Peter de Rome – Mumbo Jumbo (1971)
Quote: A French lesson, brown legs, a black panther, a fireworks display, mink coats and Newton’s law are some of the unlikely subjects given the erotic treatment in this hilarious movie collage....
View ArticleVivienne Dick – She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
“Vivienne Dick’s second film has at its centre two of the subjects of her first film “Guerillere Talks”, Pat Place and Lydia Lunch. Moving from a kitchen on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the film...
View ArticlePeter de Rome – Double Exposure (1969)
Quote: Having as its backdrop the idyllic Fire Island in the State of New York, in Double Exposure Tom Yourk plays a reflecting-mirror game of mutual tease. Peter de Rome - 1969 - Double Exposure...
View ArticleSally Potter – Jerk (1969)
Quote: Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a short sequence of minimalist gesture. Sally Potter - 1969 - Jerk...
View ArticleSally Potter – Hors d’œuvres (1970)
Quote: 8mm footage of dancers each performing a single movement was projected onto a ground glass screen and refilmed on 16mm to create layered new sequences. Sally Potter - 1970 - Hors d'œuvres...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Larry’s Recent Behaviour (1963)
Quote: An irreverent and wilfully juvenile examination of a nasty habit that Larry has recently acquired. Joyce Wieland - 1963 - Larry's Recent Behaviour [DVD-NTSC].mkvGeneralContainer:...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Water Sark (1965)
Joyce Wieland wrote: I wanted to make a self-sufficient film, photographing myself in those mirrors on the table with all that water and prisms, and glasses and cups. In a way I was saying I can do a...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Patriotism Part II (1965)
Quote: In a way a portrait of Dave Shackman with the American flag. The ending is a stop-motion animation of a set table with food moving and swirling and finally gathering together in a ball. Joyce...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – The Far Shore (1976)
Quote: Set in 1918 Ontario, The Far Shore employs both melodramatic conventions and experimental formal strategies to tell the tale of Eulalie, a Quebecoise woman, and her love affair with Tom McLeod...
View ArticleJean-Gabriel Périot – Nijuman no borei AKA 200 000 fantômes AKA 200 000...
Quote: The film presents a succession of inanimate images of the Genbaku dome, the Peace Memorial in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. To the gentle, haunting music of Current 93 (‘Larkspur and...
View ArticleGaspar Noé – Une expérience d’hypnose télévisuelle AKA An Experience of...
“What interests me is the hypnotic trance into which a viewer can be plunged. When you make a film and it works, you’re like a shaman, a hypnotist.” – Gaspar Noé...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton – A and B in Ontario (1984)
Quote: A&B IN ONTARIO was completed eighteen years after the original material was shot. After Frampton’s death, the film was assembled by Wieland into a cinematic dialogue in which the...
View ArticleJoyce Wieland – Patriotism (1964)
Quote: Depicts an army of phallic, bun-clad wieners marching on a vulnerable sleeping white male body, naked save for a sheet. Joyce Wieland - 1964 - Patriotism [DVD-NTSC].mkvGeneralContainer:...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky – Arbor Vitae (2000) (HD)
Quote: 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,...
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