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Ulrike Ottinger – Freak Orlando (1981)
As Orlando (Magdalena Montezuma) enters the world of “freaks,” the movie develops scenes from a mythological netherworld, the Spanish Inquisition, the Middle Ages, and a few other settings to focus on...
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Joe Dante – The Movie Orgy (1968)
A compilation film designed to evoke nostalgia for the shared entertainment experiences of early baby boomers, “The Movie Orgy” includes clips from television programs and B-movies of the 1950s and...
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Adam Curtis – The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of...
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Mark Cousins – Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
This hypnotic documentary by cinephile par excellence Mark Cousins takes a brave – but increasingly rewarding – abstract angle by seeking through aesthetic rather than conventional exposition to...
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Raoul Ruiz – De grands événements et des gens ordinaires AKA Of Great Events...
Quote: In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in the 11th arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’...
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Christopher Maclaine – Beat (1958)
Quote: “Maclaine’s next film, Beat (1958), might be thought of as a continuation of The Man Who Invented Gold, since it often cuts back and forth between shots of golden lamps, lights in windows, and...
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Tarantella (1940)
Quote: This new medium of expression is the Absolute Film. Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two...
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Joel Schlemowitz – Victrola Cinema (2010)
Quote: A tableaux vivant. The sound of the victrola employed “live” for screenings, utilizing the Vitaphone sound system. Created as part of Residency Unlimited: Special Features....
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Larry Jordan – Trumpit (1956)
Quote: Lawrence Jordan shot TRUMPIT in the basement of a house on Baker Street in San Francisco that he shared with Stan Brakhage in the mid-1950s. Brakhage himself stars in the film (along with...
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Larry Jordan – Our Lady of the Sphere (1972)
Quote: Of all my films, this is the most popular to date. Unfortunately, it is also the most cartoon-like and has an almost visible storyline: the young boy’s travels through terror, death and the...
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Werner Nekes – Uliisses (1982)
The film is a Homeric journey through the history of cinema. Its theme is based on the mythological Odysseus of Homer, the Ulysses of James Joyce, and the synthetic figure, Telemach/Phil, from the...
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Peter Rose – Metalogue (1997)
Quote: Described as a cross between a “speech” and a “fireworks display.” A magician-like figure delivers a peculiar speech that is embedded in extravagant arrays of time-delayed images that reflect...
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Lawrence Jordan – Man is in pain (1954)
Quote: San Francisco based filmmaker Lawrence Jordan’s 1954 short follows his hand, gesturing through a house of mirrors, cards and paintings of women. Shot in black-and-white and playfully...
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Walter Ungerer – Ici (2013)
Quote: Longtime experimentalist Walter Ungerer extrudes a snow-covered forest obscured by icicles through time-lapse and polychromatic effects into a more synesthetic experience. – Tom Fritsche...
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Sandy Ding – Night Awake (2016)
Quote: Night Awake is an experimental noise film provoking 3rd eye (seeing what is inside beyond the limit of symbols) opening with image and sound. By transferring camera into a spiritual medium, the...
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Kostas Sfikas – Alligoria AKA Allegory (1986)
SUMMARY The film recalls various periods of Greece’s history. Sfikas studies and interprets the artistic movements of his time, influenced by eighties Post-Modernism. Starting in antiquity, he passes...
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Peter Gidal – Coda I (2013)
Quote: Peter Gidal’s structuralist short CODA I is composed of three lines of a thousand-word story he wrote (as read by William Bouroughs in a cutup tape collage) amidst an ultra-abstract...
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Peter Gidal – Coda II (2013)
Quote: Peter Gidal’s second Coda continues with William Burroughs voice, reading three lines of a 1971 story by Gidal. A slightly more abrupt cut in Burrough’s reading of the text accompanies the...
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Larry Jordan – Big Sur: The Ladies (1966)
Quote: In describing the process of BIG SUR, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, “As with RODIA-ESTUDIANTINA only one shot, which probably was the result of lapse in concentration, was deleted from the...
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Suzan Pitt – Visitation (2013)
Quote: The animated film VISITATION unwinds through a dark landscape of unending life and death; steeped in the alchemical and inner dream life the film explores a black and white landscape of gothic...
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