Ervas Daninhas (2009)

Begone Dull Care shines with his masterful use of scratching and painting on film stock. In Begone Dull Care, McLaren adds complexity to Lye’s compositions, emphasising sound/visual synchronisation and generating depth on his mobile canvas. The film gives warmth and movement to compositions resembling a constantly morphing Jackson Pollock painting, yet never fails to remind us of its very calculated aesthetics when it suddenly adapts to the score’s slower movements and shifts from expressionistic and oversaturated explosions to minimalist vertical lines that vibrate accordingly to Oscar Peterson’s piano.

Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for Pialat, a psychological/gothic thriller of sorts...

Pialat's first film was the 8-minute short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay. (FilmAffinity)

A static camera records, in one single continuous shot, a woman's face before, during and after orgasm. The act of looking and the limits of the film frame are highlighted in this intimate sexual episode with Tina Fraser. Artist Stephen Dwoskin presents a powerful, personal moment while maintaining a distance and resisting the viewer being subsumed into the action on screen.

Clouds roll by in a static haze in this Hollis Frampton short film.

Após fazer diversos filmes sobre dança (sua primeira vocação), a cineasta nova-iorquina Shirley Clarke foi convidada para realizar uma série de curtas-metragens sobre o estilo de vida de seu país para o Pavilhão Americano da Feira Mundial de Bruxelas, em 1958. Carrossel de Pontes nasceu dos materiais descartados desse projeto, e, diferentemente do original - de natureza narrativa -, as imagens sobrepostas neste filme experimental exprimem a concretude dos objetos que retratam, as pontes que cruzam o rio Hudson em Nova York. A música envolve e suaviza a rigidez geométrica das construções de ferro e concreto, que contrastam com a fluidez do rio. Clarke fez duas versões do filme: uma com trilha sonora dos compositores pioneiros da música eletrônica Louis e Bebe Barron; outra, com trilha do compositor, produtor e saxofonista de jazz Teo Macero.

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

An experimental short featuring people and nails.

Essay on the influence of arts at the end of the 20th century produced by the Museum of Modern Art.

Shot over a period of three years. Marie Menken photographed New York window displays during the Christmas holiday. In order to avoid foot and street traffic interrupting the shots, Menken filmed from midnight to 1:00 in the morning, but had to keep the camera under her coat to keep it from freezing.

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

"Presenting, for the first time, a selection of the cathodic experimental works from the seminal Italo-American artist Aldo Tambellini; a selection of classic documents of one of the first pioneers of video art and audiovisual experimentation from New York east side scene of the 60s and 70s. Unreleased and classic works available for the first time. Curated by Pia Bolognesi e Giulio Bursi." -Black Video 1 -Black Video 2 -Black Spiral -Black Video 1 Projections -6673 -Minus One -Clone -Interview at the Black Gate Theatre

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The titles are in eight languages. Rereleased with multilingual titles in 1949.

Through the uses of kinescope, video, multimedia, and direct painting on film, an impression is gained of the frantic action of protoplasm under a microscope where an imaginative viewer may see the genesis of it all. – Grove Press Film Catalog

In a surreal meeting filled with countless individuals from a variety of backgrounds, nine people recount how sex and sexuality have been used to exert control over their lives. Regardless of race, sexual orientation, nationality, social class, religion, or gender, all are equally shattered and all are equally victims. Those that recount their experiences show that the power / sex dynamic can come in many forms. Whether the power is taken away by physical or psychological means, and regardless of whether it is perpetrated by an individual, institution, or society, the results are equally devastating.

A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.

Em um porão escuro, Norma escuta conversas antigas com Everio em um velho gravador. O diálogo tem momentos românticos, mas o que mais preocupa Norma é uma revelação que põe em perigo a sua vida.

The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.

Inside the claustrophobic scenery of a fancy apartment in the city of Frankfurt three men and a woman lock themselves in for ten days. Oskar and Julia are a couple. They have sex and let themselves be filmed. Benjamin and Bastian are behind the camera, trying to get pictures of absolute intimacy. Closeness as it can only be found among lovers.

Uma história de amadurecimento profundamente pessoal sobre a força da família e a busca geracional do sonho americano.

February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.

A general making-of piece featuring principal members of the cast and crew. A brief history of the demon barber is provided, as well as the actors' preparation for their singing roles and glimpses of the set design and general production.

Sullivan e Mike trabalham na Monstros e Cia., a maior fábrica de sustos de Monstrópolis, onde a principal fonte de energia provém dos gritos das crianças assustadas pelos monstros que saem dos seus armários. Porém, eles pensam que as crianças humanas são perigosas e tóxicas. Quando Boo, uma pequena menina, atravessa para o seu mundo, são os monstros que ficam assustados. Sullivan e Mike vão agora tentar devolver a menina à sua casa, mas enfrentam uma monstruosa intriga e algumas desventuras hilariantes.

Através de três turbulentas décadas, Forrest cavalga numa cadeia de eventos que o levam da incapacidade física até ao estrelato no futebol, de herói do Vietnam a empresário de pesca de camarão, de honras na Casa Branca aos braços do seu verdadeiro amor. Forrest é o símbolo de uma era, um inocente à solta numa América que está a perder a sua inocência. O seu coração sabe o que o seu limitado QI não consegue saber. O seu compasso moral nunca balança. Os seus triunfos tornam-se numa inspiração para todos. Forrest Gump, é a história de uma vida.