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- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- Jonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister's families and children.
- After experiencing a wild life of sordidness, the young Pierre decides to quit this chaotic world, trading it for a search for inner peace and getting closer to God. During this quest, he's followed by a girl from Denmark, of whom he becomes friend for a while. However, Pierre isn't close to reach his spiritual enlightenment, since he's still tormented by visions, vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
- When a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.
- Peter Emmanuel Goldman's rarely screened debut, an underappreciated landmark of the New American Cinema, chronicles the lives of twenty-somethings adrift in New York City, finding tremendous pathos in the smallest moments: a furtive glance across a museum gallery, girls putting on makeup, a stroll beneath the pulsing lights of Times Square marquees. Composed with a lo-fi purity and bereft of diegetic sound, its shadowy images of youthful flaneurs are paired with evocatively hand-painted title cards and a dynamic soundtrack drawn from the artist's LPs that, when combined, conjure up a ballad of dependency like none other.
- Chronicle of a film in progress.
- Evocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man's land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.
- An adaptation of the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Knights of the Round Table," in which Adolpho Arrietta plays the role of Merlin.
- It tells the daily life of filmmaker Boris Lehman wandering in his own city of Brussels, who seeks to go to Mexico in the footsteps of Antonin Artaud, among the Tarahumara Indians.
- A party is organized for Pedro, but he never seems to arrive. In between guests talk about Tam Tam and the end of the world. A very 'Buñuel-ish' underground film.
- Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
- Since her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century. From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field. A brilliant film about a brilliant American artist!
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- A work in on-going progress. Painted, filmed and edited by Jo Ann Kaplan, documenting and reflecting on the artist's own aging, to be up-dated and developed at points in the future. The actual face, glimpsed occasionally, is getting older and more lined over time, but the record of its aging is not yet long enough to bear full witness. A self-portrait of the artist as an aging woman, and a work in progress to be continued for as long as there is time.
- Anticipating Taxi Driver a decade later, this short captures the sleaziness of the Times Square/42nd Street area with its riffraff,lurching drunks, and movie theatre marquees.
- With its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- A series of experiments with two cameras and two monitors filming each other.
- This corpus of 16 short films was dug out from a hidden avant-garde film collection after 50 years. It is the very first and earliest Japanese pop art/underground film collection. The roots of 60's Japanese underground cinema are all here.
- Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.