Experimental

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A short film in which a director’s voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street.Read More »

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A short film which combines magazine pictures and text in the form of word association game.

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Images from magazines and colour supplements accompany a spoken text taken from Word Associations and Linguistic Theory by the American psycholinguist Herbert H Clark. By using the ambiguities inherent in the English language, Associations sets language against itself. Image and word work together/against each other to destroy/create meaning.Read More »

Alexander Stewart, notes for screening at Pioneer Works, New York 2015, wrote:
A mesmerizing experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory and transformation. Filled with Smith’s signature witty wordplay and elegant visual punning, Slow Glass also quietly ponders weighter issues of urban transformation and the value placed on craftsmanship.Read More »

Malcolm Le Grice wrote:
Little Dog For Roger is made from some fragments of 9.5 home movie that my father shot of my mother – myself, and a dog we had. This vaguely nostalgic material has provided an opportunity for me to play with medium of celluloid and various kinds of printing and processing devices. The qualities of film the sprockets the individual frames the deterioration of records like memories, all play an important part in the meaning of this film.Read More »

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A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures. A hundred years after Chaplin filmed his first feature film, The Kid, Norbert Pfaffenbichler offers an experimental punk-style interpretation, which the filmmaker himself has defined as a dystopian slapstick film.Read More »

The buzzing of an electric razor is replaced by Om chanting as a sharp-looking man gets ready.

Gary Davis wrote:
This four minute film explores our response to stereotypes – aural, visual and ideological. Smith signals these stereotypes to the viewer through a chiefly associational system, which deftly manipulates the path of our expectations. The structure is stunningly simple and deceptively subtle. We are taken on a journey from one concrete stereotype to its diametric opposite, as images transform and juxtapose to, ultimately, invert our interpretation of what we see and hear.

Peter Kubelka, ‘What is Film’ lecture series, National Film Theatre, London 2001, wrote:
This is hardcore cinema.Read More »

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A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious.Read More »

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(…) one and four screen versions (…)

Threshold is based on a small number of component sequences. It begins with abstract colour fields filling the whole screen then develops through other simple abstract images created by accidental exposure of film stock – edge fogging. The main image of the film is of border guards at a frontier post.

The film explores a range of film printing techniques using colour filtering, mattes and multiple superimpositions. It also includes a short section of computer generated abstract animation made at the Government Atomic Energy Laboratory in Britain in 1969.Read More »

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It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this rich material might be enough, something related to BARN RUSHES […] But the film only came into its form-life with the idea of linking this deep-rooted and far-outreaching tree material with that film on paranoia that had fascinated me for many years. –L. G.Read More »