Coming Attractions

SILIKA

April 2021 •

It follows the filmmaking journey of two filmmakers as they navigate through the urban sprawl of inner KL during the pandemic. It showcases the city in a raw, exposed and gritty fashion but still with a certain charm. Throughout their filmmaking process, they capture the peculiar events in the life of three strangers: the son (Fakhrul Aiman), the outsider (Eli Orkid) and the hustler (Nidusmas). They happen to express themselves in extreme ways at the sight of their own reflection in “the vantablack” -- they snap into a state of mind where they lose all their inhibitions and show their true self in a very physical way: through visceral, almost primal dance movements.

Ripples

April 1967 •English

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind's eye of an architect as he considers his next project.

Sir Drone

September 1989 •English

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this feature length film by renowned artist Raymond Pettibon.

Halibut

March 2015 •Italian

Dream

December 1987 •Russian

The first Surrealist film perestroika years.

Conversation

June 2010 •Russian

To the idly meditating musician received a call from his distant friend with a proposal to write a song about the untimely departed Lady Diana.

The Way

November 1988 •Russian

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the subconscious of each. And none of them are unaware of the existence of the world of the forces that awaken in man hidden until the time of the dark side of their personalities. The metaphor of the film is laid bare hidden from direct view the laws of nature to be reckoned with, are unaware of their presence, man.

Tim of the Jungle

September 2016 •English

A high school student attempting to complete his musical opus keeps getting distracted by the intense fights of his mentally imbalanced father and overly doting mother.

Casta Diva

August 1982 •

A celebration of the male form. A series of observations of men, filmed in beautiful black and white, with an almost total absence of the spoken word.

Luzern Viper

October 1988 •German

A Schmelzdahin short wherein a print of a portion of Nosferatu (including the iconic shot of the vampire on the boat) has been degraded and abstracted through the bacterialogical decomposition, disintegration, and chemical processes Schmelzdahin would use.

Goldfish

March 2021 •English

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a hexagon, and a goldfish sees themself without an audience. // \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /// \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /// \ / \ \\ \ / \ / /\/ /

Hibiscus

October 2019 •English

'Hibiscus' highlights the city's hidden beauty and the warmth of its people that may go by unnoticed on a daily basis but are beautiful reminders to appreciate.

3 Dreams of Horses

December 2017 •English

Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned the language of our masters. Though we couldn’t help wondering why so few of you bothered to learn ours. Three scenes featuring horses, remembering Jacinto. The first is a daytime forest haunting that winds up at a carousel, the second a rainy street in Portugal, the finale a nighttime vigil of fire and water.

Nightingales in December

March 2012 •English

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What if the Nightingales were working, instead of singing and going south? Is the innocence the only savior of birdsongs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left, is only the history of our beginning, and our end.

Westerly Wind

May 2018 •French

A short film attributed to Jean-Luc Godard concerning the ZAD surrounding the proposed Aéroport du Grand Ouest, decrying our capitalist society.

Bewitching Eyes

July 1977 •Polish

A Polish folktale set in the Middle Ages, tells the story of a man, whose eyes, or the gaze of them, brings upon death.

Burger Boys

August 1999 •Tagalog

Four high school friends hatch a plan for a farcical heist that sends them spiraling into a series of surreal events littered with clowns, fast food, and ‘rakenrol’, in an even more absurd nation of squalor and entertainment.

The Two

November 2002 •Russian

Two men. Friends? Enemies? Lovers? Brothers? One is nothing, success or failure depends on two.

Shoals

June 2011 •English

A slow-burning prairie grotesque. On the grounds of a rural sanitarium, three young women search for wellness, as a cult leader seeks to control their bodies through labor and daily rituals.

The Latest Sun Is Sinking Fast

January 2015 •English

Bass takes over the upstairs Kanter-McCormick Gallery at the Art Center, expanding the territory of her gothic world in a new work The Latest Sun is Sinking Fast, an immersive, multi-channel installation incorporating 16mm film/video, sound, architecture, and featuring performances by Sarah Stambaugh, Bryan Saner, and Matthew Goulish. The solo exhibition features a spatial narrative installation that delves, through movement, texture, sound, and gesture, into the psychology of a recurring figure in Bass' previous films; while also introducing two new characters, blending the past into the present. Bass has designed the installation by altering the gallery, leading the viewer through a evocative memory of place, embedding us in a timeless society of lost souls in a haunted landscape. -Allison Peters Quinn, Exhibition Director, Hyde Park Art Center