Josh Gibson – Light Plate (2012)
Quote: A whimsical black and white film essay exploring the Tuscan landscape and its relationship between, tradition, modernity and food. Through shimmering hand-processed, window-framed ruminations,...
View ArticleVarious – The Dream Machine (1980 – 1983)
reviev of Dream Machine from link Burroughs’ Dream Machine On Film… Nearly., 26 March 2004 6/10 Author: scottanthony from Dorset, England In theory: a short non-narrative film made to commemorate the...
View ArticleRebecca Baron – Detour de Force (2014)
Detour de Force presents the world of thoughtographer Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Constructed from 16mm...
View ArticlePhilippe Grandrieux – Malgré la nuit AKA Despite The Night (2015)
Synopsis wrote: Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son....
View ArticleEsteban Sapir – La antena AKA The Aerial (2007)
Quote: An impressive example of the vitality and the formal potential of silent cinema, the long-awaited second feature by Esteban Sapir is also welcome proof of the continuing attraction it has for...
View ArticleMasao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969)
Midnight Eye wrote: A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing...
View ArticleSogo Ishii – Dead End Run (2003)
Synopsis: Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Starring three of Japan’s hippest and most talented actors: Yusuke Iseya (Casshern,)...
View ArticleSalomé Lamas – Eldorado XXI (2016)
“Though less than thirty years old, Portuguese filmmaker Salomé Lamas has already developed an impressive, diverse portfolio of films that fit loosely into the ever-widening bracket of non-fiction....
View ArticleGovindan Aravindan – Kanchana Sita AKA Golden Sita (1977)
PLOT From Wikipedia: The film begins with the journey of Rama and Lakshmana to kill Shambuka – the shudra who performs penance – but Shambuka’s wife pleads for his life, and he is spared. Rama and...
View ArticleJosh Gibson – Light Plate (2012)
Quote: A whimsical black and white film essay exploring the Tuscan landscape and its relationship between, tradition, modernity and food. Through shimmering hand-processed, window-framed ruminations,...
View ArticleVarious – The Dream Machine (1980 – 1983)
reviev of Dream Machine from link Burroughs’ Dream Machine On Film… Nearly., 26 March 2004 6/10 Author: scottanthony from Dorset, England In theory: a short non-narrative film made to commemorate the...
View ArticleBen Rivers & Ben Russell – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Synopsis: A Spell follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian...
View ArticleRaoul Ruiz – Les divisions de la nature AKA The Divisions of Nature (1981)
Synopsis: ‘Les divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a ‘realist’,...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard & D.A. Pennebaker – One P.M. (1972)
From Time Out Film Guide: In 1968, Godard began work on a film in America (One AM or One American Movie) dealing with aspects of resistance and revolution. Dissatisfied with what he had shot, he...
View ArticleJodie Mack – Something Between Us (2016)
A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets: costume jewelry and natural wonders join forces to perform plastic pirouettes, dancing a luminous lament until the tide comes in. Quote: Best known...
View ArticleMan Ray – Emak-Bakia AKA Leave Me Alone (1927)
Synopsis: Emak-Bakia shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and rendered useless. Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin)...
View ArticleBill Morrison – Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Synopsis: Dawson City: Frozen Time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s – 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered...
View ArticleAngela Schanelec – Der traumhafte Weg (2016)
Quote: Angela Schanelec’s first feature since 2010 is the much-anticipated Der traumhafte Weg, a serious work that is deliberately constructed image upon image and allows the viewer to read a...
View ArticlePaolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Cesare deve morire (2012)
Quote: The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the actors leave the stage and return to their cells....
View ArticleNiles Atallah – Rey (2017)
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is...
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