Barbara Hammer – Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Synopsis wrote:In her first feature, after decades as a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four contemporary gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed,...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Walden – Diaries Notes and Sketches (1964)
Quote:Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening it...
View ArticleBarbara Hammer – Psychosynthesis (1975)
Synopsis wrote:“The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of...
View ArticleRobert Siodmak & Don Siegel & Steven Soderbergh – Stereoscopic Killers...
Steven Soderbergh mixes Siodmak’s 1946 and Siegel’s 1964 The Killerswith wide selection of musical numbers “when presented with the challenge of deliveringsome audio/visual material for a series of...
View ArticleOksana Kazmina – The Secret, the Girl and the Boy (2018)
The Girl and the Boy play in a garden. They are left alone there and they do not have any obligations to behave in a certain way. This gives them the freedom to create their own ways of interaction...
View ArticleMing-liang Tsai – Wandering (2021)
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at “the Dune” in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being shown. A wordless performance/installation short film...
View ArticleNick Zedd – War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the...
View ArticleJean Rouch & Raoul Ruiz & Titte Törnroth – Brise-glace (1988)
Quote:Beyond a film, Icebreaker is in 1987 the first media composition, construction of 3 original works made on the Swedish icebreaker Frej, and involving the main means of expression. “Bateau Givre”...
View ArticleFiona Tan – News from the Near Future (2003)
Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of...
View ArticleMasato Hara – Hatsukuni Shirasumera Mikoto AKA The First Emperor [Remastered...
Quote:In 1971, Hara Masato and a group or actors started shooting his 16mm film, The First Emperor, based on an old Japanese book about history and myths that is known as the Kojiki (‘Record of...
View ArticleMoyra Davey – Hemlock Forest (2016)
Hemlock Forest (2016) weaves references to Mary Wollstonecraft, Chantal Akerman and Karl Ove Knausgaard with Moyra Davey’s own family stories. During the making of Hemlock Forest, Akerman took her own...
View ArticleIsabelle Prim – La rouge et la noire AKA The Red and the Black (2011)
Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of...
Jonas Mekas:My film diaries 1970-1979: my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria....
View ArticleManon de Boer – Think About Wood, Think About Metal (2011)
In a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)
Rat Life and Diet in North America is a short film that tells a story about rats (actually pet gerbils) held as political prisoners in the United States (their jailer a cat), who make a heroic escape...
View ArticleNicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo...
View ArticleLarry Gottheim – Fog Line (1970)
“It is a small but perfect film.”– Jonas Mekas “The metaphor in FOG LINE is so delicately positioned that I find myself receding in many directions to discover its source: The Raw and the Cooked?...
View ArticleDani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson – Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017)
Quote:SOTD was birthed out of a desire to privilege and amplify the strange and banal quality of daily life, to see what it can yield as an entrance to larger concerns, such as the environment,...
View ArticleAzharr Rudin – The Amber Sexalogy (2006)
“The Amber Sexalogy is a suite of six interrelated but markedly different DV shorts. Charting certain stages in the relationship between Harris, a young man played by a series of different actors and...
View ArticlePierre Moretti – Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti (1979)
Quote:The Telidon System is a telephone communication process which enables the exchange of visual information. 389MB | 8m 12s | 1440×1080 | mkv...
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