Philippe Grandrieux – Meurtrière AKA Murderess (2015)
Meurtrière is the second movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. This performance of four women dancers is the follow-up to White Epilepsy. The theme of...
View ArticlePatrick Bokanowski – Un rêve solaire AKA A Solar Dream (2016)
Quote: The second and latest feature film by Patrick Bokanowski (2015-2016), published for the first time in a DVD-Blu-Ray combo. Unlike “L’ange,” shot in the studio, “Un rêve solaire” is largely made...
View ArticleTakahisa Zeze – Karura no yume aka Dream of Garuda (1994)
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he see’s her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious...
View ArticleRhayne Vermette – Domus (2017)
Quote: “The block of marble is the most beautiful of all statues” – Carlo Mollino This is the story of the godlike architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne...
View ArticleDavid Rimmer – Treefall (1970)
“Treefall” was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and...
View ArticlePatrick Deval – Acéphale (1969)
Synopsis: With its title taken from Georges Bataille’s journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval’s film is the...
View ArticleMarcel Duchamp – Anémic cinéma (1926)
Quote: A spiral design spins dizzily. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it...
View ArticleVarious – A másik ember iránti féltés diadala AKA The Triumph Of The Concern...
Description: – ”The 40 Labor [the manufacturer firm] as a faithful conservative reaches back – his generation only – to the tradition looking like the lost one. To the twentyfold years’ avantgarde,...
View ArticleJack Deveau – Le musée AKA Strictly Forbidden (1974)
Synopsis/Background wrote: “Don.t let Hollywood fool ya! Gay porn filmmakers in the 1970.s were more creative. And Jack Deveau proves it. In this erotically experimental shot entirely in France,...
View ArticleAndrew Kotting – Ivan and the Dogs AKA Lek and the Dogs (2017)
Synopsis In his adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s play Ivan and the Dogs, experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting travels to the Chilean desert to recreate the life of the young boy who left his Moscow...
View ArticlePat O’Neill – Water and Power (1989)
Quote: Pat O’Neill’s first 35mm feature, Water and Power, is widely regarded as a masterpiece. By using a series of visually and aurally dense tableaux created with advanced motion control, optical...
View ArticleJames Benning – 11 x 14 (1977)
Criterion: David Hudson February 18, 2018 | Berlinale | Critic’s Rating: +++ (jury.critic.de) None of that was on my mind as I luxuriated in the vibrant grain. Those, like me, who’ve been familiar...
View ArticleJames Benning – One Way Boogie Woogie 2012 (2012)
Quote: In late May of 2011 I returned to Milwaukee to make a third version. This one was shot with a Sony HD camera. For this second re-make I decided to go back to the original idea, that is, to...
View ArticleBruce LaBruce – Super 8 1/2 (1993)
LaBruce stars in this vaguely autobiographical look at a triple-X star-director caught in the downward spiral of his career. Remarks Googie, the art-house auteur who’s either exploiting LaBruce or...
View ArticleJosephine Massarella – One Woman Waiting (1984)
One Woman Waiting (1984, 16mm, sound, colour, 9:00) “One Woman Waiting” evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the...
View ArticleJosephine Massarella – No.5 Reversal (1989)
No. 5 Reversal (1989, 16mm, sound, b/w, 8:00) The film opens with a pair of lovers sharing their stories and hilarity in bed while Ruth Brown’s Teardrops From My Eyes pleads on the track, lamenting a...
View ArticleJoel Seria – Mais ne nous delivrez pas du mal AKA: Don’t Deliver Us from Evil...
IMDB wrote: Shocking and disturbing This obscure French film, still unavailable in English, is a more fictionalized and much more exploitative version of the same real-life murder later covered in...
View ArticleAdam Curtis – It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)
from Wikipedia: It Felt Like a Kiss is an immersive theatre production, first performed between 2 and 19 July 2009 as part of the second Manchester International Festival, co-produced with the...
View ArticleTony Conrad – The Flicker (1965)
Tony Conrad «The Flicker» A film consisting of only alternating black-and-white film images. During the projection, light and dark sequences alternate to changing rhythms and produce stroboscopic and...
View ArticleAdam Curtis – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Newest series of polemical essay film/documentaries by Adam Curtis is both maddening and occasionally brilliant… frustrating for their reductivism and eliptical approach to complex subjects, but...
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