Experimental

  • Serge Avedikian – Le Cinquième Rêve AKA Fifth Dream (1994)

    France1991-2000ExperimentalSerge Avedikian
    Le Cinquième Rêve (1994)
    Le Cinquième Rêve (1994)

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    Not a sound, only landscapes, raw sounds… Some births and deaths of bees… Traveling from one to another space, a man looks at them, dreams of them… Sometimes, he remembers his joyful youth. At the end of his travel, he arrives in a colourful market place, but he is alone, isolated in the middle of the organized and cruel society, like the bees.Read More »

  • Dziga Vertov – Shagay, sovet! AKA Stride, Soviet! (1926)

    Dziga Vertov1921-1930DocumentaryExperimentalSoviet montageUSSR
    Shagay, sovet! (1926)

    Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet.Read More »

  • Marie Losier – Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist (2008)

    USA2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalMarie Losier
    Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist (2008)
    Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist (2008)

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    DreaMinimalist (2008) offers an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith.

    “Marie Losier is the most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today. Her film wriggle with the energy and sweetness of a broken barrel full o’ sugar worms!” Guy MaddinRead More »

  • Robert Beavers – From the Notebook of… (2000)

    Robert Beavers1991-2000ExperimentalUSA
    From the Notebook of... (2000)
    From the Notebook of… (2000)

    From the Notebook of … was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul Valéry’s essay on da Vinci’s process. These two elements suggest an implicit comparison between the treatment of space in Renaissance art and the moving image. The filmmarks a critical development in the artist’s work in that he repeatedly employs a series of rapid pans and upward tilts along the city’s buildings or facades, often integrating glimpses of his own face. As Beavers notes in his writing on the film, the camera movements are tied to the filmmakers’ presence and suggest his investigating gaze. (Henriette Huldisch, Whitney Museum of American Art)Read More »

  • Rogério Sganzerla – O Bandido da Luz Vermelha AKA The Red Light Bandit (1968) (HD)

    1961-1970BrazilCrimeExperimentalRogério Sganzerla

    Synopsis
    The story a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.Read More »

  • Marie Losier – Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas (2014)

    USA2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalMarie Losier
    Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas (2014)
    Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas (2014)

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    Bim bam boom, meet the Moreno sisters! Three women, three sisters, three professional luchadoras. Under the name Las Luchas Morenas they practice the Mexican national sport: wrestling! All three are part of the Dynasty Moreno: Rossy, Esther, and Cynthia are competitive wrestlers on the ring. But they also bring Lucha Libre into life, wrestling with knives, pig heads, flowers and feathers! Marie Losier‘s characteristic whirring camera swirls curiously around them and captures it all in a cheerful and musical tribute to fantasy, to the child in all adults, and to Mexican culture. But it is ultimately a tribute to the three women, who in spite of all their differences have chosen to lead their lives according to their own ideas.Read More »

  • Hollis Frampton – Zorns Lemma (1970)

    Hollis Frampton1961-1970ExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    “Zorn’s Lemma stands for – Every non-empty partially ordered set in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element.

    It is named after the mathematician Max Zorn.

    The terms are defined as follows. Suppose (P,≤) is the partially ordered set. A subset T is totally ordered if for any s, t ∈ T we have either s ≤ t or t ≤ s. Such a set T has an upper bound u ∈ P if t ≤ u for all t ∈ T. Note that u is an element of P but need not be an element of T. A maximal element of P is an element m ∈ P such that the only element x ∈ P with m ≥ x is x = m itself.Read More »

  • Pat O’Neill – Foregrounds (1979)

    1971-1980ExperimentalPat O'NeillUSA
    Foregrounds (1979)
    Foregrounds (1979)

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    “FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cezanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O’Neill begins to animate ‘scratches’ over the image, one’s eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume.” – J. Hoberman, The Village VoiceRead More »

  • Peter Schamoni – Hundertwassers Regentag (1971)

    Peter Schamoni1971-1980DocumentaryExperimentalGermany
    Hundertwassers Regentag (1971)
    Hundertwassers Regentag (1971)

    Hundertwasser the painter is portrayed in this international prize winning film. The life and works of the artist are woven into a fascinating, enchanting visual composition using a refined crossfading technique. The effect is a glistening, irridescent display of images; a rainbow of colours on a blissful rainy day. ~~ from the back o’ the box.Read More »

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