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Maya Deren – The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Maya Deren, one of the first and most innovative of American experimental filmmakers, made this, her last complete film, in 1958 — one of her best. Still hopeful of making new films, Deren left...
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Ken Jacobs – Blonde Cobra (1963)
Quote:Images gathered by Bob Fleischner, sound-film composed by Ken Jacobs. “Jack says I made the film too heavy. It was his and Bob’s intention to create light monster-movie comedy. Two comedies,...
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Stéphane Marti – Diasparagmos (1980)
Quote:“A filmmaker and academic, Stephane Marti has pursued cinema as a visual art form, divorced from the codes of the dominant narrative cinema, since 1976. He is a passionate and militant advocate...
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Marcel Broodthaers – A Voyage on the North Sea (1974)
Quote:Between 1957 and his death in 1976, Marcel Broodthaers made approximately fifty films. The exact number is difficult to determine: Several no longer exist; some are multipart “programs”...
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Bruce Baillie – To Parsifal (1963)
“He who becomes slowly wise.” SPOILER.The Structure of Lyric:Baillie’s to ParsifalAlan Williams It’s difficult to say exactly where or how To Parsifal is a lyric film and where or how a narrative...
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Bruce Baillie – Here I Am (1962)
Quote:An early film made for an Oakland school for mentally disturbed children. Quote:From the 1910s through the 1950s newsreels were a staple of AmericanMoviegoing experience. Released nationally to...
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Bruce Baillie – Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)
Quote:Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964, 20 minutes, 16mm) is dedicated by Baillie to “the religious people who were destroyed by the civilization which evolved the Mass.” It is on one level a “Mass”...
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Hans Richter – Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)
Quote:Berlin-born Hans Richter – Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker – was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter assembled some of the...
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Megan Boyle & Tao Lin – Bebe Zeva (2011)
Quote:“Tao Lin and Megan Boyle follow 17-year-old fashion blogger Bebe Zeva around Las Vegas for a night and film it on a MacBook.”“In the film, which took one night to film and 24 hours to edit, Tao...
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Megan Boyle & Tao Lin – MDMA (2011)
Quote:“MDMA is a one-shot experiment that begins with Lin and Boyle taking the titular drug and, in what appears to be an unedited two-hour shot, meander around Manhattan, getting lost on the subway...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma (2004)
NYT wrote:Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend of film,...
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Teat(r)o Oficina – Ensaio de Macumba Antropófaga AKA Antropofaga Makumba (2018)
One of Brazil’s most internationally famous and most important performance companies, Teatro Oficina began its life in 1958 as an amateur company of students from the law school at Largo de São...
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Damon Packard – Night Pulse (2018)
Quote:Damon Packard’s four-year in the making epic follows the exploits of husband/wife moguls trapped with a deadbeat couch potato brother in a hallucinogenic 1-900 world of 1991. Everyone is...
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Jennifer Reeves – The Time We Killed (2004)
Quote:Over six years on and off in the making, Jennifer Reeves’ debut feature “The Time We Killed” is a beautiful, impressionistic and deeply personal cinematic poem that, even though it takes the...
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Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson & Guy Maddin – The Green Fog (2017)
Director Guy Maddin’s interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area. 4.44GB | 1h...
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Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki – El mar la mar (2017)
Official website says:An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, El mar la mar weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with...
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Derek Jarman – A Journey to Avebury (1971)
Journey to Avebury beautifully reflects Derek Jarman’s fascination with ancient history, paganism, and Celtic traditions. An IMDB review:Derek Jarman is often said to be a painter rather than a movie...
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Michael Snow – La Région Centrale (1971)
Quote:«La Région Centrale» was made during five days of shooting on a deserted mountain top in North Quebec. During the shooting, the vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed...
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Abram Room – Strogiy yunosha AKA A Severe Young Man AKA Le Jeune Sérieux (1935)
A contemplation of the New Soviet Man runs head-first into a romantic comedy with music in this film from the Soviet Union, which was highly controversial upon initial release. Dr. Stepanov (Yuri...
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Albert Birney & Jon Moses – The Beast Pageant (2010)
IMDB:Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take care of Abraham’s every need. Abraham drifts...
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