Film Search
- Oct 12, 2009
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Artist on Fire: The Films of Joyce Wieland
Two programs of work by the Canadian mixed-media artist and experimental filmmaker. more...
- Oct 16, 2012
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Films by Craig Baldwin
Two works by the west-coast avant-garde filmmaker: Wild Gunman (1978) and RocketKitKongoKit (1986). more...
- Oct 1, 2009
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Book of Mirrors: Films by Joost Rekveld
Dutch filmmaker Joost Rekveld presents a program of his experimental shorts, which focus on the nature of light. more...
- Mar 5, 2009
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Films by Stan Brakhage
Four works by the experimental filmmaker. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene's groundbreaking 1919 silent, the most famous and influential work of the German expressionist cinema, involves a mad doctor (Werner Krauss) and the somnambulist who does his bidding (Conrad Veidt). more...
- Mar 3, 2011
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The Complete Films of Fred Camper
A distinguished critic of avant-garde cinema (and a longtime Reader contributor), Fred Camper has also made a handful of experimental films that are being screened by White Light Cinema in two installments (the second follows April 16). more...
- Oct 29, 2012
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Films by Bruce Conner
Six shorts by the experimental filmmaker, a pioneer in the use of found footage: Report (1967), Marilyn Times Five (1973), Crossroads (1976), Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1977), Valse Triste (1978), and the Devo video Mongoloid (1978). more...
- Aug 24, 2009
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The Controlled Mistake: Experimental Films by Heather McAdams
Cartoonist Heather McAdams presents a program of short works, including We Hope You Enjoy This Film (1979), It's Eddie (1979), and the documentary Jay Elvis (1991). more...
- May 30, 2003
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Cremaster 1
Sculptor, writer-director, and former football player Matthew Barney returns to Bronco Stadium in his hometown of Boise, Idaho, to stage a Busby Berkeley-style dance routine while two Goodyear blimps float overhead. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Cremaster 2
Don't bother scratching your head over this video tone poem by Matthew Barney; most of its images are deliberately antiseptic and enigmatic, and as with Last Year at Marienbad or the final reel of 2001: A Space Odyssey, they're not meant to be elucidated so much as savored. more...
- Sep 13, 2002
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Cremaster 3
Vintage Chryslers collide over the lobby of the Chrysler Building in a balletic demolition derby, a woman cuts up potatoes wearing shoes with blades attached to the soles, a man on an operating table has a tiny wheel instead of a penis, a bevy of beauties enjoy a bubble bath at the Guggenheim Museum—all this and more is on display in Matthew Barney's 182-minute picture show about power, impotence, and violence in American culture. more...
- May 30, 2003
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Cremaster 4
With or without a comprehensible story, crosscutting is one of the least interesting forms of editing, and Matthew Barney addresses the problem much as Robert Altman did when he was on autopilot—by pretending it doesn't exist. more...
- May 30, 2003
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Cremaster 5
The third installment sequentially (1997) of writer-director Matthew Barney's "Cremaster" cycle is just as lethargic and self-satisfied as the others I've seen, though less monotonous rhythmically. more...
- Feb 17, 2011
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Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb
New York artist Andrea Geyer re-creates the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who coordinated the Holocaust, with the young transgendered performer Wu Ingrid Tsang playing all the key roles. more...
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