BRUTALITÄT IN STEIN (“Brutality In Stone”) Production: Germany, 1961 Director: Alexander Kluge & Peter Schamoni Category: Documentary/Architecture The first short film by Kluge, later a key signatory to the Oberhausen Manifesto that helped revolutionise the German film industry, is an eerie montage of structural ruins left behind by Hitler and the Continue Reading
BRUJO
BRUJO (“Shaman”) Production: Mexico, 1978 Director: Georges Payrastre & Claudine Viallon Category: Documentary/Witchcraft A powerful 55-minute documentary on shamanism amongst the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, and among two groups of Mayan Indians in southern Mexico and Guatemala. Sequences show a shaman exorcising a spell from a woman by a Continue Reading