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Nicholas Ray – We Can’t Go Home Again (1973)
We Can’t Go Home Again (1973) Quote:A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray accepted a teaching contract at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY. There, with the intensive...
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Rose Lowder – Les tournesols AKA The Sunflowers (1982)
Les tournesols (1982) Quote:Structured in the camera by adjusting the focus frame by frame according to a series of patterns on particular plants situated in different areas of several contiguous...
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Ken Jacobs – Tourist of the Familiar 28 (2024)
Tourist of the Familiar 28 (2024) Experimental short film directed in 2024 by Ken Jacobs. Tourist of the Familiar 28_(2024)_Ken Jacobs_1080p.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 17 min 14 sSize: 604...
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Jennifer Reeves – The Girl’s Nervy (1995)
The Girl’s Nervy (1995) Quote:Sinewy fissures splinter the geometric confections and viscous pools of decaying nitrate are set dancing to the slightly warped sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Raymond Scott’s...
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Harmony Korine – Aggro Dr1ft (2023)
Aggro Dr1ft (2023) In this sensual experimental elegy by Harmony Korine, spellbinding infrared photography evokes a dreamlike portrait of a tormented assassin....
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Guy Gilles – La Loterie de la vie (1977)
La Loterie de la vie (1977) Guy Gilles’ view of Mexico focuses mainly on the dreams of ordinary Mexicans and their ways of expression: fun and festivity. 1975 La Loterie de la vie...
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Stan Brakhage – Arabic Numeral Series 7 (1981)
Arabic Numeral Series 7 (1981) Quote:While Stan Brakhage’s diverse output includes a wide variety of films in each period, there has always been a group that I’ve thought of as the “main line” of his...
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Stan Brakhage – Lovemaking (1968)
Lovemaking (1968) One of America’s finest filmmakers tackles “lovemaking” in its many varieties (hetrosexual, homosexual as well as various animals having sex). Without a soundtrack (as the artist...
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Miranda Pennell – The Host (2015)
The Host (2015) Quote:Miranda Pennell is investigating her family’s involvement with BP, the oil company created by the British and the Iranian governments during the imperial century. The filmmaker...
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Lutz Dammbeck – Overgames (2015)
SummaryJoachim “Blacky” Fuchsberger provided the starting point for “Overgames”: In 2005, he stated in a talk show that the content of his TV game show “Nur nicht nervös werden”, which first aired in...
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Jorge Jácome – Shrooms (2023)
Quote:Follows Dan, a young Venezuelan man currently living in Lisbon, who collects magic mushrooms in the forest and distributes them in the city to those in need of help – like a New Age Robin Hood –...
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Tulapop Saenjaroen – A Room with a Coconut View (2018)
“A Room with a Coconut View” tells a story of Kanya, a tour guide and hotel rep automated voice, who leads her foreign automated-voice guest Alex through a deceptively aestheticised beach town in the...
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Jorge Jácome – Super Natural (2022)
Super Natural is a film that talks and listens, that interferes and seeks out those who are beholding it. Its desire is to abandon the screen, to take a look at those who look at it, and listen to...
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Werner Schroeter – Liebeskonzil AKA Council of Love (1982)
Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for...
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Jean-Claude Rousseau – De son appartement (2007)
In the solitude of his apartment, Rousseau reads shorts excerpts from Racine’s Bérénice, images of separation; he films in a café, musicians in the street, a dance, domestic intimacy, in a...
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Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen – Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)
Synopsis:A complex treatise exploring feminism, motherhood and sexual difference in seven numbered chapters. Headings are: Opening Pages; Laura Talking; Stones; Louise’s Story Told in 13 Shots;...
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Radúz Cincera & Ján Rohác & Vladimír Svitácek – Clovek a jeho dum aka...
This 1966 production is the world’s first interactive film. Created by Czech filmmaker Radúz Cincera, “Kinoautomat” caused a sensation at the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. It’s a black comedy in...
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Charles Dekeukeleire – Histoire de détective AKA Detective Story (1929)
Quote:A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all...
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Curtis Harrington – Picnic (1948)
Quote:Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off. Harrington himself described the film...
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Werner Schroeter – Der Tod der Maria Malibran AKA The Death of Maria Malibran...
In his earliest work, German director Werner Schroeter was inspired by opera, and made several short 8mm films about the prima donna Maria Callas. This film focuses on Maria Malibran, a legendary...
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