Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Die Nacht (1985)
Quote:Die Nacht – a gigantic dramatic monologue in four parts like Wagner’s Ring – was produced as a film after first performances at the Theâtre des Amandiers in Paris in autumn 1984. Throughout six...
View ArticleLen Lye – Tusalava (1929)
Quote:This remarkable animation film was first screened by the London Film Society in 1929. Jack Ellitt’s original piano music for Tusalava has unfortunately been lost. The film imagines the...
View ArticleLen Lye – A Colour Box (1935)
Quote:Lye’s first direct film, which combines popular Cuban dance music with hand-painted abstract designs, amazed cinema audiences. Color was still a novelty, and Lye’s direct painting on celluloid...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 [Disc 1] (2007)
Quote:In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation s foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This two-disc collection continues Kino s tribute to the Rohauer...
View ArticleVarious – Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 [Disc 2] (2007)
Quote:Disc two travels back in time for two late-Twenties American shorts before heading off to France for three late-Forties/early-Fifties films, including the epic Lettrism manifesto, Jean Isidore...
View ArticleSerge Bard – Fun and Games for Everyone (1968)
Quote:“Fun and Games (for Everyone): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset’s exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with...
View ArticleNicholas Ray – We Can’t Go Home Again (1973)
Quote:A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) accepted a teaching contract at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY. There, with the...
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Glukh AKA Head (1975)
Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin...
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Untitled (1976)
Quote:“Rotation around a rock” / during socialism / the passage of days and decades came to resemble one another, that was our life. Monotonous life chases after us and we are chasing after it.”...
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Kos AKA Itch (1975)
Quote:Statement by Hamlet Hovsepian regarding the films:“”What have been presented are totally unrelated events (material) at the outset. The relation between them portrays neither pleasant nor...
View ArticleEugene Deslaw – Montparnasse (1929)
Quote:La caméra se promène entre les tables de la Rotonde et surprend une coquette saupoudrant un nez brillant, ou un intellectuel. On y devine le peintre Foujita, la clope élégante, ou Bunuel...
View ArticleGô Shibata – Nn-891102 (1999)
Summary:Ryuich, the survivor when bombing in Nagasaki has the amazing document of those tragic at the order, it is record of explosion of an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 11:02. He has made this...
View ArticleCosmotropia de Xam – Space Necronomicon (2023)
Cosmotropia de Xam’s extraordinary experimental film Space Necronomicon , which includes some amazing AI generated sequences, and Grant McPhee’s, Lori and the Six Six Sixties, a homage to sixties...
View ArticleAlberto Fischerman – Gombrowicz, o la seducción (Representado por sus...
Perhaps the most important experimental film ever made in Argentina. SynopsisThis uneven biographical docudrama of Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) interviews four of the writer’s protégés...
View ArticleRaúl Perrone – Favula (2014)
1 – the last day in the life of Pasolini but from the look of his aggressor a ragazzi – like any other his friends – his environment – his tragedy 2 – a group of ragazzis working with their wooden...
View ArticleMirai Mizue – Eternity (2022)
A 21-minute journey through space that repeats creation and expansion. For 21 minutes, it’s a trip movie where you keep warping through a different dimension tunnel and your existence continues to...
View ArticleGérard Courant – Les Malheurs de Luis Buñuel AKA The Misfortunes of Luis...
The Misfortunes of Luis Buñuel” shows the ravages of time on the rushes of the film “The Golden Age” that Luis Buñuel shot in 1930. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the rushes...
View ArticleLukas Moodysson – Container (2006)
Poetic, experimental and different, a black and white silent movie with sound where as an obese man carries a slim Asian woman across trash dumps and through dilapidated buildings, off-screen voices...
View ArticleFred Halsted – The Sex Garage (1972)
Quote:Fred Halsted, S&M aficionado and XXX film actor, emerged as a director rivaling Kenneth Anger in the genre of gay art-erotica. L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was his take on the same territory as...
View ArticleMark Lapore – The Glass System (2000)
Quote:The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned reveals activities both simple and unfamiliar: a knife...
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