Topic: Experimental Cinema

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot 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...

Direction Teo Hernández

Cast Jakobois · Gaël Badaud · Michel Nedjar · Pascal Martin

Plot 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...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Plot 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...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot 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...

Direction Rick Hancox

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

Plot "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...

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

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

Plot 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...

Direction Werner Schroeter

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

Plot 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...

Direction David Brooks

Plot 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...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

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

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot 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...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot "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...

Direction Ute Aurand

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot 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...

Direction Larry Gottheim

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot 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

Plot 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,...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot 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...

Direction Jean-Claude Rousseau