Reconstruction

On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With "Cell 5" Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: How could Oury Jalloh burn to death?

A man returns to his childhood cabin, but something is not right. By reconstructing the series of events he tries to understand how his parents’ couch wound up in the yard, why the walls of the bedroom are pink and how his holiest of childhood memories has been corrupted by someone with no sense of limits. - Annie Karlsson

A reconstructed view of the surroundings I had as a child. I place the camera in the space at different levels corresponding to different stages in my life as I grew up. Constant camera movements show objects from extreme close-up, a perspective alien to the eye opening up a microcosm which remains hidden to the normal observer.

In a St. Petersburg apartment, every room belongs to a family. The four families share the kitchen and bathroom in shifts. One family decides to sell their room and money hungry agents try to sell everyone else's rooms as well.

The Montreal Canadiens continue to evolve with the sole objective of re-establishing the team as an NHL powerhouse. Up close with players, coaches, executives and diehard Habs fans, The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens reveals the 2023-24 behind-the-scenes story of an iconic sports organization undergoing profound change.

A landscape is a landscape is a landscape. But in her view of the ambiguity of reality, Wanda Mihuleac composes an infinite landscape of reflections and lights.

The experimental film “Reconstruction” examines the experience of a mentally ill person, contrasting scenes of supposed reality with the archival record of the events he narrates.

4 shocking tales revolving around plastic surgery.

A documentary on the process of “reconstructing" a film about the history of the Thai proletariat that was never made, based on still images and fragmentary notes recently found in 2059. This reconstruction is approved by the People's Committee for Socialist Moving-Image.

A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.

A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory intact and is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all.

The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a ‘brief moment in the sun’ for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.

A reconstructed edit of Aki's visions in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, presented in sequence.

This documentary picks up after the horror has ended. Almost 500 teens are in grief as 69 of their friends have fallen. They've been shot dead. How could this island ever become a safe place again? Here, we see how Utøya was first the safest place on Earth to the most terrible and how it was restored and stands as a beacon of hope for the survivors and the Norwegian people.

In the aftermath of the 3.11 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Japanese government began implementing a large-scale decontamination effort to clean up the radioactive materials. A mother, a farmer, a community leader, an evacuee - hear how the clean-up effort has been carried out around their lives and what their hopes are for the reconstruction of Fukushima.

The film tells the fascinating story of how painter Francis Bacon's Reece Mews studio in London was 'frozen in time" and reconstructed at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. The relocated studio, the first computerised archive of the entire contents of a world ranking artist's studio, opened to the public in 2001. It has changed the shape and focus of exhibitions of Francis Bacon's work ever since.

The original film Europa was made by Stefan and Franciska Themerson in Poland 1931 and was a visual interpretation of Anatol Stern’s 1929 poem Europa. The film was lost during the second world war and has never been recovered. This tape-slide reconstruction of Europa was made in 1983-84 by the Distribution Staff of the London Film Maker’s Co-Operative with Stefan and Franciszka Themerson using surviving stills from the film and a voice-over by John Claus.

Continuing his series restaging photographs of “extracurricular activities” found in high school yearbooks and newspapers, Vice Anglais features an unsettling but humorous satire that collides psychosexual and sadomasochistic drama with a repertoire of parodic clichés derived from British Hammer Horror films. 2011. Video, color/sound, 24:15 min