Ron Rice – The Flower Thief (1960)
A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco’s deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging. Quote:In Ron Rice’s baggy-pantsed beatnik artifact The Flower Thief...
View ArticleHellmuth Costard – Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst? AKA Why did you kiss me...
Film by Hellmuth Costard, BRD, 1967, 3 min., 35mm with Barbara Rieck and Peter Dahl Cinema is also parodied in Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst: in the bombastic title announcement in beautiful colours...
View ArticleJohn Sanborn – Perfect Lives (1984)
An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley’s television opera “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the...
View ArticleLis Rhodes – Light Reading (1978)
Quote:Lis Rhodes uses often mysterious, dangerous and highly personal images. –Amy Taubin, ‘Village Voice’ New York, 1978‘The film begins in darkness as a woman’s voice is heard over a black screen....
View ArticleJackie Raynal – Deux fois (1968)
Synopsis:“The film is an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such – expectations, exploring the picture,...
View ArticleBen Rivers – Look Then Below (2019)
Quote:The film conjures up futuristic beings from an eerie smoke-filled landscape and the crystalline depths of the earth. Look Then Below was shot in the vast, dark passages of Wookey Hole Caves,...
View ArticleDaniel Hui – Snakeskin (2014)
In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Through his reminiscence, ghosts from 2014 and before appear...
View ArticlePaul Clipson – Hypnosis Display (2014)
Exploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine...
View ArticleJon Jost – Angel City (1977)
Quote:ANGEL CITY seems to me one of my most dated works, perhaps because it is in the nature of satires, or the embracing of things-of-the-time (in order to skewer them) that one is necessarily...
View ArticleTracey Moffatt – Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)
“Formally, Moffatt’s movie is a beautifully considered, carefully crafted ‘tour’ across various, symbolically loaded areas of space, wherein John Whitteron’s steadily exploratory camerawork forces our...
View ArticleArtavazd Peleshian – La Nature (2019)
Quote:While it was long thought that his filmography had concluded with the film Life in 1993, Pelechian has now returned with a new film, simply titled Nature, through which he once again observes...
View ArticleGaetano Liberti – J the film (2018)
J tells the story of a man who lives an isolated life before encountering a woman that will open up, for a while, his controlled world. 600MB | 44m 19s | 1280×692 | mkv...
View ArticleJacqueline Lentzou – To telos tou ponou (Mia protasi) AKA The End of...
Quote:Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love. Screenings include:—...
View ArticleCarolee Schneemann – Kitch’s Last Meal (1976)
Quote:Kitch’s Last Meal is a film project in which the artist documented the quotidian experiences of her life in rural New York with her partner, English filmmaker and artist Anthony McCaIl and, and...
View ArticleMarcel Carné & Michel Sanvoisin – Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929)
IMDB Review wrote:Seven years before his first feature-length film “Jenny” ,Carné already displayed the populisme,the command of the picture and the brilliance which would mark his golden era...
View ArticleRoman Bordun – The Diviners (2019)
Quote:The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous...
View ArticleBarbara Hammer – Sisters! (1974)
Synopsis wrote:Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National Lesbian Conference at UCLA, Sisters! is a...
View ArticleBarbara Hammer – Jane Brakhage (1974)
Synopsis wrote:“I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student body. I was fascinated with Jane. She...
View ArticleOksana Kazmina – Zarosli AKA Vines (2017)
Very brief description: Feminist porn with mirrors.Quote:The mirror stage is a phenomenon to which I assign a twofold value. In the first place, it has historical value as it marks a decisive...
View ArticleLeslie Thornton – Peggy And Fred in Hell (1985-1996 and beyond)
Leslie Thornton’s remarkable, mind-boggling experimental feature-length cycle of short films which she’s been working on and releasing in episodes since 1981 is a postapocalyptic narrative about two...
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