River Rites (2011)

Cremaster 5 (55 min, 1997) is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.

Witch’s Cradle is an unfinished Maya Deren film made in the Guggenheim Gallery during a surrealist “Art of this Century” exhibit. It was assembled long after her death by staffers within the preservation department at Anthology Film Archives.

Ion is a seemingly normal guy whose life goes by without a hitch. A phone call; a meeting with a friend; small, unimportant everyday situations. One day he gets into a car with two other people. They cross the border between Spain and France. The next morning, their lives will change forever.

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

Quatro personagens principais estão no centro da história: um executivo do cinema (Stellan Skarsgard) e sua esposa (Saffron Burrows), uma aspirante a atriz (Selma Hayek) que está no meio de um caso e uma mulher (Jeanne Tripplehorn) cujas ações irão alterar para sempre seus destinos.

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.

A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

A história de um grupo de coelhos humanóides e depressivos.

A short experimental cutup film by Jon Moritsugu.

"Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times)", "The Alphabet", "The Grandmother", "The Amputee", "The Cowboy and the Frenchman" e "Premonitions Following an Evil Deed".

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack. Three young men merrily bop through the wreckage of razed buildings at the site of what would become Lincoln Center. Apparently, Scotch Tape was never edited and, instead, was cut in the camera by Smith, combining long shots and close-ups while filming mostly from overhead. The title comes from a small strip of scotch tape that was accidentally stuck on the camera and so is visible in the lower-right corner of the frame throughout the film.

Parte documentário, parte cinema, este filme acompanha uma cidade na União Soviética da década de 20, do dia até a noite. Com direção de Dziga Vertov, uma variedade de filmagens inovadoras e complexas retrata cenas do cotidiano na Rússia, celebrando a modernidade da cidade.

In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate's new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the Americans head to Australia to reclaim the cup.

Follow a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America.

Em 1967, Jorgen Leth realizou um curta-metragem de 12 minutos chamado The Perfect Human. Fã incondicional desse curta, Lars Von Trier desafiou o veterano diretor a produzir cinco remakes desse mesmo filme. Sempre no comando da situação, Von Trier coloca todo tipo de obstáculo, com o intento deliberado de tornar as coisas difíceis, e num dos episódios ele manda o sexagenário Leth até Cuba, para filmar em condições muito adversas. Em outro momento, ele ordena que um dos remakes seja feito em desenho animado. Exercício de estilo e poder, o documentário tenta desvendar as concessões e as limitações que os realizadores enfrentam para viabilizarem suas produções.

Na primeira parte do filme o narrador chamado de "O Cientista" aparece fazendo comentários sobre a Humanidade. Logo a seguir o Inspetor Warren encontra o cadáver de um travesti masculino suicida chamado Patrick/Patricia. Ele então procura o Dr. Alton, perito nesses casos, que lhe conta a história de Glen/Glenda. Alton explica que Glen, apesar de se travestir, não era homossexual. Estava noivo e seu dilema era contar à sua namorada Barbara sobre a sua "mania". Na segunda parte, o Dr. Anton conta a história de Alan/Anne, um homem que desejava ser mulher e que conseguiu mudar pela cirurgia, favorecido por ser um pseudo-hermafrodita (possuia ambos os órgãos genitais, embora apenas um fosse completo).

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Na esperança de encontrar um senso de conexão com sua falecida mãe, Gorgeous faz uma viagem ao campo para visitar sua tia, na sua casa natal. Ela convida seus seis amigos: Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu e Sweet para se juntarem a ela. Logo, as meninas percebem que há algo além do normal nesta velha casa.