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Tim Cawkwell – Light Years – The film diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-2018)

LIGHT YEARS – The film diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) LIGHT YEARS brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections...

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Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong – 10 Min (2019)

A short film shot by Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong. 1.24GB | 10 min 29 s | 1920×1080 | mkv...

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Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman – Introduction to the End of an Argument (1990)

This highly kinetic tableaux of uprooted sights and sounds works most earnestly to expose the racial biases concealed in familiar images. Relying on valuable snippets from feature films such as...

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Herbert Achternbusch – Hick’s Last Stand [+Extras] (1990)

Synopsis[In Hick’s Last Stand] we witness yet another incarnation of a Last Bavarian Mohican, incoherently staggering across the badlands of South Dakota and Wyoming in white cowboy boots, black...

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Philip S. Solomon – Still Raining, Still Dreaming (2009)

SynopsisPart of Solomon’s acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series, titled “In Memorium”, a body of work shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. 196MB | 12 min 54 s |...

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Philip S. Solomon – Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)

SynopsisIn memoriam – Mark LaPore. Darkness at the edge of town, light at the end of the tunnel, a stalled hearse and fires on the plain. 76.3MB | 12 min 25 s | 640×424 | mkv...

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Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy – Ballet Mécanique (1924)

Ballet Mécanique (1923–24) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic...

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Heinz Emigholz – Loos Ornamental (2008)

Heinz Emigholz-Loos Ornamental / Photography and Beyond – Part 13 (2008) The film shows 27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) in order of their...

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Man Ray – L’étoile de Mer AKA The Starfish (1928)

In the modernist high tide of l920s experimental filmmaking, L’ETOILE DE MER is a perverse moment of grace, a demonstration that the cinema went farther in its great silent decade than most filmmakers...

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Vladimir Kobrin – Gruppovoy Portret v Natyurmorte AKA The Group Portrait as...

The unsettling atmosphere of enclosed space formed the basis of visual reflection on death. A man sooner or later begins to think about death… Film is about the interdependence of the world of the...

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Man Ray – Le retour à la raison AKA Return to Reason (1923)

More a work in experimental Dadaism than a film, «Le Retour à la raison» was the first film to be made by the celebrated surrealist artist, Man Ray. The American-born artist made the film soon after...

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Ken Jacobs – Flo Rounds a Corner (1999)

WARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders. Synopsis (by Mark McElhatten)The cast is in flux — the animate and the inanimate...

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Srdjan Karanovic – Drustvena igra AKA Social Game (1972)

Not much info in English for this one:The director of this movie put an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, looks, or profession, to...

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Govindan Aravindan – Esthappan AKA Stephen (1980)

After Kanchana Seeta (1977), the mythical dimension of Aravindan’s cinema acquires a quasi-real, quasi-mythical character in Esthappan (1980). Esthappan is a mysterious figure, allegedly immortal, in...

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Laura Huertas Millán – El Laberinto AKA The Labyrinth (2018)

A voyage into the labyrinthic memories of a Uitoto man, who worked for the drug Lords in the Colombian Amazon back in the 80s. Following his path between the forest and the ruin of a Narco’s mansion...

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Muscha – Decoder (1984)

Decoder, an underground film from the early 80’s has developed to a somehow prophetic cult movie. With an unique engagement of exceptional players, who for the most part play themselves (FM Einheit of...

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Glauber Rocha – A Idade da Terra AKA The Age of the Earth (1980)

Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha’s experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s murder. The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed,...

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Richard Kerr – Cruel Rhythm (1991)

Shot during the opening stages of the First Gulf War, Kerr’s “Cruel Rhythm” revisits the American desert for a cinematic tone poem in the vein of ‘The Last Days of Contrition’ A canopy of sound bites...

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Mani Kaul – Satah Se Uthata Aadmi aka Arising From The Surface (1980)

Quote:Kaul’s film addresses the writings of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917-79), one of the main representatives of the Nai Kavita (New Poetry) movement in Hindi. Muktibodh also wrote several short...

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Steven Arnold – Luminous Procuress (1972)

Dalí considered Luminous Procuress ‘a work of genius’. Featuring members of legendary San Francisco performance troupe The Cockettes, the film was directed by the artist and filmmaker Steven Arnold, a...

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