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Hollis Frampton – Hapax Legomena V: Ordinary Matter (1972)
Frampton on Ordinary Matter wrote:A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury…
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Raoul Ruiz – Tres Tristes Tigres AKA Three Sad Tigers (1968)
The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile’s capital city build inexorably to violence. Review by Gonzalo San Martin…
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Alice Diop – La permanence (2016)
SynopsisIn competition at the Cinéma du Réel Film Festival in Paris (March 2016) where it received the Institut français Louis…
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Gahité Fofana – Un matin bonne heure AKA Early in the Morning (2006)
Two Guinean kids do not manage to find work despite their inventiveness and creativity. That’s why they decide to travel…
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Joseph Losey – The Prowler (1951)
Quote:Poor Susan Gilvray. One night she sees a peeping tom watching her through her bathroom window, so she does the…
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – O Amuleto de Ogum aka The Amulet of Ogum [+Extras] (1974)
Ogum is one of the deities of Brazil’s many voodoo-related folk religions. This story is narrated by an ubiquitous folk…
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Chantal Akerman – Un divan à New York AKA A Couch in New York (1996)
A burlesque comedy made on a large(ish) budget by the mistress of small and often serious independent films. A temporary…
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Ulrike Ottinger – Zwölf Stühle aka Twelve Chairs (2004)
Short Synopsis…Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a…
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Kaizô Hayashi – Yume miruyoni nemuritai AKA To Sleep so as to Dream (1986)
Quote:An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing…
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