True Story Shorts: Spaces
True Story presents it’s second collection of short documentaries, exploring the temporary nature of spaces designated for a singular purpose, and the process of reclamation once those spaces have outlived their use.
"This short film collection from the True Story platform ranges across continents to look at how we interact with our environments" - The Guardian
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Shānzhài Screens
Movie + 5 extras
Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.
Dir. Paul Heintz - 23min - 2020 - France
"a med...
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Burning Land
Movie + 2 extras
In northern Colombia there is a popular version of the Spanish bullfight: the ‘corraleja’, an overcrowded spectacle where the most prestigious cattlemen of the region choose their wildest bulls to confront a group of brave voluntary men. As the brass bands start to play and the fireworks fuel the...
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Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie
Movie + 6 extras
Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie is a hybrid documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear plant in Scotland. It traces the journey of man who disappeared while writing a report on the reactor. Concerned with landscape and time, myth and technology, the film explores the nature...
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Concrete Forms of Resistance
Movie + 6 extras
Filmed in Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’ in Tripoli, designed by the Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. The film presents themes of progress and crisis, labour and capital, material and memory, con...