Jesus Franco – Vampire Junction (2001)
Quote:VAMPIRE JUNCTION, for example, takes an inexplicable mix of characters (cowboys, doctors, acrobatic nudist vampires, a Dracula-wannabee, drunks, etc.) and tosses them all into a tourist trap of...
View ArticleNawapol Thamrongrattanarit – 36 (2012)
6 is the number of shots on an analogue roll of film. It’s also the number of shots in this film. Yet it’s not a strict film, but the playful quest of a young photographer for the photos that...
View ArticleStan Brakhage – Deus Ex (1971)
Deus ExI have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX in West Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of...
View ArticleMark Rappaport – Mozart in Love (1975)
Quote:Mark Rappaport’s second feature film (amongst a remarkable string of off-beat, experimental narratives that runs from CASUAL RELATIONS to CHAIN LETTERS) takes off from the deliberate anachronism...
View ArticleMike Hoolboom – Incident Reports (2015)
After a bike accident, the amnesiac produces one-minute shots. The voice-over weighs in on gender, animals and the end of literary culture. An essay featuring Elvis, wrestlers, boy ballet, naked...
View ArticleBruce LaBruce – No Skin Off My Ass (1991)
Quote:A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of “That Cold Day in the Park” then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and...
View ArticleRaoul Ruiz – L’œil qui ment AKA Dark At Noon (1993)
After his father’s death, a Parisian medical researcher returns to a region of Portugal to deal with part of the family legacy – a prosthesis factory owned by an old family friend. He finds the...
View ArticleDaniel Eisenberg – Persistence (1997)
The third of Daniel Eisenberg’s thematically connected film essays about postwar Europe, PERSISTENCE, an award-winning feature-length experimental documentary in gorgeous color, once again explores...
View ArticleElizabeth Price – The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012)
Elizabeth Price (b.1966) won the 2012 Turner Prize for this multi-layered video work. The Woolworths Choir of 1979 2012 is a three-part video that weaves together distinct bodies of material:...
View ArticleCarlos Alberto Prates Correia – Cabaret Mineiro (1980)
Focusing on the culture and beliefs of the people in the state of Minas Geraes in Brazil, this highly innovative drama by director Carlos Alberto Prates-Correia continuously blurs the line between...
View ArticleTakashi Makino – 2012 (2013)
2013/35mm & 16mm & 8mm film → HD/16:9/30minMusic by Makino Takashi Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image....
View ArticleJun Kurosawa – NEKO-MIMI (1993)
Quote:Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again,...
View ArticleRaoul Ruiz – Het dak van de Walvis AKA On Top of the Whale (1982)
Quote:This film is one of Ruiz’s greatest. Once, I read, with his film Ruiz pay tribute to Jean Luc Godard’s Le Mepris. So then, I asked Ruiz (Santiago, 2005)… You were influenced by this Godard’s...
View ArticleMark Leckey – Concrete Vache (2010)
Made for Milton Keynes Gallery’s 10th anniversary using images from its archive and language from its press releases and catalogues. “This is an attempt to capture the atmosphere of a classic British...
View ArticleLynne Sachs – The Last Happy Day (2009)
To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners of the globe—for a weekend of recollection and reflection...
View ArticleLuigi Di Gianni – Il tempo dell’inizio (1974)
Quote:Distributed by L’Italnoleggio Cinematografico, with Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Claudio Volonte, Jean Martin, Milena VucoticPresented at the Venice Biennale 1974.Segnalazione ufficiale della...
View ArticleLav Diaz – Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto AKA Death in the Land of...
A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camanag) is the hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven years, Benjamin had...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Cassis (1966)
Max Goldberg wrote:Cassis collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats...
View ArticleGregory J. Markopoulos – Ming Green (1966)
Quote:In early spring of 1966, in anticipation of his eventual departure from the Greenwich Village apartment in which he had been living for a number of years, [Markopoulos] filmed the revelatory...
View ArticleMarcel Hanoun – Un film (autoportrait) (1985)
The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of...
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