Stefan Kruse Jørgensen – A Lack of Clarity (2020)
In the contemporary surveillance society, digital evolution and social control indelibly mark the urban fabric in which we move. 328MB | 22m 33s | 1280×720 | mkv...
View ArticleAna Mendieta – Ana Mendieta – Selected Performance Works (1973-1981)
This used to be on vimeo for quite a while but has since vanished. From the looks of it and the credits to a curator at the end, it was probably compiled for an exhibition and taken down after it...
View ArticleChris Kraus (II) – Sadness at Leaving (1992)
During the 1960s and 70s, Turkish-born Erje Ayden served as house pulp fiction writer to the New York School of painters and poets. Friend and sometime bodyguard to the artist Willem De Kooning, Ayden...
View ArticleJet Leyco – Bukas na lang sapagkat gabi na AKA Leave It for Tomorrow, for...
Quote:On 21 September 1972, the Philippines were plunged into a dark night lasting sixteen years. On that day, President Marcos announced a state of emergency. Censorship, intimidation and distrust...
View ArticleCarolina Moscoso – Visión nocturna AKA Night Shot (2019)
Recording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape happened and everything changed, although the search continued. When revisiting these images, a dialogue arises...
View ArticleNadia Ranocchi & David Zamagni – Zeus Machine. L’invincibile AKA Zeus...
Twelve never-told-before vignettes from the life of Hercules which at once dismantle and condense the underlying myth: performances of bodies and machines, inspired by sword-and-sandal films, as a...
View ArticlePierre Clémenti – Positano (1969)
Another recently unearthed Clementi film. Another few reels of footage consisting of Clementi, his friends and his family enjoying the Parisian life. 430MB | 25m 31s | 720×544 | mkv...
View ArticleLynne Siefert – Generations (2020)
Thirteen static shots of coal-fired power stations across the United States, seen in rural landscapes, urban settings, sun or cloud and at all times of year. Whatever the location or season, there’s...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Der zynische Körper AKA The Holy Bunch (1991)
Carl is having trouble writing. As the film progresses, his novelistic character develops into a real person who intervenes in his life with increasing menace. The lector Roy supports Carl but is...
View ArticleBruce Baillie – Little Girl (1966 – 2014)
Quote“This film by Bruce Baillie, completed in 1966 but unreleased until 2014, is contemporaneous with Castro Street, but is much more formally connected to All My Life or Still Life, also from the...
View ArticleShirley Clarke – A Moment in Love (1956)
SynopsisThe recurring theme of dance once again works its way into a Shirley Clarke project, as this short film features a performance that takes place across a multitude of environments. As a primary...
View ArticleMarlon Riggs – Tongues Untied (1989)
Quote:Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill...
View ArticleLaura Mulvey & Peter Wollen – Amy! (1979) (HD)
”[The film] was planned to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Amy Johnson’s epic solo flight to Australia in 1930—to commemorate it and to comment on it. AMY! is neither a drama nor a portrait...
View ArticleAbbas Kiarostami – 24 Frames (2017)
24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images,...
View ArticleMichael Snow – Cityscape (2019)
Quote:Cityscape elaborates on the methods Snow used in the making of his ground-breaking 360-degree film La Région Centrale (1971). Taking the advice of his long-time friend, Graeme Ferguson, to...
View ArticleParviz Kimiavi – Tappehaye queytariye AKA The Hills of Qaytariyeh (1969)
An archeological finding and the stories it may contain. Made with great humor. From Wikepedia:Parviz Kimiavi (Persian:پرويز کيمياوی; Born 1939, Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian...
View ArticleAnocha Suwichakornpong – Jai Jumlong (2021)
How do you put together the puzzle if the image is missing? You start from individual pieces and see how they fit together. There are the four young actors on a trip to Kanchanaburi, “a city so...
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Dad (2003)
‘An ode to my father, and perhaps to all fathers. Called a “moving painting” by my sister, the film blends found family footage of the young and the ageing father. It takes the tiny gestures of daily...
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Dear Frances (2003)
`Suddenly and sadly my dear friend Frances died. At that moment of loss I needed to hold on to her. The film is just that.’ 259MB | 17m 45s | 765×574 | mkv...
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Grandpère’s Pear (2003)
“My grandfather was a charming artist and he would have acted if he had had an audience. In this film, taken from family images, it is a simple pear that is the object of his panache.” 215MB | 14m 20s...
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