Experimental

  • Wigwolf – The Wet Ones (2021)

    2021-2030CampExperimentalUSAWigwolf

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    The Wet Ones is like The Mr. Bill Show on crack, and that is entirely on purpose. Using the tagline “a movie made by maniacs, for maniacs,” this psychedelic, action figure starring, splatterfest more than lives up to it. It is written and directed by musician/filmmaker Wigwolf, who plays guitar while wearing a werewolf mask, long, flowing wig, and a tutu. It features homemade sets with hand-mutilated dolls having adventures and stabbing each other in the p***y.
    One doll featured prominently has a red shock wig and an enormous hard-on and goes by Doctor AIDS (Wigwolf). It also has a Katy Perry doll that gets into all sorts of peril. Her adventures include being attacked by one of the sisters from Jack Hill’s Spider Baby (Rachel Alig) before fighting against the evil corporate influence of Titanic Sinclair. There is also Bunnula the vampire rabbit, Elvis at the disco (Morris Slater Diamond), Joan of Arc (Lauren Barrett), and J.R. Jickenjacker (Jamie Robert MacDougall).Read More »

  • Ayreen Anastas – Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005) (DVD)

    Ayreen Anastas2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalPalestine

    “Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini’s trip to Palestine in his film, Seeking Locations in Palestine for The Gospel According to Matthew (1963). It adapts his script into a route map superimposed on the current landscape, creating contradictions and breaks between the visual and the audible, the expected and the real. The video explores the question of repetition. For Heidegger Wiederholung ‘repetition, retrieval’ is one of the terms he uses for the appropriate attitude toward the past. Read More »

  • Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Adrian Jackson – Here for Life (2019)

    Andrea Luka Zimmerman2011-2020Adrian JacksonDocumentaryExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    In Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson’s freewheeling kaleidoscopic film Here for Life, place is again of paramount importance. We’re in Hackney in rapidly gentrifying east London, full of fenced-off, securitised spaces where the large cast of marginalised real-life characters the directors have assembled must endure the pain of displacement together with other day-to-day difficulties – recovery from addiction, domestic violence, isolation, terrible life losses.Read More »

  • Antoine d’Agata – La vie nue AKA The Bare Life (2020)

    Antoine d'Agata2011-2020ExperimentalFranceShort Film

    Synopsis
    The short film “La vie nue” (The Bare Life) is based on Virus, a series of pictures taken by Antoine d’Agata in the streets and the hospitals during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Read More »

  • Karsten Krause & Philip Widmann – Szenario (2014)

    Karsten Krause2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalGermanyPhilip Widmann

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    The contents of a black briefcase lead us into a superficially well-ordered life in West Germany in 1970, in a city that can be seen as representative of the entire country. In this briefcase: the meticulous documentation of an affair between the small business owner Hans and his secretary Monika.Read More »

  • Alain Mazars – Rouges Silences (1979)

    1971-1980Alain MazarsExperimentalFrance

    Quote:
    Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account. Some very close-ups of flowers, insects, are reminiscent of the prose of a Caillois that I did not know until this film equivalent cinema. There is a double movement in this film. At the same time, a sort of restraint of the plans and a bulimia, a frenzy to film, perhaps this is what mainly troubles us and takes us into a way of seeing that was unknown to us.Read More »

  • Raúl Perrone – Ituzaingo V3rit4 (2019)

    Raúl Perrone2011-2020ArgentinaExperimental

    Synopsis
    Perrone returns with a new exploration of his quintessential aesthetic territory, Ituzaingó. This time the night in the western city exudes cinema and theatre. Actors, actresses, directors and producers parade like daffodils from the underworld in a world of jealousy, hypocrisy, idiocy and much more.
    (FILMAFFINITY)Read More »

  • Larry Gottheim – Barn Rushes (1971)

    Larry Gottheim1971-1980ExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    Quote:
    The long way around the barn never looked so good. Larry Gottheim composed BARN RUSHES from eight tracking shots tracing the same arc around a barn in different conditions. The fact that nothing changes makes it all the much more apparent that everything does: a meditative approach that Tony Conrad described as “a textbook of atmosphere, camera vision and lighting, as they relate personal concept to purely visual relationships.” The simplicity of the film’s structure echoes the functional design of the barn while simultaneously suggesting a distinctly cinematic equivalent to Claude Monet’s serial views of Rouen Cathedral. – Max GoldbergRead More »

  • Ken Jacobs – The Georgetown Loop (1996)

    Ken Jacobs1991-2000ExperimentalShort FilmUSA

    THE GEORGETOWN LOOP
    (Ken Jacobs, 1996, 11m, widescreen 35mm film, black and white, silent)

    Originally photographed in 1903, US Library of Congress collection. New arrangement in 1996 by Ken Jacobs, assisted by Florence Jacobs. 35mm optical rephotography by Sam Bush, Western Cine, Denver.

    I’ve been raiding the Paper Print Collection of the Library Of Congress in Washington, DC, since the late 1960s with TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON. It’s a preserve of early cinema. Until 1912, in order to copyright film, one deposited with the library a positive from the negative printed on paper, unprojectable, but – unlike nitrate prints – capable of weathering the years without Crumbling into chemical volatility. And there the stacks rested, safely out of mind, hundreds and hundreds of silent rolls most less than 30 meters, many Edisons, American Mutoscope And Biograph, Gaumont, Lubin, Vitagraph ; cine-snatches of life as it was lived, vaudevillians, proto-dramas, and too many state parades.Read More »

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