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- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsBearthm BrakhageNeowyn BrakhageRarc BrakhagePhrases of Stephen Foster, set to music by Joel Heartling, are set to film in this autobiographical piece: a solitary female voice, occasionally joined by a chorus, sings phrases of sorrow as we watch a solitary man in shadows in an unadorned house: he stretches out, he picks his feet, he walks across a room, he rocks in a chair. Occasionally he watches two young children at play; the film sometimes speeds up. Handwritten words, like "dark void" and "waiting longing," cross the screen. Film and phrases often come in short bursts. Outdoor it looks gray and cold.
- DirectorStan VanderbeekAn experimental short film centered around a collage of magazine and sound clips.
- DirectorAntonio da SilvaStarsRowland ByassAlexi CarpentieriBrendan HealySpunk is an experimental documentary where reality and virtual reality blend into a surrealistic sexual collage. 36 minutes long, it showcases digital sex with webcams, mobile phones and the fantasies the participants live through the digital media. Spunk has two parts. In the first it references the internet aesthetics and online gay cruising through time. In the second it transports the viewer into a fantasy world. In those virtual settings horny men openly demonstrate their cyber sexuality.
- DirectorCaroline MourisFrank MourisStarsFrank MourisOne soundtrack features the animator narrating an autobiography; the other features him reading a list of words beginning with the letter 'F'. The images on screen tie these two soundtracks together.
- DirectorStan VanderbeekThis film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science allows man to do things he never would have been able to do without, for good or bad. Politicians are either behind the scenes manipulating those scientists or are using that science for their own goals, primarily in the space race. Everyday items and people are projected upwards - many in the form of rockets - followed by iconic structures, such as the Empire State Building, the US Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlim, being rocketed skyward as visual representations of that race into space.
- DirectorNelson CarvajalStarsBlaise BornhorstA visual essay on culture, history and the act of physical filmmaking used to recreate memories, myths and images.
- DirectorLuiz Rosemberg FilhoStarsIngrid VorzatsThe power of the mass media as one of the main instruments for the domination of lives, peoples and nations.
- DirectorJosé Peña CotoStarsJosé Peña CotoJaime María Cortés-Echanove GarcíaA film about what cannot be named. A non-verbal guided meditation about the interconnectedness of humans, nature and technology in the modern world. A stream of consciousness in the shape of a cinematic symphony.
- DirectorEvi KoroniStarsDimitris HatzopoulosEvi KoroniSotiria VokouA short movie based on two poem of Evi Koroni.
- DirectorSatoru ÔnishiStarsAyako SajiA young woman tells (and acts out) a story set in a large empty house.
- DirectorRamon BalcellsStarsClàudia Càlix TriasRobert DonaldsonJulen GerrikabeitiaVallvidrera (Catalonia), 1902. The poet Jacint Verdaguer has just died. More than a century later, a young filmmaker is shooting a movie around Vil·la Joana, the manor where the poet passed his last days.
- DirectorLynne SachsThe winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a "man's world." It touches on everything from the female form's depiction in Renaissance art to the school of 19th century "scientific" thought equating "abnormal" physiognomy with criminality. This adventurous collage also features the filmmaker's own diaristic recollections (notably of being fitted for a diaphragm by a cold, intimidating doctor), poetical staged sequences, other women's audio testimonies, an old classroom instructional reel about menstruation, prose by Gertrude Stein and feminine "ideals" like the undulating young woman performing in fish-tail costumes at Florida's kitschy Weeki-Wachee Springs "Underwater Mermaid Theater." - Dennis Harvey
- DirectorChick StrandLOOSE ENDS is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness ... an insensitive uninvolvement in the human condition and our own humanity.
- DirectorFränzi MadörinMuda MathisSus ZwickStarsBabette ZauggBabette is a collage made of pictures, talks, sounds, poems and music. A video of confrontation, war and art, fiction and documentary, facts and fantasy, experiences and second-hand information. These different poles wander very naturally through the space of this video without disturbing each other or taking itself ad absurdum; no, they stand very close together, because they are closely acquainted.
- DirectorPatricia Andrades DelgadoDaniel Martín NovelWhat are the memories but fiction? We wonder how reliable is memory if some of our closest memories are part of a fantasy or a dream that is not ours. It is quite possible that memories are a trick of the devil and every memory, a sin. We try to revive, not sure that this time, this distant image of our childhood was only a snapshot of a certainty: the inevitability of death. In TRAILS we began a journey in search of a new world and we found only remains of the old world. Images that assaulted and tied us to the new ones. Memories of memories, and a long, heavy chain that is only our life in pictures.**** ¿Qué son los recuerdos sino ficciones? Nos preguntamos cómo de fiable es la memoria si algunos de nuestros recuerdos más cercanos son parte de una fantasía o de un sueño que no nos pertenece. Es muy posible que recordar sea artimaña del diablo y cada recuerdo, un pecado. Tratamos de revivir, sin cerciorarnos de que ese momento, esa imagen lejana de nuestra infancia tan sólo fue la instantánea de una certeza: la inexorabilidad de la muerte. En Senderos emprendimos un viaje en busca de un mundo nuevo y tan sólo dimos con restos del viejo mundo. Imágenes que nos asaltaban y se ataban a las nuevas. Recuerdos de recuerdos, y una larga y pesada cadena que no es más que nuestra vida en imágenes.
- DirectorRick PrelingerStarsWilliam BoyettBill AgeeTim BosworthCollage of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral (industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring the conflicted landscapes of twentieth-century America. The films' often-skewed visions construct an American history filled with horror and hope, unreeling in familiar and unexpected ways. Panorama Ephemera focuses on familiar and mythical activities and images in America (1626-1978). Many creatures and substances that we hardly notice because we feel so used to them take center stage, including pigs, corn, water, telephones, fire, and rice. At first resembling a compilation, it soon reveals itself as a journey through the American landscape over time, and the story begins to emerge between the sequences. The film consists of 64 self-contained film sequences ranging from 5 seconds to 4 minutes in length arranged into a narrative. Unlike many films made using archival footage, it's primarily a combination of sequences rather than a collage of individual shots. The film is populated by American children, animals, farmers, industrial workers, superheroes, pioneers heading West, crash test dummies, and many others.
- DirectorNicolaas SchmidtA double slide projection with 116 images. Varying degrees of roaring ocean waves, in between pictures of pathetic love, as well as representations of human sexuality - dramaturgically alternately and rising prosaic. Concurrently a sound of rhythmically clicking, rushing projectors under a sonorous, crescendo audio collage of a desperately imploring request - an anti-porn, anti-copulation, anti-love film.
- DirectorRon FrickeStarsPatrick DisantoA collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- DirectorLaurie AndersonStarsLaurie AndersonArchieJason BergMultimedia artist Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.
- DirectorArthur LipsettThrough an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
- DirectorArthur LipsettSnippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
- DirectorMarcel DuchampA spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
- DirectorNorman McLarenThe film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.
- DirectorAnge LecciaStarsBrigitte BardotAn endless video loop of a very short sequence from Godard's "Contempt" (1963) shows a close-up of actress Brigitte Bardot sitting in a car, repeatedly saying: "Forget what I told you, Paul. Pretend that I never said anything".
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineMark IsherwoodDavid LocharyJohn Waters' second film, shot on 8mm and featuring Divine for the first time. Essentially a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs, religion, and 'The Wizard of Oz', it was shown with an equally random soundtrack that mixed 'obnoxious radio advertisements, rock'n'roll and press conferences with Lee Harvey Oswald's mother'. It was shown three times in public but never released commercially.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJean-Loup ReynoldA social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsDerek JarmanTilda SwintonJohn QuentinIn his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.
- DirectorJosé Antonio SistiagaA set of words without any meaning, forms the title of the first and only feature film in the history of Spanish cinema made entirely by hand-painting directly on celluloid.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsRosemarie CastoroGinger MichelsMarcia SteinbrecherA rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract shots in this influential structuralist film.
- DirectorJørgen LethStarsJørgen LethKim LarsenAndy WarholAs a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.
- DirectorWolfgang LehmannITS EXISTENCE COMMENCED THIS HOUR works with a constantly changing flow of images (processed found footage and original material), visual-thought-fragments, bodies, memories, desires, and hallucinations. The film is a study in contemplation. What is not to understand that he is meditative quiet. The film plays with streams of images that do not undergo any narrative development and is backed by a minimalistic music with a metallic bell-like sound. It is a state of perception that the film wants to trigger and perception is always subject to subjective experience. Which means that every viewer will probably have his own interpretation. The audience has to let himself into the film and slide away by the sounds and imagery metamorphoses, and is invited to develop his own thoughts. ITS EXISTENCE COMMENCED THIS HOUR is filmic poetry, the film runs exactly one hour - the film needs this space and this time in order to give the perception the space to forget the perceived time and to get in a continuum, in which one can drift. In this respect, the film requires much of its observers to let go of the idea of the conventional narrative presentation that creates the dramaturgy with the help of excitement. ITS EXISTENCE COMMENCED THIS HOUR is inspired by minimal music, drone music and non-European music dramaturgy like gamelan and raga.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorDavid LynchA 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerLewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanImpersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
- DirectorMichael SnowExperimental short in which sentences are formed by displaying one word at a time and at alternating speeds.