The Arthaus Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Arthaus Project
Going against the grain of algorithm optimized content and internet trends. A band of passionate cinephiles watch forgotten films.
The Arthaus Project is an invite-only, community run Online Film Society catering to the more experienced cinephile.
Participants: Mohammed, Krithik, Vivek
Film: The Sea That Thinks (2000)
Director: Gert de Graaff
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Format: Feature Film
Podcast video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CfLV5UPmfc
Making of: https://vimeo.com/745330646
Website: http://www.theseathathinks.nl/
Synopsis: Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
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Participants: Aroonav, Mohammed, Vishal, Vivek
Film: Song of the Sea (2014)
Director: Tomm Moore
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Format: Feature Film
Synopsis: Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.
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Participants: Aroonav, Mohammed, Vishal, Vivek,
Film: The Cremator (1969)
Director: Juraj Herz
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Format: Feature Film
Synopsis: Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
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Participants: Jeffrey, Vivek, Mohammed, Vishal
Film: Ardh Satya (1983)
Director: Govind Nihalani
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Format: Feature Film
Synopsis: A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
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Participants: Vivek, Mohammed, Krithik
Film: Ivan the Terrible I & II (1944, 1958)
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Format: Feature Film
Synopsis: During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
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Participants: Vivek, Mohammed, Aroonav
Film: Enjoy Poverty (2009)
Director: Renzo Martens
Country: Netherlands
Language: Lingala/English
Format: Documentary/Video Art
Synopsis: Dutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"
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Participants: Vivek, Mohammed, Aroonav, Krithik
Film: The Green Ray (1986)
Director: Éric Rohmer
Country: France
Language: French
Format: Feature Film
Synopsis: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
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Participants: Vivek, Mohammed, Aroonav
Film: The Five Obstructions (1968)
Director: Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Format: Documentary
Synopsis: Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
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Film: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Director: Bill Greaves
Country: USA
Language: English
Format: Documentary
Synopsis: In Manhattan’s Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It’s a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what’s wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? What’s the nature of making a movie?
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