Experimental

  • Tracey Moffatt – Bedevil (1993)

    AustraliaExperimentalHorrorTracey Moffatt

    BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Tracey Moffatt has constructed a sublime trilogy in which characters are haunted by the past and bewitched by memories. All three stories are set in Moffatt’s highly stylized, hyper-real, hyper-imaginary Australian landscape. Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Brisseau – Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1972 – 2014)

    1971-1980ExperimentalFranceJean-Claude BrisseauThriller

    The three versions and a film about by JCB.
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1974, 20 minutes, 8 mm, NB) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1976, 20 minutes, S8 mm, couleur) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (2014, 30 minutes, HD, couleur) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent – Origine et fabrication (2018, 30 minutes)

    Quote:
    Je savais depuis un moment que je devais faire quelque chose que je voulais totalement différent. Récemment, je me suis mis à regarder une série de films en relief. J’ai alors eu envie de faire le remake d’un film, Des jeunes femmes disparaissent, que j’ai tourné il y a 40 ans, d’abord en 8 mm puis en Super 8. C’était un film à suspense, en noir et blanc, qui avait foutu la trouille à Eric Rohmer et Maurice Pialat.Read More »

  • Arturas Barysas – Sakyti tik tiesa AKA To Tell Only The Truth (1978)

    1971-1980Arturas BarysasExperimentalLithuaniaShort Film

    Arturas Barysas “Baras” (May 10, 1954 – January 28, 2005) was a Lithuanian “counter-culture” actor, singer, bibliophile, record collector, photographer, and filmmaker, known as the father of modern Lithuanian avant-garde. His works were declared “apolitical and immoral” by the cultural nomenklatura of the Soviet Union.Read More »

  • Asia Argento – Ælektra (2020)

    2011-2020Asia ArgentoEroticaExperimentalItaly

    A fashion film written & directed by Asia Argento for Antonio Grimaldi Couture Collection A/W 2020/21.Read More »

  • Anton Bialas – À l’entrée de la nuit AKA At The Entrance Of The Night (2020)

    2011-2020Anton BialasExperimentalFranceShort Film

    Synopsis
    Two Senegalese men walk through a forest in Morocco at night. As they try to find a passageway to the north, they talk about a strange dream. Two officers from the Spanish Civil Guard patrol the Spanish coast in an SUV. The car’s headlights probe the darkness in search of illegal immigrants. In Paris, a young woman performs a symbolic burial in a forest on the edge of the city.Read More »

  • Carmelo Bene – Don Giovanni (1970)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseCarmelo BeneExperimentalItaly

    Synopsis:
    Spectacular Italian comedy-drama directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons. The film is loosely based on Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s short story “The Greatest Love of Don Juan”, from the collection Les Diaboliques. The film premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.Read More »

  • David Elfick – Crystal Voyager (1973)

    1971-1980David ElfickDocumentaryExperimentalUSA

    Quote:
    Outstanding psychadelic surfing documentary with Meddle-era Pink Floyd soundtrack

    In 1975 surfer and sometime director of photography George Greenhough got tired of the overcrowded beaches of Southern California and set of on a journey of discovery. He designed and built his own surfboards, some equipped with underwater camera equipment. With a small group of friends he built a boat and went off the map to find some waves they could truly call their own. This journey of discovery became a breathtaking cinematic trip. Combined with the music of Pink Floyd, an understated first person narrative, and some of the best surfing footage I believe has been ever shot they created one of the most remarkable works of art ever made. At times the photography seems almost impossible. Cameras glide effortlessly through sheets of seething water, bringing the viewer as close to the experience of actually surfing than anything I have seen.Read More »

  • Michael Snow – *Corpus Callosum (2002)

    2001-2010CanadaExperimentalMichael Snow

    The corpus callosum is a central region of tissue in the human brain which passes “messages“ between the two hemispheres. Corpus Callosum, the film (or tape, or projected light work), is constructed of, de-picts, creates, examines, presents, consists of, and is, “betweens.“ Between beginning and ending, between “natural“ and “artificial,“ between fiction and fact, between hearing and seeing, between 1956 and 2002. It’s a tragi-comedy of the cinematic variables. Corpus Callosum juxtaposes or counterpoints a realism of normal metamorphosis (two extreme examples: pregnancy, explosions) in believable, “real“ interior spaces with “impossible“ shape changes (some made possible with digital animation). Read More »

  • Caitlin Ryan – S p a c e l a n d (2020)

    2011-2020Caitlin RyanExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    Long hallways, an orchestrated auction, and acts of disappearance, Spaceland, travels through the mysterious American landscape of storage units. Space that captures the line between necessity and amenity; between an interim life event and the more permanent obscured.Read More »

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