Pierre Clémenti’s Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
Letterboxd review
★★★½ Watched by Macchiato 16 Apr 2020
Quite hypnotic even without subtitles, seems like an ode to acid tripping. One of those works of accidental beauty.Read More »
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.Read More »
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As the sub-title has it: “Fiction reportage about the architecture of a brain.” Which is quite a perfect summary of Ricardo Bofill’s activities cum ambitions during the early period of his Taller d’Arquitectura, a multidisciplinary project that involved not only urbanists and architects but also writers, filmmakers and graphic designers.Read More »
A postcard from an imploded society. Bringing mundane objects to life to interpret place through materials, the film transcribes an experience of pattern, labor and alien(nation)(s). A pattern parade in pop music pairs figure and landscape to trip through the topologies of codification. Following components, systems, and samples in a collage of textiles, tourism, language, and music, the film investigates recurring motifs and how their metamorphoses function within a global economy.Read More »
A film about the black head Carranza sheep and the ways of subsistence cattle related to them in Karrantza Valley (Bizkaia, Spain). A series of seven in-camera edited Super-8 reels explores the link between grass, sheep, feeding, wool, milking, cheese, threads. It is a project that began with the recalling of first moving pictures of sheep (MOUTONS ENTRANT À L’ABATTOIR, Lumière Brothers, 1896) and with the correlation between wool spinning and the film rolling pace.Read More »
Eleventh reel of a project that starts from the novel “Voyage autour de ma chambre” by Xavier de Maistre. Isn’t memory a color film? Isn’t it a color memory film? “Cinema? Yes, it is a procedure. Red is also a procedure. […] I hope I have made a film, a procedure. Blue is also a procedure.” (Marcel Broodthaers, “Cinéma”, p.66) “It can also happen that that object that I now see yellow, tomorrow will see it orange. The two sensations are what they are, and they demonstrate it by ‘imposing’ their content on me, already yellow and orange. So I must say: in your case – yesterday – I saw O yellow, in another case – today – I see O orange. microscope, I see it in a different color or another way. I have not been deceived in the first case. I have simply seen it without the microscope. I would be deceived if I tried to assign to the second experience the color value of the first, or vice versa. ” (Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, “Philosophical Illuminations”)Read More »
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A MassArt student film that finds Robertson experimenting with the complex multiple voices that would play a major role in “Five Year Diary”.
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Apologies explores Robertson’s compulsive sense of guilt and the corresponding need to make apologies. Although the film deals with the quite serious subject of mental disability, the candidness of Robertson’s self-exposure begets a playfulness and a sense of wit. The film consists of a play with multiple temporalities through editing both image and sound.
— Taryn Marie Ely, Ghosts in the Closet: Catastrophizing and Spectral Disability in Anne Charlotte Robertson’s ApologiesRead More »
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“Les Hautes solitudes is a silent, black and white study primarily of three women – Nico, Tina Aumont and, especially, Jean Seberg – and the nature of performance (a man, Laurent Terzieff, also fleetingly appears). In a series of close up images of heart stopping beauty, the sort that bring to mind Jean Renoir’s claim that it was the power of the close-ups of actresses in the cinema of the ’20s that made him want to make films, Aumont and Seberg improvise psychodramas.” – Maximilian Le CainRead More »