Jørgen Leth – Det legende menneske AKA Moments of Play (1986)
A personal essay on the play of children and grown-ups all over the world. The director has shot the film in different countries and cultures: Bali, Brazil, China, Denmark, UK, Haiti, Spain and the...
View ArticleAntónio Reis – Jaime (1974)
The world, life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a peasant born in Barcos (Beira Baixa, Portugal), who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 38 and interned in a sanatorium in Lisbon,...
View ArticleRogério Sganzerla – Copacabana Mon Amour [+Extras] (1970)
Synopsis: The saga of some Copacabana dwellers: Sônia Silk, a prostitute also known as Miss Prado Júnior and Peroxide Beast; her gay brother, addicted to smelling his boss’s underwear; and Mr. Grillo,...
View ArticlePeter Foldes – Je, tu, elles… (1972)
Je, tu, elles… (ou Elles plus elles) (1969) is a french movie from Peter Földes, released on TV but never in theaters. 376MB | 1h 19mn | 512×384 | mkv...
View ArticleShu Lea Cheang – I.K.U. (2000)
Quote:Reiko is a sex robot programmed to accumulate sexual experience. She goes through seven body types to experiences a variety of couplings. She returns to the company to download her accumulated...
View ArticleJames N. Kienitz Wilkins – The Republic (2017)
A confederation of aging libertarians open their borders to the wealthy young widow of a traitor in order to survive winter. Quote:The world premiere of an audacious new film by Wilkins, a Whitney...
View ArticleMuscha – Decoder (1984)
Quote:FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous ‘muzak’ played through the fast food restaurant H Burger’s speaker system: the tracks are laced...
View ArticleJames Benning – El Valley Centro (2000)
Quote:Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure and majestic images that at once evoke a sense of nostalgic splendor as well as deliver a...
View ArticlePina Bausch – Die Klage der Kaiserin AKA The Plaint of the Empress (1990)
Quote:This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is...
View ArticlePierre Coulibeuf – Balkan baroque (1999)
SynopsisThe autobiography, both real and imaginary, of Marina Abramovic [1], Body Art artistic. The film composes the life aesthetic of a woman in her era, with a personal history strongly marked by...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky – Variations (1998)
“VARIATIONS blossomed forth while shooting additional material for TRISTE. What tender chaos, what current of luminous rhymes might cinema reveal unbridled from the daytime word? During the Bronze Age...
View ArticleNichola Bruce – I Could Read the Sky (1999)
Synopsis:Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O’Grady and Steve Pyke. I Could Read the Sky is a haunting and lyrical film about identity, love, loss, and the...
View ArticleVladimir Kobrin – Predmet i zadachi biofiziki AKA The Subject and Tasks of...
Experimental educational film reveals the emergence of some ideas of Biophysics in the historical, philosophical and methodological aspects.First film from the biophysics cycle (1982-1989). Quote:In...
View ArticlePeter B. Hutton – At Sea (2007)
Quote:A 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 than in...
View ArticleTeo Hernandez – Salomé (1976)
IMDB:A personal interpretation of Oscar Wilde Salome from three basic elements: the light, the color and the projection speed. “Ce film n’est pas l’illustration d’un récit historique ou d’une pièce de...
View ArticleUruphong Raksasad – Sawan baan na AKA Agrarian Utopia (2009)
Facing seizure of their own lands, two families find themselves farming together on the same field, hoping just to get through another rice-farming season. But no matter how much the world is...
View ArticleLav Diaz – Siglo ng pagluluwal AKA Century of Birthing (2011)
Quote One of the most adventurous filmmakers to emerge from the Philippines in decades, Lav Diaz is, in many ways, the spiritual father of what some have called the Filipino New Wave, a group of...
View ArticleGonzalo Suárez – El Extraño caso del doctor Fausto aka The Strange Case of...
This film is loosely based on Goethe’s Dr. Faustus. It’s the second feature that Gonzalo Suárez made, when he still was a member of the Barcelona School (Escuela de Barcelona). The Barcelona School...
View ArticlePere Portabella – Nocturno 29 AKA Nocturne 29 (1968)
SynopsisPortabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an...
View ArticleJean-Claude Rousseau – Les antiquités de Rome (1989)
Rousseau’s first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has...
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