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- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- 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.
- Jonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister's families and children.
- Evocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- 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.
- Chronicle of a film in progress.
- 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.
- When a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.
- Since her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- 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.
- 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.
- An adaptation of the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Knights of the Round Table," in which Adolpho Arrietta plays the role of Merlin.
- 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).
- 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.
- Takahiko Iimura is very consistent in exploring a certain kind of art-science. His concern with the experience of time, its measured passage and the analogy between time and space, has been the main recurring theme at the core of his work.
- Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
- An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- A piano concert by Charlemagne Palestine, filmed on super-8 and optically printed. Each film frame corresponds to a note in the concert; as the music speeds up, photography becomes cinema.
- Silent portrait of underground filmmaker Jerry Jofen.
- 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.
- A Japanese concept of space/time, called "Ma" (or the interconnectiveness of space and time), is realized through the zen garden of Ryoan-Ji.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This documentary follows the making of "Lucy en miroir" of Raphaël Bassan.
- Filmed in 1971, this film includes images of Moscow the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- This video installation at Toyko's American Center continues and expands upon explorations of the semiotic differences between Japanese and Western cultures through the medium of video that filmmaker Takahiko Iimura began in the 70s.
- 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.
- 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.
- Avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura compares the dialectics of images and language, live video image and the viewer, as well as the 'subject' and the 'object' to the complex Yin/Yang principle. A compilation of seven short films.
- 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.