Cosmic Ray (1962)
Género : Música
Tiempo de ejecución : 4M
Director : Bruce Conner
Sinopsis
Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
Ariel es una sirena adolescente, hija de Tritón, el rey del mar. Desobedeciendo a su padre, visita la superficie y se enamora del príncipe Eric. Con la esperanza de encontrar a su amado, la sirenita cae inocentemente bajo los encantos de Úrsula, la bruja del mar, que la transforma en un ser humano. Pero la bruja tiene planes terribles para Ariel y su padre.
Realizado entre los años 1975 y 1982, "Koyaanisqatsi" -primera parte de lo que sería luego una trilogía formada por Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Powaqqatsi (1988) y Naqoyqatsi (2002)- es un singular documental que refleja la colisión entre dos mundos obligados a convivir: por un lado la vida de los hombres en la sociedad moderna, la vida urbana y occidental, llena de tecnología, ciencia y consumismo. Por otro la naturaleza y el medio ambiente del planeta Tierra. Sin voz humana, tan sólo con el poder de las imágenes y la banda sonora minimalista de Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio presentó este documental ante 5000 personas el 4 de Octubre de 1982 en el Radio City Hall de Nueva York, convirtiéndose al instante en un documental de culto.
William Parrish es un poderoso y meticuloso magnate cuya vida se ve alterada por la llegada de un enigmático joven llamado Joe Black que se enamora de su hija. Se trata, en realidad, de la personificación de la muerte, con una misión que cumplir en dicho hogar. Versión del filme de 1934 "La muerte de vacaciones".
A partir de la representación de una pieza religiosa en un teatro de la ciudad de Macon, donde hay una especie de epidemia de esterilidad, durante 1650, una joven explota a su hermano pequeño a través de las donaciones que recibe.
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
Un grupo de adolecentes mata accidentalmente a un sujeto en la fiesta del 4 de julio. Todo el grupo de amigos decide mantener el secreto hasta la muerte. Están convencidos que ninguno de ellos hablará pero, justo un año después, lo secreto vuelve para vengarse...
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic. (from bfi.org.uk)
In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.
An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods.
"In 1983, I got a job as a museum attendant and abandoned film-making entirely. And so the question arose: "no film?," and the conclusion I came to was: no film. Question mark." (K.K.)
Found footage anti-war film comprising film documents of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian army on the Alpine front, and from first generation picture material by war-film pioneer Luca Comerio.
"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. Max Demian is his childhood friend and mentor.
'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.'
"I began to make it when I had no money for raw stock and only several rolls of colored leader but nevertheless (had) the need to make or work on a film." -HF
Video installation showing the film "A Clockwork Orange", reduced to its colour.
An experimental short by Jim Henson.
La historia se desarrolla durante el período de Mizuno Tadakuni (1793-1851). El Señor Mizuno era un moralista extremo y trató de proscribir cualquier cosa más o menos placentera. Su razonamiento era que cosas como obras teatrales, novelas populares, comidas caras, pinturas, etc ... contribuían a la decadencia de la moral nacional.
An experimental animation that recalls a treacherious, winter journey across a Montréal landmark.
In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red color with white and then blue dominates the frame. Blue paint runs; small bulbs float. The dark colors spread. White, red, blue, and black dominate the frame. Then comes fire. The bulbs burn and break. A broken bulb's filaments are exposed.
In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky.
