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- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- Jonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister's families and children.
- After experiencing a wild life of sordidness, the young Pierre decides to quit this chaotic world, trading it for a search for inner peace and getting closer to God. During this quest, he's followed by a girl from Denmark, of whom he becomes friend for a while. However, Pierre isn't close to reach his spiritual enlightenment, since he's still tormented by visions, vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
- When a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.
- With its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man's land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.
- Evocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- This corpus of 16 short films was dug out from a hidden avant-garde film collection after 50 years. It is the very first and earliest Japanese pop art/underground film collection. The roots of 60's Japanese underground cinema are all here.
- Peter Emmanuel Goldman's rarely screened debut, an underappreciated landmark of the New American Cinema, chronicles the lives of twenty-somethings adrift in New York City, finding tremendous pathos in the smallest moments: a furtive glance across a museum gallery, girls putting on makeup, a stroll beneath the pulsing lights of Times Square marquees. Composed with a lo-fi purity and bereft of diegetic sound, its shadowy images of youthful flaneurs are paired with evocatively hand-painted title cards and a dynamic soundtrack drawn from the artist's LPs that, when combined, conjure up a ballad of dependency like none other.
- It tells the daily life of filmmaker Boris Lehman wandering in his own city of Brussels, who seeks to go to Mexico in the footsteps of Antonin Artaud, among the Tarahumara Indians.
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- Since her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- ICPCE presents "Contre-Oeil: Peripheries of the Kinetic", an anthology on 3 DVD of Canadian and Québec experimental films and video art (1960-2011). From surrealist refractions to punk and dissident factions, the anthology brings together a unique collection of avant-garde film works. Tearing apart the barriers between eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the unstrapped brain of subterranean luminosity and high voltage experimentations.
- An adaptation of the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Knights of the Round Table," in which Adolpho Arrietta plays the role of Merlin.
- Chronicle of a film in progress.
- Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century. From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field. A brilliant film about a brilliant American artist!
- un film sur la représentation. Comment on peut, par le truchement du cinéma, se décrire et décrire l'autre. La caméra comme miroir et comme troisième oeil. Au départ, un film épistolaire, une enquête et un voyage conçu comme un collage, entre documentaire et fiction. A l'arrivée un portrait de Boris Lehman entre 1989 et 1995, suite II de BABEL.
- Examines the career of internationally recognized filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, his pioneering work and his films which he shot himself, exploring desire, sexual and moral solitude, the passage of time, and physical handicap (he had polio).
- Photographs of a little girl, Karine, showing her inevitable growth from her birth to the age of 6, edited together with slow-motion scenes and music
- A Japanese concept of space/time, called "Ma" (or the interconnectiveness of space and time), is realized through the zen garden of Ryoan-Ji.
- Combines live photography and collage animation in one film. A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place.
- Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.
- Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
- Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and textures, combining its images with a fierce rhythmic intensity so as to suggest a kind of natural force. The film was shot entirely in the camera, in 8mm, according to a pre-arranged, music-like score, and then blown up to 16mm using a home-made optical printer. The accompanying sound track, a chant taken from Islamic liturgy, is breath-based and brings the film into the form of a prayer.
- An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- A huge isolated rock in the midst of the desert in Australia: Ayers Rock. This compilation is reuniting two films around this rock though very contrasting in the way the films were made: 'Moments at the Rock' and 'A Rock In the Light'.
- In this compilation disc featuring two short films, Takahiko Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers of the late 1960s: Stan Brakhage, Stan Vanderbeek, Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and Andy Warhol.
- Features four short films on phenomenological language, a concept of writer Jacques Derrida, shot by Takahiko Iimura from 1978 to 2001: Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation (1978), Talking in New York (After Jacques Derrida) (1980), Talking to Myself at PS1 (1985), and Seeing/Hearing/Speaking (2001).
- 'Film poem' is a term used in the 60s for experimental film borrowing from literature field. It means non-narrative and short form mostly. Also it often meant lyrical as well though not necessarily so. Features 6 shorts from 1962 to 1971.
- A compilation of 4 short films and videos on the Japanese theme of MA, which roughly translates to 'negative space', but evokes a deeper sense as a concept of space/time as one, or the interconnectiveness of space and time.
- Anticipating Taxi Driver a decade later, this short captures the sleaziness of the Times Square/42nd Street area with its riffraff,lurching drunks, and movie theatre marquees.
- Silent portrait of underground filmmaker Jerry Jofen.
- Through silent meditation from the experience of the memory, avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura reexamines two of his earlier poetic short films: In the River (1970), and Shutter (1971).
- T. Iimura puts the emphasis on the conceptual nature of film, on qualities of temporal and continuity, that would be used in his video work, which began in 1970. Here, you have a starting point of Japan's video art, even a conceptual one.
- " 'My Seven places' starts at the moment I was evicted from several places which are dear to me. They served me well as homes, both as place for living and working. This was the start of my urban wandering, which would take me ten years - a journey of 300.000 kilometers - before returning just about to my starting point. The adventure was both physical and metaphysical. Fragments of documentary films, a personal diary, bedside-table notes, piece of fiction, 'My Seven places' is an essay about passing time, embellished by a jumble of reflections both light and serious; finally, it is an attempt to simply exist. The fourth episode of my autobiographical fiction, which started in 1983."
- Footage shot in 1950, this is the first movie shoot by Jonas Mekas when he came in New York, in the neighborhood of Brooklin. This is the first time he shoot his new home with his first Bolex.
- A party is organized for Pedro, but he never seems to arrive. In between guests talk about Tam Tam and the end of the world. A very 'Buñuel-ish' underground film.
- This 're-read' work developed out of Iimura's performance practice that he has over the years, from his association with Fluxus to his notion of Video Semiology, radically explores the signifying systems of meaning in moving image making.
- Retrospective held at the Galerie Nagoya City in Japan in 2006. The works of the 15 filmmakers represented in this exhibition come from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when video art was composed of most single and installation works.
- A compilation video of the creator of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, featuring two short films from the 1960s: Anma (1963), and Rose Colored Dance (1966), the best of his early butoh. Directed by avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.