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- DirectorTakashi ItôIrrational landscapes and spaces filled with unspeakable pleasures like a black object that revolves slowly while flying over the scattered clouds that float in the night sky, their lumps illuminated by the light of the moon.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
- DirectorJennifer Todd ReevesExhumed motion-pictures from my very own Elkhart, Indiana landfill constitute the canvas of this obsessively hand-painted film. This is my anti-landfill film, an attempt to transform 16mm out-takes into a meditation on nature's losing battle to decompose our relics of abandoned technologies and productions. Primal screams from the wilderness rise until they are buried in silence.
- DirectorKurt Kren
- DirectorStuart HiltonA mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event.
- DirectorJonathan HodgsonThe bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool's Casablanca Nightclub.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsNikolai GusarovLyubov TeplovaKostya PanovIn the outback, on the railway station there lives a family. 4th grade schoolboy Vasya Rubtsov is experiencing the death of his beloved best friend the cow. The boy remembers how they used to have a cow, how this cow fed everyone with milk and how she suffered when the calf was sold for meat.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsAleksandr KalyaginDistant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonA meditation on memory, burial and decay.
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonPart of "In Memoriam", a body of work comprising several videos, shot entirely within the virtual world of the Grand Theft Auto video game. Solomon transformed Liberty City, the ersatz metropolis based on New York City in which the game is set, into a reflective space of stillness: devoid of players, full of melancholy, nostalgia, loss, grief, and instances of compelling poetic beauty. This work was created in response to the passing of Solomon's lifelong friend, Mark LaPore, at the age of 53, on September 11, 2005.
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonUsing chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then dissolving.
- DirectorPhilip S. Solomon
- DirectorPhilip S. Solomon
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonA little Nachtmusik, a deep blue overture to the Twilight Psalms series. Breathing in the cool night airs, breathing out a children's song; then whispering a prayer for a night of easeful sleep.
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonWorking from repurposed materials, experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon evokes the eery landscape between action at the Grand Theft Auto.
- DirectorScott BarleyThe Mouth screams. It swells, hunting the night like a snake in the dark. The laceration tears through the stars, devouring its meal. An infinite sea of pale flesh. Death's renewal awaits, as the bodies pass into the void.
- DirectorBernardo NascimentoStarsClive RussellBaltazarGrant MastersAn isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.
- DirectorClaudio CaldiniA house in the snow, sequences that look like buried memories peeking out from a warm subconscious.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA collage of two-dimensional images of vegetation, each appearing only for a moment, sometimes as a single image, more often with other bits of stem, leaf, bud, or petal. Often we see only the outline of objects against a black background. Black and green are occasionally joined by fragments of orange or of white and blue. The objects in the frame don't move but they are quickly replaced by another collage, giving the feel of rapid motion. Each collage is crisp, its lines etched against the background of black and later of white. Whitman anyone, or Hieronymus Bosch? Although there is no soundtrack, the rapidity of changing images and colors suggests a riot.
- DirectorJun KurosawaExperimental short film alternating footage of a woman alone in an abandoned building, and an angel walking on an empty street.
- DirectorBetzy Bromberg
- DirectorStan BrakhageStan Brakhage's artistic view of the cosmos.
- DirectorClu GulagerStarsMike HertelJack GrindleJohn McCaffreyA group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
- DirectorKurt KrenStarsGünter Brus1965 action of Vienna Actionist artist Günter Brus shot and edited by Kurt Kren. Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication. However, structuralist film theory differs from linguistic theory in that its codifications include a more apparent temporal aspect. In other words, the site of the study (the film) is moving in time and must be analyzed in a framework which can consider its temporality. To that end, structuralist film theory is dependent on a new kind of sign, first proposed by the Prague linguistic circle, dubbed the ostensive sign.
- DirectorKôji YamamuraThe stream of a mil, an apple flows down through the stream, where inumerable illusion of fish appears and disappears in the sky reflected in the water.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorJohn AkomfrahAkomfrah's latest work Vertigo Sea (2015) is a new three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah's piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.
- DirectorJoan JonasStarsJoan JonasRuth MaleczechTilda SwintonThis short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
- DirectorScott BarleySeveral figures move through the darkness on a cliff-edge. An inaudible conversation near the brow of the cliff may be the cause for the group to disband. The rest of the film follows the solitary journey of the youngest member of the group, until she rests; where land meets the sea. Inspired by the philosophy of Remodernist Film.
- DirectorScott BarleyThrough a structuralist and simultaneously ambiguous form, the image's reality treads closer to the abstract, leaving the sunset and trees behind.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoA lone figure sitting outdoors and wearing a Hannya mask is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyA woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
- DirectorMartine Rousset
- DirectorZbigniew Rybczynski
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsEiko KogureMiu NaritaKatsumi NishiyamaA monster with a caterpillar shape and a ghastly face roams the streets of Japan, affecting the lives of several people that seem to be interconnected.
- DirectorJirí BartaStarsFrantisek HusákZdenek MartínekIvan VojtekA sarcastic story about a thief who becomes the victim of his own victims. His victims come from the other world and take his most precious possession - his blood. The phantasmal atmosphere of the film is achieved through artificial animation coloring in a motion picture.
- DirectorJirí BartaCycles of life, with fantasy elements. An ax splits wood. Bits of split wood move in stop-motion; one piece has a woman's face near the top. Water streams in torrents; patches of snow give way to spring. A large black bird flies into the frame. It attacks and splinters the wood with the woman's face. The piece of wood, whole again, becomes the bird's body. It flies about, and it's celebrated by other bits of wood. Then, a man leaves a house carrying an empty pail. He gathers bits of wood. A chimney smokes.
- DirectorJirí BartaAnimators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopic revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.
- DirectorJirí BartaIn Jiří Barta's imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.
- DirectorJirí BartaAn alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.
- DirectorFrédéric BackThe industrialization of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
- DirectorJirí BartaUsing an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.
- DirectorLuiso BerdejoStarsJunio ValverdeMiriam GiovanelliPepo OlivaPacheco's father teaches him to overcome the repulsion he feels for animals.
- DirectorMarcell IványiStarsSzilvia CzoborIlona SomogyiMargit GyovaiDuring a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.
- DirectorAlan ResnickStarsNaomi KlineRobby RackleffRory OgdenSecurity camera footage of a birthday party reveals the unexplained events of a family, a strange disease, and a mysterious pink woman who stalks the family.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorRobert MorganBobby Yeah is a subhuman creature who experiences a series of increasingly bizarre, nightmarish encounters after stealing a malevolent baby's prized pet.
- DirectorRobert MorganThe separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
- DirectorNana825763This is not horror video. This video was created simply by filming inside their house.
- DirectorKonrad KästnerStarsHermann BeyerSimon NewbyThe city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely empty. Ordos is not so much a place as a symbol of Babylonic hype. But nothing will change--as long as people believe.
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyA troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant future.
- DirectorAdan JodorowskyStarsAsia ArgentoAxel JodorowskyAndrés AbelWhen an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through Miami's dark underworld to recover it through supernatural means.
- DirectorSpencer SusserStarsZac EfronRicky GervaisTricia HelferRalph, a bunny being interviewed for a documentary, goes through his daily routine as a "tester" in a lab.
- DirectorJean-Daniel PolletStarsJean NégroniA poetic revision of Greek architecture focused on the temple in Bassae, which was peculiar given its isolated location unlike other major Greek temples.
- DirectorPhilip S. SolomonA non-narrative short subject in which experiments in night photography, lightning storms and World War II night bombing are combined ,with their similarities in pulses and shapes, to create an unsettling vision.
- DirectorJean-François LévesqueA solitary man works in a tall office building. The only moment in his drab life that's out of the ordinary each year seems to be opening the birthday card and gift from his mother. Usually it's a tie, but one year it's an accordion. It goes into the closet with his many ties. A year or two later, he discovers what happens to the papers he processes every day. His discovery sends him first to the building's top floor, then to his closet.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsMonika Belo-CabanováOlga VronskáAleksandr LetkoA little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerA human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
- DirectorBarnaby DixonA tale of how two "disgrega workers" react to the presence of a wild animal in their workshop.
- DirectorJoe MeredithStarsToby JohansenCidney MeredithJoe MeredithTen years have passed since the alien war, and now the line between human and alien is blurred. The film follows two vagrants who were once subjects of a dangerous experiment involving the assimilation of alien and human DNA.
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsNozomi HazukiYûya IshikawaYuko TatsushimaAfter a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, some of the last survivors hide out in an underground bunker.
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsChiemi EndôExperimental short film in which a young girl, haunted probably by something supernatural, gives signs of possession and behaves violently against her surrounding society.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsWeiser QuayOscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead