Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani – La fin de notre amour AKA The End of Our Love...
A tortured artist is stuck in an abusive relationship with a woman, whose torments (demonstrated through nightmarish scenes of disembowelment) are slowly driving him mad. 89.8MB | 9m 30s | 1914×1036 |...
View ArticleDan Graham – Performer/Audience/Mirror (1975)
Quote:A performer faces a seated audience. Behind the performer, covering the back wall (parallel to the frontal view of the seated audience), is a mirror reflecting the audience. PROCEDURE:Stage 1:...
View ArticleBruce Baillie – Quixote (1965)
Bruce Baillie’s (…) Quixote (1965) stands alongside other synoptic 60s masterpieces such as Stan Brakhage’s The Art of Vision and Peter Kubelka’s Unsere Afrikareise, which use dense collages of...
View ArticleTabea Blumenschein & Ulrike Ottinger – Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen AKA...
Quote:In THE BETRUCTION OF THE BLUE SAILORS, Tabea Blumenschein “plays four different roles in changing appearances and in fantastic costumes that structure the film: a mythical figure that permeates...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky – Compline (2009)
Quote:Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot...
View ArticleVarious – Thee Psychick Videos (2009)
“A collection of previously almost impossible to find early Psychic TV and Temple of Psychick Youth (TOPY) film and video creations unearthed from the archives of Porridge with Everything Inc. These...
View ArticleMarcel Mariën – L’Imitation du Cinéma AKA The Imitation Of Cinema (1960)
Quote:This Belgian surrealist work consists of two films, one commenting on the other, concerning a young man with a crucifixion complex. Imagining crosses everywhere, he even cuts his fried potatoes...
View ArticleMichael Snow – La région centrale (1971) (HD)
Quote:«La Région Centrale» was made during five days of shooting on a deserted mountain top in North Quebec. During the shooting, the vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed...
View ArticleMarcel Broodthaers – La clef de l’Horloge (Un poème cinématographique en...
Summary:Broodthaers’s first film, Clef d’Horloge was made using a borrowed camera and some film stock that he had been given. It was shot at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in 1956, during an...
View ArticleRob Houwer – Anmeldung aka Registration (1964)
Nursing homes in Holland have a long waiting list. It has become customary to register as early as possible to ensure future placement.Impressive is Rob Houwer’s film which casts its eye on an old...
View ArticleKim Evans – Omnibus: Don Delillo -The Word, the Image, the Gun (1991)
Revolutions, natural disasters, toxic fall-out, plane crashes – these are all part of the running picture of news against which America’s leading novelist, Don DeLillo , sets his fiction. In this...
View ArticleMartine Rousset –Été (1991)
The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have...
View ArticleHenry Chapier – Sex-Power and Un été américain (1970)
Sex-Power (L’homme coeur) is a film about what happens when imagination takes over. It is the story of a boy (Alain Noury) in search of himself and of the real meaning of freedom: a twenty-year-old...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Une bonne à tout faire (1981)
This little film was shot by Jean-Luc Godard in 1981 when he was visiting Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco, where Coppola was directing One from the Heart. It stars Andrei...
View ArticleBohdan Kosinski – Bieg AKA The Race (1969)
Quote:The race does not begin at the start line, it does not end at the finish line either. The camera observes the participants of the Polish 4×100 metres relay team, getting ready for the race and...
View ArticleMatthew Barney – River of Fundament (2014)
Quote:In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was...
View ArticleGregory J. Markopoulos – Himself as Herself (1967)
Quote:One of the most vertiginous of Markopoulos’s interior landscape studies, Himself as Herself is based loosely on Balzac’s Séraphita. The film consists of a shimmering, nearly plotless evocation...
View ArticleJennifer Reeves – Chronic (1997)
Quote:Chronic is an experimental narrative of one young woman living with “so-called” mental illness. Beautiful and skillful, it probes her misogynistic and violent surroundings for the motives behind...
View ArticlePeter Rose – The man who could not see far enough (1981)
From peterrosepicture.comThe man who could not see far enough (1981, 16 mm film, color, sound) uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux...
View ArticleAlexander Kluge & Edgar Reitz – In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der...
Quote:A female prostitute and thief makes her way through the city with a female GDR spy. Frankfurt, 1974. It’s Carnival time. At the same time police forcibly evict students from occupied buildings)....
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