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HVATIR

August 2016 •Icelandic

After a great storm, is there silence?

2005 Space Odyssey

December 2005 •Japanese

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

PHANTASMATA

November 2019 •English

In a transitional state, at the threshold of consciousness // fabricating and reminiscing //embracing and escaping // all from safe distance // letting go.

Diálogo com a Morte

March 2021 •Portuguese

Eyes Wide Open

January 2021 •French

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.

Head Rag Hop

June 1970 •English

A proto-music video: three minutes of experimental animation set to the tune of Romeo Nelson's 'Head Rag Hop'.

Moonwalker

October 1988 •English

Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Jackson, some of which are long-form music videos from Jackson's 1987 album Bad. The film is named after his famous dance, "the moonwalk", which he originally learned as "the backslide" but perfected the dance into something no one had seen before. The movie's introduction is a type of music video for Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" but is not the official video for the song. The film then expresses a montage of Michael's career, which leads into a parody of his Bad video titled "Badder", followed by sections "Speed Demon" and "Leave Me Alone". What follows is the biggest section where Michael plays a hero with magical powers and saves three children from Mr. Big. This section is "Smooth Criminal" which leads into a performance of "Come Together".

YLLI

December 2022 •Spanish

The argument with the soul becomes a crucial phase of the individuation process, since, after all, it is our most personal ambiguity that, with cunning and delusion, drags incredible things into life, as the desire of an inert body, convincing us of moving, touching the earth, getting tangled up and staying.

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

July 1987 •English

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Begotten

June 1991 •English

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Meditation

December 1971 •English

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

The Letter

January 1998 •French

Michael Gondry's examination of childhood love is replete with his trademark surreality. One evening at the turn of the century, Stephane discusses with his brother the end of the millenium, but also girls, particularly Aurelie, a classmate with whom he is secretly in love. The following day, Aurelie has a letter to give to him....

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

January 1971 •Portuguese

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.

Commuter

January 1981 •English

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar to his work in the music video "Take On Me."

The Big Departure

November 1972 •French

This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...

The Illiac Passion

December 1967 •English

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

Heavy Metal

August 1981 •English

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

Radio RCA

January 1935 •Spanish

Broadcast music evokes erotic and racial fantasies in this commercial.

Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere

January 1989 •Spanish

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope

Oat Boy

June 2021 •English

Folk portraiture, images of children in suburbia.