Experimental

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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 »

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A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot. The Waste Land explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built around an anagram.Read More »

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A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves.

Fred Camper, Chicago Reader 2001, wrote:
London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns – Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and acutely conscious of how imagery depends entirely on its framing.

Elaine Paterson, Time Out 1992, wrote:
A wonderfully witty example of how to conduct pillow talk with a small amphibian.Read More »

Synopsis
This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, California. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates on Brazil’s colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time in a paranoid and anxious manner.
Be aware that the film’s final version never came to exist. This version presented is my mere attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.Read More »