Movies: Pym Films

  • 2016
    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism] (2016)

    Bickels [Socialism]

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    The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweepin...

    Bickels [Socialism]
  • 2001
    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks (2001)

    Sullivan's Banks

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    Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this suggestion be followed out, it will become surprisingly clear how each and...

    Sullivan's Banks
  • 1991
    The Holy Bunch

    The Holy Bunch (1991)

    The Holy Bunch

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    After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons. The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama: beyond-Antonioni in its images, decisively Dreyerian in its...

    The Holy Bunch
  • 1982
    Ordinary Sentence

    Ordinary Sentence (1982)

    Ordinary Sentence

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    An experimental German film...

    Ordinary Sentence
  • 2001
    The Basis of Make-Up II

    The Basis of Make-Up II (2001)

    The Basis of Make-Up II

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    Sixty-nine of Heinz Emigholz's illustrated notebooks from 1983 to 1996, three sketch books from the 80s and 90s, and cinematic studies of his exhibition "Der Untergang der Bismarck" at the Zwinger Gallery, Berlin 1988, a castle moat in Riva, Italy 19...

    The Basis of Make-Up II
  • 1983
    The Basis of Make-Up I

    The Basis of Make-Up I (1983)

    The Basis of Make-Up I

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    Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s, twenty-four photographs from 100 Hudson Street, 240 President Street, 325 West 11th Street, Kleine Reichens...

    The Basis of Make-Up I
  • 2021
    Berlin [Underground]

    Berlin [Underground] (2021)

    Berlin [Underground]

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    A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s Regenbogenkiez only to evaporate towards Dahlem, the location of the Freie Universität. The western underground ac...

    Berlin [Underground]
  • 2005
    The Basis of Make-Up III

    The Basis of Make-Up III (2005)

    The Basis of Make-Up III

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    The film shows thirty-eight of Heinz Emigholz's notebooks and sketchbooks from 1996 to 2004: cinematic studies of marble inlays on the memorial slabs in the Johannes Cathedral in Valetta, Malta in 2004; of Skull Rock in Joshua Tree Desert in Californ...

    The Basis of Make-Up III