Shirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One-2-3 (1978)
SynopsisThis abstract work featuring three dancers interacting with large screens as well as each other. Costuming and color play an integral role in this piece, part of Shirley Clarke’s FOUR JOURNEYS...
View ArticleShirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Initiation (1978)
SynopsisPart of Shirley Clarke’s cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this short film observes a dance that represents a spiritual or religious initiation. 1.10GB | 28m 11s | 1440×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleShirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Mysterium (1978)
SynopsisPart of the larger filmic cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this work makes use of a dancer’s body as a canvas on which to paint projected images. 529MB | 13m 51s | 1440×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleShirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Trans (1978)
SynopsisA pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film by director Shirley Clarke, part of her FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME project. 179MB | 07m 37s | 1440×1080...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Prénom Carmen AKA First Name: Carmen (1983)
PLOT: The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow his...
View ArticlePierre Clémenti – Souvenirs souvenirs (1967-1978)
Homemade footage of parties, travel and everyday life. With Etienne O’Leary, Catherine Deneuve; the filming of “Idoles”, by Marc’O; Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Garrel; the filming of...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – Die Wiese der Sachen AKA The Meadow of Things (1988)
Quote:Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer. 3.35GB | 1h 23m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleFabrizio Ferraro – La veduta luminosa AKA The Luminous View (2021)
An artist and his assistant encounter obstacles on their way to watch a film in Tübingen. 7.93GB | 1h 28m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticlePayal Kapadia – A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021)
Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in...
View ArticlePhilip Brophy – Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat (1988)
Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat takes us on a relentless odyssey into the banalities of everyday life. Its a film about the body. Eating, excreting, sex, violence, masturbation and terror. The...
View ArticleMasato Hara – MI TA RI! (2002)
Quote: Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by. The time between the two will soon...
View ArticleAlessandro Gagliardo & Enrico Ghezzi – Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità AKA The...
Quote:The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a...
View ArticlePere Portabella – Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
Initially a documentary about the making of Jess Franco’s “Count Dracula” (a 1970 vampire movie starring Christopher Lee), “Cuadecuc, Vampir” presents “an intervention”: an atmospheric, silent, black...
View ArticleBasma Alsharif – Ouroboros (2017)
Synopsis An homage to the Gaza Strip, Ouroboros follows a man through five different landscapes, upending mass-mediated representation of trauma. A journey outside of time, marking the end as the...
View ArticleGunvor Nelson – Schmeerguntz (1965)
“Schmeerguntz” is one long raucous belch in the face of the American Home. A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as Schmeerguntz shown...
View ArticleGunvor Nelson – My Name Is Oona (1969)
My Name is Oona captures in haunting, intensely lyrical images fragments of the coming to consciousness of a child girl. A series of extremely brief flashes of her moving through nightlit space or...
View ArticleGunvor Nelson – Red Shift (1986)
This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman’s point of view, the portait of a grandmother, monther and child and their home. The women and their personal objects are mostly seen alone or...
View ArticleJohn Ford – In memoriam Manuel Quezon (1944)
Quote: This is a creative documentary of the funeral of Manuel Quezón, president of the Philippines. Whether directed by Ford or wholly the work of his Field Photo Unit, I don’t know. 244MB | 17m 33s...
View ArticleGunvor Nelson – Frame Line (1983)
FRAME LINE is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national anthem appear through drawings, paintings and...
View ArticleOlivier Smolders – Axolotl (2018) (HD)
The story of a man lost in a labyrinth. Six months before his death, Kafka wrote “The Burrow”. In this short story, a half-human, half-animal narrator describes the labyrinth he has built for himself...
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