In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.
A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.
Documentaire over het leven van avant-gardefilmmaakster Maya Deren, die de onafhankelijke filmbeweging van de jaren veertig leidde.
A dream-like narrative in which a woman (Deren), is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey, a quest for personal identity, encountering other people and other versions of herself.
An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.
Een jonge man zwemt over de rivieren en meren van Groot-Brittannië op een soundtrack van diverse nationalistische muziek. Terwijl hij mensen aan de oever passeert, waaronder kinderen, geliefden en een zwerver, worden ook hun gedachten en gesprekken gehoord. Uiteindelijk, nadat hij 's nachts door een bos heeft gelopen, keert de jongen terug naar het water en lijkt hij onder het oppervlak te zinken.
The story of a tiny Egg-girl who is forced to serve the evil Boar-like witch Baba Yaga. But after a blob of Dough comes to life, she befriends him and both escape from the witch's home at a Water mill on a cliff and set off to see the world. The soundtrack is Joe Hisaishi's arrangement of Vivaldi's La Folia
A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precursor to reality television and vlogs.
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.
[drama] Drie vrouwen hebben een man op een gruwelijke wijze vermoord. Ze hadden elkaar nog nooit eerder ontmoet en dan deze daad. Bij de arrestatie bekennen ze gelijk hun schuld. Een vrouwelijke psychiater wordt op de zaak gezet om te onderzoeken of de vrouwen ontoerekeningsvatbaar zijn. Hebben de vrouwen met hun volle verstand of in een toestand van totale verstandsverbijstering gehandeld? Zelf zijn ze er nogal laconiek onder
This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members of the traditional community of Akwesasne on the U.S./Canada border. Together, they undertake a four-year rite of passage for adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or "under the husk." The ceremony had been nearly extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past decade by two traditional leaders, it has since flourished. Filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox has served as a mentor, or "auntie," to many youth going through the passage rites.
Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.
The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.
Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardianship of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs - working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a 'baby factory' scheme, pairing young women with migrant workers and then selling the babies for money. Both survive with each other in a love-hate symbiotic manner, until a truth about her aunt is revealed to Ping Ping.
Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s. Benning relates her personal rebellion against school, family, and female stereotypes as a story of personal freedom, telling how she used to model like Matt Dillon and skip school to have adventures alone. Informed by the underground “riot grrrl” movement, this tape transforms the image politics of female youth, rejecting traditional passivity and polite compliance in favor of radical independence and a self-determined sexual identity.
Korte film: Annabelle (Whitford) Moore voert een van haar populaire dansen uit. Voor deze voorstelling heeft haar kostuum een paar vleugels op haar rug, die een vlinder suggereren. Terwijl ze danst, gebruikt ze haar lange, vloeiende rokken om visuele patronen te creëren.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.
Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.