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Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen – Amy! (1979)
AMY! is neither a drama not a portrait in the conventional sense, but an assembly of sounds and images which evoke the subject through historic documents and relics, re-enactments and metaphors. The...
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Robert Breer – What Goes Up (2003)
A volley of rapid visual associations from the mind of Robert Breer, animating collage, drawings and snapshots in a playful, but rigorous manner. What goes up must come down. 78.5MB | 4mn 38s |...
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Boris Lehman – Histoire de mes cheveux AKA Story of My Hair (2011)
Quote:Artists and filmmakers can be unusual people. Of those unusual people, Boris Lehman is very unusual indeed. He has unusual obsessions, for instance with his hair, and he also makes very...
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Stephen Dwoskin – Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994)
This autobiographical film evolves from the perspective of events and images over a period of over 50 years. These events are liberated and interwoven like an inner landscape framing one life,...
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Stan Brakhage – Lovemaking (1968)
One of America’s finest filmmakers tackles “lovemaking” in its many varieties (hetrosexual, homosexual as well as various animals having sex). Without a soundtrack (as the artist always thought that...
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Andy Warhol – The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
MARCH 22, 1965: CASTRO OPENS. Warhol’s film, The Life of Juanita Castro premiered at the Film-Makers Cinematheque. (DB217) It was filmed at WALDO BALART’s apartment on West 10th Street. RONALD TAVEL...
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Mehdi Fard Ghaderi – Tanavob AKA Alternation (2005)
Quote:A stealing happens on a train and it is shown from the perspective of each passenger. 217MB | 10 min 55 s | 768×576 | mkv...
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Anja Kirschner & David Panos – The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009)
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard is based on the inferred prison encounters between the 18th century criminal Jack Sheppard and Daniel Defoe, ghostwriter of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’. Set in the wake...
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Jonas Mekas – He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Quote:“The film consists of 124 brief sketches, each half-a-minute to about two minutes long. Portraits of people I have spent time with,places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow, blizzards...
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Al Razutis – Visual Essays: Origins of Film (1973-1984)
A six-part film by Al Razutis (1973-1984) 56 min. color, sound These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by ‘re-imagining’ its origins, and its poetries, and use historical...
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Jonas Mekas – Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas...
About:The life and work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas as seen in clips filmed between 1952 and 1978. “Images from the life of George Maciunas. Includes footage I took of George in 1952, at his...
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Amit Dutta – Ka (2019)
SynopsisSuggestions of ancient and modern myths and folklore coalesce in dreams to bring alive a colourful animated world. Notes:This film is like a fairytale that evokes childlike wonder at...
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João Rui Guerra da Mata & João Pedro Rodrigues – IEC Long (2014)
The latest short film from João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata is a dreamy, experimental look at a deactivated fireworks factory in Macao. Quote:Macao, Taipa Island, 2014.The word...
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Matthew Barney – Cremaster 1 (1996)
Cremaster 1 is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho – Barney’s hometown. Two Goodyear Blimps float above the arena like the airships that...
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Matthew Barney – Cremaster 2 (1999)
Cremaster 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In...
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Matthew Barney – Cremaster 3 (2002)
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character – host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the...
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Nicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo...
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Michael Snow – *Corpus Callosum (2002)
The corpus callosum is a central region of tissue in the human brain which passes “messages“ between the two hemispheres. Corpus Callosum, the film (or tape, or projected light work), is constructed...
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Philip S. Solomon – Psalm II: ‘Walking Distance’ (1999)
Journal of Film and VideoResponse to Phil Solomon’s WALKING DISTANCEBy Albright, Deron “Imagining one of those rusted medieval film cans having survived centuries, a long lost Biograph/Star, a...
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Philip S. Solomon – Psalm IV: ‘Valley of the Shadow’ (2013)
SynopsisPairs moody landscape imagery culled from a video game with John Huston’s reading of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’. 93MB | 7 min 31 s | 1280×720 | mkv...
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