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Jerome Hill – The Magic Umbrella (1965)
A magic umbrella saves a girl from a mysterious attacker. Filmed in 1927, tinted and hand-colored in the early 60s. Jerome Hill - 1965 - The Magic Umbrella.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 3 min...
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Elizabeth Woodman Wright – Windy Ledge Farm (1932)
Quote: Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine’s Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor’s place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying...
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Guy Maddin – The Heart of the World (2000)
It is both a spoof and a loving recreation of Soviet silent film. It is also an inventive movie in its own right. It is so full of images, one rapidly following the other in montage style, that it...
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Ho Tzu Nyen – Utama – Every Name in History is I (2003)
Utama – Every Name In History Is I is a film about the founding of Singapore. In the indigenous Malay tongue, ‘Singa’ means lion, while ‘pore’ is derived from the word ‘pura’, or city. In official...
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Jürgen Reble & Thomas Köner – Alchemie (Eindhoven) (excerpt) AKA Alchemy...
The Alchemy performance is a film and sound projection with the duration of approximate 45 minutes. The source material of this work decomposes itself during the show. Each Alchemy is thus an unique...
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James Hughes & Lynn Riggs – A Day in Santa Fe (1931)
Quote:“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle...
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Theodore Case – Case Sound Tests (1924-1925)
Quote:“An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable...
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Lewis Jacobs – Tree Trunk to Head (1938)
Quote:“The personality of the sculptor Chaim Gross, his mannerisms, his characteristic method of work, his tendencies are all intimately disclosed in minute details, as though unobserved—a sort of...
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William K.L. Dickson & William Heise – Annabelle Dances and Dances –...
Quote: “One of the first film stars, Annabelle made her debut at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. She was a featured performer on Broadway when she was filmed by Dickson in 1894. Her Serpentine and...
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Stan Brakhage – Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
On a winter’s day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She’s happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her....
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James Edmonds – Overland (2016)
Structured in three parts, Overland evokes an enigmatic landscape of forms, substances, creatures and memory through a hand-edited super8 colour collage of personal material shot over one year....
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Diego Rísquez – Bolívar, sinfonía tropikal (1979)
In this film, Venezuelan director Diego Risquéz has focused on the life of South America’s famed libertador, Simón Bolívar. He explores the episodes in Bolívar’s life and tragic death by using images...
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Anton Adasinsky – Süd Grenze. (aka South Border.) (2001)
Quote: One time you find yourself in a park, on a bench, looking into space, and for a second you forget which country you are in, whether it’s morning or evening; you are pierced by a pang of...
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Suzan Pitt – Visitation (2013)
Quote: Surrealistic and strange, cast in grainy 16mm images, the film VISITATION allows an imaginary glimpse into the aura of “an outer-world night”. . . the visions in the film are summoned from the...
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Catarina Vasconcelos – Nocturno Para uma Floresta AKA Nocturne For a Forest...
DESCRIPTION In the 15th century, in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented the entry of women. But the hands of the living cannot control everything: in the invisible...
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John Smith – Blight (1996)
Quote: The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents. John Smith, 1996, wrote: Blight was made in collaboration with the composer...
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John Smith & Graeme Miller – Lost Sound (2001)
Quote: Lost Sound documents fragments of discarded audio tape found on the streets of a small area of East London, combining the sound retrieved from each piece of tape with images of the place where...
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Leonardo Pirondi – Potenciais à Deriva AKA Adrift Potentials (2024)
Synopsis This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los...
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John Smith – Gargantuan (1992)
Quote: A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves. Fred Camper, Chicago Reader 2001, wrote: London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical...
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John Smith – The Waste Land (1999)
Quote: A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot. The Waste Land explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram. Waldemar Januszczak, The...
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