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Thom Andersen – The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015)
An opening title card from director Thom Andesen’s new feature film, The Thoughts That Once We Had, directly identifies the cinematic writings of philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the project’s primary...
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Peter Tscherkassky – Three Short Films (1981-89)
From PT’s website: Aderlaß is a youthful attempt to process the inheritance of the Vienna Actionists through the use of a super 8 camera. In front of the camera is a performance from Armin Schmickl...
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Philippe Grandrieux – White Epilepsy (2012)
Where do images come from? This disturbing and essential question is posed by Philippe Grandrieux, and he already imposed it on himself the start, via Sombre (1999) up to the portrait recently devoted...
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Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson – The Forbidden Room (2015)
Synopsis A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that’s been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the...
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Koen Mortier – 22 mei AKA 22nd of May (2010)
Synopsis: Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the...
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Isiah Medina – 88:88 (2015)
Quote: The first feature by Canadian experimental filmmaker Isiah Medina is an explosive digital diary dealing with ideas about time, love, philosophy, poverty, and poetry, all erupting within a...
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Gustav Deutsch – Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
Quote: Seldom has the idea of a film as a series of tableaux been so literally appropriate as in the latest work from Austrian filmmaker and artist Gustav Deutsch. Shirley – Visions of Reality is a...
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Ben Russell – Greetings to the Ancestors (2015)
Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s...
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Ben Rivers – Things (2014)
Things is a travelogue in which the filmmaker leads himself and the viewer through a tour of the four seasons, without ever once setting foot across his doorstep – focusing on unexplored things inside...
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Errol Morris – Demon in the Freezer (2016)
Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its...
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Ben Rivers – There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
A hesitant female voice reads a poem by Henri Michaux, recounting a life lived in a distant land, full of faltering and mistakes. Island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children...
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Louis Henderson – All That is Solid (2014)
A technographic study of e-recycling and neo-colonial mining filmed in the Agbogbloshie electronic waste ground in Accra and illegal gold mines of Ghana. The video constructs a mise-en-abyme as...
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Jerónimo Rodríguez – Rastreador de estatuas (2015)
When Jorge, a Chilean filmmaker living in New York, decides to seek a statue of a Portuguese neurologist in a park in Chile, a curious investigation begins in the streets of Santiago, Brooklyn and...
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Lois Patiño – Noite Sem Distância AKA Night Without Distance (2015)
Synopsis: An instant in the memory of landscape: the smuggling that for centuries crossed the line between Portugal and Galicia. The Gerês Mountains knows no borders, and rocks cross from one country...
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Ross Sutherland – Stand by for Tape Back-up (2015)
FROM THE GUARDIAN: It’s extraordinary how potent cheap videotape is. That’s one of the lessons borne out by Standby for Tape Back-Up, a witty, resourceful and emotionally intense show by the...
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João Vladimiro – Lacrau (2013)
Quote: If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape”. The viper is deaf and the scorpion can’t see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful...
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Dziga Vertov – Entuziazm (Simfoniya Donbassa) AKA Enthusiasm (The Donbass...
One of the first Soviet sound films, it deals with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s, and represents Vertov’s radical attempt to link economic progress with the introduction of sound in cinema....
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Chris Kraus – Terrorists in Love (1985)
Experimental short by Chris Kraus. http://nitroflare.com/view/B308795040DDA98/Terrorists_in_Love.mkv Language(s):English Subtitles:None
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Cecile B. Evans – Hyperlinks or it didn’t happen (2014)
Hyperlinks or it Didn’t Happen questions the identity of the mediated subject. “PHIL,” a “bad copy” of recently deceased actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, narrates a procession of bodies generated or...
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Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón – Sin Dios ni Santa María AKA Neither God Nor...
“Part ethnography, part mystic cinematic mirage, this beautiful and evocative portrait of Yé, a remote village on the island of Lanzarote, is a paradoxically opaque work of tactile pleasures. Shot on...
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