13 Nov 2012
Revolutions Per Second
A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Host (Chapter 1: 'Wind') (voice)
Lounge Wizard (as Sid Pink)
Various Characters (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self / Various Characters (archive footage)
Arthur Fleck (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry (archive footage) (uncredited)
Scarecrow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cowardly Lion (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tin Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Luke Skywalker (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sailor Ripley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lula Fortune (archive footage) (uncredited)
Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West (archive footage) (uncredited)
Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Good Witch (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marty McFly (archive footage) (uncredited)
George McFly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lorraine Baines (archive footage) (uncredited)
Biff Tannen (archive footage) (uncredited)
13 Nov 2012
A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
18 Aug 2006
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.
20 Aug 2008
Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.
30 Aug 2013
A personal meditation on Rumble Fish, the legendary film directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983; the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, where it was shot; and its impact on the life of several people from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay related to film industry.
26 Jul 2019
A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
28 Jul 2023
Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.
19 Nov 2016
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.
01 May 1993
An essay-film about images and politicians.
05 Jan 2018
A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…
09 Nov 2024
The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and the culture of the area, and with its disappearance, the memories of four characters fade away.
02 Sep 2022
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.
14 Feb 2021
The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat? Dirty Furniture’s jam-packed video essay is a rollercoaster ride through the history of the genre, at once a staple of television viewing and a hotpot of shifting perspectives and sociocultural values.
01 Jan 1984
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.
01 Sep 1973
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
08 Apr 2022
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.
10 Oct 1975
A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.
04 Jun 2021
The world’s museums are closed. What are you missing? Take a real-time walk through the Louvre towards the “greatest painting ever” and contemplate what it would be like to be there yourself.
20 Oct 2022
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
06 Jan 1998
Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.