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Stephen Dwoskin – Take Me (1968)
A girl is attempting to seduce the beholder : the camera. A visual conveyance through material – film and paint – as the seduction progresses she becomes more covered in paint – representative of the...
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Stephen Dwoskin – Girl (1975)
It is quite revealing how complex the simple form is. Shot one to one, a girl is confronted with nothing more than her thoughts. In the period of watching her (while she is looking at you) her...
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Takis Candilis – Petites métamorphoses AKA Small metamorphoses (1975)
Synopsis‘Small metamorphoses’ is the name of an old game: different body parts drawn on cardboard were assembled to form endlessly varying characters. A couple and their child. The metamorphosis acts...
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Larry Gottheim – Natural Selection (1984)
Quote:Radiating from the Darwinian text-fragments outward through the material is much pictorial and spoken signifying text having to do with issues such as communication, translation, dynamics of...
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Paul Sharits – Word Movie (1966)
SynopsisSingle frame exposures of words, color.(imdb) Cinema of the signifierWhen we watch films we see and hear representations of things, sights and sounds not present at the moment of viewing....
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Stephen Dwoskin – Intoxicated By My Illness (2001)
Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in Dwoskin’s recent life that took him from medical...
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Stephen Dwoskin – Lost Dreams (2003)
Lost dreams is made out of those little remnants of images,from a single glance to a detailed moment, of those women from youth’s love and young dreams. They are woven together, like fragments of the...
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James Edmonds – A Return (2018)
Quote:To return again. To re-align is the object of these visits, perhaps. Geography of origin becoming catalyst for an inner re-alignment with the secret, private, unspoken work of one’s being....
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Ken Jacobs – Window (1964)
Quote:The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes...
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Ken Jacobs – Capitalism: Child Labor (2006)
Quote:“Jolting in every sense of the word, this short masterwork flickers between stereographic cards depicting Victorian-era child laborers, creating a portrait of standardized horrors, endlessly...
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Ken Jacobs – A Tom, Tom Chaser (2002)
Quote:A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs’ 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper’s Son from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process. 235MB | 10m 30s |...
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Jonas Mekas – The Brig (1964)
Quote:Jonas Mekas’ The Brig is a fake documentary about ten confined soldiers in a U.S. Navy ship and the three guards who beat and humiliate them. After the title of the film, “The Brig”, the next...
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Ken Jacobs – The Georgetown Loop (1996)
THE GEORGETOWN LOOP(Ken Jacobs, 1996, 11m, widescreen 35mm film, black and white, silent) Originally photographed in 1903, US Library of Congress collection. New arrangement in 1996 by Ken Jacobs,...
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Larry Gottheim – Barn Rushes (1971)
Quote:The long way around the barn never looked so good. Larry Gottheim composed BARN RUSHES from eight tracking shots tracing the same arc around a barn in different conditions. The fact that nothing...
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Raúl Perrone – Ituzaingo V3rit4 (2019)
SynopsisPerrone returns with a new exploration of his quintessential aesthetic territory, Ituzaingó. This time the night in the western city exudes cinema and theatre. Actors, actresses, directors and...
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Alain Mazars – Rouges Silences (1979)
Quote:Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account. Some very close-ups of flowers, insects,...
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Karsten Krause & Philip Widmann – Szenario (2014)
Quote:The contents of a black briefcase lead us into a superficially well-ordered life in West Germany in 1970, in a city that can be seen as representative of the entire country. In this briefcase:...
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Antoine d’Agata – La vie nue AKA The Bare Life (2020)
SynopsisThe short film “La vie nue” (The Bare Life) is based on Virus, a series of pictures taken by Antoine d’Agata in the streets and the hospitals during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19...
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Adrian Jackson – Here for Life (2019)
In Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson’s freewheeling kaleidoscopic film Here for Life, place is again of paramount importance. We’re in Hackney in rapidly gentrifying east London, full of...
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Ayreen Anastas – Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005) (DVD)
“Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini’s trip to Palestine in his film, Seeking Locations in Palestine for The Gospel According to Matthew (1963). It adapts his script into a route...
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