Experimental

  • Hasse Ekman – Dårskapens hus AKA House of Folly (1951)

    1951-1960ComedyExperimentalHasse EkmanSweden

    During excavations made in Stockholm in the year 2248, archaeologists find 45,000 meters of film reels from the 1940s, which turn out to be feature films by master director Hasse Ekman. The material is in total disarray, but the Association of Ancient Film Research compiles the reels according to what they believe to have been the master’s artistic intent.Read More »

  • Ken Jacobs – Book of Eternalisms 40-43 (2025)

    2021-2030ExperimentalKen JacobsUSAVideo Art

    Kenneth Martin Jacobs (May 25, 1933 – October 5, 2025) was an American experimental filmmaker. His style often involved the use of found footage which he edited and manipulated. He also directed films using his own footage.Read More »

  • Luís Noronha da Costa – Coisas (1973)

    1971-1980ExperimentalPortugalShort Film

    A series of brief, evocative scenes capturing the life of a painter—his moments of inspiration, frustration, solitude, and fleeting triumphs. From the quiet ritual of preparing his brushes at dawn to the feverish strokes of creation at midnight.Read More »

  • Hlynur Pálmason – Joan of Arc (2025)

    2021-2030DramaExperimentalHlynur PálmasonIceland

    Three siblings craft a knight-like figure, only to unleash a barrage of arrows upon it. Through the seasons, we observe their lives as they both construct and demolish their lifelike creation.Read More »

  • Michel Auder – Cleopatra (1970)

    1961-1970ExperimentalMichel AuderThe Films of May '68USA

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    Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the
    period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and
    Richard Burton which Auder’s cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene
    improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol’s ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis
    Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.
    The film revels in epic excess like Mankiewicz’s cinematic debacle which succumbed to vast length,
    a bloated budget, multiple revisions and a scandal occasioned by the extramarital escapades of its
    co-stars.Read More »

  • Utako Koguchi – Ofiria no ai dokusho aka Ophelia’s Favorite Books (1995)

    1991-2000ArthouseExperimentalJapanUtako Koguchi

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    A 3-Part Series for the imaginary girl’s magazine Monthly Ophelia unveils the literary worlds of three female writers born in 1896. The Ophelia of legend who loses her life along the riverside is reborn and lives deep underwater. Reminisce about girlhood and lose your way in favourite books that transcend time.Read More »

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Soliloquy (1967)

    1961-1970ExperimentalShort FilmStephen DwoskinUnited Kingdom

    A girl broods over a failed love affair while the camera roves over her.

    Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)Read More »

  • Teo Hernandez – Fragments de l’ange AKA Fragments of the angel (1984)

    France1981-1990ExperimentalShort FilmTeo Hernandez

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    Autobiography series.
    “I think about Fragments de l’ange and the sequence with Françoise and Ermina in the countryside, I ask myself how to “justify” it in the whole film and I say to myself that the text could say: “The angel leads me to… “that is, the angel is all words, it is synonymous with language. The angel is the word in the unconscious state or rather it is the voice of the conscience, voice that determines our conduct, our demand in life. The angel is the shadow, the negative of the image, the other self of the image, the deep voice of the flesh; it is a thousand arrows embedded in the frame of reality. Arrow: seam, collure”.

    (Notebook 10 page 43, translated by Xochitl Camblor-Macherel)
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  • Walter Ruttmann – Mannesmann – Ein Film der Mannesmannröhren-Werke (1937)

    1931-1940DocumentaryExperimentalGermanyThird Reich CinemaWalter Ruttmann

    Mannesmann was a German industrial conglomerate. It was originally established as a manufacturer of steel pipes in 1890 under the name “Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG”. (Loosely translated: “German-Austrian Mannesmann pipe mills AG”). In the twentieth century, Mannesmann’s product range grew and the company expanded into numerous sectors – starting from various steel products and trading to mechanical and electrical engineering, automotive and telecommunications. From 1955, the conglomerate’s management holding with headquarters in Düsseldorf was named Mannesmann AG. – more (on wikipedia)Read More »

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