Experimental

Hotel Room (also called David Lynch’s Hotel Room) is an American drama anthology series that aired for three half-hour episodes on HBO on January 8, 1993, with a repeat the next night. Created by Monty Montgomery and David Lynch (who directed two episodes), each drama stars a different cast and takes place in hotel room number 603 of the New York City-based “Railroad Hotel”, in the years 1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively. The three episodes were created to be shown together in the form of a feature-length pilot, with the hope that if they were well received, a series of episodes following the same stand-alone half-hour format would be produced later. Following a negative to lukewarm reception, HBO chose to not produce more episodes.Read More »

Synopsis:
The second in Larry Gottheim’s ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker’s own words, “a celebration of elusive relationships” between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves, the aural testimony of Blind Willie Johnson’s widow Angelina and the camera’s illumination of a world simultaneously of and beyond the everyday. These lyrical fragments sweep in and out as with the tides; a time-based symmetry slowly emerges as the film reveals itself to be a perfect circle.Read More »

Malcolm Le Grice wrote:
The film is based on the simple practical joke played by a little boy on the gardener. The boy stands on the water hose, the gardener looks down the nozzle to find the obstruction, the boy steps off the hose and the gardener is soaked. My remake adds a number of new features – there is a third character, the woman of the house – is she also the lover? The boy is now a girl dressed as a boy and the whole sequence of events is repeated four times.Read More »

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Worst Case Scenario is constructed from a collection of still photographs depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. Shot over the course of a week from a window overlooking the scene, the film explores the ambiguities of its images, developing themes that focus upon watching and being watched, distance and uneasy proximity. As the static world of the photographs gradually comes to life, the soundtrack introduces another, unseen, space to the viewer and an increasingly improbable chain of events and relationships starts to emerge.Read More »

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Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal flux thus informs both the form and content of the image, with the basic elements of trees, sky, hills and the occasional crisscrossing clothesline filmed in every imaginable light.Read More »

An indoor game where a couple come to the conclusion after doing and saying many things, that the only way out is anarchy.

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Padrós’ films have a clear personal character and they maintain a kind of narrative, with strong ironic and critical overtones. In his earlier films his criticisms were mostly directed against the false progressive attitudes that were common among certain groups of the young at that time, and also towards the boring transcendental themes that were fashionable then (non-communication, alienation, sexual repression, ideological fashions, cultural mythologies. . .)Read More »

Dimitri Kirsanoff’s masterpiece “Ménilmontant” opens with a furiously fast edited axe murder that somehow foreshadows “Battleship Potemkin”. It then resolves to be a moving drama about two sisters, one of them played by Nadia Sibirskaia who is probably the most talented silent film actress next to Lillian Gish. Kirsanoff tells his poetic story without intertitles and knows exactly that the facial expressions of his actors reveal everything we have to know about the emotional states of the characters.Read More »

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Alice is born in a country that is dead. Later, her innocence will be manipulated by ideologies of moment.

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Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb is a 1969 film drawing loose inspiration from Alice in Wonderland. It combines a soundtrack including Cream and Tuli Kupferberg, with scenes shot in Terrassa’s cemetery, to express a protest against American imperialism and the Vietnam War.Read More »

Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, 2001, wrote:
A particularly beautiful lily seems to grow before our eyes, gradually changing shape; what sounds like breathing on the sound track gives it an almost human presence. Suddenly the sound and movement stop as a glass plate, invisible until now, cracks – and it seems we’ve been watching, in Smith’s words, ‘the forced development of a hothouse flower’.Read More »