Cosmic Ray (1962)

Ariel é a filha caçula do Rei Tritão, comandante dos sete mares, que está insatisfeita com sua vida. Ela deseja caminhar entre os humanos para conhecê-los melhor, mas sempre é proibida por seu pai, que considera os humanos como sendo "bárbaros comedores de peixe". Até que ela se apaixona por um jovem príncipe e, no intuito de conhecê-lo, resolve firmar um pacto com Úrsula, a bruxa do reino, que faz com que ela ganhe pernas e se torne uma verdadeira humana. Porém, Úrsula também tem seus planos e eles incluem a conquista do reino de Tritão.

Koyaanisqatsi - Uma Vida Fora de Equilíbrio. As relações entre os seres humanos, a natureza, o tempo e a tecnologia. Cidade, campo, paisagem, rotina, pessoas, construções, destruição. Um documentário sem atores e sem diálogos, composto por uma impressionante coleção de imagens e uma marcante trilha sonora.

O magnata da mídia Bill Parrish tem tudo: sucesso, riqueza e poder. Mas, dias antes de completar os seus 65 anos, conhece Joe Black, um homem estranho e misterioso que lhe revela ser a Morte, num corpo humano, disposta a conhecer melhor a Terra em troca da concessão de mais alguns dias de vida ao milionário.

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

Após uma brincadeira baseada numa lenda assustadora e que resultou na morte de um amigo, os quatro jovens envolvidos fazem um pacto de silêncio. Mas numa pequena cidade as coisas nunca são fáceis de silenciar. Em breve, todos recebem mensagens ameaçadoras sugerindo que alguém sabe o que eles fizeram.

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.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

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.