Claudine Eizykman – V.W. Vitesse Women (1974)
One of the most important films of French avant-garde cinema, displaying Claudine Eizykman’s theory of “cinematographic energy” as well as creating kinetic movements capable of shaking up the world...
View ArticleMarcel Hanoun – L’automne (1972)
Synopsis: Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, “Juliette sacrifiée”. Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien...
View ArticleGary Beydler – Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974)
Quote:“I had one of my graduate students drive the car, and I filmed 16mm black and white negative driving through these four consecutive tunnels on the Pasadena freeway. I wound up doing about 1400...
View ArticleIeva Balode – Commission (2020)
The story of a film “Commission” starts in Georgia at some unknown point of time where a heroic, mythical female character has written a book which is being delivered by a courier (the artist herself)...
View ArticleMaureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes – Diários de Otsoga AKA The Tsugua Diaries...
IMDb wrote:Follows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones. A COVID-era vacation story...
View ArticleMarcus Werner Hed, Dan Fox – Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM...
BBC Four WebsiteHull, England, 1970. In a run-down commune in a tough port city, a group of social misfits – mostly working class, mostly self-educated – adopted new identities and began making simple...
View ArticleLarry Janiak & Wayne Boyer – Agamemnon in New York (1964)
QuoteWhat started as a film test on new sync-sound film equipment quickly became a short film documenting the typical nuttiness behind the scenes at Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, a...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Monokurômu heddo AKA Monochrome Head (1997)
Takashi Nakajima wrote:Without warning, the image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat that slices through the air leaps to my mind. Such speed also reminds me of the rhythm of the filmmaker’s...
View ArticleEric M. Nilsson – Anonym (1991)
Eric M. Nilsson’s rich and multi-layered masterpiece Anonym [Anonymous] avoids to be categorized. It’s a TV documentary, an essay film and a detective story at once. It starts with a finding in a...
View ArticlePhilippe Grandrieux – Le Labyrinthe – le temps, la memoire, les images (1989)
Third part of an experimental television program led by Grandrieux questionning TV flux aesthetic, this film focuses on a single interview with Jean-Louis Schefer who delivers his hypothesis on...
View ArticleJames Benning – Four Corners (1998)
Quote:I’ve been brooding a lot lately about the way in which many of the best movies around have been ravaged by “narrative correctness.” This is the notion fostered by producers, distributors, and...
View ArticleBoris Lehman – Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978)
Quote:A living chronicle of the residents of Béguinage neighbourhood – so named because it is situated on the site of former Béguinage. Designed as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film comprises...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Shizuka na ichinichi AKA A Silent Day (2003)
A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death. 458MB | 20m 26s | 710×532 | mkv https://nitro.download/view/A7477E7672FB380/A.Silent.Day.2003.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv...
View ArticleClaudine Eizykman – Lapse (1981)
Lapse is a research of a porous state of the cinematographic material which by “intra-photogrammic fragmentation” (Claudine Eizykman) and encrustation of grains unfolds in its crackling like a film in...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Screw (1982)
In this short film, the screen stares back at the viewer with an eye of its own. 57.4MB | 2m 51s | 712×534 | mkv https://nitro.download/view/552C9115D5B5182/Screw.1982.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264.mkv...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Shashin ki 87 AKA Photodiary ’87 (1987)
Takashi Ito wrote:I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict...
View ArticleRichard Kern – The Evil Cameraman (1990)
Kern plays himself as he uses his models to fulfilling his sadistic control fantasies with mixed results. 292MB | 11m 10s | 774×576 | mkv...
View ArticleShireen Seno – Big Boy (2011)
In the Philippines of the 1950s, a young boy is growing, but not enough in his parents’ eyes: they subject him to daily stretching exercises and administer a homemade potion that they are trying to...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Takashi Ito: Performances (2001-2009)
Double (2001)A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in 2001. Prisoner of Love – The Dead Dance...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Spacy (1981)
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time. 700 continuous still photographs which are re-photographed frame by frame with linear, circular, and...
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