Anders Rønnow Klarlund – Strings (2004)
Plot Outline: Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to revenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people...
View ArticleRichard Kern – Nazi (1991)
Quote:Nazi is a short film by underground film-maker and photographer Richard Kern, featuring Annabelle Lee. This movie came from his Death Trip collection....
View ArticleYvonne Rainer – Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
Quote:Yvonne Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an...
View ArticleVera Chytilová – Sedmikrásky AKA Daisies (1966)
Synopsis:If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named...
View ArticleAlberto Grifi – Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la videopolizia psichiatrica...
Quote:This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi’s more playful soul to see the light, while...
View ArticleOle John & Jørgen Leth – Se Frem Til En Tryg Tid AKA Look Forward To A Time...
From the cover:In this small film, shot in Estepona in the south of Spain, Jørgen Leth and Ole John pursue the principle of asynchronisation and the juxtaposition of disparate elements. The images are...
View ArticleBen Russell – Against Time (2022)
Ben Russell explores how we experience time in his latest striking and hallucinatory short film. Between Carpathian Mountains, Vilnius punk clubs, a Belarusian Independence Day celebration, and...
View ArticleSuneil Sanzgiri – At Home But Not At Home (2020)
Sanzgiri’s father was 18 when India ousted the last remaining Portuguese colonisers from Goa in 1961. Combining 16mm with drone footage, desktop screenshots, and Skype interviews with his father,...
View ArticleKaori Oda – Aragane (2015)
Made while director Kaori Oda was studying at Béla Tarr’s Film.Factory in Sarajevo, Aragane is, on the surface, a documentary about a Bosnian coalmine. As Oda takes us underground, the surroundings...
View ArticleJack Bond – Separation (1968)
Scripted by and starring Jane Arden, Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a...
View ArticlePaquito Bolino – Les kauchemars d’Oskar (2004)
Photo to Film. Horrors of the childhood. Les.kauchemars.d'Oskar.2004.DVDrip.x264-Zog.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 8 min 36 s Size: 295 MiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 704x572 ~>...
View ArticleDerek Jarman – The Garden (1990)
Quote:A powerful experience which delves into territories of madness and transcendence, The Garden is a statement about director Derek Jarman’s anger over the AIDS crisis. Produced by James Mackay...
View ArticleDaan Bakker – Quality Time (2017)
Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences. Quality.Time.2017.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-WINX.mkv...
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel AKA Death and Devil (1974)
PLOT: The action of the film evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting & The film...
View ArticleNorman McLaren – Synchromie AKA Synchromy (1971)
PLOT: This animated short by Norman McLaren features synchronization of image and sound in the truest sense of the word. To make this film, McLaren employed novel optical techniques to compose the...
View ArticleTom Bowes – The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (1986)
Quote: This video is an ensemble piece that contains a collection of experimental performance art pieces by various performers. The entire video takes place in The Kitchen, an enormous artist’s loft...
View ArticleRichard Kern – Tumble (1991)
Quote:Tumble demonstrates Richard Kern’s departure from narrative filmmaking in the early nineties. He was clearly more interested now in photography, and specially in the merging of documentary and...
View ArticleTianhuojian – Wading in the Afterlife (2022)
A girl who is not aware she crossed over into the afterlife; is life itself but a dream within a dream? The title’s a misnomer: dream water’s not to be waded through, better rather to drift. Splashing...
View ArticleAl Kouzel – Fotodeath (1961)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:A film record of one of Claes Oldenburg’s celebrated happenings – largely improvised, mysterious or humorous, neo-Dadaist or surreal events, not necessarily...
View ArticleBruce Petty – Megalomedia (1981)
A satirical enquiry into the origins of media, their distribution and their effects on the way we behave. Those familiar with cartoonist Bruce Petty’s award winning film Leisure will enjoy the same...
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