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Bertrand Mandico – Salammbô (2014)
The old Salammbo lives alone on a northern island, in total destitution. Haunted by her memories, Salammbo is mistreated by the phantom of her youth, which sometimes taunts, sometimes bends her back...
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Miklos Bandy & Stella F. Simon – Hände AKA Hands (1927)
Quote: Stella F. Simon and Miklos Bandy’s 1927–28 16mm film, Hands: The Life and Love of a Gentle Sex, is a short, experimental, feminist film whose aesthetic is drawn from American and European...
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Jay Leyda – A Bronx Morning (1931)
Quote:A Bronx morning is a portrait of a place and time, simultaneously a documentary, an avant-garde experiment, and an amateur film–although its compositional beauty and complex editing disguise...
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Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich – The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood...
Quote: One need only look at the phenomenal The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra to see that even in the cinema’s youth filmmakers were not limited by their budgets, but by their...
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Joseph Cornell – Bookstalls (1938)
A short made by Joseph Cornell in the late 1930s– An ode to imagination, travel and literature. In true Cornellian fashion, the film borrows footage from, among other films, a Burton Holmes...
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Rogério Sganzerla – O Bandido da Luz Vermelha AKA The Red Light Bandit (1968)
Quote:Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed “The Red Light Bandit” by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing...
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Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin – La joie de vivre AKA The Joy of Life (1934)
Quote:A tone poem [in which] two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains,...
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Ralph Steiner – H2O (1929)
Quote:In 1929, Steiner made his first film, H2O, a poetic evocation of water that captured the abstract patterns generated by waves. Although it was not the only film of its kind at the time – Joris...
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Richard O. Moore – Take This Hammer (1964)
Plot: On a 1963 visit to black sections of San Francisco ,talking to angry youth, James Baldwin demolishes the city’s image as cosmopolitan and sophisticated and argues that the place is as segregated...
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Paul Sharits – Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)
Quote: “Epileptic Seizure Comparison is an attempt to orchestrate sound and light rhythms in an intimate and proportional space, an ongoing location wherein non-epileptic persons may begin to...
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Slavko Vorkapich – Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome (1940)
Quote:“This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance of objects and...
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Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber – Rhythm in Light (1935)
Quote:Collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth. Premiered at Radio City Music Hall, 1935. In the RHYTHM IN LIGHT, the artist uses visual materials as the musician uses sound. Mass and line an...
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Oswell Blakeston & Francis Bruguière – Light Rhythms (1931)
Quote:Light plays over the surfaces of paper cut-outs, abstract shapes with curved lines. The movement of the light (which are small spots) speeds up, following the rhythms of the piano accompaniment....
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Herman G. Weinberg – Autumn Fire (1931)
Quote:“Weinberg’s second personal film is a poetic evocation of an absent lover as imagined by the central female character, whom Weinberg loved and sought to marry. Very sophisticated editing adds to...
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Synchromy No. 2 (1936)
Quote:“While German absolute filmmakers often drew on J. S. Bach for their understanding of form, Bute derived hers from mathematician Joseph Schillinger, as the SYNCHROMY series show. The visuals are...
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Michael De Avila – Lost Prophet (1992)
Unstable man spends the summer in an empty mansion, where he meets punks, serial killers and witches. Lost Prophet.1992.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 13 minSize: 1.40...
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Jay Rosenblatt – Short of Breath (1991)
A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother’s depression.Short of...
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David Lynch – Inland Empire (2006)
“Strange, what love does.” The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble . . . David Lynch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation...
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Walter Ungerer – Ubi est terram oobiae? (1969)
Walter Ungerer wrote: From “Introduction to Oobieland, Part Two of Oobieland moves to a television studio in New York City where the Princess of Oobieland is being interviewed and asked to describe...
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Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke – Hands (1934)
Quote:“HANDS is an ingenious piece of propaganda that communicates not only through the thrust of its content, but through the very unconventionality of its “experimental” structure. The film suggests...
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