Experimental

  • Deborah Stratman – Last Things (2023)

    Deborah Stratman2021-2030DocumentaryExperimentalUSA
    Last Things (2023)
    Last Things (2023)

    Synopsis:
    The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci fi before it was a genre. The film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also central are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Robert Hazen’s theory of Mineral Evolution, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, the Symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, multi-species scenarios of Donna Haraway, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film’s science-fictional / science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.Read More »

  • Kamal Swaroop – Rangbhoomi (2013)

    Kamal Swaroop2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalIndia
    Rangbhoomi (2013)
    Rangbhoomi (2013)

    Rangbhoomi follows the filmmaker as he attempts to trace Dadasaheb Phalke’s life in Varanasi, where Phalke withdrew, disillusioned with the world of cinema, and decided to take up theatre. During his life there, Phalke wrote a semi-autobiographical play titled Rangbhoomi, which forms the core of this film.Read More »

  • Armand Rovira & Saida Benzal – Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)

    Armand Rovira2011-2020DramaExperimentalSaida BenzalSpain
    Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)
    Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)

    Four celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.Read More »

  • Carlos Reichenbach – Extremos do Prazer (1984)

    Carlos Reichenbach1981-1990BrazilExperimental
    Extremos do Prazer (1984)
    Extremos do Prazer (1984)

    Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe’s country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz’s world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.Read More »

  • Unglee – Radio Serpent (1980)

    1971-1980ExperimentalFranceUnglee
    Radio Serpent (1980)
    Radio Serpent (1980)

    In the apartment of Benjamin Baltimore, cinema poster designer, we discover the universe of the early 80’s in Paris.Read More »

  • Christian Schocher – Reisender Krieger (1981)

    1981-1990Christian SchocherDramaExperimentalSwitzerland
    Reisender Krieger (1981)
    Reisender Krieger (1981)

    This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlours.
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  • Jørgen Leth – Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee AKA Eddy Merckx i nærheden af en kop kaffe (1973)

    1971-1980DenmarkExperimentalJørgen LethShort Film
    Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee (1973)
    Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee (1973)

    From: IMDB
    With a slow introductory zoom onto Leth in a TV studio and a corresponding zoom out at the end Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee may be structured in the classical style but an extremely unusual TV production is involved: in the studio Leth reads from his poetry while a subtitle – like in Life in Denmark – pedantically but ambiguously presents observations and describes what is going on. The subtitles seem to serve as a medium for the director’s deliberations as the TV film progresses, starting with the following manifesto: “I have no desire to save you or admonish you or get to know you. But I would like to try to entertain you for a while with words, sounds, and images”. Alternating with poetry readings from the studio the second half of the film consists of moments from the 1970 Tour de France, including the cobbled roads of Northern France, from Mont Ventoux, and from the cathedral dash in Rouen… Written by AnonymousRead More »

  • Zachary Strong – Visions of Clair (1977)

    Zachary Strong1971-1980EroticaExperimentalUSA
    Visions of Clair (1977)
    Visions of Clair (1977)

    Quote:
    This true ‘masterpiece’ of ‘experimental erotica’ is rather hard-to-find, thus the rip is not of the greatest quality, but it is certainly watchable.

    Tagline: “a film in the style of Emmanuelle but with the raw passion of The Story of O”

    What the original uploader had to say about the film:

    Okay, so having watched this film, it is abundantly obvious that drugs were way better in the 70’s: much more potent, and much less stigma. The result is some fantastic entertainment that would have no business being produced in this day and age.
    Just as cinema in general was more unbridled and far more director-centric in the 70’s, the porn industry had it’s moments too. This film definitely belongs in the cannon of bizzarro classics.Read More »

  • Péter Forgács – The Danube Exodus (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalHolocaust HistoryHungaryPéter Forgács
    The Danube Exodus (1998)
    The Danube Exodus (1998)

    Quote:
    He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.

    In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.
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