movie
István Horkay (b.1945)
2011 ::: offart
Harvey Berman
2011 ::: movie
The Wild Ride (1960)
A rebellious punk (Jack Nicholson) of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
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A rebellious punk (Jack Nicholson) of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
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The People's Republic Of Go-Go
2011 ::: camp
Marc Campbell
2011 ::: camp
PSYCHE GRIND 2011
The Night Goes On 2010 (footage from: Tilly Losch, In Her Dance Of The Hands)
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The Night Goes On 2010 (footage from: Tilly Losch, In Her Dance Of The Hands)
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Antonello Branca (1935-2002)
2011 ::: movie
Whats Happening? 1967
Roy Lichtenstein. Allen Ginsberg, Leon Kraushar, Marie Benois, Fred Mogubgub, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso
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Roy Lichtenstein. Allen Ginsberg, Leon Kraushar, Marie Benois, Fred Mogubgub, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso
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Roger Corman (1926)
2011 ::: camp
The Raven 1963
With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson.
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With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson.
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John Huston (1906-1987)
2011 ::: movie
Beat the Devil
with the unforgettable Peter Lorre.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
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with the unforgettable Peter Lorre.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
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Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926)
2011 ::: movie
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
This is the movie that made Rudolph Valentino a star. Written by June Mathis it was released in 1921.
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This is the movie that made Rudolph Valentino a star. Written by June Mathis it was released in 1921.
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James Blake (b.1989)
2011 ::: music
Lindisfarne
about friendship, dreams, arrival, farewell, melancholia, memory. rare example, visuals and sound fits smooth together. real pleasure!
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about friendship, dreams, arrival, farewell, melancholia, memory. rare example, visuals and sound fits smooth together. real pleasure!
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Maya Kessler
2011 ::: offart
COLD CUTS
Compilation of different works by Maya Kessler. Here animations and short clips contain a ironic gender role statement.
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Compilation of different works by Maya Kessler. Here animations and short clips contain a ironic gender role statement.
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Steven Spielberg (b.1946)
2011 ::: movie
„DUEL“(1971)
Spielberg's first big movie, made for TV, has his own masterclass in suspense. There are perhaps 5 minute dialog the rest is the hunt between a truck and a business commuter.
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Spielberg's first big movie, made for TV, has his own masterclass in suspense. There are perhaps 5 minute dialog the rest is the hunt between a truck and a business commuter.
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Gene Kearney (1930–1979)
2011 ::: movie
Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1966)
Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece.
From a story by Conrad Aiken.
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Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece.
From a story by Conrad Aiken.
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Andreas Krein
2011 ::: movie
The Kiss (1896)
2011 ::: movie
May Irwin (Beatrice Byke), John C. Rice (Billy Bilke).
This is the first ever moving picture image of a kiss. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. There is a longer Edison film of a kiss, filmed in 1900, that has at times been confused with this one.
Scene from the New York stage comedy, The widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896. Filmed April 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
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This is the first ever moving picture image of a kiss. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. There is a longer Edison film of a kiss, filmed in 1900, that has at times been confused with this one.
Scene from the New York stage comedy, The widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896. Filmed April 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
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William Curran
2011 ::: camp
Sex Madness (1938)
This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content.
Films like this would tour the United States for years - mostly being shown in rundown, skid row theaters.
This film has been re-edited and re-titled ("Human Wreckage", "They Must Be Told", "Trial Marriage", "About Trial Marriage") many times to attract the same audience to film, to take advantage of a taboo subject which may have gotten press recently or to appease local censors who disapproved of the film's content.
For more exploitation film go here
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This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content.
Films like this would tour the United States for years - mostly being shown in rundown, skid row theaters.
This film has been re-edited and re-titled ("Human Wreckage", "They Must Be Told", "Trial Marriage", "About Trial Marriage") many times to attract the same audience to film, to take advantage of a taboo subject which may have gotten press recently or to appease local censors who disapproved of the film's content.
For more exploitation film go here
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Stephen Frears (b.1941)
2011 ::: movie
„The Burning“ (1967) by Stephen Frears . The movie shows the violents beetwen black and white in sout afrika apartheid.
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Elitsa Ganeva (b. 1986)
2011 ::: movie
Two movies from Elitsa Ganeva aka Foxe, „beginning“ and „v“.
In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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Karin Leger
2011 ::: movie
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
2010 ::: movie
Death Mills (Todesmühlen) (1945)
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
2010 ::: movie
Carnival of Souls (1962) by Herk Harvey
Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.
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Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.
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Night Tide (1961)
2010 ::: movie
Dennis Hopper as a sailor who falls in love for Mora (Linda Lawson) who works as a mermaid in a sideshow.
Directed by Curtis Harrington With Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir US 1961, 35mm, b/w, 84 min.
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Directed by Curtis Harrington With Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir US 1961, 35mm, b/w, 84 min.
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Arev Manoukian
2010 ::: movie
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.
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Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.
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Luke White
2010 ::: movie
Tide by Luke White
A boy and his father live a harsh existence against a desolate backdrop. Whilst the father is stranded, the boy's physique allows him to pass through a small tunnel leading to a place very different from their own. He brings back footage to satisfy his fathers desire to re-live memories of when he too could make this journey. Tide is the story of a father's obsession that will ultimately lose him the respect of his son, and in turn his companionship.
2009
Dur: 11min46
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A boy and his father live a harsh existence against a desolate backdrop. Whilst the father is stranded, the boy's physique allows him to pass through a small tunnel leading to a place very different from their own. He brings back footage to satisfy his fathers desire to re-live memories of when he too could make this journey. Tide is the story of a father's obsession that will ultimately lose him the respect of his son, and in turn his companionship.
2009
Dur: 11min46
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Wyatt Denny
2010 ::: movie
Alice & the White Hair by Wyatt Denny
Another interpretation on Lewis Carrolls novel Alices Adventures.
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Another interpretation on Lewis Carrolls novel Alices Adventures.
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Bryan Schlam
2010 ::: movie
Heinz Emigholz (b.1948)
2010 ::: preview
"Loos Ornamental"
Filmmaker Heinz Emigholz chronicles Loos's work in this quirky documentary that features intricately composed still shots of 27 of the architect's buildings in the order of their construction.
Heinz Emigholz is actually one of the most discussed german artist. He´s ouvre consists filmmaking, drawings, installation, photography. He´s teaching at university of art berlin.
For those who can watch the german tv 3sat check this out:
Architektur-Filmreihe bei 3SAT
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Filmmaker Heinz Emigholz chronicles Loos's work in this quirky documentary that features intricately composed still shots of 27 of the architect's buildings in the order of their construction.
Heinz Emigholz is actually one of the most discussed german artist. He´s ouvre consists filmmaking, drawings, installation, photography. He´s teaching at university of art berlin.
For those who can watch the german tv 3sat check this out:
Architektur-Filmreihe bei 3SAT
| Vom 9. bis 17. November 2010 sendet 3SAT einen | Programmschwerpunkt mit sieben Filmen von Heinz Emigholz
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Raoul Walsh
2010 ::: movie
Thief of Bagdad (1924) one of the first movies made in color.
with Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong
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with Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong
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Soundtrack Dead Man, by Jim Jarmus
2010 ::: music
Neil Young plays the soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, by Jim Jarmus.
„it is preferable not to travel with a dead man „ Henry Michaux
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„it is preferable not to travel with a dead man „ Henry Michaux
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Marie Menken (1910-1970)
2010 ::: movie
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1958 - 61)
"There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try—but how expensive!" - Marie Menken
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"There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try—but how expensive!" - Marie Menken
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Luca Gennari
2010 ::: movie
The Secret Cinema of Jerzy Treblinka
Italian futurism corresponding with wild backwards nature when a nymph put the cyclops eye back to the peepers memory. playful summer days and „blow up“ is a thought out of time like the pictures of this sensitive movie.
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Italian futurism corresponding with wild backwards nature when a nymph put the cyclops eye back to the peepers memory. playful summer days and „blow up“ is a thought out of time like the pictures of this sensitive movie.
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YELLOW LINE
2010 ::: movie
by Logo Video
The story of Linea Gialla, the first Italian Onlus
created and managed by homeless people,
the first non-governmental organization, whose president is a woman who sleeps in a train station.
The whole movie tells the story of the people who dreamt of it and made it.
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The story of Linea Gialla, the first Italian Onlus
created and managed by homeless people,
the first non-governmental organization, whose president is a woman who sleeps in a train station.
The whole movie tells the story of the people who dreamt of it and made it.
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2010 ::: preview
by Logo Video
foundet 2001 in Milano, Italy. by Francesco Villa, Claudio Cecconi, Daniel Arvizu
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foundet 2001 in Milano, Italy. by Francesco Villa, Claudio Cecconi, Daniel Arvizu
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MOOD COLLECTION
2010 ::: movie
Let Her - Mood Collection with Elodie Yung
Directed by Paul Mignot
"Let Her" is one of the four movies shot for "MOOD collection"
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Directed by Paul Mignot
"Let Her" is one of the four movies shot for "MOOD collection"
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Jason Moola
2010 ::: movie
The Door
The Night club door as a metaphor for life. Sometimes you cross a line and you can't turn back...
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Sean Christensen
2010 ::: movie
Empty House
With an emphasis on connecting emotionally with the audience on a deep and subconscious level, 'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Shave
A short about the first time I ever saw my father without his mustache.
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Black Like Milk
2010 ::: offart
by Stefan Kempas
Bachelorwork about the structure of Mediacampaigns and Advertisment.
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Bachelorwork about the structure of Mediacampaigns and Advertisment.
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The Unseen Sea
2010 ::: offart
“The Unseen Sea” a Time-lapse Video by Simon Christen
A collection of time lapses he took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.
Music is by Nick Cave - Mary's Song from the "Assassination of Jesse James" Soundtrack
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A collection of time lapses he took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.
Music is by Nick Cave - Mary's Song from the "Assassination of Jesse James" Soundtrack
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Castor & Pollux
2010 ::: fashion
Mary Last Seen by Sean Durkin
2010 ::: preview
A young woman embarks on a road trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises will be beautiful and peaceful.
But a series of strange events occur on their journey, and it becomes clear that their relationship is not
what she thinks and their destination is not what was promised.
Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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OPRÉ / Twenty120 by Justin Harder
2010 ::: movie
In the age of opulence,
I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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Cart - The Film by Jesse Rosten
2010 ::: movie
Cyanide Breathmint by Walter A. Bell
2010 ::: movie
... We shot Cyanide Breathmint at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, New York on an empty floor in their studios on world-renown W.125 St.
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Born That Way by Tony McNeal
2010 ::: movie
When ex-con and hard-as-nails, Jake Green, finally gets a chance to see his daughter after six months, he takes her out for a quick bite only to wind up in the middle of an armored car heist.
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Black Cab, by Andy Guest
2010 ::: movie
The black cab moves slowly through the dark streets of the capital city, trawling the pavements, awaiting his next customer. He pulls up at a popular celebrity haunt to pick up a famous passenger and take him on a fateful journey through London....
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Turbo, by Jarrett Lee Conaway
2010 ::: movie
TURBO is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a troubled youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
2010 ::: preview
The Cement Garden
Excerpt from the 1993 movie "The Cement Garden" in which Charlotte Gainsbourg utters the quotation later used in Madonna's song "What It Feels Like For a Girl". The movie's screenplay is an adaptation of the eponymous book by Ian McEwan.
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Excerpt from the 1993 movie "The Cement Garden" in which Charlotte Gainsbourg utters the quotation later used in Madonna's song "What It Feels Like For a Girl". The movie's screenplay is an adaptation of the eponymous book by Ian McEwan.
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2010 ::: fashion
Lights, created for Interpol
Eclectic S/M-Scene between three woman with the message what goe`s in will come out again. a lab of erotic sophisticationin the basement of the chase manhatten bank, perhaps. And there`s a lot transformation of course...
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Hans Richter (1888-1976)
2010 ::: movie
Dreams That Money Can Buy 1947
Is like a whow`s who of international dada and surrealist artist`s like Marcel Duchamp (Writer), Man Ray (Director/Writer), Max Ernst (Director/Writer), Alexander Calder (Director/Writer), Hans Richter (Director/Writer), Fernand Léger (Director/Writer).
This experimental film written won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
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Bill Viola (b.1951)
2010 ::: offart
The Passing 1991
B/W 56 Min.USA
Bill Viola reworks the story of Christ’s death and resurrection in a modern medium but his pieces are dripping in classical heritage. He plays with Renaissance symbolism, drawing directly from early Renaissance compositions and poses - the original paintings on display may be less visceral but are much more mesmerising.
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Visite à Picasso (1950)
2010 ::: movie
Visite à Picasso (1950), by Paul Haesaerts
‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white.
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Imamura Shōhei (1926-2006)
2010 ::: movie
The Ροrחοgraphers (1966)
Introduction to AnthropologySυbυ makes pοrnοgraphic films. Ηe sees nοthing wrοng with it. They are an aid tο a repressed sοciety, and he υses the mοney tο sυppοrt his landlady, Ηarυ, and her family. Ϝrοm time tο time, Ηaru shares her bed with Sυbυ, thουgh she belieνes her dead hυsband, reincarnated as a carp, disapprονes. Directοr Shοhei Ιmamυra has always delighted in the kinky explοits οf lοwlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds sυbνersiνe hυmοr in the bizarre dynamics οf Ηaru, her Οedipal sοn, and her daυghter, the trυe οbϳect οf her pοrnοgrapher-bοyfriend’s οbsessiοn. Ιmamυra's cοmic treatment οf sυch tabοοs as νοyeυrism aחd incest sparked cοntrονersy when the film was released, bυt The Ροrnοgraphers has ουtlasted its critics, and nοw seems frankly ahead οf its time.
I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure on which the reality of daily Japanese life obstinately supports itself.
The Japanese did not change as a result of the Pacific War—they haven't changed in thousands of years!
—Shohei Imamura
Françoise Sagan
2010 ::: movie
Encore un Hiver (1979)
This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse.
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Carson "Kit" Davidson
2010 ::: movie
Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
Fourteen international awards, including an Academy Award, Nomination and the Special Prize of the Jury, Cannes Intl Festival. Presents a surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertis
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Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
2010 ::: movie
Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
2010 ::: offart
Screen Test
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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F.W. Murnau (1888-1932)
2010 ::: movie
Faust 1926
F.W. Murnau's telling of the classic German legend, 'Faust' is a masterpiece to behold. From both the technical and story standpoint, the film excels and despite being nearly eighty years old, Faust still stands tall as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. F.W. Murnau has become best known among film fans for 'Nosferatu', but this is unfair to the man. While Nosferatu is something of an achievement; it pales in comparison to this film in every respect. Faust is far more extravagant than Murnau's vampire tale, and it shows his technical brilliance much more effectively. The story is of particular note, and it follows a German alchemist by the name of Faust. As God and Satan war over Earth, the Devil preaches that he will be able to tempt Faust into darkness and so has a wager with God to settle things. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for Faust's soul...
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Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
2010 ::: movie
Rich Ragsdale
2010 ::: offart
dance/movement test for experimental film
is a short intense work with an interesting combination of traditional dance moving scenes (expressionismus, butho, artaud, ect) and an atmospheric sound.
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František Vláčil (1924-1999)
2010 ::: movie
The White Dove (Holubice) 1960 (76 min.)
Kamera: Jan Čuřík
The White Dove (Holubice) is an acclaimed Czech drama from director František Vláčil follows a bird struggling to complete its homeward migration across Europe and the effect that caring for the dove has on an artist, an ailing boy, and a young girl.
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Dinner With Henry (1979)
2009 ::: movie
Dinner With Henry (1979)
Director: Richard Young
Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences.
Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.
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Ludmila Terni
2009 ::: movie
Short film done by Ludmila Terni.
Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Strange Fruit
2009 ::: preview
This film won 4th place at the 2006 National History Day. It is the story of Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol in their quest to shed light on racial injustice, especially lynching, in America. A film directed and produced by Daniel Weidlein.
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Shakespeare's Hamlet - 'To be or not to be...'
"To be or not to be..." A short edited to Kenneth Branagh's reading
of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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Jim Jarmusch
2009 ::: preview
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop in Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is a 2003 independent film directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film consists of eleven short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread.
In this segment musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits pretend to play themselves, smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and have an awkward conversation.
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Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957)
2009 ::: preview
Newsreel footage of Erich von Stroheim's crew making the trek to Death Valley to film the final sequence of 'Greed'.
(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Greed
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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Joseph Cornell
2009 ::: offart
At night by Torch and Spear (1940's)
Joseph Cornell's enigmatic collage By Night With Torch and Spear (1940s?) may have been unknown to anybody but the artist himself before it was discovered, years after his death, within a cache of artifacts bequeathed to Anthology film archives. it was given its title posthumously based on a card that flashes at its end. sound track provided by john zorn. During the first Surrealist exhibition in New York 1936 he premiered a film made from splicing together existing film stock he had found & collected. Salvador Dalí, present at its first screening, was outraged, claiming he had just had the same idea of applying collage to film. He remarked told he should stick to making boxes and stop making films. Traumatized, Cornell rarely showed his films there after.
Most of his art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects, simple boxes, glass-fronted, with arranged collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac combining the austerity of Constructivism with the fantasy of Surrealism. Many boxes, are interactive and are meant to be handled. he would create poetry from the commonplace. In the 1950s and 1960s, He hired a series of young assistants, including Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan to help him organize his collection.
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Nagisa Ôshima (b.1932)
2009 ::: preview
In the Realm of the Sense (1976)
Originally released in 1976, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses is still banned for obscenity in its director’s native country, Japan. Based on an infamous 1936 incident in which Sada Abe erotically strangled her lover, cut off his penis and testicles, and carried them around until her arrest, Oshima’s film does more than just attack the mores of Japanese society. It also breaks down notions of obscenity. Read More
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Daisies
2009 ::: preview
Sedmikrásky
DAISIES is an exercise in revolutionary modernism, anarch-dadaist in spirit and form.
Director: Vera Chytilová
Writers: Vera Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová
Starring: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová
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Mike Kuchar
The Craven Sluck 1967
(formerly titled Madonna)No art form demands as much spontaneous, imaginative improvisation as low-budget filmmaking, and no American low-budget filmmakers are as imaginative as George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike. Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the ’sixties, they are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch. That influence is still being felt. (Source by Jack Stevenson)
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The Shooter
2009 ::: movie
Philosophy through celluloid. An old oriental proverb "To will is human … To succeed is divine" is instilled into the mind of an Ex-Soviet Spy. As a drop off leads to a life and death encounter, he is lead to the realization that control is simply an illusion and that destiny is beyond our control.
Director: Michael L. Suan
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Director: Michael L. Suan
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Empty House
2009 ::: movie
'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Director: Sean Christensen
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Director: Sean Christensen
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Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
2009 ::: movie
is the story of a modem Maximum Security Prison. It has been extensively researched and is firmly based on actual events that have occurred in prisons in America and Australia in recent years.
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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"I was 16 when they put me in prison. Emotionally I'm still 16. Prison is the only world I've ever known. All my dreams are dreams of violence."
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
2009 ::: movie
A classic silent film dedicated to Berlin shot in 1927 by Walter Ruttmann.
(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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Catherine Renaud Baret
2009 ::: offart
dans les jupons (2006)
Under the petticoat the ties binding mother and child. The eternal drama about that relationship.
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Thorsten Fleisch (b.1972)
2009 ::: offart
Gestalt (2003)
DV, 5:20 minutesFour-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human imagination the realm of mathematics is explored. Only the variables of one formula (x[n+1]=x[n]^p-c) were changed. It took me about a year to get an idea of the transformations and shapes which could be expressed by this formula. Almost another year was needed to render the sequences which I decided to use.
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Chicasblue
2009 ::: offart
"The Dream" (1990), Norman Stone
2009 ::: movie
is a monologue concerning a utopian vision of heaven on earth and was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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Robert Bresson
2009 ::: movie
Une femme douce
Robert Bresson's Une femme douce is a spare, elegant and poignant story of isolation, miscommunication, and emotional cruelty. An early transaction between the two characters foreshadows the tragedy of the film.
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Ken Jacobs (b. 1933)
2009 ::: offart
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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Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Johnny Depp reading the letters he received from Hunter S. Thompson during his work on the Fear and Loathing Movie.
Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Christopher Walken
2009 ::: movie
Weapon of Choice (2001)
Christopher Walken performs a swing-from-the-rafters solo in an empty hotel lobby...
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Joachim Koester
2009 ::: offart
Three Dots & Sandra of the Tulip House or How To Live in a Free State (2001)
Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester's video installation Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, 2001, is a ruminative work inspired by the complex history of Christiania, a famous anarchistic community established in Copenhagen in 1971. Divided between large freestanding screens--each accompanied by its own unidirectional speaker to minimize the discordant buildup of sound--Sandra of the Tuliphouse comprises five independent twelve-to-twenty-minute video loops that may be watched in any order, in part or (by the more determined visitor) from beginning to end. Making its belated New York debut at the Kitchen, Buckingham and Koester's project feels oddly removed from real time, its ostensible subject an anachronistic curiosity repositioned as a locus for open-ended reflection.
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Intolerance by D.W. Griffith
2009 ::: movie
Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.
Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era.
The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone.
Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and more than 3,000 extras.
The film consisted of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history.
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Werner Herzog (b.1942)
2009 ::: preview
Herz aus Glas (Deutschland 1976)
Script: Herbert Achternbusch
A "mystik" movie by Werner Herzog. Based on the story about a bavarian prophet from the 18th century, who lived on the german site of bohemia, called Mühlhiasl. Some of the actor`s performe mostly under hypnosis.
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Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
2009 ::: movie
Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
A masterpiece with a great performance by Peter Lorre.
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Banksy
2009 ::: offart
The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006)
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
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Harun Farocki (b.1944)
2009 ::: preview
Simon Perkins, Paul Swadel
2009 ::: movie
A Little Death
is a 16mm short film drama jointly created by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel (and crew), produced by James Wallace Productions. The film explores spatial problems through character and camera choreography. The film has been shown extensively throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand as well being screened at the Hamburg Short Film Festival. The film was an evolution of the 'Into The Void' project.
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Bill Karn
2009 ::: movie
Five Minutes To Live (1961)
Johnny Cash gives a surprising performance as a guitar playing, sadistic psycho-killer.
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Markus Heltschl (b.1952)
2009 ::: preview
José Mojica Marins (1936)
2009 ::: camp
Mushroomhead Flattened
Tarantula Scene from 'This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse‘, (1967)
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