Movies: Anthea Kennedy

  • 1980
    At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)

    At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength) (1980)

    At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)

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    A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the ...

    At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
  • 2018
    Four Parts of a Folding Screen

    Four Parts of a Folding Screen (2018)

    Four Parts of a Folding Screen

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    Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain...

    Four Parts of a Folding Screen
  • 1997
    Pain Is...

    Pain Is... (1997)

    Pain Is...

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    The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches through the many levels of pain and finds it in its unique position between disaster and pleasure. Pai...

    Pain Is...
  • 1986
    Ballet Black

    Ballet Black (1986)

    Ballet Black

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    Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946....

    Ballet Black
  • 1990
    Face Anthea

    Face Anthea (1990)

    Face Anthea

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    "Either in its natural state or with its embellishments of makeup, jewels, and hairdos, nothing can restrain the imagination from the most forms of speculation. All the senses are concentrated in this one head: eyes, ears, nose, lips, tongue and the ...

    Face Anthea
  • 2012
    Age Is...

    Age Is... (2012)

    Age Is...

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    Stephen Dwoskin’s final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture, the beauty, the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, a hypnotic poem in the Dwoskin meaning of the te...

    Age Is...
  • 2001
    Elegy

    Elegy (2001)

    Elegy

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    Elegy is a film about and in memory of a cat. It depicts her nocturnal space as imagined by us. It occurs partly in our ‘garden’, a dank and decaying back yard full of weeds and wildlife, a place that belonged more to her than to us. Various creature...

    Elegy
  • 2013
    The View from Our House

    The View from Our House (2013)

    The View from Our House

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    Based in part on the memories, unsent letters and notebooks of a young photographer who lived in Berlin-Tempelhof. Aspects of her life are mapped out within this small area of Berlin through a succession of haunted images and sounds that imbue place ...

    The View from Our House
  • 1969
    Face of an Angel

    Face of an Angel (1969)

    Face of an Angel

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    Face of an Angel is inspired by Puccini’s opera La Fanciulla del West, set during the Californian gold rush. The film is shot is the scarred black landscape of an open cast mine in South Wales, one of the original coal mining areas which fuelled the ...

    Face of an Angel
  • 2006
    Stella Polare

    Stella Polare (2006)

    Stella Polare

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    An essay film occupying the ground between narrative, documentary and experimental film-making. It is a work of fragmented histories: of the catastrophes of empire, war, terror and resistance of our times. Its unseen narrator 'encounters' the inhabit...

    Stella Polare
  • 2003
    The Bag of a Thousand Pockets

    The Bag of a Thousand Pockets (2003)

    The Bag of a Thousand Pockets

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    A small, personal and moving documentary about the father of the film maker. The title refers to a statement by her father: 'My bag has a thousand pockets. In each is a memory'. Old Mr Kennedy has a lot to remember (he lived through both world wars a...

    The Bag of a Thousand Pockets