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  • Jim Jennings – Shades (1985)

    1981-1990ExperimentalJim JenningsShort FilmUSA

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    Shades (1985)

    “Unfolding buildings drawn across the screen in spectrums of grey reflecting buildings in their surfaces cutting the sky into triangles.”
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  • Jim Jennings – Dispatch (1979)

    1971-1980ExperimentalJim JenningsShort FilmUSA

    Dispatch (1979)
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    ‘Dispatch,’ another black-and-white film, begins with oscillating greyish surface modulations that move sideways on the screen, rendering our view a partial window to some larger movement taking place. Geographic graphic ribbings then ascend, and as perceived, the thought occurs we might be watching animated film. A shadow of a truck’s front end appears in movement, then comes gently to a halt: we know this image to be photographed, and yet the texture of the film itself hasn’t changed at all. Further readings of the upwards, downwards, and occasional obliquely graphic movements of the patterns on the screen soon describe to us the vantage point of the camera stationed above some traffic intersection.Read More »

  • Bruce Beresford – Mister Johnson (1990)

    1981-1990Bruce BeresfordDramaUSA

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    A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual. In a performance that earned him the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for best actor, Maynard Eziashi plays the title character, a Nigerian villager eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer (Pierce Brosnan), in the hope that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.Read More »

  • Steven Arnold – The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique (1967)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtExperimentalQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmSteven ArnoldUSA

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    Loosely based on William A. Seiter’s 1948 film One Touch of Venus, Steven Arnold’s first film is a macabre, decadent work presenting mannequins and models that travel through strange universes.

    From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
    A haunting, genuinely decadent work about mannequins that may be real and girls that may be models, journeying through strange universes towards possible self-discovery. An exorbitant, perverse sensibility informs the ambiguous images and events.Read More »

  • Lizzie Borden – Working Girls (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseCultLizzie BordenUSA

    Sex. Money. Kinky Customers. Lunch. For These Girls, It’s All In A Day’s Work.

    A day in the life of several sex workers in an upscale Manhattan brothel. The film is a stark portrayal of the women, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her “girls”. Watch as she answers the phone by saying “Hello John, what’s new and different?” Watch as the “johns” try to manipulate the “girls”. Part nudie exploitation, part sociological thesis.Read More »

  • Ronald V. Ashcroft – Like Wow! (1961)

    1961-1970ComedyFantasyRonald V. AshcroftUSA

    A man finds magic glasses that allow him to see women naked.Read More »

  • David Hughes & Ray Selfe – Emmanuelle in Soho (1981)

    1981-1990David HughesEroticaRay SelfeUSA

    Emanuelle lives in London where almost everything in the realm of erotic is available. Her friend Kate becomes a nude revue show to help her husband pay the bills.Read More »

  • Vernon Chatman – Final Flesh (2009)

    USA2001-2010ComedyEroticaVernon Chatman

    One of the most ridiculous, absurd, excruciatingly unerotic and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny movies you’ll ever see. Is this satire? Is it philosophy? Video art? Unappealing porno? Hour-long schadenfreude trip? It’s all of these and so much more.

    Final Flesh is a feature film produced in four parts: the script written by Vernon Chatman (PFFFR, Wondershowzen, Xavier:Renegade Angel) was divided up and submitted to four unique film production companies that work exclusively in the field of customized adult content. Read More »

  • Sam Newfield – State Department: File 649 (1949)

    1941-1950AdventureSam NewfieldUSAWar

    U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.Read More »

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