Arabian Nights (1974) is a provocative and explicit film that delves into the sensuality and sexual escapades found in the classic tales from One Thousand and One Nights. The movie explores themes of sexual promiscuity, loss of virginity, and human transformation. It features explicit sexual content, including close-up shots of genitalia and scenes depicting sexual acts. Additionally, the film includes scenes of violence, such as beheadings and castrations, as well as animal cruelty.
Medea, a woman of great power and intellect, is betrayed by her husband Jason. In a fit of rage, she takes revenge by killing their two children and Jason's new bride. The film explores themes of love, revenge, and the consequences of betrayal.
Set in 1960s Paris, the film follows a married woman as she grapples with her crumbling marriage and explores her desires. She navigates through a series of encounters and experiences that challenge societal norms and expectations, leading her to question her own sense of identity and happiness.
Fellini's Casanova is a biographical drama that delves into the life of Giacomo Casanova, the renowned Italian adventurer and writer. Set in 18th-century Venice, the film explores Casanova's escapades, his relationships with women, and his encounters with the Catholic Church and the Inquisition. With its grotesque imagery and nonlinear narrative, Fellini's Casanova offers a unique and captivating portrayal of a legendary figure.
A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color from one of France’s most seductively watchable actors, set to an album's worth of psychedelic prog rock (performed by the Delired Cameleon Family, a group featuring members of French band Clearlight).
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
Homeo is a short documentary film released in 1967 that showcases the journey of a young artist exploring the world of psychedelics. It provides an intimate diary-like account of the artist's experiences and captures the transformative impact of psychadelics on his creative process.
Chromo sud is a documentary film from 1968 that delves into the world of drugs and psychedelics. The film serves as a diary-like account of drug use during the 60s, focusing on the experiences and perceptions of individuals. It offers a glimpse into the influence of drugs on society and the broader cultural context of the time. With its unique approach, Chromo sud explores the psychadelic era in a thought-provoking and visually captivating manner.
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ‘68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci. Rediscovered in a basement in 1999, this silent film appears to be one of Clémenti’s most purely beautiful and concentrated works, at times recalling Brakhage and Eisenstein. - MUBI
A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its course.
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic adventures of two sailors through the world's seaports in the manner of a cut-rate silent movie.
Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very high esteem by Pierre Clémenti.
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