Capricci (1969)

"A feature-length deluge of incessant, brilliant bursts of images (short takes and jump cuts, single frames in series, freeze-frames slightly altered between takes) it creates a Joyce-like dense and sombre mosaic of memory and sensory impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like flow of visually-induced associations often flashing by faster than they can be absorbed. Described by the director as an 'anxious allegory and chilling album of nostalgia,' its penetrating monomania is unexpectedly — subversively — realized to be a statement about American today: the alienation and atomization o technological consumer society is reflected in the very style of the film." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art

Two reels of mis-takes in shooting Part II of 3RD DEGREE. Film was loaded in camera improperly and the image slides about off-center and becomes blurred – creating some rather amusing and mysterious imagery. A made “found” object. —ubu.com

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies and instruments. A brilliant tribute to the Sun King by another brilliant supra-planetary sovereign. (Eye of Sound)

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.

En la Berlín moderna (1987), Frau Kutowski se vuelve loca, creyendo que es la notoria (real) Anita Berber, una bailarina de arte desnuda / drogadicta / figura escandalosa de Berlín posterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial. (Berber murió de tuberculosis en 1928, después de haber logrado un éxito y un reconocimiento significativos en todo el mundo de la danza). Frau Kutowski es internada en un hospital psiquiátrico, donde, en su opinión, representa los últimos días de Berber, incluso en sus fantasías, el personal y los pacientes del hospital. , para representar a los amigos y asociados de Anita.

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what his film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends.

Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space by using a ‘floating’ camera to film a number of crawling, creeping personages. (MUBI)

This dazzling stop-motion animation provided Vorkapich with a forum to demonstrate complex perceptual theories related to the persistence of vision and phi phenomenon. The dance of objects and their movements before the camera lens–somewhat similar to Oskar Fischinger’s abstractions–illustrate many visual sensations playfully executed by Vorkapich.

La historia de dos amigas íntimas durante la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina y como viven durante el Terrorismo de Estado que se aplicó en esos años. Las amigas son eventualmente separadas y vueltas a reunirse, una vez terminada la dictadura, para luchar juntas por los derechos humanos y la justicia, junto a las Madres de Plaza de Mayo.

The love story of Dan (a beautiful young woman) and Gu (a humpback), servants from two separate households in Ha Dong, Vietnam who have suffered most of their lives at the hands of their cruel masters. The couple flee south soon after Gu presents Dan with a wedding gift - the precious white silk dress his mother had owned (his one valuable possession), while he promises her a proper marriage someday in the future. The couple arrive in the seaside town of Hoi An and build a new life, with Dan ultimately giving birth to 4 daughters. Despite struggling through immense poverty and hardships, the family is happy and fulfilled as long as they have each other, but the horrors of the encroaching war brings tragedy and threatens to tear them apart.

'Adventures of Jimmy' resolves its immature hero’s quest for “playmates” through a tongue-in-cheek narration that juxtaposes ironically with the images. We are told his family left him their whole estate, as we see a shack in the woods. The happy resolution is a joke on monogamy. It’s a straightforward story, the work of someone who wants to entertain with elegance and quiet subversion.

After WW2, a group of partisans comes to a bourgeois family in order to teach them singing and declamation of new songs. The family soon forgets their old customs and principles.

En una mísera aldea castellana malviven el labrador Juan Castilla, su esposa Acacia, el hijo del matrimonio y el abuelo Martín, invidente. Un enfrentamiento entre Juan y Lucas, el cacique y usurero local, provoca que el labrador sea encarcelado. Magdalena, convence a Acacia para que abandone una aldea empobrecida sobre la que parece pesar una maldición. Tres años después, Juan encuentra a su esposa con otro hombre en el reservado de una taberna y la obliga a volver al hogar y mantener las apariencias hasta que fallezca el enfermo abuelo Martín…

España, finales de los 40. Julia sufre una profunda depresión a causa del encarcelamiento de su novio, un destacado pintor antifranquista. Hija única de una acaudalada familia, es una mujer culta, que se ha educado en Suiza e Inglaterra, se ha licenciado en Filosofía y Letras y quiere ser escritora. Su abatimiento es tal que decide alejarse de Madrid e ir a pasar una temporada al pequeño pueblo asturiano de Cerralbos del Sella, donde está la gran casona familiar -"Llendelabarca"- en la que vivió los felices veranos de su infancia. Allí la espera Tía Gala, la guardesa, que vive con su nuera Pilara y su nieto Juanito. La relación de Julia con ellos, con el maestro don Orfeo e incluso con el desdichado cura don Matías, hace que, quizá, por primera vez en mucho tiempo, la señorita de la capital no se sienta sola. (FILMAFFINITY)

“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle of people and places of Santa Fe in the early 1930s, when it earned the epithet ‘Greenwich Village of the West.’” - William M. Butler

Ramu, eldest son a family of migrants, is a fresh graduate searching for a job like many others in post-partition Calcutta.

Long considered lost, The Assignation was Curtis Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax.