Takashi Ito – Ghost (1984)
Takashi Ito wrote:I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long...
View ArticleTakashi Ito – Grim (1985)
A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.Takashi Ito wrote:With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making Ghost of peeling only the skin from...
View ArticleErnesto Baca – Natura (2015)
Ernesto Baca was born in 1969 in Florencio Varela, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1997 he completed his studies in film and video CIEVYC. In 2002 he presented his first feature film...
View ArticleAmit Dutta – The Game of Shifting Mirrors (2020)
Quote:How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film. As a camera...
View ArticleFrans Zwartjes – It’s Me (1976)
Quote:First full-length experimental feature by filmmaker Zwartjes about an actress, played by Willeke van Ammelrooy, who during the whole film, in continuously changes moods, is busy in her room....
View ArticleAlexander Kluge – Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (1972)
Quote:Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it’s the wrong side that he takes in this civil war… 1.52GB | 1h 17m |...
View ArticleHito Steyerl – In Free Fall (2010)
“Falling is a transition. It is a movement from one position to another. In as much as it suggests failure or ruin, to love is also to fall. It is corruption, revolution and abandonment. It implies a...
View ArticleEmma Davie & Peter Mettler – Becoming Animal (2018)
Quote:Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive film essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler and Emma Davie and philosopher David Abram to encounter the...
View ArticleIsao Yamada – Lynx Reel (1987)
Why do people wave their hands when they say goodbye? We embark on a dreamlike journey from Borges’ ‘The Circular Ruins’. Filmed in 16mm by filmmaker, graphic artist and manga author Isao Yamada....
View ArticleFred Halsted – LA Plays Itself [+Commentary] (1972)
Quote:Fred Halsted plays himself in his notorious autobiographical portrait of Los Angeles. Two men have a fleetingly idyllic meeting outside of town while Halsted shows a young pick-up the ropes...
View ArticleClaude Autant-Lara – Fait-divers (1923)
Young Autant-Lara’s (1901-2000) avant-garde debut, made a decade before his first feature and two decades before his breakthrough. It features his mother, who was a famous actress, as well as Antonin...
View ArticleFrançois Bonnet & Eléonore Huisse –Éliane Radigue –Échos (2021)
Short meditative documentary about the iconic Eiane Radigue who is now 90 years old. 814MB | 32m 37s | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleJean-Daniel Pollet – Tu imagines Robinson AKA Imagine Robinson Crusoe (1968)
This utopian fable that takes place on an island in Greece, is freely inspired by Daniel Defoe’s novel and speaks above all about loneliness: the immense weakness of today’s man, confronted by his...
View ArticleBen Russell – Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl (2009)
A closely hewn remake of the first half of Viennese Actionist (and convicted sex offender) Otto Muehl’s 1967 film Kardinal with the following minor substitutions: the original woman is played by the...
View ArticleNadav Lapid – Ha’berech AKA Ahed’s Knee (2021)
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid shows no signs of slowing down in this shattering follow-up to his bat-out-of-hell Synonyms. A film of radical style and splenetic anger, Ahed’s Knee accompanies a...
View ArticlePeter Treherne – Atmospheric Pressure (2020)
Cows enter a milking parlour in the early morning. As their milk is sucked away, a cataclysmic storm builds on the horizon. Under the onslaught of wind and rain, summer disappears. A meteorologist...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – In Between (1978)
Quote:“Filmed in 1964-1968. Edited in 1978. The material for this film is footage that didn’t find a place in the WALDEN reels. Some of it begins in between LOST, LOST, LOST and WALDEN. It’s mostly...
View ArticlePeter Emmanuel Goldman – Echoes of Silence (1964)
Desperate sexuality, desperate emotions;every gesture and inflection an act of graveimport; a film of young adults, infused witha new existentialist humanism, devoid ofcertainty or illusion. The sharp...
View ArticleFudong Yang – Mingri zaochao AKA Dawn Breaking (2018)
Quote:Dawn Breaking is the opening chapter of Yang Fudong’s Museum Film Project. The idea of the series first conceived while Yang worked on his solo exhibition in Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte...
View ArticleLis Rhodes – A Cold Draft (1988)
Shows the surveillance of a woman by overseers who have judged her to be mad. What is most provocative about this film is that it proposes multiple credible points of view even as the woman is being...
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