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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Since her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chronicle of a film in progress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 40-minute morphing of Venus figures from all ages and civilizations, which have been collected by Jean-Jacques Lebel over the years. The video is part of Lebel's installation in time and space Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.
- An adaptation of the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Knights of the Round Table," in which Adolpho Arrietta plays the role of Merlin.
- 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.
- An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
- Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens 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.
- " '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."
- 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.
- 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!
- A work in on-going progress. Painted, filmed and edited by Jo Ann Kaplan, documenting and reflecting on the artist's own aging, to be up-dated and developed at points in the future. The actual face, glimpsed occasionally, is getting older and more lined over time, but the record of its aging is not yet long enough to bear full witness. A self-portrait of the artist as an aging woman, and a work in progress to be continued for as long as there is time.
- This documentary follows the making of "Lucy en miroir" of Raphaël Bassan.
- A Japanese concept of space/time, called "Ma" (or the interconnectiveness of space and time), is realized through the zen garden of Ryoan-Ji.
- 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
- Four films from one of the first generation of NY underground experimental filmmakers, Japanese-born Takahiko Iimura. 4 films from a golden age of experimentation: Junk; Ai (Love); On Eye Rape; A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput.
- A series of experiments with two cameras and two monitors filming each other.
- 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.
- Autour de Simon Lazard, 2003, 52' , video, color / sound For many, the name Lazard is synonymous with the banking dynasty that pioneered the modern investment bank with the invention of mergers and acquisitions. Jackie Raynal sets out one summer for the mountains of Haute-Savoie to meet Simon Lazard, one of the heirs of the group. Lazard, at the age of 100, wants to set down part of his story - the Occupation, his lands, and his pro-European views.
- Major avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin recounts the filming of his short film Trixi (1969).
- On the subject of Stephen Dwoskin's methods of working and collaborating with others.
- A collection of Takahiko Iimura's short clips from his 12 experimental DVDs, each in one-minute excerpts, and originally produced between 1962 and 2002. A promotional glimpse and a guide to the piece in which one of the highlights is seen.
- 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.
- 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).