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Azadeh Navai – Friday Mosque (2014)
A silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through motion (water is the core, but light is the cause) in FRIDAY MOSQUE. Shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, Navai hand processed the...
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Robert Beavers – The Hedge Theater (1986-90/2002)
Quote: The Hedge Theater, USA 1986-90/2002, 19 min Cast: Robert Beavers, Gregory J. Markopoulos Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque...
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Ben Hopkins – The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Quote: A sadly neglected gem of British Cinema, this stunningly inventive film takes in German Expressionism, the pop promo, the docudrama and film noir. And that’s just for starters. The story of a...
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Deborah Stratman – The Illinois Parables (2016)
An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence,...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Mababangong bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Quote: Upon first glance, Perfumed Nightmare looks amateurish and raw. It is, too, I suppose, but this works to the film’s advantage. This is the semiautobiographical story of a young Filipino man...
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Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
Quote: When the film Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert was initially shown in 1976, many viewers found it hauntingly beautiful but deeply perplexing. Some, seeing it as a sign of Duras’ inability...
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Marguerite Duras – Il Dialogo di Roma (1982)
“The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn’t matter. (…) During this conversation, we do not see but the city of Rome. I...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland AKA Hitler: A Film...
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a...
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Travis Collins & Amélie Ravalec – Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay...
Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay traces the development of one of music’s most quietly influential genres from the post-industrial cities of Europe to America’s avant-garde scene, and...
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Fred Halsted – LA Plays Itself (1972)
L.A. Plays Itself begins as a mock-pastorale, with a steamy woodland encounter between a long-haired blonde guy and a hunky brunette whose face, typical of the director, we can barely discern. This...
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Roland Lethem – Le sexe enragé aka The Red Cunt (1970)
Quote: This film was made in the 70’s, with Jean-Pierre Bouyxou. The superimpositions at the end are in some ways influenced by Etienne O’Leary’ stuff : Lethem didn’t saw the films, but Bouyxou was...
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Morgan Dews – Must Read After My Death (2007)
Synopsis: A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my death”, which reveal a dark history for her family to...
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Leighton Pierce – White Ash (2014)
Quote: WHITE ASH is an immersive walk through the edges of consciousness. While firmly grounded in recognizable images and sounds captured from reality, WHITE ASH is designed to scrape through the...
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Various director / artists – Kunst im Exil AKA Arts in Exile (1962-1989)
Nine short stories that together amount to a play time of 3h20m. Presented here are nine short films that feature: film director Slatan Dudow; actor Martin Brandt; authors Erich Fried, Erich Weinert,...
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Hy Hirsh – Gyromorphosis (1954)
The inherent kinetic qualities are brought into actuality in GYROMORPHOSIS, as seen in the construction-sculpture of Constant Nieuwenhuys of Amsterdam. To realize this aim I have put into motion, one...
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Stan Brakhage – Anticipation of the Night (1962)
Notes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract. From IMDB: a stunning memory-in-progress 5 March 2006...
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Ian Hugo – Bells of Atlantis (1952)
+ BELLS OF ATLANTIS (Ian Hugo 1952 16mm 10 mins) A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anais Nin provides...
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Marjorie Keller – Objection (1974)
Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the voices and sounds of the family unseen....
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Manoel de Oliveira – Acto da Primavera AKA Rite of Spring (1963)
Quote: Oliveira returned to the center of Portugal’s film scene in the 1960s with Acto da Primavera (Rite of spring; 1963), a work that marks a significant change in the director’s trajectory and that...
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Klaus Wyborny – Die Geburt der Nation AKA The Birth of a Nation (1973)
Quote: Authentically ‘New’ German Cinema, and, simultaneously, an archaeology of narrative film itself, Wyborny’s avant-garde landmark defines cinema as a ‘nation’ that has perversely acquired rulers,...
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