Cynthia Beatt
Also Known As: 辛西娅·贝特
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Jamaica
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Constant
Overview: "Constant" is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. For most of recorded history, the human body was the measure of all things. “Constant” asks what led measurement to depart from the body and become a science unto itself. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialisation of measurement in the contemporary era of Big Science. Each chapter traces the relationship of measurement standardization to ideas of egalitarianism, agency, justice, and power. Cinematic and technical images that begin as products of measurement systems are stretched beyond their functions to describe the resistance of lived experience to symbolic abstractions.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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Fury Is a Feeling Too
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-20
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Diary
Overview: Loosely adapted from Goethe's novel on the social conventions of marriage raised to level of symbolic parable.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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The Open Universe
Overview: The whole world in one film: Robert, a young Dane, is shanghaied in Marseille, and via Acapulco he is abducted into the South Pacific. There he kills his father and seduces his mother. Then he explores the changing world. The end finds him in a Polynesian village, where the chief bestows him with a girl of his age-class. A novel of adventure, a novel of love, also an oratory of some sort.
Genres: Adventure Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-10-16
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System Without Shadow
Overview: Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-08-13
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Description of an Island
Overview: This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories. However, the blind trust in the western scientific objective clashes head-on with the values and customs of the natives. Therefore, from the very beginning, the head of the tribe does not cease to ask and express his surprise regarding some foreigners “who have not come to rob his land”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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Berlin Chamissoplatz
Overview: An architect is assigned to modernize a squatted house in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. But then he meets a young student who is member of a grassroots initiative trying to preserve the quarter. He falls in love with her, although this puts him into conflict with his job. Following his heart, the architect soon changes sides and supports the inhabitants in their struggle against the real estate speculators.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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The Meadow of Things
Overview: Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-16
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