From the Drain (1967)

The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict but revealed that they are currently in a mental institution. The first man is paranoid about the drain of the tub, the second indifferent to it. After the conversation between the two men progresses, a vine-like tendril emerges from the drain to strangle the first man. The second shows no emotion to this sudden turn of events and the film ends.


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By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.

"My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. That said, it's all about love."
—Nicolas Provost


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Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise Ch.3

Released on Tzadik 2004
The nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye.
Music: John Zorn & Ikue Mori


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Film In Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc (1965-66)

The 'imperfections' of filmmaking, which are normally suppressed, are at the core of a work that uses a brief loop made from a Kodak colour test.


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Unsere Afrikareise

Österreich, 1966. Regie: Peter Kubelka. Schnitt: Peter Kubelka. Farbe. 13 Min.

“UNSERE AFRIKAREISE is about the richest, most articulate, and most compressed film I have ever seen. I have seen it four times and I am going to see it many, many times more, and the more I see it, the more I see in it. Kubelka’s film is one of cinema’s few masterpieces and a work of such great perfection that it forces one to re-evaluate everything that one knew about cinema. The incredible artistry of this man, his incredible patience. (He worked on UNSERE AFRIKAREISE for five years; the film is 12 and a half minutes long.) His methods of working (he learned by heart 14 hours of tapes and three hours of film, frame by frame), and the beauty of his accomplishment makes the rest of us look like amateurs.” – Jonas Mekas


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Interview`s with Andrei Tarkovsky

"The pressure Rublev is subject to, is not an exception. An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn`t exist, for the artist doesn`t live in a vacuum.
Some pressure must exist: the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn`t look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Rt is born out of an ill designed world. This is the issue in "Rublev": the search for harmonic relationships among men between art and life, between time and history. That`s what my film is all about.


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Art of Mirrors

Director Derek Jarman explores his alchemical fascination with the themes of light and reflection in this short film from 1973.


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Directed by Tod Browning (1882-1962)
Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins
Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)


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