An inventive neon re-animation that tells of one guy’s search for happiness.
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As in Shymphonie Diagonale, this study in optical rhythm is an encounter between music and film.
First of all, the numbers: 400 hours of images, between intimate conversations, home movies, live shows, behind the scenes and music clips, culled from 15 years of sporadic documentation. This results in a close up and personal look over the Flaming Lips, one of the most influent American rock & roll bands from the last two decades. From a no-talent hillbilly-punk version of the Who (the Lips started in 1983) to a planetary success band (following the phenomenon of its latest record Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots), all their trajectory was documented in THE FEARLESS FREAKS by director and friend Bradley Beesley.
Wanderings through a sordid and abandoned Lisbon, after the graphic work by Stuart de Carvalhais.
At The Jazz Gallery the darkest, most vulgar and most way-out performance is seen as a work of art.
When a woman rents a miserably tiny room, she finds mountains of belongings from the previous tenant, Anthony, as well as a backlog of messages on the machine from the landlord, his mother, and disparate acquaintances. As she cleans up the place, she begins to experience uncanny visions, nightmares, and the feeling that Anthony is much closer than she imagined. Terror haunts her sweaty-summer mind as she ritualistically cleans the room, strips to old-fashioned bra and panties, climbs in the fridge to cool down, and makes pudding.
In 1971, Guy Terrifico was at the zenith of his career. Moments later, in a blaze of whiskey, pills, canceled shows and gun shots his career was over and so – allegedly – was his life. At least so everyone thought until something truly weird happened; 30 years after his death a new Guy Terrifico album is released. Naturally this has raised some questions because, as Merle Haggard observes, It’s real hard to sing when you’re dead. The strange and debatably short life of Guy Terrifico takes us from the wilds of Canada to the wild times of Nashville and London. Fondly remembered by his contemporaries like Kris Kristofferson, Ronnie Hawkins, Levon Helm and Merle Haggard, Guy’s life story is told throw a combination of modern day interviews with his old cohorts and archival footage of Guy back in the day.
A young woman sits on a sofa in the middle of a lake singing an old lullaby. She is waiting for her brother to say goodbye to a loved one.
An ill fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically created a fairy tale ending.
On an arctic shore, in a calm so absolute that water waves like oil, one can ear a deep breathing. Out of time and far from the human world, some walruses are sleeping. Their sleep so deep that the approach of a boat hardly troubles it.
In the 1950s, when Herzog was 13 years old, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an egomaniacal artist. From the chaos a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre. Four more films would follow. Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met — and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.
One of the first abstract, animated films in film history. Swedish-born Eggeling, who lived and worked in Berlin, created his first film analogously to, regarding his film as a musical score. He tried to create a universal language that would bridge the gap between the artist and his audience. This version is the one restored by Gosta Werner 1997 with support from the Swedish Film Institute.
A found footage film. An Italian sixties softporn soundtrack which is repeated two times. Each time a sequence of images is synched to the soundtrack. The film images are illustrating acts of ocular light perception as well as imagery with strong visual impact. It’s a kind of visual test directed towards the viewer.
Temptation was originally recorded for the 1987 New Order album Substance. This new video clip was directed by Michael Shamberg and Swedish band The Concretes’ lead singer, Victoria Bergsman. The video was re-titled The Temptation of Victoria and is dedicated to filmmaker Michael Powell.
A meditation on gender, the ephemeral nature of lust, and the sheer importance of staying alive. Texts that sound as if they were entries of an intimate diary. The streets of san Francisco and the stories this city hides. a film about landscapes, both physical and emotional.
What iz being a futurist now? And then? Sex-war machines play to six different tunes. Hate!!! Hate!!! Hate!!! 8!!! No more Dantas anymore!!! Anti-komemorative filmodrama celebrating the 100th anniversary of futurist poet-painter and everything else! Almada Negreiros.
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named ‘Chilean Sphere’, fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to sensational discovery. It appeared that that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft with a cosmonaut on board 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin’s flight.
Why are there so few people in Sweden and wouldn’t it be nice if more foreigners moved in ?