An essay film that compares various acts of resistance and revolutionary struggle from the 1920s to the present day. An alternative cartography of Manhattan reminiscent of Sebald’s novels.

An essay film that compares various acts of resistance and revolutionary struggle from the 1920s to the present day. An alternative cartography of Manhattan reminiscent of Sebald’s novels.

Kiarostami presents two cases for talking heads to evaluate in terms of morality, rights and responsibilities. Case One: Your son is in class, sitting in the back row. His teacher is writing on the board. A restless student in the back row makes a lot of noise. Not knowing who the culprit is, the teacher makes all the children sitting in the last two rows stay outside of the class until the weekend, unless they tell him who made the noise. After a few days spent outside of the classroom, your son relents and tattles on the boy who made the noise, so he can go back in and continue learning. Was he in the right? Case Two: The other students from the back row wait out the rest of the week outside of the class, before returning. Were they in the right?

Kiarostami presents two cases for talking heads to evaluate in terms of morality, rights and responsibilities. Case One: Your son is in class, sitting in the back row. His teacher is writing on the board. A restless student in the back row makes a lot of noise. Not knowing who the culprit is, the teacher makes all the children sitting in the last two rows stay outside of the class until the weekend, unless they tell him who made the noise. After a few days spent outside of the classroom, your son relents and tattles on the boy who made the noise, so he can go back in and continue learning. Was he in the right? Case Two: The other students from the back row wait out the rest of the week outside of the class, before returning. Were they in the right?

中国传统手工艺。

香港五十年代獨一無二的黑幫片。在幫會長大的刀疤項成（王豪），從義父手上繼承了幫會。但是義父的遺孀及親子，卻受到來自城市、愛慕虛榮的女子所誘惑，只重物慾，勾結日本人，把幫會的道義傳統破壞淨盡。項成最後只有以血來清洗。《傳統》將取材自西方的黑幫片結構，加上中國的俠義精神，創出一個傳統道義與腐蝕人心的城市物慾對抗的寓言，成為香港黑幫片一個基本模式。唐煌拍來神完氣足，王豪飾演的刀疤項成，充滿男兒氣概，是五十年代難得一見的「大佬」形象。

香港五十年代獨一無二的黑幫片。在幫會長大的刀疤項成（王豪），從義父手上繼承了幫會。但是義父的遺孀及親子，卻受到來自城市、愛慕虛榮的女子所誘惑，只重物慾，勾結日本人，把幫會的道義傳統破壞淨盡。項成最後只有以血來清洗。《傳統》將取材自西方的黑幫片結構，加上中國的俠義精神，創出一個傳統道義與腐蝕人心的城市物慾對抗的寓言，成為香港黑幫片一個基本模式。唐煌拍來神完氣足，王豪飾演的刀疤項成，充滿男兒氣概，是五十年代難得一見的「大佬」形象。

In 1957, the Royal Leerdam Glass Works commissioned Haanstra to make an informative promotional film in black and white. This resulted in the accomplished 25 minute Speaking of Glass. On entering the factory, however, Haanstra noticed that a mechanical stacking machine was malfunctioned because of one broken bottle. Amused by its robot like but futile movements, Haanstra agreed to make the film, but only on condition that he could make a separate short on glass. The film gives an intriguing view of the process of glass blowing and the mechanical way in wich glass objects are made. Glass, his greatest success to date, even won an Oscar, the grand prix of Hollywood and Holland's first Academy Award.