Stephen Dwoskin – Central Bazaar (1976)
Quote: By Central Bazaar (1976), his next feature, Dwoskin seemed to have traded limitation for license: a handful of strangers gather together for what almost instantly devolves into a freeform...
View ArticleJames Benning – One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (2005)
Sixty one-minute shots of Milwaukee (Wisconsin). No camera movement. Frontal staging of tiny (often funny or made funny) events. The same locations (and same actors ?) 27 years later, changed. The...
View ArticleJames Benning – Deseret [+ Extra] (1995)
From the Chicago Reader One of the best films of James Benning, one of this country’s leading experimental filmmakers, is this multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as...
View ArticleJames Benning – One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
From AllMovie Guide: “James Benning’s early films fused the “structuralist” investigations into sound-image relationships of filmmakers like Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton with an interest in...
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 ArticleBertrand Mandico – La résurrection des natures mortes (Living Still Life) (2012)
Fièvre is an enigmatic woman who collects dead animals. She brings them to life through animated films. One day, a man comes to see her: his wife is dead....
View ArticleLynne Sachs – Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor (2017)
Synopsis From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. Lynne shoots...
View ArticleHerbert Seggelke – Strich-Punkt-Ballett (1943)
This is an experimental animation short film on a ballet of dots. http://nitroflare.com/view/DDED5655EC5DB40/Strich-Punkt-Ballett.mkv Language(s):German Subtitles:None
View ArticleTravis Wilkerson – Machine Gun or Typewriter? (2015)
Once again, Travis Wilkerson (take a look at the credits) has worked (almost) by himself on his last film. Using the quest for a lost love as an excuse, this extremely generous film casts a wide net...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s [Disc 1] (2005)
Quote: The 24 avant garde shorts of the 1920s and ’30s chosen for this Kino set from the collection of curator Raymond Rohauer span the gamut of movements and styles—dada, surrealism, city symphony,...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s [Disc 2] (2005)
Quote: The 24 avant garde shorts of the 1920s and ’30s chosen for this Kino set from the collection of curator Raymond Rohauer span the gamut of movements and styles—dada, surrealism, city symphony,...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 [Disc 1] (2007)
Quote: In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation s foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This two-disc collection continues Kino s tribute to the Rohauer...
View ArticleWerner Nekes – Makimono (1974) (DVD)
Quote: Makimono is an Asian roll painting depicting a landscape. The subject of the film is the language of film itself, its mutability and its influence on the viewer’s vision and thinking. While the...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 [Disc 2] (2007)
Quote: Disc two travels back in time for two late-Twenties American shorts before heading off to France for three late-Forties/early-Fifties films, including the epic Lettrism manifesto, Jean Isidore...
View ArticlePeter Greenaway – The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway (2002)
Taken from The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway CD-ROM, 84 Quicktime movie clips of Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics. The clips range in length from 6 seconds to 2 minutes 47 seconds....
View ArticleMarie Menken – Lights (1966)
Quote: Shot over a period of three years, for Lights Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street traffic interrupting the shots,...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 (2009)
CAVALCANTI MAAS PETERSON BROUGHTON BUTE KESSLER WHITNEY KIRSANOFF MURPHY MARC’O WATSON HUFF From THE Collection of THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND FROM THE RAYMOND ROHAUER COLLECTION From the little...
View ArticleJames Quinn – Flesh of the Void (2017)
Flesh of the Void is a terribly disturbing experimental horror film about what it could feel like if death truly were the most horrible thing one could ever experience. It is intended as a trip...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard –“Série noire” Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de...
Quote: The director Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film. For now, he is still in the casting and financing stages. He’s asking the help of Jean Almereyda, a producer once fashionable but now...
View ArticleWerner Nekes – T-Wo-Men (1972)
Quote: The film is divided into five parts, which differ in the visual and musical structure of each other. The plot – it is about two women and their love for each other is of secondary importance....
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