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1) Ruins rider
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Filmed in the lost territories of the Balkans, RUINS RIDER portrays the secret ruins that triggered trances over the past centuries. Using an array of hypnotic pulsating flickers, filmmaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt conceived an explosive kinetic experience. Accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by Marc Hurtado of the cult project Etant Donnes, RUINS RIDER is a visceral experience of hypnagogic archeology and raw energy.
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This collection brings together a unique group of avant-garde film works. Tearing apart the barriers between eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the unstrapped brain of subterranean luminosity and high voltage experimentations.
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'Damned If You Don't' is Friedrichs subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano. --Kanopy.
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This short film weaves an unexpected narrative from Hitchcock’s trail of walk-on parts, in which the master himself is pursued by a number of shadowy doppelgängers, caught up in a world of mistaken identity. Playing out a multi-leveled ‘reality’, Grimonprez’s cinematic twists and turns echo the trademark of the Master of Suspense, while radiating a quiet and beguiling surrealism reminiscent of that other great master, Rene Magritte.
8) What I Will
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An anthropologist, who tries to decode corporate culture, gets obsessed with the story of a parachutist who died after his equipment malfunctioned. In the parachutist’s finitude - caught in an ultimate meditative moment of plunging to an approaching death - the anthropologist sees a sudden and catastrophic voiding of the webs that hold and cradle us all.
9) Seeing red
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'Seeing Red' is the latest work from veteran avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich. In this, one of her most deeply personal films to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her evolution both as a woman and as an artist, tackling her own insecurities via several on-camera diary entries. While 'Seeing Red' is a film about the existential crises of the individual, it is also a film about what unites all humanity and what unites humanity with all the matter...
10) A rebours
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Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents this transgressive short film compilation. Conceived by the underground film society Cinema Abattoir, the A Rebours short film anthology convey the spectator side of experimental and avant-garde cinema.
11) Anémic cinéma
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35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 6:40 minutes; production assistance Man Ray, Marc Allégret; new music by Gustavo Matamoros; preserved by Det Danske Filminstitut. Thought provoking and offensive are possible ways to interpret the ten optical discs and corresponding puns displayed in the film. The word play fo French syllogisms gleefully collides with the protruding-receding optical illusions of the rotating spheres. Julien Levy called the...
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16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 14 minutes; production Farallone Films; with Anna Halprin, Welland Lathrop, John Graham; music by William O. Smith._Game Little Gladys, The Gardner's Son; Princess Printemps_and_The Aging Balletomane_. Delightful and sentimental, the interludes date back to silent cinema full of playful mime and dreamy reverie. As such the vignettes offer a welcome antidote to the high-mindedness of most avant-garde films.
14) Hurry, Hurry!
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4:27 minutes. Filmmaking was a natural evolution while I was engaged in painting, particularly since I was primarily concerned in capturing light, its effect on textured surfaces, its glowing luminescence in the dark, the enhancements of juxtaposed color, persistence of vision and eye fatigue. -_Marie Menken_
15) Eaux d'artifice
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16mm 1.37:1 black & white tinted color sound, 12:57 minutes; with Carmilla Salvatorelli; music "Winter" movement of_The Four Seasons_by Antonio Vivaldi; courtesy of the filmmaker. The Villa d'Este sculpture gardens frame the nocturnal exploits of a Baroquely-dressed masked figure darting about a waterworks of gushing fountains in "a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth." Jets of water form a mesmerizing erotic fantasy paying homage to abstract...
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35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:14 minutes; preserved by Lawrence Jordan and Michael Hinton from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack; distributor Canyon Cinema; courtesy of the filmmaker. Alchemical images of transformation fill the screen in Lawrence Jordan's magical collage animation where several ambiguous characters - a boy, a deep-sea diver and a Lady with the orbital head - make a surrealistic dream-like journey. Produced from line...
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16mm 1.37 black & white sound, 12:39 minutes; dancer Bettie de Jong; music by McNeil Robinson. The sensation of our own movement and the perception of movement in the world around us are very primal experiences from early infancy. It is in this world of movement (the kinesthetic experience) that film and dance make their most exciting and unique contributions. -_Hilary Harris_
19) Transport
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:43 minutes; camera Sandy D'Annunzio; music Indiran; with Lee Vogt, Amy Greenfield, Chuck Williams, Steven Holly, Joel Polinsky, Don Young, Tom Vint; preserved by Amy Greenfield at WRS Film Lab from camera originals; courtesy of the filmmaker. _Transport_ came out of many influences in the early 1970s: the dead of Vietnam; the poem by my poetry teacher Anne Sexton, _For God While Sleeping_; the post-modern dance experiments...
20) Castro Street
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:59 minutes; preserved by Academy Film Archive in 1999 at Triage Motion Picture Services from camera original sand magnetic soundtrack archived at Pacific Film Archives; mastered from the 35mm preservation negative; 1080p digital restoration by Bruce Posner at DuArt Video, FilmVideoDigital, and Gustavo Matamoros; courtesy of the filmmaker.
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