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The Way of the Termite: The Essay in Cinema 1909-2004

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Films not on MUBI:
Quneytra 74 (1974) – Mohamad Malas, 20 min

Introduction
This year, the joint retrospective of the VIENNALE – Vienna International Film Festival and the Austrian Film Museum is dedicated to the essay film. The extensive programme was curated by the French filmmaker and theorist Jean-Pierre Gorin who lives and teaches in San Diego and whose own work – partly created in collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard – includes important contributions to the “essayistic strategy” in cinema. Gorin has selected 60 works from 20 nations – among them a number of classics of film...


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