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Yaël André – Quand je serai dictateur aka When I Will Be Dictator (2013)
Quand je serai dictateur (2013) PLOT:Once a common medium to record home movies and holiday souvenirs, the memory of Super-8 film is now disappearing fast. Yaël André has recycled a wealth of random...
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Joseph Cornell – Angel (1957)
Angel (1957) Quote:The image of the fountain returns in Angel (1957; color; 3 min.), one of Cornell’s most poignant films. Dedicated, as Cornell said, to his friend, the painter Pavel Tchelichew, who...
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Julian Biggs – 23 Skidoo (1965)
23 Skidoo (1965) This short black-and-white film shows eerie scenes of a downtown without people. The effect is disturbing. The camera shoots familiar urban scenes, without a soul in sight: streets...
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Isao Yamada – Beoetia no yamaneko aka Lynx Reel (1987)
Beoetia no yamaneko (1987) Fragile the image reflected in the mirror and on the snowy surface. But sweet is the naive force that reweaves it in every way, tirelessly searching for it. Boeotia no...
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Claudine Eizykman & Guy Fihman – Maine Montparnasse (1972)
Maine Montparnasse (1972) A portion of a building, Maine Montparnasse, filmed from the 5th floor of a neighboring building according to architectural lines, is transformed by geometric movements more...
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Stan Phillips, Stan Brakhage – Colorado Legend (1960)
Colorado Legend (1960) Quote:In 1960 the “Colorado Department of Public Relations”, undoubtedly eager to have more tourists falling down abandoned mine shafts in search of lost treasure, brought in...
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Stan Phillips, Stan Brakhage – Ballad of the Colorado Ute (1961)
Ballad of the Colorado Ute (1961) Quote:Featuring stylized visual storytelling, this rarely seen film by famed experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage was produced for the Colorado Department of Public...
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Jan Nickman – The Mind’s Eye (1990)
The Mind’s Eye (1990) Quote:The Mind’s Eye is a compilation of experimental computer animations from when such technology was in its early infancy. The animations are from various studios, having been...
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Claudine Eizykman – V.W. Vitesse Women (1974)
V.W. Vitesse Women (1974) Quote:One of the most important films of French avant-garde cinema, displaying Claudine Eizykman’s theory of “cinematographic energy” as well as creating kinetic movements...
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Claudine Eizykman – Bruine Squamma (1977)
Bruine Squamma (1977) Movie’s themes : French experimental of the 70’s, Time Quote:“Claudine Eizykman’s Bruine Squamma (bruine: a kind of mist which absorbs and reflects light, and squama: a sliver of...
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Ana Hatherly – Revolução AKA Revolution (1975)
Revolução (1975) In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 25 de Abril revolution.50 years of freedom. Fátima Rolo Duarte wrote:The speed of each image sewn together with the speed of each image...
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Damien Cattinari – Trois Rives AKA Three shores (2023)
Trois Rives (2023) Three shores is the portrait of an imaginary river. By crossing it, from east to west, or by making a detour to the south, from red to green, from the undergrowth to the city, to...
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Maya Deren – Meditation on Violence (1949)
Meditation on Violence (1949) A young Oriental man with a headscarf and bare torso shadowboxes indoors in front of a series of unadorned walls, light, dark, both shades. He is then shown exercising...
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Julian Cole – Ostia (1987)
Ostia (1987) Quote:Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death. Quote:Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal...
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Harun Farocki – Stilleben AKA Still Life (1997)
Stilleben (1997) According to Harun Farocki, today’s photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from...
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Su Friedrich – Rules of the Road (1993)
Rules of the Road (1993) Quote:Rules of the Road tells the story of a love affair and its demise through one of the primary objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon with fake wood...
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Su Friedrich – Damned If You Don’t (1987)
Damned If You Don’t (1987) Quote:DAMNED IF YOU DON’T is Friedrich’s subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic...
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Jean Epstein – La glace à trois faces AKA The Three-Sided Mirror (1927)
La glace à trois faces (1927) Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress...
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Joe Ambrose – Destroy All Rational Thought (1998)
Destroy All Rational Thought (1998) blurb sez: In Sept./Oct. 1992 a mini festival took place in the Temple Bar Area of Dublin. Called ‘The Here To Go Show’, it celebrated William Burroughs and Brion...
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Su Friedrich – The Odds of Recovery (2002)
The Odds of Recovery (2002) Quote:After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a happier, healthier...
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