Films that break conventions and invent themselves new forms in order to tell the world differently. Films that will change your perspective and open the window on unexplored possibilities, transforming reality by inventing new points of view by which we can contemplate it.
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Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
_Mountain Fire Personnel_ is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire spanning 27,000 acres in Southern California. The film surveys the response from firefighters and State Prisoners by using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork.
_Coyolxauhqui_ recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
For some reason, there is very little snow in the winter of 2020 on the Shiretoko Peninsula, a special place located in the northernmost part of Japan where rare wild animals coexist with humans. The typical drift ice hasn’t appeared yet, either. Although worried, the inhabitants of the village Shari continue their daily affairs. In these rural surroundings, director Nao Yoshigai, introduces a ...
Erotic yet tender, _Dyketactics_ is probably the first film about lesbian love made by a lesbian.
Essential to the making of the film was an examination of still photographs. Stills were used as clues to the past. Clues that would bring order and meaning to significant memories. (Philip Hoffman)
The filmmaker offers passers-by a mask and invites them to become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.
Four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of artist Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Snow.
Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: "How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?"
In April 1973, 5,000 people demonstrated in Kitchener, Ontario, in support for the strike of the Dare biscuit factory workers. Hundreds of feet and legs waving, walking and picketing. A work that combines political awareness, an aesthetic point of view and a sense of humour typical of Wieland's work.
WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
Duration: 30 minutesIn 1967, Michael Snow made _Wavelength_, a film that captured the attention of audiences and critics with its formality, its soundtrack and its long-drawn-out traversing of a space. It became a classic of avant-garde filmmaking. Thirty-six years later, Snow created a new work by digitizing the original material and proposing simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the first fi...
Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
_Mountain Fire Personnel_ is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire spanning 27,000 acres in Southern California. The film surveys the response from firefighters and State Prisoners by using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork.
_Coyolxauhqui_ recasts the mythical dismemberment of the Aztec Moon goddess Coyolxauhqui by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war, the Sun and human sacrifice. The film is a poem of perception, one that unveils how contemporary Mexican femicide is linked to a patriarchal history with roots in deeper cultural constructs.
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
For some reason, there is very little snow in the winter of 2020 on the Shiretoko Peninsula, a special place located in the northernmost part of Japan where rare wild animals coexist with humans. The typical drift ice hasn’t appeared yet, either. Although worried, the inhabitants of the village Shari continue their daily affairs. In these rural surroundings, director Nao Yoshigai, introduces a ...
Erotic yet tender, _Dyketactics_ is probably the first film about lesbian love made by a lesbian.
Essential to the making of the film was an examination of still photographs. Stills were used as clues to the past. Clues that would bring order and meaning to significant memories. (Philip Hoffman)
The filmmaker offers passers-by a mask and invites them to become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.
Four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of artist Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Snow.
Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: "How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?"
In April 1973, 5,000 people demonstrated in Kitchener, Ontario, in support for the strike of the Dare biscuit factory workers. Hundreds of feet and legs waving, walking and picketing. A work that combines political awareness, an aesthetic point of view and a sense of humour typical of Wieland's work.
WVLNT : Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time
Duration: 30 minutesIn 1967, Michael Snow made _Wavelength_, a film that captured the attention of audiences and critics with its formality, its soundtrack and its long-drawn-out traversing of a space. It became a classic of avant-garde filmmaking. Thirty-six years later, Snow created a new work by digitizing the original material and proposing simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the first fi...