Topic: Experimental Cinema

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Plot Composition from journals kept during 1976-78. Moving Kodak snapshots taken during travels abroad and while at work back home; random glimpses of sites seen and persons visited, fragments of afternoon...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Plot An extraordinary montage of urban Russian life in 1929, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Direction Robert Beavers

Plot A moving testament to existences past and present, this portrait of a space once inhabited by filmmaker Robert Beavers adheres to a precise, yet enigmatic sound-image construction that carries rare...

Direction James Benning

Plot American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. The film encourages a kind of perverse nostalgia for 'the good...

Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande. (N.D.)

Direction Klaus Wyborny

Direction Edward Owens

Cast Gloria Rich · John Butkovich · Joellyn Pullam · Micheal Hunt

Plot Tomorrow’s Promise is a film about vacantness. Which physically does ‘begin’, reversed, upside down on the screen […] suddenly another such position is taken (not in reverse), this time by...

Direction Marguerite Duras

Cast Delphine Seyrig · Nicole Hiss · Michael Lonsdale · Sylvie Nuytten

Plot Film consists almost entirely of images of the deserted, deteriorating Rothschild palace near Reims, and uses the soundtrack of India Song.

Direction Guy Sherwin

Direction Marjorie Keller

Plot Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II:...

Direction Marjorie Keller

Plot B. Ruby Rich writes, "MISCONCEPTION is composed of six parts that together chronicle the experience of one woman and her husband during the course of her natural childbirth. The film...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Peter Kubelka · James Broughton · William S. Burroughs · Robert Frank

Plot "A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends,...

Direction Stan Brakhage

Direction R. Bruce Elder

Direction Guy Sherwin

Direction Amy Halpern

Direction Artour Aristakisian

Plot Acclaimed docudrama that received many international awards. Hands is an innovative film which returns us to the very roots of cinema. Although usually described as docudrama, like any new phenomenon...

Direction Ute Aurand

Plot "India" was developed out of my three journeys to Pune in 2001, 2002 and 2004. I arrived in a forgein country and felt surprisingly familiar in the foreign. There in...

Direction Mani Kaul