Clik here to view.
Peter Tscherkassky – Tabula rasa (1989)
From PT’s website: The target of Tabula Rasa is the heart of cinema. Voyeuristic desire as the pre-condition for all cinema pleasure is at stake here. What Christian Metz and Jacques Lacan have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Khavn – Desaparadiso (2015)
Plot Summary: One day, they just disappeared. Just like that. One didn’t go to work, one didn’t go to his appointment, didn’t meet his date. The dishes served were left to rot, and the bed remained...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chen Chieh-Jen – Lingchi – Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002)
The title Lingchi refers to a photograph taken by an unidentified western anthropologist according to some, and by a French soldier at the beginning of the 20th century, according to others by others....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Randy Greif – The Three Trials (2006)
Randy Greif is best known as an experimental musician, perhaps most notably as the creator of the six-hour Alice in Wonderland project. Subtitled Adventures in Psychotica, his first film is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean-Marie Straub – Kommunisten (2014)
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stanislav Bytiutskyi – Goodbye, Cinephiles (2014)
This is a story about people in love with cinema, and a country going through its most difficult times. A group of friends, who met sometime ago in a movie theatre, get together to see one of them off...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chantal Akerman – No Home Movie (2015)
“This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938 , fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the violence. This woman who is only ever...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chantal Akerman – No Home Movie [subbing copy] (2015)
“This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938 , fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the violence. This woman who is only ever...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teo Hernandez – Salomé (1976)
“Ce film n’est pas l’illustration d’un récit historique ou d’une pièce de théâtre mais il est structuré par sa dynamique propre et trois éléments basiques: la lumière, la couleur et la vitesse de...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Irm Sommer & Ed Sommer – Hedonistic Communication (1970)
Quote: HEDONISTIC COMMUNICATION / IRM ED SOMMER / KONTAKTE / ICH DU UND ICH is the title of this super obscure experimental short film including also explicit sex. Very raw and primitive, it features...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Franco Piavoli – Nostos: Il Ritorno AKA Nostos: The Return [+Extras] (1990)
Synopsis At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)
from Pan Asian Film Festival 2014 (page link) Portraying a character struggling to make sense of her life as it threatens to spin out of control, Nawapol’s brilliant second film creates an inventive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jocelyn Saab – Kanya Ya Ma Kan, Beyrouth AKA Once Upon a Time in Beirut (1995)
“This reflexive voyage into a celluloid Beirut becomes the key to finding out to which Beirut one is returning, and to point to the new Beirut one wishes for the future.” – Ella Shohat and Robert...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean-Luc Godard – Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma (1986)
Synopsis The director Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film. For now, he is still in the casting and financing stages. He’s asking the help of Jean Almereyda, a producer once fashionable but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francesco Dongiovanni – Anapeson (2015)
The Casino del Duca is an ancient palazzo, a cross between a palace and a manor farm, located in San Basilio, near Taranto. For two thousand years it was the beating heart of an entire region, as well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
José Luis Guerín – Tren de sombras AKA Train of Shadows (1997)
Quote: Ostensibly framed as a restoration of a degraded found film recovered some 70 years after the sudden and unexplained death of its creator, a Parisian attorney and amateur filmmaker named Gérard...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin – Le vent d’est AKA Wind From the East...
“Wind From the East” (“Le Vent D’Est”) is a very deep and highly political discussion about communism, capitalism, art, revolution, intellectualism, Maoism, USSR, tradition, paradigms, poetry… It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quentin Dupieux – Rubber (2010)
RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gábor Bódy – Kutya éji dala AKA The Dog’s Night Song (1983)
In a story that hops around a little, a priest arrives in a village to go from person to person offering his own form of consolation or advice. On his list of “clients” is a former Communist Party...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rita Azevedo Gomes – Frágil Como o Mundo (2002)
Quote: An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can’t find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their...
View Article