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Karim Hussain – Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
“Subconscious Cruelty” is divided in four segments: Ovarian Eyeball – a naked woman is sliced by a sharp blade and an eyeball is removed from her belly. Human Larvae – a deranged man that hates his...
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Juraj Lehotsky – Slepé lásky AKA Blind Loves (2008)
Quote:”Blind Loves,” which world-premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Fest, is a film about love between blind people. Love can be soft, love can be silly, love can be blind at all times. To find ones...
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Weikai Huang – Xianshi Shi Guoqu de Weilai AKA Disorder (2009)
Synopsis:Through raw images of cruel and unusual news items, gathered from journalists and amateur video directors, director Huang Weikai and his film Disorder take us into the chaos of a Chinese...
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Costas Zapas – I antarsia tis kokkinis Marias AKA The Rebellion of Red Maria...
SynopsisIn a city – with heavy metal music haunting the heroes and the voice of Maria Callas being heard, an aged man, ex-terrorist, who dresses like a woman, the “red Maria”, lives without any law...
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Marcus Lindeen – Flotten AKA The Raft (2018)
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behaviour....
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Fiona Tan – Ascent (2016)
Through a gray blanket of cloud the contours of a mountain can be barely discerned. This is Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces and of immeasurable cultural and symbolic significance. We are lead...
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John Akomfrah – The Nine Muses (2010)
Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still has not returned home. So his son, Telemachus, sets off on a journey in search of his lost father. So begins Homer’s revered epic...
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Lionel Soukaz – Le sexe des anges (1977)
Quote:Lionel Soukaz (1953, Paris, France) at age 20 started making underground short films in Super 8, dealing with homosexuality in line with the Parisian FHAR (Front Homosexuel d’Action...
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Peter Tscherkassky – The Exquisite Corpus (2015)
Synopsis:The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. I play on the “cadavre exquis” technique used by the Surrealists, drawing disparate body parts constellating...
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Stavros Tornes – Coatti (1977)
Synopsis:Stavros and Charlotte – i.e. the director and his partner in life and art, Charlotte van Gelder – are wandering the streets of a burdensome reality like immigrants, tracing the world around...
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Carmelo Bene – Salome (1972)
Synopsis:A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The...
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Marina Abramovic – Four Performances (1975-1976)
4 Performances by Marina Abramovic, 1975-1976 Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful. Freeing the voice Freeing the memory Freeing the body. Galerie Mike Steiner, Berlin, December, 1976. 54...
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Marina Abramovic & Ulay – Relation Work (1976 – 1979)
Relation Work, 1976-1979: 14 performances Contents: Relation in space — Talking about similarity — Breathing in, breathing out — Imponderabilia — Expansion in space — Relation in movement — Relation...
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Makoto Satô – Aga no kioku AKA Memories of Agano (2005)
Satō Makoto discovered documentary film when he visited Minamata (well known as the former site of an environmental disaster) as a student, and worked on Katori Naotaka’s The Innocent Sea. While...
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Lars von Trier – Epidemic (1987)
Epidemic (1987) Epidemic arose from a challenge between Lars von Trier and Claes Kastholm of the Danish Film Institute, Trier betting – in order to get funding for another film – that he could make a...
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Manfred Kirchheimer – Stations of the Elevated (1981)
Quote:This 1979 documentary is one of my all time favorites. The structure is as simple as theycome. Footage of the various New York subways which run on elevated tracks is set tothe music of Charles...
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Hans Richter – Die neue Wohnung AKA The New Apartment (1930)
This film was made by Hans Richter for the first Basel habitat exhibition to show the innovative aspects of modern architecture. The remastering of this film was made by the Fondazione Cineteca...
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Jean-Daniel Pollet – Dieu sait quoi (1994)
Quote: Dieu sait quoi can be described as a cinematographic essay managing to convey Francis Ponge’s approach to the world, his special relation between silent objects and speech, defining the space...
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Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Trasparenze (1998)
Quote: « Transparences : voir à travers, pouvoir entrevoir le “cinéma” sur pied, ou porté. Œil et main deviennent mouvement, griffes et projection. Sur la décomposition du matériau nitrate, ses...
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Manfred Kirchheimer – Stations of the Elevated (1981) (HD)
Quote:Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images...
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