Jusqu’au silence (1992)

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

카메라없이 처음으로 만들어진 작품. 실제로 필름 위에 나방의 날개, 꽃잎 조각, 풀 등을 콜라주 형태로 붙여놓고 일련의 프린트 과정을 거친 작품으로 널리 알려져 있다. 이미 죽어버린 생명체가 작가의 손길을 거쳐 스크린 위에 다시 투영될 때의 빛의 숨결을 받아 새로운 생명으로 환생한다는 역설적인 메시지를 지니고 있다. 바로 빛의 깜박거림으로 인하여 영사기를 통해 보여지는 나방의 날개는 마치 살아서 움직이는 것같은 환상을 관객들에게 제공한다.

22 Light-years draws on a range of visual sources, including photographic negatives, diagrams, found patterned papers, and archival footage. These sources merge, sometimes uncomfortably, with video that was screen-recorded while operating desktop home design software. By creating digital floor plans, landscaping, and roofless homes in real time, and manipulating those videos to move them further away from the software’s intent, Geiser fabricates a digitally lush, elliptical, uncanny world, where home planning never results in a tangible home. The familiar material elements (negatives, diagrams, flower seed packets) wear the skin of the immaterial realm, suggesting time as simultaneous, mutable, and unknown. (janiegeiser.com)

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.

A film accompaniment featuring songs from Perfume Genius' newest record, Ugly Season.

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton Chekhov and the young man who tends a Chekhov museum in the Crimea, though that is never made explicit."

A study of light and shadows, framing and composition with no clear narrative. A visual essay on silence and the passing of time.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

Experimental film consisting of a single static shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

A team of researchers for a sinister corporation look for solutions to an unnamed crisis facing humanity. Believing they have found a sanctuary for human survival, in a remote location off the coast of Singapore, they are beset by psychological turmoil caused by plants that defend themselves against the corporation’s goal to exploit every natural resource for human benefit.

Single frame exposures of words.

1970년대 꿈도 예술도 검열당하던 시대 성공적이었던 데뷔작 이후, 악평과 조롱에 시달리던 김감독은 촬영이 끝난 영화의 새로운 결말에 대한 영감을 주는 꿈을 며칠째 꾸고 있다. 그대로만 찍으면 틀림없이 걸작이 된다는 예감, 그는 딱 이틀 간의 추가 촬영을 꿈꾼다. 그러나 대본은 심의에 걸리고, 제작자 백회장은 촬영을 반대한다. 제작사 후계자인 신미도를 설득한 김감독은 베테랑 배우 이민자, 톱스타 강호세, 떠오르는 스타 한유림까지 불러 모아 촬영을 강행하지만, 스케줄 꼬인 배우들은 불만투성이다. 설상가상 출장 갔던 제작자와 검열 담당자까지 들이닥치면서 현장은 아수라장이 되는데…

The motif of this movie is an introduction manual for filming sent to an absolute beginner by the processing laboratory. For me, the cause of failure in filmmaking, explained by the manual, was the very important technical skill of making film images. It’s like coming across unknown delicious tastes when I don’t follow the recipe.

Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and six minutes long, and is named according to the chronological order in which it was made. The collection includes Numbers 1–5, 7, and 10, while the missing Numbers 6, 8, and 9 are presumed to have been lost.

“I've never seen light that looks or feels so dark; forward moving possibility united with so much cosmic terror.”—Marilyn Brakhage