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Hollis Frampton – Zorns Lemma (1970)
“Zorn’s Lemma stands for – Every non-empty partially ordered set in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element. It is named after the...
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Various – Lumière et compagnie AKA Lumière and Company (1995)
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers. The 40 directors Theo AngelopoulosVicente ArandaJ.J. Bigas Luna (as Bigas...
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Fernando Birri – Org (1978)
ORG and excess roads to wisdomFernando Birri“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,” said William Blake. This was the mantra we attempted to analyze in the non-film ORG. I want to try to...
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Alfred Clah – Through Navajo Eyes: The Intrepid Shadows (1966)
The Intrepid ShadowsThis is one of the most complex films made by the Navajo. It is the one least understood by the Navajo and most appreciated by “avant-garde” filmmakers in our society. The film...
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Pierre Clémenti – Visa de censure n°X AKA Certificate No. X (1967)
Quote:Shot in 1967 but not released until 1975, actor Pierre Clémenti’s acid-infused experimental whirlwind of color and music featuring a who’s who of the French 60s underground. Quote:Visa de...
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Curtis Harrington – Fragment of Seeking (1946)
Quote:Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of...
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James Herbert – Figures (1980-1988)
Quote:James Herbert, filmmaker and painter, was to become well-known for his video clips for R.E.M., but his films are rarely seen. Somewhere between voyeuristic attraction and reflection, they...
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Salomé Lamas – Extraction: The Raft Of The Medusa (2019)
Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa portrays a brief moment of euphoria as the occupants on the raft spot a glimpsic illusion for their drift, hoping and praying to be rescued. We can almost hear the...
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Pierre Huyghe – A Journey That Wasn’t (2006)
On February 9th, 2005, seven artists and ten crewmembers set sail from the Port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the southeast point of Argentina. Their journey centered on a search for an unknown...
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Ted Fendt – Going Out (2015)
Going Out. 2014. USA. Directed by Ted Fendt. 8 min. Liz thinks she’s going on a date with Rob to see RoboCop, but things take an unexpected (and inexplicable) turn. 124MB | 7 min 46 s | 1280×720 | mkv...
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Ted Fendt – Travel Plans (2013)
A short 7-minute follow-up to Broken Specs by Ted Fendt — this one called Travel Plans. There are no travel plans, per se: the protagonist comes upon a Greyhound bus ticket (spoiler alert) on a...
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Ted Fendt – Broken Specs (2012)
Quote:One of the best comic shorts (6 minutes) I’ve seen recently — Broken Specs by Ted Fendt, whom many people already know as the great translator of significant French texts by Godard, Straub,...
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Ken Jacobs – Seeking the Monkey King (2011)
Quote:The film could have well been called KICKING AND SCREAMING but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrode all objection....
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Stéphane Marti – La cité des neuf portes (1977)
Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big budget cinema. His work is primarily focused on the...
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Aryan Kaganof – La séquence des barres parallèles (1992)
Synopsis:The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilleto’ed foot… She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men,...
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Aryan Kaganof – Nicola’s First Orgasm (2003)
Aryan Kaganof & Nicola Deane | 2003 | 5 min. | video | no dialogue “We cannot abstain from watching the revelation of a being that would be an object neither for herself nor for any other gaze and...
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Werner Nekes – Kelek (1969)
Quote:“A long setting of a basement window to the street. Slower and stopping down the street brothers in Hamburg (where Nekes lives). A stand of the belly of a girl on her legs and her dress. Then,...
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Werner Nekes – T-Wo-Men (1972)
T – WO – MENGermany, 1972, sound, colour, 90 mins, 16mm. Sound by Anthony Moore. With Geeske Hof-Helmers and Dore O. Werner Nekes: a short comment on the aesthetic organisation of T-wo-men: The...
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Anatoliy Karanovich & Sergei Yutkevich – Ilinskiy o Mayakovskom AKA...
This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky...
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Jon Jost – Stagefright (1981)
An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication – intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language, cinema. Stagefright, with the exception of one...
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