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Isaki Lacuesta – Los pasos dobles AKA The Double Steps (2011)
Quote: Inspired by legendary painter and writer François Augiéras, a soldier – who believes he is Augiéras – searches for a series of spiritual murals supposedly made by the painter in an abandoned...
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Johan van der Keuken – Beauty (de Schoonheid) AKA Beauty (1970)
Detective Beauty undertakes an investigation into reality. He tries to understand a world he cannot grasp, to capture the things that escape him....
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Jean-Claude Rousseau – Saudade (2012)
“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. It has been described as a...
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Alien Workshop – Memory Screen (1991)
The first Alien Workshop video stands as one of the trippiest skate videos ever made, and arguably the companies most influential. At times the video feels more like an avant-garde visual experiment...
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Jairo Ferreira – Horror Palace Hotel (1978)
Quote:(…) Ferreira finest and most political film is Horror Palace Hotel. This forty-minute piece does many things at once: it is an essay about the state of Brazilian cinema, which unfortunately has...
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Henri d’ Ursel – La perle AKA The Pearl (1929)
Quote:The count Henri d’Ursel shot La perle (The Pearl) under the pseudonym of Henri d’Arche “in the flush of inexperience”, as he put it. D’Ursel made only one film, based on a screenplay by the poet...
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Lillian Schwartz – UFO’s (1971)
not recommended for people sensitive to flashing lights and colors, Quote:This film further indicates that computer animation — once a gimmick — is fast becoming a fully-fledged art; the complexity of...
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Emlen Etting – Poem 8 (1932)
Quote: “I thought, how interesting it would be if we used the film in a different method. So far it had been used like a novel to tell a story, or else as a documentary and there was nothing else in...
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Ralph Steiner – Mechanical Principles (1931)
Quote:“The film presents a deceptively ‘open’ series of images of gears and pistons that transfer movement from vertical to rotary directions. Musical in its repetitive visual form, it now seems akin...
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Arnaud des Pallières – Poussières d’Amérique (2011)
IMDB so-called plot : “A dream-like story of America put together out of silent-film material from the archives, interspersed with many different accounts to be read, some of them in verse.” ““This is...
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Lewis Klahr – Tales of the Forgotten Future, Part 1-4 (1988)
Quote: An epic cycle created on the tiny, domestic medium of Super-8, the film combines the intimacy of its chosen gauge with the evocative sweep of Freudian dreamwork. It’s a moving collage clipped...
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Tarantella (1940)
Quote: “This new medium of expression is the Absolute Film. Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement, and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two...
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Frederick S. Armitage – Davey Jones’ Locker (1900)
Quote: “The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage...
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Jørgen Leth – Ofelias blomster AKA Ophelia’s Flowers (1968)
Quote: In Per Kirkeby’s set with a blue backdrop beside a woodland lake Lene Adler Petersen pronounces Ophelia’s madness monologue from Hamlet, but she is constantly interrupted by the sound of two...
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Ralph Steiner – Pie in the Sky (1935)
Quote:“This satire on religious pretension was collaboration between the Group Theater and the newly formed Nykino. Its creation of a self-reflexive illusion within an illusion distinguishes it not...
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Frederick S. Armitage – A Nymph of the Waves (1900)
Quote:“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage...
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Frederick S. Armitage – Neptune’s Daughters (1900)
Quote:“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new artistic creation. The transformation of a stage...
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Antoni Padrós – Shirley Temple Story (1976)
Quote: A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is...
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Dietmar Brehm – Black Garden (Index DVD 016) (1987 – 2000)
THE MURDER MYSTERY 1987/92, 16 min BLICKLUST 1992, 16 min PARTY 1995, 17 min MACUMBA 1995, 18 min CORRIDOR 1997, 18 min ORGANICS 1998/99, 17 min BONUSTRACK: INTERVIEW MIT DIETMAR BREHM 2000, 8:30 min...
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Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand – Manhatta (1921)
Quote:Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a...
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