12 Feb 2017
Pollice Verso Reverso
A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.
Don't ask me why, but I feel we're about to cry trying.
12 Feb 2017
A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.
26 Sep 1986
WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson.
15 Mar 2017
Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.
17 Jun 2017
Say Om as you reach home only to realize you never really left/stopped saying Om.
13 Jun 2017
Your raging romp results only in rescinded regret @ the hands of radder cadets.
29 Oct 1988
Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Jackson, some of which are long-form music videos from Jackson's 1987 album Bad. The film is named after his famous dance, "the moonwalk", which he originally learned as "the backslide" but perfected the dance into something no one had seen before. The movie's introduction is a type of music video for Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" but is not the official video for the song. The film then expresses a montage of Michael's career, which leads into a parody of his Bad video titled "Badder", followed by sections "Speed Demon" and "Leave Me Alone". What follows is the biggest section where Michael plays a hero with magical powers and saves three children from Mr. Big. This section is "Smooth Criminal" which leads into a performance of "Come Together".
01 Jan 1969
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.
11 Nov 2019
A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.
23 May 2017
Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.
23 May 2017
(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.
04 Jun 2017
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
09 Jun 2017
Something I know or something I was told? When something scalding translates something to behold.
15 Jul 1987
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
20 Nov 2001
Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.
24 Oct 1997
Cremaster 5 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.
07 Oct 2010
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous mélange.
07 May 1965
Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson. Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, "Time Piece" enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for Outstanding Short Subject.
01 Jan 1955
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.
21 Feb 2018
A live performance film capturing an intimate concert by composer, pianist and music producer Ryuichi Sakamoto in New York City. The performance marked the first public unveiling of Sakamoto’s new opus, async, hailed as one of the best albums of 2017 by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.
01 Jan 1967
A visual interpretation of the poem by E.E. Cummings about the life cycle of a townspeople and of one ignored couple.