My Year in Cinema 2018: Paradise Lost

A video essay, of sorts, in four chapters, drifting through some of the films I saw for the first time in 2018; a short story about creation, about the melancholy of Adam, about love found and torn asunder, and about the beauty and sadness of life after the fall.

All clips are property of the respective rights holders – as listed at the end of the video – and are excerpted here in accordance with fair use provisions.

List of films:

Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)

The Woman Who Powders Herself (Patrick Bokanowski, 1972)

Strange Colours (Alena Lodkina, 2017)

Runaway Places (Georges Perec, 1978)

The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, 2018)

Freak Orlando (Ulrike Ottinger, 1981)

Film on Hans Bellmer (Catherine Binet, 1973)

A Simple Story (Marcel Hanoun, 1959)

Grace, Who Waits Alone (Georgia Temple, 2016)

Killing Time (Fronza Woods, 1979)

A Man Asleep (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)

The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke, 1978)

Moving In (Chantal Akerman, 1993)

Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros, 1981)

Family Business (Chantal Akerman, 1984)

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Ulrike Ottinger, 1984)

Madame X (Ulrike Ottinger, 1978)

Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi, 2006)

Sensuela (Teuvo Tulio, 1973)

Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961)

Letters from a Dead Man (Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1986)

Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

The Swamp (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)

A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, 2017)

Fado, Major and Minor (Raúl Ruiz, 1994)

Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)