Before the Gates

38/79: Sentimental Punk

October 1979 •German

'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'

Rytmus

March 1941 •Czech

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

Complainant

March 2017 •English

There is nothing left to do but complain.

Out of the Law

March 2017 •English

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

HoLy Cycles

March 2017 •English

Steadily reading while/becomes treading into murky waters.

Scroll on Thru

March 2017 •English

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Anônimo e incomum

March 1990 •Portuguese

Finds Itself in Corners

March 2017 •English

Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.

Bear

January 1993 •

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men – one of whom is the artist – tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.

Monday or Tuesday

January 1966 •

A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.

Kaya

July 1967 •

An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.

Maybe That's Enough

March 2017 •English

Platitudes begin at peaks then rapidly descend and dismantle in order to ascend more acutely until they repeatedly and successively overwhelm.

Mystery Hole//Boring Soul

March 2017 •English

Time plods along in spattered irregularities as anger and depression coalesce in confusing amalgamations.

The Journey of Eva's Unspoken Words

June 2019 •Portuguese

Routine imprisoned Eva in an automatism that was ingrained in her spirit. Dromomania will perhaps be the expression that best illustrates her condition. She feels absent, and her frivolous glance catalogs each one of the small details of the journey that imprisons her every day. Her apathetic state is interrupted when she crosses an object outside the street and Eva is forced to finally face her demons.

White Funeral

July 1997 •Tagalog

A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick and soon die. A volcano erupts. White ashes of lahar cover the earth. The bride remembers her betrothal and repents--symbolically paving the way for the resurrection of her people. A final bridal march into a new heaven and earth takes place.

Puenting (Leap of Faith)

April 2019 •Spanish

A first feature based on sexual events. An actress undertakes her desire of directing her first movie, without a budget or any production company funding her project. She gathers a group of professional actors and actresses, and proposes a project based on a very particular experience: stepping on their fears through a metaphorical 'leap of faith'. As the project advances, individual conflicts will arise affecting the shoot, making the movie crew wonder whether or not they should go on. Will they take the leap of faith with all its consequences?

Sweet-Smelling Movie: Be a Light to the World

February 2016 •Japanese

A coming-of-age story about a high-school girl who wants to use magic, featuring the 11-member experimental band Vampillia

Entrance to the Grand Burial Chamber

February 2017 •English

1 minute experimental film.

Pollice Verso Reverso

February 2017 •English

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell

January 2009 •English

"River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired 'hero of the right.' Impunity is not just the stuff of autocratic dictatorships in the third world. The American form of impunity is going to get us all killed."