Experimental

Ecstatis is a short minimalist experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto that is partly featured in Funeral Parade of Roses.Read More »

Nightcleaners Part 1 was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin , Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan ), about the campaign to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was forced to turn to new forms in order to represent the forces at work between the cleaners, the Cleaner’s Action Group and the unions – and the complex nature of the campaign itself. The result was an intensely self-reflexive film, which implicated both the filmmakers and the audience in the processes of precarious, invisible labour . It is increasingly recognised as a key work of the 1970s and as an important precursor, in both subject matter and form, to current political art practice.Read More »

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Arthur Lipsett’s first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar, with fragments of speech heard in passing and, between times, a voice saying, “Very nice, very nice.” The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.Read More »

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in Europe in 1962, and continuing in New York for most of the 1960s and ’70s. During this time Maciunas was converting the dying industrial buildings of Soho into a network of artists’ lofts, creating one of the first official real estate co-ops of artist-owned buildings. Maciunas’s life and legacy—as recounted by artists of his generation, including Yoko Ono and Jonas Mekas—ignited debates that remain pivotal to artists working today.Read More »

In an Escher-like staircase, two characters, a man a woman, move around each other, in full view of the bizarre objects in the space: an infinite clock, a miniature surveillance camera, the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The camera always chooses a subjective point of view, namely from the vantage point of one of the objects or characters, who lose themselves in a game of attraction or repulsion. A surreal universe.Read More »

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The 1970 colour full-lengh film Badou Boy, a south-Sahara “cops and robbers” movie, “it’s a part of my youthful years, many Africans empathizes with the amoral waif, the movie character that is so similar to me”, declared the director. Shot in 16mm, it won the gold medal at the MIFED of Milan and the golden Tanit at 1970 Cathage Festival.Read More »

Detten Schleiermacher did not start making films until late in life. He was actually a typographer.
With “Trab Trab” he made an impish attempt to create a synthesis between Dadaism and New Objectivity. The film is a precise and elegant account of a racecourse. It does so without narration or images of either horses or patrons; everything we see has been captured either pre- or post-race.Read More »

A movement study in which all possible camera angles are tried out to observe the chaos of traffic flows in Paris.Read More »

A fascinating monologue of Samuel Beckett’s work, In A Wake For Sam, in which the only visible part of Ms Whitelaw are her lips, mouth and teeth. Mesmerising and chilling. Don’t forget to turn out the lights!Read More »