Marc Karlin Movies

  • 1985
    Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages

    Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages

    Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages

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    Composed of stills by renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas taken in 1978 and 1979 during the overthrow of the fifty-year dictatorship of the...

    Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages
  • 1985
    Nicaragua Part 3: In Their Time

    Nicaragua Part 3: In Their Time

    Nicaragua Part 3: In Their Time

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    Through the eyes of journalists and photographers working at Barricada, the official publication of the FSLN, the film observes the problems of...

    Nicaragua Part 3: In Their Time
  • 1991
    Scenes For A Revolution

    Scenes For A Revolution

    Scenes For A Revolution

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    The film is about aftermaths and reckonings. Revisiting material for his earlier 4-part series, Karlin returns to Nicaragua to examine the history of...

    Scenes For A Revolution
  • 1985
    Nicaragua Part 2: The Making of a Nation

    Nicaragua Part 2: The Making of a Nation

    Nicaragua Part 2: The Making of a Nation

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    Shot in 1983–84 and focusing on the work of the Historical Institute, this film witnesses how Nicaraguans are recovering their history, the...

    Nicaragua Part 2: The Making of a Nation
  • 1985
    Nicaragua Part 4: Changes

    Nicaragua Part 4: Changes

    Nicaragua Part 4: Changes

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    A portrait of a remote area in the rural north of Nicaragua facing difficulties with the revolutionary process. It follows Marlon Stuart, the...

    Nicaragua Part 4: Changes
  • 1975
    The Nightcleaners

    The Nightcleaners

    The Nightcleaners

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    “The Nightcleaners” is set in the context of the campaign (1970-1972) to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and were...

    The Nightcleaners
  • 1977
    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

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    Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

    Open Door: The Other Cinema
  • 1986
    For Memory

    For Memory

    For Memory

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    Charts a journey through various `memory' productions such as murals, monuments, TV histories, commemorations etc, and in so doing questions the role...

    For Memory
  • 1995
    The Outrage

    The Outrage

    The Outrage

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    An exploration of the work of American abstract artist Cy Twombly, using the device of a fictional character "M", who disappears after having looked...

    The Outrage
  • 1970
    Between Times

    Between Times

    Between Times

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    Between Times (1993) looks at the fate of the British Left in the wake of Thatcherism. Over a cup of tea, A, the socialist, and Z, the...

    Between Times
  • 1989
    Utopias

    Utopias

    Utopias

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    Filmed at a time of disillusionment for the British Left - the reverberations of the fall of Communism were causing demoralisation and destabilising...

    Utopias
  • 1970
    The Serpent

    The Serpent

    The Serpent

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    The Serpent (1997) is a drama-documentary about Rupert Murdoch. Borrowing from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Karlin tells the tale of commuter...

    The Serpent
  • 1985
    A Dream from the Bath

    A Dream from the Bath

    A Dream from the Bath

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    Marc Karlin looks at film production in Britain.

    A Dream from the Bath