Félix Dufour-Laperrière – Archipelago (2021)
A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between....
View ArticleStephen Dwoskin – Oblivion (2006)
Quote: Oblivion is of a man’s elderly paralytic literally unspeakable monologue of pain and fury as he finds himself caught in the isolation of dependency and sexual loss. His mind attempts to regain...
View ArticleEdward Owens – Tomorrow’s Promise (1967)
“Tomorrow’s Promise is a film about vacantness. Which physically does ‘begin’, reversed, upside down on the screen […] suddenly another such position is taken (not in reverse), this time by a male...
View ArticleTerry Leung – Open Doom Crescendo (2022)
Quote: The collective consciousness of human pain has led to an unknown alternate reality wasteland. Appearing are those searching for their answers and somewhere beyond-the entity Embodiment of...
View ArticleUgo Nespolo – Time After Time (1994)
A puppet equipped with suction cups slides along different surfaces. Story:Ugo Nespolo Screenplay:Ugo Nespolo Photography:Bruno Dreossi Music:Stefan Grapelli, George Shering Time After Time...
View ArticleKarel Doing – Pattern/Chaos (2015)
The expanded cinema performance Pattern/Chaos is a negotiation between the unpredictability of organic processes and the regularity of frames, optics and motors. Images that are at first glance...
View ArticleStuart Pound – Codex (1979)
Quote: London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK’s capital city and its capacity to alienate and atomise people. Images printed using...
View ArticleKarel Doing – Dark Matter (2014)
Taking a selection of my father’s vast archive of landscape photographs as a starting point, I embarked on an investigation of the possibilities for creating ‘landscapes’ directly on motion picture...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky – Arbor Vitae (2000)
Arbor Vitae is a gesture towards a cinema of pure being. Its atmosphere is haunted by the period in which it was shot, the year of 1999. Although the cuts are open and numerous in their intent, the...
View ArticleBetty Ferguson & Joyce Wieland – Barbara’s Blindness (1965)
Constructed from found and stock footage, the short is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a moralising educational film. Joyce Wieland, Betty Ferguson - 1965 -...
View ArticleWill Hindle – Watersmith (1969)
One of Will’s most complex films in terms of its visual choreography and editing. Abstract visual poem celebrating the freedom of bodies moving through water. A filmmaker unconcerned with plot films...
View ArticleOliver Laxe – Grrr! nº8: Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara (2007)
Oliver Laxe presents at the 2010 Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes his first feature, Todos vós sodes capitáns, wining the Fipresci Award. This is one of his first short...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – Underground (1972)
Quote: A hippie and an executive type meet on a crowded subway train and start to have sex. A cop appears in the next car and the two disentangle as the executive staggers off, having long passed his...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – Prometheus (1972)
Quote: Prometheus arrives in New York and earns the wrath of Zeus. He’s manacled to the floor and tormented by the Furies until Hercules, on his thirteenth labour, appears to break the chains and...
View ArticlePéter Forgács – El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005)
Quote: El perro negro takes a clichés braking view of the Spanish Civil War trough a mesmerizing found footage collage. The saga begins in 1929 with the talented amateur filmmaker, Joan Salvans, son...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – The Second Coming (1970)
Quote: A chance encounter in London leads A & B on a bizarre journey around Europe. Peter de Rome - 1970 - The Second Coming [DVD-PAL].mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 13 min 34 sSize: 342...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus (1972)
Quote: Young man looks out the window of his urban bus and spots another young man. He daydreams of their life together in lust and love. With hope, he gets off at the next stop. Peter de Rome - 1972...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky – Apricity (2019)
A dedication to Jane Wodening and an ode to the winter sun. “Nathaniel Dorsky” wrote: The title Apricity refers to the warmth of the sun in winter. It is an homage to the writer Jane (Brakhage)...
View ArticleSally Potter – Play (1970)
Quote: Double screen film of six children playing on the street below (three sets of twins). Filmed through two adjacent cameras, one with colour film and one with black and white. When presented, two...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – Green Thoughts (1970)
A man enjoys nature and himself. Peter de Rome - 1970 - Green Thoughts [DVD-PAL].mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 9 min 15 sSize: 249 MiBVideoCodec: x264Resolution: 720x574 ~> 765x574Aspect...
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