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David Cronenberg – Transfer (1966)
A 1966 short film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg. Quote: Cronenberg: Transfer, my first film, was a surreal sketch for two people – a psychiatrist and his patient – at a table...
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Antouanetta Angelidi – Oi ores: Mia tetragoni tainia AKA The Hours: A Square...
The painful passage from being imprisoned in the extortionate dilemmas of familial and sexual relationships to accepting a personal point of view. A narrative constructed on the associative structure...
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David Cronenberg – Crimes of the Future (1970)
Quote: A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth … Tripod discovers the deaths may be caused by poisonous cosmetics manufactured by a...
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Richard Linklater – Slacker (1991)
Description Richard Linklater’s Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas at Austin. Shooting the film...
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Jörg A. Hoppe & Heiko Lange & Klaus Maeck – B-Movie: Lust & Sound in...
Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed...
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Thom Andersen – The Tony Longo Trilogy (2014)
Although he has been limited to bit parts, actor Tony Longo is an axiom of American action cinema: the giant who is too softhearted for the job. Composed of three short movies, “Hey, Asshole!,” “Adam...
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Kevin Jerome Everson – Park Lanes (2015)
With a screening time equivalent to a full day’s work, Everson turns the cinema into a factory floor. Workers are observed while performing specific tasks, as well as while taking breaks. His humble...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Xiao Kang (2015)
Synopsis: This year, the Viennale has once again succeeded in garnering a great director of world cinema for the creation of the traditional festival trailer. At the Viennale’s invitation, the...
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Ula Stöckl – Neun Leben hat die Katze AKA The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)
Here’s one of the quintessential films (according to film historians and secondary literature, that is) of the “New German cinema”, the feature debut of Ula Stöckl which is considered one of the first...
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Tonino De Bernardi – Verso la strada del sole (2015)
This last short of Tonino De Bernardi is a meditative film about his life and cinema: he recovers an experimental short film made in the 60s and sticks in the final part of the film a sequence with...
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Alexander Alexeïeff & Claire Parker – The Pinscreen Animations (Various)
Quote: ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF DVD Animation works DVD PAL, 30 films English French booklet 20 pages Total running time 137 min. Price 30 Euros. Languages : English – French Complements : Picture gallery,...
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Gina Telaroli – Here’s to the Future! (2014)
Blurring the line between fiction, documentary, and experimental filmmaking modes, Telaroli herself plays a director attempting to recreate a scene from Michael Curtiz’s Depression-era drama The Cabin...
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Shûji Terayama – Sho o suteyo machi e deyou aka Throw Away Your Books, Rally...
“Throw away your books, Go out into the streets!” is Terayama’s adaptation of Terayma’s eponymous book and play. This actually is his first full-length film as a director after shooting a few shorts...
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György Pálfi – Szabadesés AKA Free Fall (2014)
Seven floors, seven identically built apartments yet completely different worlds. Seven situations, seven different stories that are nevertheless tied together by thousand strings. They are absurd,...
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Vsevolod Pudovkin – Dezertir AKA The Deserter (1933)
Synopsis: In 1929, four years before making this film, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein had collaborated on a Sound Manifesto that called for a radical use of asynchronous sound effects, which...
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Bruce Baillie – Quick Billy (1971)
First, the long awaited release of Bruce Baillie’s 1971 Masterpiece with a capital M (the first five minutes will make your head spin) Quick Billy. This third release is available through Canyon...
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Jean-Luc Godard – 3x3D: Les trois desastres (2013)
Qute: It’s no surprise that in undertaking his first 3D project (one third of 3X3D, a triptych that also includes Peter Greenaway and Edger Pêra), Jean-Luc Godard would do so much that everything else...
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Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid – Aayadina aka Our Hands (1982)
Quote: This is a great little short from the back-catalogue of the 70s-80s Syrian art/experimental scene. It is a nine minute short about hands. Hands, and the things hands do. It’s handsomely edited...
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Carolee Schneemann – Fuses (1964 – 1966)
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch. Carolee Schneemann wrote: …I wanted to see if...
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Raj Amit Kumar – Unfreedom (2014)
The movie that is BANNED in India. Quote: When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film...
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