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- DirectorMichael SnowOne of most influential films in avant-garde cinema, this experimental film by Michael Snow was shot over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm, and consists entirely of preprogrammed movements. Snow programmed all the robotic movements so that they never moved the same way twice, so there are differences in every motion of the camera.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsMargaret MercierVincent WarrenTwo ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- DirectorJames Benning
- 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.
- DirectorJames BenningA static shot of a desert train track.
- DirectorJean EpsteinIn a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid's boyfriend decides to sail away. Worried, the young maid ask for help to a mysterious old man and his magical crystal ball in order to calm down the rough seas.
- DirectorJosé Luis GuerínStarsJuliette GautierIvon OrvainAnne Céline AucheA silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.
- DirectorMalcolm le Gricemanipulations of stock footage featuring a horse.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- DirectorWerner NekesAn experimental short film that depicts habitable and uninhabited locations in a dizzying fashion.
- DirectorSharon LockhartStarsNaomi HasegawaEri HashimotoEmi IshidaThis non-narrative film depicts the routines of a girls' basketball team in a junior high school near Tokyo. Shot with a stationary camera, it consists of six ten-minute segments, some of which show the girls' routine exercises, others of which are choreographed.
- DirectorJames BenningSixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.
- DirectorCharlemagne PalestineStarsCharlemagne PalestineCharlemagne Palestine, holding a cheap black-and-white video camera, rides four of the rides at Coney Island, including the world-famous Cyclone roller coaster and, with his voice, keens his trademark drones while the rides progress, which, combined with the cacophony of sound that emanates from the rides, creates another version of the walls of sound for which he is known.
- DirectorPat O'NeillStarsJoel LorimenBeth BlockGeorge LockwoodA moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.
- DirectorJean-Claude Rousseau
- DirectorGregory J. MarkopoulosAn experimental short from Gregory J. Markopoulos which acquires it's title from the color of the walls of the apartment where it is filmed.
- DirectorKen JacobsGhosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame.
- DirectorSchmelzdahinIn "Stadt in Flammen" the scenes melt due to overheating, producing an infernal image impression of disappearance. The images no longer show a figuratively represented scene, but rather its dissolution as a temporal process.
- DirectorMaya DerenAlexander HammidStarsMaya DerenAlexander HammidA woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- DirectorMartin ArnoldStarsPhillip AlfordMary BadhamGregory PeckAn avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- DirectorCharles DekeukeleireStarsYvonne Selma
- DirectorMargaret TaitStarsMargaret TaitA short film from Margaret Tait capturing the daily life of her mother, Ga.
- DirectorArtavazd PeleshianA man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.
- 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.
- DirectorJack ChambersA surreal sequence of images of nature and London, Ontario, life and death.
- DirectorSharon LockhartWatching & observing. A meditation.
- DirectorSaul Levine
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter WestleyAad WirtzMichael Murray92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with "Fall."
- DirectorMartin ArnoldArnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But "Pièce Touchée" is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions, and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.
- DirectorJames BenningAn experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieTongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably vague directions. The attempt is made over and over because of conflicting interpretations of the instructions.
- DirectorJoseph CornellStarsCharles BickfordRose HobartNoble JohnsonFootage selected from 'East of Borneo' and other films is arranged and edited so as to highlight actress Rose Hobart.
- DirectorStan BrakhageTime-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.
- DirectorErnie GehrAn experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.
- DirectorMichael SnowStarsHollis FramptonLyne GrossmanNaoto NakazawaClaimed by some to be one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental, indeed.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJean DebucourtMarguerite GanceCharles LamyAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsRaymond DubreuilEmma GyntRobert MirfeuilTired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
- DirectorBarbara HammerOne-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy locations as the home of an ancient sun calendar in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; the site of Ohio Valley Mound cultures; the Golden Gate and Brooklyn Bridges; and beyond. Scientists have noted that light rays curve at the outer edges of the universe, leading them to theorize that time also bends. Inspired by this idea, Hammer used an extreme wide angle lens and "one frame of film per foot of physical space" to simulate the concept of bent time.
- DirectorStandish LawderAn unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom the observer is unable to reach as his or her trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
- DirectorJames BenningAmerican trains, known to the director from trips across the country, are seen in motion in 43 shots from a fixed perspective.
- DirectorHenri StorckBelgian director Henri Storck presents a tribute to one of the most well-known spots in Belgium: the Ostende beach. Filming from everyone and everything, gathering a small collection of eight short films made in the 1920's, Storck invites the audience to feel the beach, the port, the surf, the wind and the dunes, giving us more than what the real images can really evoke, reaching a surreal level.
- DirectorErnie GehrAn experimental short in which San Francisco is viewed from an elevator moving up and down 24 floors.
- DirectorWerner Nekes
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiStarsMaurice BaquetJean-Marie BonMartine CoutureA surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.
- DirectorStan BrakhageIn his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsFrank AlbettaBarbara DiBenedettoA man and woman in conversation, arguing till roistering and we see gestures and words that are repeated with rough technique.
- DirectorPeter B. HuttonRoiling clouds of smoke consume the screen, the billowing white changing to heavy black. A single stream of water struggles to battle smoking ruins. The small lone engine's crew sits dumping what they can, and the scene continues barely checked from any angle. A final three man hose team face down a thundering blaze threatening to overtake the shelter they defend.
- DirectorJames BenningShots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
- DirectorKen JacobsIn Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise its story is told by director Ken Jacobs but without the conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in the 17th century, he morphs, flickering images that look like photo-negatives. This is accompanied by industrial sound and music provided by John Zorn and Ikue Mori.
- DirectorSharon LockhartStarsAmy BatesJessica BlainMatthew BlainSet in a small town in the Sierra Nevadas, Pine Flat is a look at youth and a meditation on nature, socialization, and solitude.
- DirectorStan BrakhageDante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.
- DirectorMichael SnowStarsAllan KaprowEmmett WilliamsMax NeuhausA camera in a classroom continuously sways back and forth at various speeds as people occasionally move around the setting.
- DirectorJames Benning47 roads across the United States.
- DirectorMorgan Fisher
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLaurent TerzieffBernadette LafontStanislas RobiolleA 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
- DirectorStan BrakhageNotes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
- DirectorJames BenningA sunset filmed through a forest until the fall of the night.
- DirectorPat O'NeillAn examination of certain aspects of the geography of California as the ground for cinematic disruption and restatement.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsLilian ConstantiniAn avant-garde dance short, integrating slow motion, and cutting between the movements of a ballerina, close-ups of machinery and images of nature.
- DirectorRobert BreerRob Breer blazing the trail.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsMichael SnowFrampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenLines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAn experiment in abstract film-making, this short film (as its name implies) consists only of vertical lines, drawn directly onto each film frame, that change in response to music.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA montage of images of film making is followed by a silent western story.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsYvonne MarquisA soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one - in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20s feel.
- DirectorArtavazd PeleshianMonumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
- DirectorHollis FramptonThis Experiment is a Scenario who Have 4 Act titled (1-4) Tableau. Poetic Justice is story about lovers who holding camera, Third Tableau is have Middle Shot and other Tableau is on various camera shot.
- DirectorJames BenningLos Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film.
- DirectorGunvor NelsonStarsOona NelsonA 9-year-old girl approaches self-awareness in a hauntingly dreamlike frolic in the great outdoors.
- DirectorJames BenningGrand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of events dealing with the historical development of the number pi, Benning's travels, and homages to Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow (Owen Land), and Yvonne Rainer.
- DirectorMichael SnowStarsChantal AkermanSteve AnkerAnne-MarieSnow's ambitious attempt at exploring the formal intricacies and artificialities of the sound cinema.
- DirectorMartin ArnoldStarsMickey RooneyJudy GarlandGrace HayesMickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.
- DirectorSu FriedrichStarsJessica MeyersonIn a series of 26 short autobiographical vignettes, Su Friedrich methodically analyzes and reflects on her childhood and the emotional scars left by her detached and self-involved father.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA short film by Bruce Baillie in which he documents his journey across North America.
- DirectorBarbara HammerAn experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments with viewing both the air, the water, and the surface of the water at the same time. The tempo changes from calm to frenzied later in the movie as the water is more disturbed.
- DirectorMartin ArnoldThe avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold subjects a legendary American horror movie of 1941 to radical cinematographic surgery.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA short experimental film about the Dakota Sioux directed by Bruce Baillie.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsPeter BeardEd EmshwillerKen JacobsArtist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.
- 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.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasStan BrakhageRobert BreerDirector Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
- DirectorPaul SharitsTwo archive medical films of different patients having seizures are flickered quickly, accompanied by a brainwave sound.
- DirectorMalcolm le GriceThe initial use of red and green filters gives way to a broad variety of colors and the introduction of abstract strips of light which are drawn through the printer begins to build an image which becomes graphically and spatially complex.
- DirectorChris Welsby
- DirectorNorman McLarenA film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
- DirectorPaul SharitsA split-screen film consisting of rapidly flashing colors, shapes, patterns, letters, words, and images.
- DirectorRalph SteinerA study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieJean WilliamsAn anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
- DirectorG.W. BitzerIn one long take, the camera shows us the journey of a subway train as it makes its way from Union Square to the old Grand Central Station.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorJames BenningImages of Hank Aaron memorabilia are displayed over the handwritten diaries of would be assassin Arthur Bremer, set to a soundtrack of alternating political news clips and popular songs from Aaron's career.
- DirectorJennifer Todd ReevesA montage of image and sound representing the dreams of a light sleeper whilst travelling on a train.
- DirectorChristopher MaclaineA short film which documents a Scottish dance festival.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsRita ChristianiMaya DerenAnaïs NinAn experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
- DirectorDeborah StratmanA meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.
- 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.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short by Stan Brakhage which combines and overlaps various lights, colors, and footage.