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John Smith & Ian Bourn – The Kiss (1999)
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 2001, wrote: A particularly beautiful lily seems to grow before our eyes, gradually changing shape; what sounds like breathing on the sound track gives it an almost human...
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Antoni Padrós – Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb (1969)
Quote: Alice is born in a country that is dead. Later, her innocence will be manipulated by ideologies of moment. Quote: Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb is a 1969 film drawing loose inspiration...
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Dimitri Kirsanoff – Ménilmontant (1926)
Dimitri Kirsanoff’s masterpiece “Ménilmontant” opens with a furiously fast edited axe murder that somehow foreshadows “Battleship Potemkin”. It then resolves to be a moving drama about two sisters,...
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Antoni Padrós – Dafnis y Cloe AKA Daphnis and Chloe (1969)
An indoor game where a couple come to the conclusion after doing and saying many things, that the only way out is anarchy. Quote: Padrós’ films have a clear personal character and they maintain a kind...
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Larry Gottheim – Horizons (1973)
Synopsis: Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each...
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John Smith – Worst Case Scenario (2003)
Quote: Worst Case Scenario is constructed from a collection of still photographs depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. Shot over the course of a week from a window overlooking the scene,...
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Malcolm Le Grice – After Lumière – L’arroseur arrosé (1974)
Malcolm Le Grice wrote: The film is based on the simple practical joke played by a little boy on the gardener. The boy stands on the water hose, the gardener looks down the nozzle to find the...
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Larry Gottheim – Mouches Volantes (1976)
Synopsis: The second in Larry Gottheim’s ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker’s own words, “a celebration of elusive relationships” between sound and image, color and...
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David Lynch & James Signorelli – Hotel Room (1993)
Hotel Room (also called David Lynch’s Hotel Room) is an American drama anthology series that aired for three half-hour episodes on HBO on January 8, 1993, with a repeat the next night. Created by...
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Larry Gottheim – Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Synopsis: It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this...
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Malcolm Le Grice – Threshold [Single Screen Version] (1972)
Quote: (…) one and four screen versions (…) Threshold is based on a small number of component sequences. It begins with abstract colour fields filling the whole screen then develops through other...
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John Smith – Shepherd’s Delight (1984)
Quote: A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious. John Smith, 1984, wrote: Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work...
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John Smith – Om (1986)
The buzzing of an electric razor is replaced by Om chanting as a sharp-looking man gets ready. Gary Davis wrote: This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes – aural, visual and...
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Norbert Pfaffenbichler – 2551.01 (2021)
Quote: A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures. A hundred years...
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Malcolm Le Grice – Little Dog for Roger (1967)
Malcolm Le Grice wrote: Little Dog For Roger is made from some fragments of 9.5 home movie that my father shot of my mother – myself, and a dog we had. This vaguely nostalgic material has provided an...
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John Smith – Slow Glass (1991)
Alexander Stewart, notes for screening at Pioneer Works, New York 2015, wrote: A mesmerizing experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory...
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John Smith – Associations (1975)
Quote: A short film which combines magazine pictures and text in the form of word association game. Quote: Images from magazines and colour supplements accompany a spoken text taken from Word...
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John Smith – The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)
Quote: A short film in which a director’s voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street. John Smith, 1976, wrote: I am writing this with a black ‘Tempo’ fibre-tip pen. A few...
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Carmelo Bene – Capricci (1969)
After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses...
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Anna Marziano – Al di là dell’uno AKA Beyond the One (2017)
A cinematic treatise on diverse forms of affection, love and partnership, and the difficult search for an individual way of expressing these feelings in the face of tradition and social conventions....
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