. Ground of diverse experimentation and become a set of science fiction, this amazing landscape is questioned through a singular movie.
The Monument / 1977
An old gardener tends for the flowers during the war. Nazis ask him for flowers for their dead.
The Martyrs of the Monuments / 1980
Set during World War I. An Austro-Hungarian expedition sets an archaeological site in the ancient city of Apollonia. The experts of this expedition want to steal ancient monuments, but the villagers of the area oppose them.
Bologna monumentale / 1912
A Italian documentary short.
Venice and Her Monuments / 1914
Travelogue of Venice
Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens / 2023
Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens—will premiere on March 31, featuring global superstar Ellie Goulding performing select songs from her upcoming fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven, for the first time.
Monuments Sacrés / 2018
Hindu or Buddhist temples, synagogues, churches or mosques: religions have inspired architectural marvels. Four episodes to discover jewels of Muslim sacred art, masterpieces of Christian architecture, captivating Hindu and Buddhist buildings or even the most beautiful synagogues, witnesses of the history of the Jewish people.