Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.
La Classe américaine is a comedy movie that parodies American cinema. It follows an actor overcoming various obstacles, including car accidents and assumed deaths, while exploring different styles and tackling topics like racism. With its self-righteousness and speaking nonsense, the film creates a hilarious and nonsensical atmosphere.
SQUARING THE CIRCLE is a documentary that explores the journey of Hipgnosis, the legendary album art design studio. Founded by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey 'Po' Powell, Hipgnosis created timeless and influential album covers, revolutionizing the music industry. This film takes viewers on a captivating journey through the vibrant era of rock music, showcasing the genius and impact of Hipgnosis. Featuring interviews with renowned musicians and artists, SQUARING THE CIRCLE paints a vivid picture of the creative process and the profound influence of album artwork on popular culture.
Fast Film is a thrilling and adventurous movie that takes the audience on a high-speed train ride through various film genres. It combines elements of classic cinema, found footage, and stop-motion animation to create a unique and entertaining experience. The film follows a hero who must rescue a companion from a monster in a series of fast-paced chase sequences. With its inventive use of frame-by-frame animation and clever storytelling, Fast Film is a must-watch for fans of classic cinema and experimental filmmaking.
The Movie Orgy is a comedy documentary that takes a humorous and nostalgic look at the history of television and film. It features clips from various movies and TV shows, including iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, Tarzan, and Daffy Duck. The film explores topics such as television history, film history, cultural history, and animation history. It also includes bloopers, satirical elements, and scenes from TV commercials. With a collage-style format, The Movie Orgy blends together different genres and themes in a unique and entertaining way.
"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how most beloved characters are subtly more well-off than they should be, how criticisms of the system are crushed, how the rich have become the average in the world of the cinema. And it shows how these stories distort the view of the real world, and are used against you by politicians.
Rose Hobart is a surrealist collage film created by Joseph Cornell. It combines various elements including footage of actress Rose Hobart, African wildlife, and natural elements like lava, water ripples, and an eclipse. The film explores themes of obsession, celebrity worship, and the male gaze.
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
Very Nice, Very Nice is an eccentric and conceptually rich documentary that explores themes of diversity, materialism, and urban setting through a mesmerizing collage of stock footage and photography. It presents a captivating and thought-provoking look at the contradictions and estrangement of modern society.
How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This docu-fictional hybrid production discusses such questions with the help of authentic interview snippets that were edited under the staged plot. We get an insight into the life of an animal couple, who experience typical everyday situations on behalf of us humans. At first, our fox is emotionally contained, while the penguin lady may get wild as hell. With a wink, the filmmakers hold up a mirror to the audience in the cinema.
The author's erotic imagination is mixed between desire and magazine clippings, and the trade of collage becomes a ship that travels from outer space to the city itself.
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa and Yiddish films from the 1930s and 40s.
A Trip Down Memory Lane is a 1965 experimental collage film by Arthur Lipsett, created by editing together images and sound clips from over fifty years of newsreel footage. The film combines footage from a beauty contest, religious procession, failed airflight, automotive and science experiments, animal experimentation, skyscraper construction, military paraphernalia, John D. Rockefeller and scenes of leisure, Richard Nixon and scenes of war, blimps and hot air balloons, and a sword swallower. Lipsett envisioned his film as a kind of cinematic time capsule for future generations.
A glimpse of life through movement and memory, negotiating a narrative through images and sounds both personal and found, private and public, recounting four years of the filmmaker's life, relocating from Iran to the US.
A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.
The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.
Inspired in part by a dream he had of murdering his mother, Brakhage here gives us one of his profoundest meditations on human aggression.
The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.