Synopsis
Immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, amateur detectives took to the Internet chat rooms to try and find the culprits. Users on reddit, 4chan and other gathering spots poured over photographs uploaded to the sites, looking for any detail that might point to the guilt of potential suspects. Using texts and jpegs culled from these investigations, Watching the Detectives narrates the process of crowdsourcing culpability.Read More »
Experimental
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Chris Kennedy – Watching the Detectives (2017)
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Takashi Ito – Venus (1990)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort FilmTakashi Ito wrote:
In the early afternoon, a mother holding her child stands still in the park of a housing project. The kind of sight that is a symbol of beauty and love. Be as that may be, they have no face. The camera is aimed persistently at the spot from which they have vanished as if to find something. A work that began out of the search to understand the relation between the family and the self.Read More » -
Shun Ikezoe – Jujuba (2019)
2011-2020ExperimentalJapanShort FilmShun IkezoeShun Ikezoe wrote:
People can never really understand each other. Thinking back, I feel this way because of my former mother-in-law. That time, when Kansai dialect and Sichuan Chinese flew back and forth around me and I called my mother Sis, is recreated on expired 8 millimeter film. The expiration date of the film used is the same year that she walked out on us.Read More » -
Gil J. Wolman – L’Anticoncept (1952)
1951-1960ExperimentalFranceGil J. WolmanAn imageless film, The Anticoncept was first screened on 11 February 1952 at the cinema club “Avant-Garde 52,” where it was projected upon a large white weather balloon.
It consisted of blank illumination accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack. The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952—when the Lettrists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month, they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only. The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Lettrist journal Ion (1952; reprinted Jean-Paul Rocher, 1999)Read More » -
Åke Karlung – Generalrepetition för självmord AKA General Rehearsal for Suicide (1963)
1961-1970Åke KarlungExperimentalSilentSwedenA surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.
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Ett surrealistiskt montage som angriper popkulturen och konstvärlden av konstnären och filmaren Åke Karlung, en av den svenska experimentfilmens pionjärer.Read More » -
Claudine Eizykman & Dominique Avron & Guy Fihman & Jean-François Lyotard – L’autre scène (1972)
Claudine Eizykman1971-1980Dominique AvronExperimentalFranceGuy FihmanJean-François LyotardShort FilmIn L’Autre Scène, the images and the sound material try to manifest the mechanism of an advertisement around the blade.Read More »
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Takashi Ito – Thunder (1982)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort FilmA woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
A film that could be a unified scheme produced by layering together a number of axes of semiotic systems. With the frame as the basic unit, the film is composed by designing an accumulation of symbols representing reactions to light.Read More »
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Takashi Ito – Spacy (1981)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort FilmSet of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
700 continuous still photographs which are re-photographed frame by frame with linear, circular, and parabolic movements going up and down. This creates a crazy roller coaster out of this peaceful gymnasium shot in the dark.Read More »
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Takashi Ito – Takashi Ito: Performances (2001-2009)
Takashi Ito2001-2010ExperimentalJapanPerformanceDouble (2001)
A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in 2001.Read More »