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David Gatten – Hardwood Process (1996)
Silent, 14-minute short. A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry, and an imagining: for the marks we see and the marks we make, for the languages we can read and for those we are trying to learn....
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Peter Kubelka – Mosaik im Vertrauen / Adebar / Schwechater / Arnulf Rainer /...
Quote: PETER KUBELKA : BIOGRAPHY Peter Kubelka (b. 1934) is a multifaceted artist and theoretician who has worked in the art forms of film, cuisine, music, architecture, speaking and writing. Since...
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel – Somniloquies (2017)
Synopsis In their new film somniloquies, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel overcome the boundaries between inner dreamscapes and human bodies. At the start, flowing forms can be seen and a...
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Frédérique Devaux & Michel Amarger – Cinexperimentaux #9: Stephen Dwoskin...
Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where he settled and participated in the founding of the...
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Maya Deren – Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Quote: By her fourth film, Deren discussed in An Anagram that she felt special attention should be given to unique possibilities of time and that the form should be ritualistic as a whole. Ritual in...
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Morgan Fisher – Standard Gauge (1984)
Standard Gauge 1984, 16mm, colour, sound, 35 min “While on one level, Standard Gauge is Fisher’s homage to 35mm and to the diverse cinematic world it made possible, the irony of its having been filmed...
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Larry Gottheim – Horizons (1973)
One of the greatest if all-too-often overlooked landscape films in American cinema, Larry Gottheim’s HORIZONS displays a sensitivity to the seasons that seems more in keeping with Henry David...
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Marguerite Duras – Césarée / Les Mains négatives / Aurélia Steiner...
Quote: Filmed in 1979, these four short films share a common method: they combine texts written and read by Duras (in voice-over) with images shot by Pierre Lhomme. From Césarée : Quote: The DVD...
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Dana Plays – Nuclear Family (2001)
NUCLEAR FAMILY explores institutional and personal representations of memory and behavior through a complex interweaving of scientific documentation, animal behavior experiments and vintage pre-school...
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Albert Serra – El cant dels ocells AKA Birdsong (2008)
The sublime and the mundane run hand-in-hand in Birdsong, Albert Serra’s stunningly photographed, intensely contemplative re-telling of the biblical journey of the Magi. Much of the sublimity derives...
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F.J. Ossang – L’affaire des divisions Morituri aka The Case of the Morituri...
Synopsis The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of the underworld. He ends up breaking down, caught in a role he can no longer fulfill. His last...
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Lois Patiño – Fajr (2017)
Quote: In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw silhouettes of dunes while motionless figures punctuate landscape. From night´s abstraction,...
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Anton Vidokle – Immortality and Resurrection for All! (2017)
Quote: Today the Russian philosophy known as Cosmism has been largely forgotten. Its utopian tenets – combining Western Enlightenment with Eastern philosophy, Russian Orthodox traditions with Marxism...
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Davor Sanvincenti – Skoro ništa: i dalje noc AKA Almost Nothing: So Continues...
For us, a thought always presupposes a society, a culture, and, above all, the consciousness of time. The film revolves around a light bulb like the Earth around the Sun. Light makes the film visible....
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Larry Gottheim – Four Shadows (1978)
Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in sixteen combinations (a family of Gibbon apes, a landscape measured, a...
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F.J. Ossang – La dernière énigme (1982)
Inspired by Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s On Terrorism and the State. Shots of the orbital road, the Arc de Triomphe and rebellious blindfolded youths in a gunfight. In-between essay and fiction, La...
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Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard – No Sex Last Night aka Double Blind (1992)
For over 20 years Sophie Calle’s work has taken the form of photographic installations and chronicles, whose structure and form reflect a narrative approach – both within themselves individually and,...
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Dana Plays – Zero Hour (1992)
Quote: “The transgression and confrontation is re-enacted in this brilliant fuguelike film by Dana Plays constructed of found footage, and concerning both American involvement in oversees conflict and...
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Helena Wittmann – Ada Kaleh (2018)
An indeterminate location, summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities, and places. Time passes and nothing can change that....
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Malena Szlam – Altiplano (2018)
Malena Szlam’s magnificent follow-up to Lunar Almanac employs superimpositions and other effects to recast the lakes, salt flats, and volcanic deserts of Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina as...
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