Movies: Illuminations Films
- 2010
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
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Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human f...
- 2012
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
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In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past....
- 2021
Memoria (2021)
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One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep for days, calling into question her identity and guiding her from recording studios to secluded jun...
- 2001
Little Otik (2001)
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When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root a...
- 2015
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
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In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be ...
- 2012
Mekong Hotel (2012)
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Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter....
- 2015
Identicals (2015)
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Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare....
- 2012
Shock Head Soul (2012)
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This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing...
- 2006
Art, Truth and Politics (2006)
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Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person....
- 2003
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)
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Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures. Lord Attenborough's film CV as actor stretches from Brighton Rock to Jurassic Park, while as director he has been responsible for Oh! ...
- 2012
Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
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A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 - 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most...
- 1994
Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife (1994)
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A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of mind-bending sci-fi, exploring themes of authority, drugs, theology, mental illness and much more....
- 2000
The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000)
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Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom....
- 2009
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
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A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand....
- 1978
"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist (1978)
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George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities....
- 1981
Chelsea Hotel (1981)
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This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy Warhol and William Burroughs having dinner; Quentin Crisp pontificating in a blue rinse hairdo on his balc...
- 2001
The Private Dirk Bogarde (2001)
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Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Forwood, seen through home movies and excerpts from Bogarde's memoirs....
- 1998
Radio On Remix (1998)
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A re-edit of Petit’s Radio On (1980)...
- 2006
Turner at Tate (2006)
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The artist J.M.W. Turner is widely recognised as England’s greatest painter. Tate has the world’s finest and most extensive collection of his work. Turner at Tate explores Turner’s art through many of his best-known canvases and exquisite sketches an...
- 2007
Into the Limelight: Tribute Bands (2007)
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An affectionate look at what goes on behind the scenes of the Limelight Club in Crewe, where for ten years tribute acts to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Phil Lynott have been providing a post-industrial town the chance to hear some legen...