Sincerity V

Chelsea Girls

September 1966 •English

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up.

Les hommes sans gravité

January 2008 •French

Alban lives in a castle that he has just inherited in a small village in Charente-Maritime. Inside, the dilapidation has long since taken hold. He meets Jérôme, a young gypsy from the neighbouring town, with whom he has a sexual relationship. In this space that is impossible to rebuild, a strange intimacy is gradually invented, barely disturbed by the interruption of a young woman who has come to spend a few days in this residence.

We Could All Do With a Little Back & Forth As Far As It Concerns the To & Fro of Everywhere Each of Us Go

May 2017 •English

(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

November 2019 •English

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Smiles

January 1964 •English

A short film by John G. Avildsen.

Your New Pig Is Down the Road

July 1999 •English

"Filmed in 16mm and hand processed in a week at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm in Canada, this film was a treasure map to lead my husband to his gift, a little pet pig." ⁠— Helen Hill

Chinese Viola

May 1975 •Portuguese

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.

A Movie Made of

April 2019 •Spanish

In Vigo, Spain, during Christmas, Ángel, a Spanish filmmaker, walks through the crowded streets while thinking about a possible movie made of…

Confession

January 1968 •Japanese

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.

Metamorphoses

September 2007 •Macedonian

This is a time when we learn afresh that nothing lasts forever and that the variability is an integral part of everyday life. What is a river today does not mean that tomorrow will not become a sea. Life itself is one large metamorphosis, and the human being is its variable shape...

Revisited Remunerations Rapturously Collapse When Recompensed

June 2017 •English

Your raging romp results only in rescinded regret @ the hands of radder cadets.

Rakka

June 2017 •English

A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.

Hope This Goes Over Well/Living in an Empty World

June 2017 •English

I really hope this is well-received. I really hope there's some sort of reprieve.

Trapline

January 1976 •English

Ellie Epp’s 12-shot study of a soon-to-be-demolished public bath in London, which “maps another way out of structural film toward a cinema of delicate implication".

Grand Entrance to the World of the Dead

June 2017 •English

Radical recurrences & rancorous requests raze my daze.

What Was It Supposed to Be Like?

June 2017 •English

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

Xenoi

October 2016 •English

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to human conditions.

On the Various Nature of Things

March 1996 •English

Mangúe-Bangúe

January 1971 •Portuguese

The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a runaway stockbroker, "Mangue-Bangue" is the paradigmatic expression of the post-1968 spirit of desbunde, the Brazilian slang catchword for "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll".

Wormcharmer

Invalid date •English

An erotic, witty and disturbing film. An intriguing mix of fact and fiction.