In Search Of The Experi

When conducting archaeological research on family video materials from the last century, in order to obtain authorization for a foreigner to shoot a video in my hometown of Hangzhou, I embarked on a journey of searching the internet to find his contact information.

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s rule.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.

'Gideon: Searching for the truth' takes the viewer with Van Meijeren on his quest for answers to questions about the current global health crisis. Questions that are common among the population, but to which he, and therefore the people in the country, do not get an answer in the Dutch House of Representatives. A place where Van Meijeren says he often feels like 'crying in the desert'. Where he gets no answers to his 'justifiably pressing' questions. Where instead he is invariably framed and judged by form, which makes any form of democratic debate impossible in advance.

The life of the heroes flows on its own until they receive the message: "Attention! Volunteers are required!". Wherever the Lisa Alert volunteers are, they go on a search, especially when the life of a lost child depends on it. The film, created by students of the Moscow School of Cinema in 360 format, takes the viewer to the center of the events of the search operation, showing the path that each of the characters takes to achieve one important task — so that everyone else receives the message "Found. Alive!".

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The virtual journey takes the viewer to various African, European and Asian countries, in order to find the place where it was originally created, produced and sold. What seems easy in the beginning turns out to be a demanding process, yet an interesting experience in accessing information, communicating with people from totally different backgrounds and indulging in uncertainty, to celebrate the search itself — wherever it may lead. The film shows how boundaries between originality and reproduction merge, in a world where everything can be remixed and reprinted easily. Searching for the Perfect Gentleman tells a multi-layered story about trust, persistence and interconnectedness in a globalized world.

Pikachu and Piplup bump into Gizamimi Pichu and Smoochum and lose the "sparkle" as a result. They must find the "sparkle" before Meowth's troop get their hands on it.

As a Greek tombstone of unknown origin is discovered underneath the floorboards in an old village house in Turkey, an almost forgotten story from the country’s creation unravels; the forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The engraved Cyrillic letters tell of a woman, Chrysoula Rodaki, who died in 1887. And so the search for her descendants begins: It leads director Kerem Soyyilmaz to local archives, where his own family's role in history is laid bare; to abandoned ghost towns and through the memories of older villagers - all while Soyyilmaz meets massive support for his quest from Greeks on the other side of the border. The stone becomes a portal to the past - and for a while, the trauma becomes redeemed when the previous owners of the village house return.

Libyan film based on a work by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih. The film's events revolve around an Arab woman, her status and varying roles, examined through a historical evocation of the poet Layla al-'Amiriya.

A 1959 search for gold allegedly sunk by the Nazis in an Austrian lake at the end of World War II is chronicled.

A 1930 black and white nature documentary featuring the jackass penguins in their native haunt in the South West coast of Africa.

A short documentary film of 16 minutes that presents the searching phase that the director of the film went through after her interrogation and arrest by the Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem, that phase led her into seeing everything differently, her connection with her home and the streets changed, she felt like everything around her is pushing her to leave her own city Jerusalem, but after she left the city there was something that still drags her to it, this contradictory relationship with the place made always searching, she made this film as a mean for her search in her surrounding.

Documentary filmmaker Drahomíra Vihanová made a documentary Searching during the filming of František Vláčil's Concert at the End of Summer. The film was made between 1978 and 1979. Rather than a reportage, the film is an observation of the director's work. It alternates between black-and-white sequences with diegetic sound depicting the making of the film and colour sections that are silent or contain non-diegetic music, with František Vláčil at the centre of them, thinking and searching for inspiration and the ideal form for his film.

Shot in various romanian traditional villages on Prahova Valley, the film explores the simple life of isolated villagers of all ages, throughout all four seasons.

Although mocked by his collegaues, the dean of Salamanca sets off to find the legendary bird Turlipan.

The film was made with successive images of La Pietra’s face realised from 1938 to 1974, all continually compared with his face as was at that moment (1974). Through this sequence we have the sensation that for thirty-six years he has doggedly and slowly tried to reach some “final model” (his face in 1974).

Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.