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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, IT TAKES FROM WITHIN presents a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease. An ominous, bleak atmosphere permeates a desolate town where an unnamed man and woman make preparations to attend a burial. The tension builds as the two experience increasingly disturbing incidents involving manifestations of dread and despair while the internment draws near. Official Selection at **The Chicago International Arthouse...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, Manhatta (1921), The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022)....
84) Glitterbug
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
A stunning collage of ecstatic Super-8 fragments, GLITTERBUG is a loving tribute to Derek Jarman posthumously assembled by friends from his prolific filming of everyday events and his experimental investigations of the format. Jarman’s vibrant photography combined with dynamic cutting reveals glimpses into his picaresque life, from London streets to Spanish countryside—with visions of dances, performances, intimate moments and quiet observations....
85) Archangel
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A fragmented portrait of a young boy called Crimson, nicknamed after the color of the hoodie he always wears. We follow him and his best friend, lmani, as they make their way to a corner store. When a rookie police officer gets a call regarding a possibly dangerous altercation that the two youngsters might be involved in, he rushes to the store and enters the site with his gun already drawn. The film becomes an exploration of how stories surrounding...
87) Daughter
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Three women, unknown to each other, venture out on a Friday night. But through a turn of unpredictable events, their lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence.
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session—in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists—to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. Winner of the Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award at the **Los Angeles Film Critics Associations Awards.**
89) Maelström
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A talking fish who possesses the wisdom of the ages narrates the story of Bibiane Champagne, a young woman whose life is thrown into turmoil after she hits a Norwegian immigrant with her car and leaves him on the road. The injured man manages to make it home, where he dies. Overwhelmed by guilt, Bibiane struggles to forget what she has done and find a way to go on. Then the fates give her a second chance when she meets the man who will change the...
90) Coppelia
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must take action to save her sweetheart, Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia - the 'perfect' robot-woman the Doctor has created.
91) Metamorphoses I
Pub. Date
1978.
Description
For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I—the first experimental...
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
After Dammbeck’s original film project Herakles (Hercules) was rejected by the East German DEFA Studios in 1983-84, the artist was still fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, including overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multi-media collaborations and in the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores...
93) Careful
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only...
94) REALFilm
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents Cross-eye, an anthology of Quebec and Canadian experimental film and video art (1960-2011). From surrealist refractions to punk and dissident factions, the anthology brings together a unique collection of avant-garde movie works. Tearing apart the barriers betweens eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the brain unstrapped of subtle luminosity and high...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Movies about movies—they always seem to have scenes set in screening rooms. And we, the audiences, are invited in, to see how the film business works. The screening rooms seem to be sacrosanct chapels where one can worship but it’s also a place where the people behind the movie screens can let their hair down and reveal their most inner thoughts about each other. It’s a private place in a very public arena. It’s a microcosm of the world but...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In 1945 the bombing of Hiroshima showed the appalling destructive power of the atomic bomb. Mark Cousins’ bold new documentary looks at death in the atomic age, but life too. Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, ATOMIC shows us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times: protest marches, Cold War sabre rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how X Rays...
98) Protagonist
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
This documentary features four individuals who have been devoted to personal odysseys - a cause, a quest, an ideal - to the point of total consumption. At first glance the characters appear disconnected: a former German terrorist, an “ex-gay” evangelist, a bank robber and a martial arts student. But as their stories unfold, one starts to see the parallels between the uncommon, common experience of these four men. In telling this echoing story,...
99) Good Luck
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Shot on Super 16mm, GOOD LUCK is a portrait of two mining communities operating on opposite sides of a hostile world: the State employees of a 400m-deep underground Serbian copper mine and the laborers of an illegal gold mine in the jungle tropics of Suriname. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**, and **Locarno International Film Festival**.
100) A Doll's Eyes
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Haunted by Spielberg’s "Jaws" since childhood, a filmmaker discovers why the movie affected him so deeply.
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