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Stan Brakhage – The Stars Are Beautiful (1974)
Quote:Stan Brakhage’s 1974 film The Stars Are Beautiful is unusual among his works, primarily because it features a soundtrack, in the form of a narration (as well as direct sound which accompanies...
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Gina Telaroli – Traveling Light (2011)
“Ten properties of a subject, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.” – Robert Bresson “They began very...
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Francis Thompson – N.Y., N.Y. (1957)
A nearly-wordless collage that follows a day in New York City from early morning to late at night. The day starts with a look at power generators, ready to light the city. At eight, an alarm clock...
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Antonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro – Rosa de Areia AKA Desert Rose (1989)
“Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers...
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Tom Huckabee & Kent Smith – Taking Tiger Mountain [+ Extras] (1983)
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and refugees are fleeing from North America en masse....
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Pere Portabella – No compteu amb els dits (1967)
Quote:The medium-length film No compteu amb els dits, Pere Portabella’s first work as a director, starts with the following phrase: “defeated…but not conquered”. This may or should be taken as an...
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Yoshihiko Matsui – Tonkei shinjû aka Pig-Chicken Suicide (1981)
Directed by Japanese underground legend Yoshihiko Matsui, most famous for his epic film Noisy Requiem and his early work with maverik Japanese director Sogo Ishii (Gojoe, Crazy Thunder Road), Pig...
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Peter B. Hutton – At Sea (2007)
About the filmA sweeping meditation on global commerce, labor and geography in the 21st century which chronicles the birth, life and death of a merchant ship. “The sublime is no more strongly felt...
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Werner Nekes – Makimono (1974)
Quote:“The title refers to Japanese landscape painting on rolls. Furthermore it indicates the film’s theme, the balance of colors (blurred tones of blue, green and grey) and the type of montage that...
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Su Friedrich – Damned If You Don’t (1987)
DAMNED IF YOU DON’T is Friedrich’s subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this...
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Peter Bo Rappmund – Vulgar Fractions (2011)
Seven unique state intersections along Nebraska’s border.Quote:The twenty-seven minute Vulgar Fractions (2011) employs a less linear but equally indexical method of visual inquiry. Shot at seven...
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Martial Raysse – Le Grand Depart (1971)
Quote:Not a good movie, though a prime example of audacious, rule-breaking cinema. It’s an early seventies French film shown almost entirely in negative exposure, which in itself makes it worth a...
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Gastón Solnicki – Kékszakállú (2016)
Kékszakállú is an unconventional portrayal of several young women witnessed in immersive yet indeterminate states: within their bodies, among their friends and lovers, and ultimately in a culture of...
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Robert Beavers – The Hedge Theater (2002)
Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borromini and St. Martin and the Beggar, a painting by...
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Werner Nekes – Diwan (1974)
Quote:“Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it....
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Ignacio Agüero – El otro día (2013)
Untouched Director’s Cut Chilean film maker Ignacio Agüero begins filming objects in his flat that are connected to the history of his family and his country. But the outside world keeps intruding on...
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Edgar Pêra – Movimentos Perpétuos: Cine-Tributo a Carlos Paredes AKA...
Quote:A documentary in 17 movements, in which testimonies and the guitar define the genius, the bravery and the modesty of Carlos Paredes. In PERPETUAL MOVEMENTS ‚ A TRIBUTE TO CARLOS PAREDES a dialog...
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Werner Nekes – Lagado (1977)
Quote:“…What sounds rather bookish and intimidating, in fact unfolds an enormous sensual stimulus on screen. In more than 20 sequences, based in part on work by Stifter and Camus, Hamburg’s...
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Storm De Hirsch – Peyote Queen (1965)
Synopsis:Peyote Queen is the second and best known part of de Hirsch’s trilogy, The Color of Ritual, the Color of Thought. It is preceded by Divinations (1964) and Shaman (1966). The film’s imagery is...
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Jairo Ferreira – O Vampiro da Cinemateca aka The Vampire of the Cinematheque...
Quote:Technical mistakes? This is a Brazil’s specialty, this land without know-how. The documentary which, as Marcio Souza said in his modesty, should be to current Brazilian cinema as Aruanda was to...
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