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Philip S. Solomon – Nocturne (1980-1989)
Quote: ‘Finding similarities in the pulses and shapes between my own experiments in night photography, lightning storms, and night bombing in World War II, I constructed the war at home. — PSS, Canyon...
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Thomas Aigelsreiter – Key West (2002)
Vrääth Öhner wrote: Key West is located near the southern tip of Florida, not far from Key Largo. In contrast to Key Largo (John Huston, USA 1948), Key West has no need of gangsters to reveal this...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi –Émotion AKA Emotion (1966)
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a...
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ABCinema – Eftersøgningen AKA The Search (1971)
Det Danske Filminstitut wrote: Collective film. The ultimate happening film, created by a group of ABCinema members during a tent camp at Randbøl Hede in the summer of 1969. One of the members of the...
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Péter Forgács – De Maalstroom: Een Familiekroniek AKA The Maelstrom: A Family...
Quote: The Maelstrom makes extraordinary artful use of considerable cache of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II and dealing with the extended Peereboom family....
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Jerome Hill – Death in the Forenoon (1966)
Quote:An experimental short by Jerome Hill in which footage of a bullfight is painted on the film. Footage of the bullfight, shot by Hill in 1934, hand-painted by the artist three decades later....
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James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber – Lot in Sodom (1933)
Quote:“While obeying the biblical account concerning Lot and his family and the function of the two angels who investigate Sodom at the Lord’s behest, the Watson-Webber work uses all its creative...
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Emlen Etting – Oramunde (1933)
Quote: Featuring Mary Binney Montgomery. “ORAMUNDE is an illustration in dance of the tale of Pelléas et Melisande, a story of two star-crossed lovers. The film confirms the belief that archetypal...
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Ralph Steiner – Surf and Seaweed (1931)
Quote: “Steiner is interested in film’s capacity to invigorate everyday sight, to alert viewers to the simple, magical visual pleasures available in nearly any circumstance. The film is divided into...
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Michaela Grill & Martin Siewert – Trans (2003)
Michaela Grill wrote: With trans, Martin Siewert and I used the 5 act structure of classical drama to create an atmosphere of in-between-ness and levitation. I found these old photographs of a harbor...
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Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert AKA Her Venetian...
Quote:Four voices attempt to reconstruct the story of the Vice-Consul of Lahore and Anne-Marie Stretter. The soundtrack is that of India Song while the images take the viewer through the empty rooms...
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John C. Hecker – 1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (1939)
Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker. Quote: “This mysterious film documents a neatly appointed apartment and the spartan existence of its inhabitants. A woman moves...
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Johan van der Keuken – On Animal Locomotion (1994)
The film was part of the project Hexagon by Frank Scheffer in which six Dutch filmmakers took inspiration from a work by a Dutch composer. Van der Keuken chose a piece by Willem Breuker, who had...
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Jean-Luc Godard – For Ever Mozart (1996) (HD)
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard’s densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the...
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Suzan Pitt – Jefferson Circus Songs (1975)
Quote: “JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS alternates and sometimes combines life-size cardboard animations with live performances by children and the effect is entirely unified and delightful.” – Edgar Daniels,...
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Jørgen Leth – Eddy Merckx i nærheden af en kop kaffe AKA Eddy Merckx in the...
Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:A very special TV production: In the studio, Leth reads from several of his poetry collections, while a subtitle – as in ‘Life in Denmark’ – meticulously, but...
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Suzan Pitt – Asparagus (1979)
Quote: I had a garden where I grew Asparagus from seed – it’s a very primitive vegetable going back to the time of the dinosaurs. It comes out of the ground as a phallic stalk, pointy and purple...
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Maurice Audibert –Étude de la Lumière (1923)
Montage of different sequences reconstructing the three-color additive synthesis process patented by Audibert. Étude.de.la.Lumière.1923.1080p.WEB-DL.x264-KG.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 26...
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Rudy Burckhardt – Haiti (1938)
Quote:“Burckhardt’s travelogue of Port-au-Prince is a unique city symphony whose pace and rhythm favor tropical island life. He does not focus on voodoo but on Haiti’s daily life, neighbors, jokes,...
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Lewis Jacobs – Footnote to Fact (1933)
Quote:“This is one part of a proposed four-part film intended to document the Great Depression that was to be called AS I WALK. The other parts were never completed; consequently, FOOTNOTE TO FACT...
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