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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Quei loro incontri AKA These Encounters...
Quote: These Encounters of Theirs (AKA Quei loro incontri) marks French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub’s final cinematic collaboration with his wife, the late Daniele Huillet. The picture stages a series...
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Mani Kaul – Siddeshwari (1990)
Summary from The Hindu: On paper, Siddheshwari, like so many films commissioned by the Films Division, is a cine-profile, of the Hindustani singer Siddheshwari Devi. However, Kaul turns the genre...
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Mary Ellen Bute – Finnegans Wake (1966)
Quote: A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only...
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Robert Breer – Fist Fight (1964)
Breer’s extraordinary autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures and geometric abstractions. Originally presented as part of Karlheinz Sotckhausen’s 1964...
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Harmony Korine – Trash Humpers (2009)
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely...
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Oskar Fischinger – Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films (1926-1947)
Spirals (1926) Study no. 6 (1930) Study no. 7 (1931) Kreise (1933) Allegretto (1936-43) Radio Dynamics (1942) Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) and 3 Early Films: Wax Experiments (1921-26) Spiritual...
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Jonas Mekas – Diaries Notes and Sketches AKA Walden (1969) (HD)
Quote: Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening...
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Jon Wang – From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances (2018)
A drone’s-eye-view recording leads the audience through Hong Kong’s dragon gates, a series of gaps in high-rises that allow dragons to fly from the mountains to the sea while a character relates their...
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Jan Peters – Aber der Sinn des Lebens (1990 – 1996)
Aber den Sinn des Lebens hab’ ich immer noch nicht rausgefunden / … but I Still Haven’t Figured Out the Meaning of Life (OmeU) Every year on his birthday, Jan Peters filmed one reel of Super-8...
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Marcel Hanoun – L’automne (1972)
Synopsis: Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, “Juliette sacrifiée”. Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien...
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Oskar Fischinger – R-1 (Ein Formspiel) (1927)
Quote: R-1 (Ein Formspiel) “The title R-1, EIN FORMSPIEL VON OSKAR FISCHINGER survives on two different films, one composed entirely of STAFFS … and one composed of small fragments of many different...
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Mark Leckey – Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD (2015)
Dream English Kid is a collage of what Leckey calls ‘found memories’ made from sources such as adverts, TV programmes and music as well as reconstructions using props and models. He made the film...
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Ben Rivers – Now, At Last (2018)
Ben Rivers is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries around the world and has won numerous awards. His work ranges from...
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Brecht Debackere – Exprmntl (2016)
Quote: Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949,...
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Lacasinegra art collective – Pas à Genève AKA Not in Geneva (2014)
In September 2009 we formed a collective and we called us lacasinegra. We didn’t know exactly how, or in which way, but we just knew we wanted to make films. In our way we did different projects,...
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Júlio Bressane – Educação Sentimental (2013)
Áurea, a solitary teacher, starts a singular relationship with a young man with whom she has a chance encounter. A sensitive soul, she finds herself attracted to his moving beauty which compels her to...
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Nicky Hamlyn – Nicky Hamlyn- Selected Works (1974-2012)
Quote: Nicky Hamlyn is one of the UK’s key artist filmmakers of the past 30 years, working in 16mm film and video, he has produced a large body of both single screen work and installations in both...
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Albert Serra – Roi Soleil (2018)
Louis XIV is no newcomer to Albert Serra’s filmography, the hero of his latest opus to date, THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (2016). ROI SOLEIL features a twin, even though, in the game of differences, it...
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Frans Zwartjes – Anamnesis (1969)
Description: A major new talent in international avant-garde cinema, Zwartjes creates hermetic, obsessive, and “decadent” universes, in which desperate, dissociated males and females, though...
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Rose Lowder – Bouquet d’Images (1978-1995)
After training as a paintor and sculptor in artist’s studios and art schools in Lima (The Art Center, La Escuela de Bellas Artes) and in London (Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art), Rose...
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