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Babette Mangolte – The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977)
A structuralist self-portrait which documents Mangolte in the act of taking still photographs from the perspective of her camera’s viewfinder. An absorbing and conceptually dazzling rumination on the...
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Arnaud des Pallières – Diane Wellington (2010)
Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found. Arnaud des Pallières - Diane Wellington (2010).mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 15 min 59 sSize: 366...
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Robert Breer – Eyewash (1959)
Organized confusion of live footage and animation. Robert Breer - 1959 - Eyewash.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 3 min 21 sSize: 49.5 MiBVideoCodec: x264Resolution: 710x480 ~> 710x532Aspect...
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Stéphane Marti & Jean-Paul Dupuis – Eros 3 (2023)
A breath of Jean Genet, the vibrations of Eros and Thanatos, the two primordial pulses that chavire spaces and bodies. Fragments from Stéphane Marti’s films reconfigured and reenchanted by Jean-Paul...
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Sharunas Bartas – Musu nedaug AKA Few of Us (1996)
In an intriguing long take static shot of the oppressively barren Siberian frontier, a converted tank (turned off-road passenger utility vehicle) traverses a rugged terrain that seemingly bisects a...
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Donald Driver – The Naked Ape (1973)
In a series of live action and animated vignettes, the evolution of humanity is depicted and explored, primarily through the experiences of Cathy, a tour guide in a natural history museum, and Lee, a...
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Bruce Baillie – Mr. Hayashi (1961)
“A living saint projected onto the silver screen. Why did I make this film? I wanted to help my friend find a job in Berkeley. It was one of my first attempts to create film as both utilitarian and...
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Bruce Conner – Mongoloid (1978)
Quote: A documentary film exploring the manner in which a determined young man overcame a basic mental defect and became a useful member of society. Insightful editing techniques reveal the dreams,...
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John Amero & Lem Amero – Bacchanale (1970)
A young woman with a guilty conscience travels in her dreams through strange and surreal passages reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno. This is an excellent experimental arthouse film for adults....
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Joseph Cornell – The Aviary (1955)
Quote: A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for Cornell who wanted to establish a foundation...
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Escape (1937)
“Mary Ellen Bute’s first color film tells a story in abstraction of an orange/red triangle imprisoned behind a grid of vertical and horizontal lines under a sky-blue expanse, perhaps representing...
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W. J. Ganz Studio – Out of the Melting Pot (1927)
Quote: “Many early short subjects cloaked genuine aesthetic discourse inside novelty approaches, such as the exploration of slow, fast, or reverse motion, distortion and abstraction, and other altered...
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Peter Whitehead – Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009)
Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey’s murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerising...
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Andy Warhol – Blow Job (1964) (HD)
Quote:Andy Warhol’s Blow Job (1964) is a masterpiece of the complexities of voyeurism and duration. The 36-minute film shows a young man apparently receiving oral sex, though the viewer only ever sees...
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Joseph Cornell – Rose Hobart (1936)
Quote: The first and greatest American Surrealist, Joseph Cornell is best known for his boxes. The best of his mysterious assemblages of dime-store tchochkes and paper ephemera in little hand-made...
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Dada (1936)
Quote:“One of the livelist of Mary Ellen Bute’s abstract films, DADA was intended to be part of a Universal Newsreel segment, showing Bute and her partner Ted Nemeth at work in their tiny New York...
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Walter Ungerer – The Animal (1976)
Quote: A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who...
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Sara Kathryn Arledge – Introspection (1946)
Quote:Disembodied parts of dancers are seen moving freely in black space… form a moving and rhythmic three dimensional design and semi-abstract shapes. – Lewis Jacobs, Avant Garde Production in...
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Joseph Cornell – Children’s Party (1938)
Quote:“Cornell combines vaudeville and animal acts, circus performers, children eating and dancing, science demonstrations, mythical excerpts, and crucial freeze-frames of faces into a timeless...
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Jay Rosenblatt – Phantom Limb (2005)
a beautiful and very powerful film Quote: “A 28-minute tour de force… a beautiful and original exploration of grief and loss.” – Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Quote: “The death of my...
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