An experimental movie composed of Erkki Karu's silent film Finland (1922) and Esa Kerttula's photos taken in 2020.
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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.
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Pounding backbeats beaten by [(Don't Get)] warm[welcomes]th.
Your raging romp results only in rescinded regret @ the hands of radder cadets.
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.
Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.
Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.
This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.
Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.
Don't ask me why, but I feel we're about to cry trying.
A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.
James Sumner directs and animates the entire Dirty Projectors’ The Getty Address.
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.
The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.
A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the curtains of a small, dimly lit room.
Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.
Playful and rythmic self-portrait shot on Super 8mm and 16mm. Colored directly on the super 8mm.
Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.
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.