• Moyra Davey – Les Goddesses (2011)

    2011-2020ExperimentalMoyra DaveyUSAVideo Art

    Quote:
    In Les Goddesses, filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of 18th-century writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

    Leafing through postcards, book pages, and her own photographs as she talks, Davey reflects on varied approaches to photography and film, such as planned versus unscripted recording of reality and the passage from private to public realms with a camera. Davey punctuates her narration with thoughts on writing as she simultaneously listens to and recites a script based on her 2011 essay, “The Wet and the Dry.”Read More »

  • Jonas Mekas – A Letter from Greenpoint (2005)

    2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalJonas MekasUSA

    Quote:
    In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo
    and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it feels like to leave a
    place in which one has spent more time than any other place, and which was also
    the place of my family life. I am somewhere else now. It’s about beginning of growing roots in a new place, new home, with new friends, new thoughts,
    experiences.Read More »

  • Christopher Harris – still/here (2001)

    2001-2010Christopher HarrisDocumentaryExperimentalUSA

    Quote:
    still/here is a meditation on the vast landscape of ruins and vacant lots that constitute the north side of St. Louis, an area populated almost exclusively by working class and working poor African Americans. On a basic level, the film constructs a documentary record of the blight and decay of that part of the city. For the most part, still/here is not an overt assessment of social injustices but the politics of class and race within American society are integral to the film. In still/here, the ruins are emblematic of an unimaginable absence at the core of much of the African Diaspora’s experience in North America. From the countless Africans lost in the Middle Passage to the lost future generation of unborn descendant of those that perished during the voyage, to the loss of family and loved ones that were sold away during slavery, absence has been and continues to be a fundamental feature of the African-American experience.Read More »

  • Toshiaki Toyoda – Wolf’s Calling (2019)

    2011-2020JapanShort FilmToshiaki Toyoda

    Synopsis
    A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.Read More »

  • Albert Pyun – Knights (1993)

    Albert Pyun1991-2000CampSci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    Plot: In the post-holocaust wasteland the cyborg warlord Job needs to harvest the blood of 10,000 people and orders his army to capture people. The orphan Nea is the only survivor after the cyborgs slaughter the farming community that has adopted her. She is saved by the mysterious cyborg Gabriel who reveals he has been created to eliminate Job and the other cyborgs. Nea agrees to lead him to Job’s encampment if he will train her how to fight.Read More »

  • Sean Baker & Shih-Ching Tsou – Take Out (2004)

    2001-2010DramaSean BakerShih-Ching TsouUSA

    An undocumented Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.Read More »

  • Amos Gitai – Kippur (2000)

    Amos Gitai1991-2000DramaIsraelWar

    Synopsis:
    The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub’s head hangs out over a rescue helicopter’s open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces.Read More »

  • Kurt Hoffmann – Ich denke oft an Piroschka AKA I Often Think of Piroschka (1955)

    Comedy1951-1960GermanyKurt HoffmannRomance

    Quote:
    Andreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster’s daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.Read More »

  • Ronald V. Ashcroft – Girl with an Itch (1958)

    Ronald V. Ashcroft1951-1960DramaUSA

    Synopsis
    A lonely, widowed middle-aged ranch owner gives a ride to a sexy blonde hitchhiker, When she finds out about the ranch he owns she figures he’ll be an easy mark, but his suspicious son may spoil her plans.Read More »

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