Maxime Martinot – Olho animal (2022)
“This is the story of a dog who makes films. Or a filmmaker who is a dog. In a series of return trips between Brittany and Lisbon, the protagonist tries to create a filmed animal diary. On the road to...
View ArticleHussein Shariffe – The Dislocation of Amber (1975)
Quote:‘The Dislocation of Amber’ was filmed in the city of Suakin, a formerly flourishing port in Sudan, now in ruins. Its history is one of famine and opulence, devastation and progress, rich trade...
View ArticleAbraham Ravett – The Boardwalk (1998)
The Brighton Beach—Coney Island boardwalk is a long, winding, ocean front walkway adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Photographed over a three year period, the landscape rendered reflects the seasonal...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Happy Birthday to John (1997)
On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, in New York. On the same day an...
View ArticleMaya Deren – Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Quote:Ritual in Transfigured Time is like a dream, meaning that the various sequences don’t seem to have any connection to each other unless you try to approach this film in a different way and not as...
View ArticleMaya Deren – Witch’s Cradle (1944) (HD)
Quote:“In 1944 Maya made a film at the Peggy Guggenheim Art of this Century Gallery with Marcel Duchamp called Witches Cradle. Deren used the camera, as she envisioned medieval witches and magicians...
View ArticleOlivia Block, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder – Untitled (2008)
Quote:Untitled (2008), 16mm film performance; technical specifications: double 16mm film projection, electric humidifiers; glass, mixed media; original score by Olivia Block. A minimalist...
View ArticleSatoshi Uemine – Sizuka no Umi AKA Sea of Tranquility (2004)
The film was made by the Japanese visual artist Satoshi Uemine, and DVD released in 2005. This silent, personal movie bears and reflects the traces of the re-encounter between the director and his...
View ArticleEdgar Reitz – Kommunikation – Technik der Verständigung aka Communication (1961)
An industry film for the West German Post Office. The use of the latest communications technology to link up the world. A technophile ballet in the mysterious world of relays, very high frequency...
View ArticleJacques Scandelari – La philosophie dans le boudoir AKA Beyond Love and Evil...
Zenoff enters a heavily guarded country mansion. He finds a vast orgy occurring within, presided over by Yald, a debauched libertine seeking to orchestrate an atmosphere of unbridled sensual pleasure...
View ArticleJames Fotopoulos – Untitled (Thanks, Get in…) (2008)
Dashing leading man of the forties picks up a stag model hitchhiker on the Boulevard one night in West Hollywood during the 1960s. The conversation as they get stuck in traffic involves the young...
View ArticleWarwick Thornton – We Don’t Need a Map (2017)
VARIETY – Warwick Thornton’s eye-opening doc about the cultural roots of the Southern Cross constellation is quintessentially Australian At once benignly mischievous and profoundly serious, “We Don’t...
View ArticleNigel Wingrove – Visions of Ecstasy (1989)
SynopsisVisions of Ecstasy is a 1989 short film that became the only work to be refused a certification by the British Board of Film Classification on the grounds of blasphemy. The film, which was...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – Cassis (1966)
Max Goldberg wrote:Cassis collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats...
View ArticleAlain Fleischer – Dehors-dedans (1975)
Synopsis:Inside an apartment, a young woman suffers from widespread distress. She lives alone in an attic with a skylight in the ceiling that is her only contact with the outside of Paris. 1.40GB | 1h...
View ArticleAlain Fleischer – Morceaux de conversations avec Jean-Luc Godard AKA...
In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this will lead to his exhibition as an artist at the...
View ArticlePedro Maia – Fade Into Nothing (2017)
Quote:“Fade Into Nothing” brings together the musician Paulo Furtado / The Legendary Tigerman, the photographer Rita Lino and the filmmaker Pedro Maia on a road trip through the Californian desert. A...
View ArticleKen Jacobs – XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX (2021)
Based on a performance piece from the 1980s with his wife, Jacobs has transformed the physical performance into a 3D, phantasmagorical feature-length film using his eternalism technique. An open...
View ArticleJeff Frost – Flawed Symmetry of Prediction (2013)
Quote:As the shadow of night falls across the American West a lone man begins his work. Far from the confines, calamity, and culture of society, multimedia artist and storyteller Jeff Frost sifts...
View ArticleLev Kuleshov – Proekt inzhenera Prayta AKA The Project of Engineer Prite (1918)
A young and dynamic engineer, Mack Prite, whose talents have helped him rise above humble origins, struggles against an old entrenched capitalist whose oil company’s profits are threatened when Prite...
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