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Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)

April 2019 •English

The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. Krautrock, Part 1 focuses on German progressive rock, popularly known as Krautrock, from in and around the Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg regions of Germany. Artist featured include Kraftwerk, Neu, Can, Faust and others.

Dog at Window

January 2017 •English

This was my first published short film. It is a film of my two dogs - Chippy in the foreground and Audrey behind - through the windowpane. Chippy was upset with me for filming without his consent and for refusing to let him inside for the two minutes I spent filming. The film is an experiment in "perverted formats" (a medium filtered through another).

Casa Loma

January 2010 •English

Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow aristocrats for nouveau-riche pretentions: the house and its décor considered by many an ornate fake. Its original contents were sold at Pellatt’s bankruptcy auction in 1924. Today the building is a museum. The movie has three sections—the first in a cellar tunnel, the next in a first-story workroom near the stables, the third in the tower’s summit.

The Other Line

May 2016 •Serbian

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and 70s), which has been marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly connected not only with important art centers of the former Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19th Berlinale). The cultural and artistic emancipation of that time had implied individual freedom of expression and strong reaction to established boundaries. This avant-garde movement had become threat to communist establishment, the authors' work were sabotaged, the films were sealed off, five artists were taken to trial, two were sent in prison. How is it that the retrograde mechanism of shutting down and removing the most creative and representative progressive impulses of our surrounding is still so current to this day?

MÜ : Architectures protéiformes

March 2024 •French

Ma bande magnétique arrière

June 2009 •French

Purgatorium

November 2023 •English

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

Último Desejo

December 2019 •Portuguese

OX-EYE-FIELDS

May 2022 •Portuguese

A man unravels the consequences of reaching the unreachable horizon, starting from the abyss.

AA-PROXIMA-SUN

July 2022 •Portuguese

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

Study No. 4

June 1930 •German

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

Her Violet Kiss

December 2021 •English

A woman attends a party where she is observed by and finally meets a mysterious guest.

Chelicera

February 2023 •English

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.

Sundog Verga Matrix

January 2002 •English

Viva Las Vergas! The synthesis of simulacrum and solar max. (Selected Screenings and Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, New York Underground Film Festival)

Compound Eyes

September 2011 •English

Commissioned by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Paul Clipson's five-part COMPOUND EYES cycle delves into the otherworldliness of the natural world. In training his Super-8 camera on insects and other "minor" invertebrates, Clipson draws the eye into an unseen realm, one so delicate as to simultaneously tempt and refuse the touch. Following the surrealist desire to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar, Clipson relates this micro-landscape to the built environment. Electronic musical motifs supplied by frequent Clipson collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma add another layer of inquiry, one tuned to the unspoken space between wonder and terror. This first entry in the series keys the viewer's vision to a single drop of dew on a blade of glass. Wisps of eyelashes, dandelions and insect limbs seem to brush against the lens in a trembling intimation of seeing.

Untitled (Pink Dot)

January 2007 •Japanese

In Untitled (Pink Dot), Murata transforms footage from the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood (1982) into a morass of seething electronic abstraction. Subjected to Murata's meticulous digital reprocessing, the action scenes decompose and are subsumed into an almost palpable, cascading digital sludge, presided over by a hypnotically pulsating pink dot.

Dam$els of Luxury

June 2024 •English

Amanda's stoner slumber party is put to a halt when one of her guests is nowhere to be found.

Untitled (damfilm)

February 2024 •English

meditative piece made on a whim while shooting a longer film. shot at Prettyboy Dam

Carabosse

January 1980 •English

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

A Day in the Life of a Bench

January 2023 •English

A short poetry film about A Day in the Life of a Bench and the various types of people who visit it throughout the day.