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Klaus Wyborny – Bilder vom verlorenen Wort AKA Pictures of the Lost World...
Quote: For 50 minutes or so Pictures presents a series of static, or gently swaying images which are sometimes bucolic landscapes but more often industrial ones (sludgy harbours, power lines,...
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Massoud Bakhshi – Tehran Anar Nadarad AKA Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!...
Tehran is a large village near the city of Rey, full of gardens and fruit trees. Its inhabitants live in anthill-like underground holes. The village’s several districts are constantly at war....
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Jacques Rivette & Suzanne Schiffman – Out 1, noli me tangere (1971)
Quote: Though Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 is often described as a time capsule, it hardly functions as a medium for concrete historical research. The 1971 film takes place in a major global city (Paris in...
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Dominik Spritzendorfer & Elena Tikhonova – Elektro Moskva (2013)
Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the...
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Pere Portabella – Nocturno 29 (1968)
Synopsis: A woman walks by her home and finally takes a shower – She buy colored fabrics in a trade. A man visiting a post office – Succession of scenic pictures and semi-autonomous fading almost...
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Klaus Wyborny – Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands AKA Studies for the...
Quote: In Wyborny’s ‘musical film’, every new sound triggers a new image: 6,299 shots, all directly edited within his Super-8 camera. An intoxicating, stroboscopic trip to industrial, natural and...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 1a) AKA Crude Oil (pt. 1a) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 1b) AKA Crude Oil (pt. 1b) (2008)
Quote: “In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Ken Jacobs – Star Spangled to Death (2004)
Quote: STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America,...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 2a) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 2b) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Maureen Blackwood – Perfect Image? (1989)
Quote: Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women’s own ideas of self worth. Using two actresses who...
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Bill Viola – The Passing (1992)
A man between daydreaming and nightmaring, between the call of life and the call of death; his night in mid-water, apnea, perfored by a succession of visions… Or/and an autobiographical essay whose...
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Jem Cohen – Chain (2004)
“Jem Cohen’s Chain is a hypnotic, highly original piece about what it’s like to live in the new global corporate landscape.” Daily Telegraph “Dreamlike… transforms a mundane world into something...
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Christopher Maclaine – The End (1953)
Description from Beat Cinema The End is in six numbered sections, each separated by long stretches of darkness during which Maclaine speaks directly to the audience. Each of the sections is a tale of...
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Christopher Maclaine – The Man Who Invented Gold (1957)
The Man Who Invented Gold, very different from The End, is fully as masterful. It focuses on a modern-day alchemist whose zombielike neighbors think of him as “madman” while he aspires to become...
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Christopher Maclaine – Scotch Hop (1959)
The wonderful Scotch Hop (1959) [ imdb says 1953] is something of a letdown only after seeing his first two staggering, shattering masterpieces. In that film Maclaine intercuts a small band of...
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Manuela de Laborde – As Without So Within (2016)
Conceptually informed by the artist’s active filmgoing, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN takes as its point of departure prop sculptures which are transformed both through hybrid techniques of framing, lighting,...
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Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller – Cut (2013)
Quote: The body as a wound that never heals. http://nitroflare.com/view/D63B0244201BC3B/_apreder_MM_Cut%282013%29HDTV.1080i.mkv Language(s):None Subtitles:None
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Dziga Vertov – Chelovek s kino-apparatom aka Man with a movie camera (1929)
Quote: This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the...
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