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Derek Jarman – A Journey to Avebury (1971)
Journey to Avebury beautifully reflects Derek Jarman’s fascination with ancient history, paganism, and Celtic traditions. An IMDB review: Derek Jarman is often said to be a painter rather than a movie...
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Jordan Belson – Allures (1961)
Originally a widely-exhibited painter, Jordan Belson turned to filmmaking in 1947 with crude animations drawn on cards, which he subsequently destroyed. He returned to painting for four years and in...
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Andy Warhol – The Nude Restaurant (1967)
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the “nude”...
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Len Lye – Free Radicals (1958)
Free Radicals Directed by Len Lye US 1958, revised 1979, 16mm, b/w, 4 min. Quote: In arguably his greatest film, Lye reduces the medium to its most basic elements by scratching designs on black film....
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Richard Myers – The Path (1960)
B&W, SILENT. “Light as the symbol of the ineffable. The ‘plot’ of this subjective recreation of a dream seems to concern a mysterious journey; the spectator, however, is visually directed toward...
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Apotheosis (1970)
Quote: What a perfect film…..short and simple, Ono takes a camera and a boom mike onto a hot air balloon, kicks the rope, and starts the camera and lets us watch as it goes above the clouds for a 17...
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King Vidor – Truth And Illusion: An Introduction To Metaphysics (1965)
Quote: “It started when I simply wrote a narration that interested me and challenged myself to fit it to a film, using existing objects in nature, without animation techniques of any kind. I did the...
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Lech Kowalski – On Hitler’s Highway (2002)
A very personal journey, almost like a diary, with hand held camera Kowalski travels along the oldest highway in Polan, built by Hitler. While travelling along the highway Kowalski meets the people...
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T. Minh-ha Trinh – Reassemblage (1983)
From Allmovie: Director Trinh T. Minh-ha’s first film is an ethnographic portrait of rural Senegalese women, but its provocative editing and self-conscious narration question the very activities of...
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Ken Jacobs – Canopy (2014)
Quote: Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round. In his most recent stroboscopic work, Canopy, Ken...
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Harun Farocki – Parallel 2 – 4 (2014)
The four‐part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds. Quote: Cinema’s...
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Jeff Frost – Circle of Abstract Ritual (2014)
Quote: This film took 300,000 photos, riots, wildfires, paintings in abandoned houses, two years and zero graphics to make. It changed my entire life. Quote: Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an...
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Stan Brakhage – Dog Star Man (1962-1964)
Quote: Finally reunited, Stan Brakhage’s masterpiece Dog Star Man is an experimental movie without sound. A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence....
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Stan Brakhage – by Brakhage: an anthology (1954 – 2001)
Working completely outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage has made nearly 400 films over the past half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,”...
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Jordan Belson – Samadhi (1967)
Quote: Notable film theorist Gene Youngblood has this to say about the “Cosmic Cinema” of Jordan Belson in his classic book “Expanded Cinema”: “Certain phenomena manage to touch a realm of our...
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Richard Martini – Camera (2000)
From Imdb: Richard Martini’s “Camera” is an ambitious – yet, addictive independent film encompassing intrigue, comedy and adventure. An inside look into the lives of several people – via the one...
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Vera Chytilová – Sedmikrásky AKA Daisies (1966) (HD)
Description: Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume...
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Don Levy – Herostratus (1967) (HD)
Quote: In British director Don Levy’s Herostratus, a young poet, Max (Michael Gothard, The Devils), decides to commit suicide in public as a form of protest. He hires a prestigious marketing company...
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Fred L’Epee & Kenneth Gentry – The White Widow (2015)
“The White Widow” is a psychotropic visual arts film representing the themes of mythology, mysticism, and the existential struggle. The realm is that of the subconscious, the alterations of...
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Fred L’Epee – Bipolar (2015)
Bipolar (2014) Film by Fred L’Epee In collaboration with Kenneth Gentry and Ed Alvarado. “The theme of bipolarity is seen through various means: the natural and the man-made; production and...
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