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Lewis Klahr – Sixty Six (2015)

Quote:Sixty Six began as a three minute, 16mm film I created in 2002– a pop poetic filled with the lush palette of Daylight Noir and primary color abstraction. For some undefined reason, I never took...

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Heinz Emigholz – Die Wiese der Sachen (1988)

Quote:Jedes Jahrzehnt hat seinen eigenen Zugang zum Himmel. Clonetown, 1974 bis 1979, die Chronik eines Abschieds. Charon, ein abgesprungener Terrorist, sitzt am Ufer zur Vergessenheit und kommentiert...

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Mike Hoolboom – Incident Reports (2015)

After a bike accident, the amnesiac produces one-minute shots. The voice-over weighs in on gender, animals and the end of literary culture. An essay featuring Elvis, wrestlers, boy ballet, naked...

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Rut Hillarp – Vart vill du rida hän? (1970)

Short piece by Rut Hillarp (De vita händerna) based on a poem by Karl Vennberg. Quote:Rut Hillarp has an assured place in Swedish literary postwar modernism thanks both to her collections of poetry...

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Rainer Kohlberger – There Must Be Some Kind of Way Outta Here (2020)

The catastrophe is tirelessly repeated in Hollywood cinema. The genre of the disaster movie hints at the collective psyche of the respective historical epochs. The perspective of a postmodern longing...

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Mariano Blatt & Eduardo Williams – Parsi (2019)

Quote:“No es” (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, which is constantly written over the course of a lifetime. The text of the poem, a list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, to which verses...

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Ahmad Faruqi Qajar – Toloo-e jady AKA Dawn of the Capricorn (1964)

Quote:Dawn of the Capricorn, made by Ahmad Faroughi Kadjar (Qajar) in 1964, is a strange composition that looks at the stagnated situation of a country suspended between the old world and the modern...

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Eduardo Williams – El ruido de las estrellas me aturde (2012)

SynopsisAs a boy looks for a cybercafé he is overwhelmed by wild waves. A group of boys lives together surrounded by lots of things, they work, walk, talk in very different places, but we are never...

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Barbara Sternberg – Beating (1995)

Quote:“Beating” — to get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down, and our hearts… Under this central...

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David Lynch – Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)

Quote:A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting. 139MB | 4m 02s | 722×576 | mkv...

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Ben Rivers – Ghost Strata (2019)

Ben Rivers’ films tend to look outward at the larger world. GHOST STRATA is no exception. But to a somewhat different extent, it also looks in. A film diary, it reflects his globetrotting ways,...

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Ben Rivers – A Distant Episode (2015)

Shot on the otherworldly beaches of Morocco in silvery black-and-white 16mm Scope, Ben Rivers’ A Distant Episode (named for the Paul Bowles short story inventively adapted in Rivers’ feature The Sky...

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Luis Ospina & Raoul Ruiz – Capítulo 66 (1994)

Quote:A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993. 331MB | 26m 26s | 720×528 | mkv...

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Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)

When the film Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert was initially shown in 1976, many viewers found it hauntingly beautiful but deeply perplexing. Some, seeing it as a sign of Duras’ inability to...

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David Lynch – Early Experiments (1968)

Quote:A 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother. 538MB | 21m 40s | 720×540 | mkv...

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Patrick Bokanowski –Éclats d’Orphée (2002)

Quote:Film directed from the play Orpheon, directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft. 101MB | 4m 19s | 785×572 | mkv...

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Patrick Bokanowski – Battements solaires (2008)

Quote:Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify – and all...

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Harun Farocki – Ein Tag im Leben der Endverbraucher AKA A Day in the Life of...

Quote:Harun Farocki plunders 40 years of advertising films, which he orchestrates to constitute an ironic 24 hours in the life of typical consumers. Mixing different colours, periods, various...

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Alejandro Fadel – El Amor – primera parte aka Love – Part one (2004)

A fresh, likeable comedy about the beginning, middle and end of a romance, “Love (Part One)” is a charming piece of froth that should hit the mark with young audiences who will see themselves...

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Yvonne Rainer – Lives of Performers (1972)

A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, Lives Of Performers examines the dilemma of a man who can’t choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance...

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