EXPRMNTL
Oct 08, 2016 | IMDB 0
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Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRMNTL’, dedicated to experimental cinema, and would become a mythical gathering of the avant-garde…
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The Mind and the Crime
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IMDB 4 | Jan , 1997
Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.The Autumn Alley
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1997
A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.Gems
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2018
"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."Bird Blinds
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2018
Safe places to view from.Spring Masks
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2018
Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
IMDB 10 | Oct , 1985
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.The Death of Father Men
IMDB 1 | Mar , 2018
Alexander V. Men was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian and writer, whose influence is felt among Christians, both in Russia and abroad. He was murdered on September 9th, 1990.The Magic Sun
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1966
Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies and instruments. A brilliant tribute to the Sun King by another brilliant supra-planetary sovereign. (Eye of Sound)Night Flight: Born Again
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2016
Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and awesome thing on cable television in the ’80s.” This ‘Best Of’ episode features some of the most memorable moments of Night Flight's near-decade long run including restored interviews and segments from Kate Bush, New Wave Theatre, David Lynch, Prince, Wendy O Williams, Divine, Billy Idol, Johnny Rotten, and much more Night Flight treasures from the archive.Just Hold Still
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 1989
In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he locates simple mysteries. Just Hold Still is comprised of an interconnected series of short works and collaborations that explore the gray area between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.Decasia: The State of Decay
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2002
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.Window
IMDB 3 | Dec , 1976
"This is taking a Super 8mm camera around with me wherever I go and I'm very interested in windows at this time of travel, and I'm trying to make a variety of different statements about the concept of window." - S.B.Didactica Magna: Against the Grain
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2012
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IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 2020
What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when speech is ignored, and the voice fades.Galaxie
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1966
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IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1961
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IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2003
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and length from this body of autonomy. Different images between figuration and abstraction are created by meaning and phenomenon letting the decoupage revealing a piece of a strange underworld. I built it like a window opened to the fresh air of improvisation by familiar landscapes, those exact moments articulating a connection between light and movement."3 Dreams of Horses
IMDB 4 | Dec , 2017
Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned the language of our masters. Though we couldn’t help wondering why so few of you bothered to learn ours. Three scenes featuring horses, remembering Jacinto. The first is a daytime forest haunting that winds up at a carousel, the second a rainy street in Portugal, the finale a nighttime vigil of fire and water.365 Day Project
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.