Topic: Experimental Cinema

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Synopsis A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring.

Direction Teo Hernández

Cast Jakobois · Gaël Badaud · Michel Nedjar · Pascal Martin

Synopsis Lacrima Christi, third part of the tetralogy Le Corps de la Passion (The Body of the Passion, 1977-1980), is inspired by Christian mythology, from which it draws a creative transformation force, in a search for identity that questions the two...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Synopsis After a difficult personal period for the filmmaker, Brakhage's marriage to his second wife Marilyn Jull and the couple's subsequent travels around the US and Canada inspired this series of films about the (North) American landscape, which "rekindled [Brakhage's] confidence...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Synopsis Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky composed a tone poem devoted to images capturing the change of seasons as well as the stuff of daily life. Shot over four years, the silent two-part film (split between spring-summer and fall-winter) compresses a year's...

Direction Rick Hancox

Cast Amanda Hancox · Scot Denton · Bill Hancox · Mary Hancox

Synopsis "Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and autobiographical filmmaking are thrown into question. Using his camera to record a visit out east by train to spend Christmas...

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Parker Tyler · Storm De Hirsch · Amy Taubin · Donald Droll

Synopsis In 1966, Gregory Markopoulos filmed portraits of notable figures in the New York art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Markopoulos populated his Galaxie with a remarkable constellation of personalities, ranging from those in his immediate circle of...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Gisela Trowe · Carla Egerer · Rosemarie Heinikel · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

Direction David Brooks

Synopsis A non-narrative patchwork of images, light, music, conversation, news headlines, the passing of generations, and, ultimately, a journey from New York City to Martha's Vineyard in an attempt to discover a man named Chandler Moore.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Synopsis Markopoulos is shown by Beavers at the beach with a fast editing.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Synopsis Threnody is a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena… an offering to a friend who died. It is the second of two devotional songs, the first being The Visitation. These two films were preceeded by...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Synopsis "Alaya manages a perfection of ‘musical’ light across a space of time greater in length than would seem possible... and with minimal means of line and tone. After about three minutes I began to be aware of the subtlety of...

Direction Ute Aurand

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Synopsis Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot...

Direction Larry Gottheim

Direction Jonas Mekas

Synopsis Five-hour long diary film assembled by hand from an archive of fifty years worth of recordings of his life.

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Direction Marjorie Keller

Synopsis The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence, the girl yearning for the power of her sex

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Synopsis From the Notebook of ... was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's process. These two elements suggest an implicit comparison between the treatment of space...

Direction Jean-Claude Rousseau