Kevin Jerome
Everson
USA
Life may not go on but careful work continues at this Mansfield Ohio address.
Jem
Cohen
USA
A lovely, observational portrait of Minimalist painter and sculptor Anne Truitt, who is finally receiving long-overdue recognition for her critical contribution to the American avant-garde painting scene of the 60s.
Mati
Diop
Senegal, France
Winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam's Best Short Film Award, Atlantiques is by Mati Diop, who recently starred in Claire Denis's 35 Rhums. Atlantiques recounts the oddysey of Senegalese friends who attempt a life-thre...
Nathaniel
Dorsky
USA
"An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first venture into shooting in color negative after having spent a lifetime ...
Various
and Anonymous
Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Rebecca
Meyers
USA.
An ode to the sea, where beauty and death often meet.
Vincent
Grenier
Canada, USA
A virtuosic use of video sets this burning bush alight with crimson colour and transcendent allusions.
Philipp
Fleischmann
Austria
A reinvention of the filmstrip by way of an astonishing 360 degree camera obscura construction, which allows for a continuous single frame to emerge like a scroll rather than a series of frames.
Madison
Brookshire
USA
Colour field films made of slow dissolves and winsome wavelength compositions of light.
Peter
Tscherkassky
Austria
Austrian master Peter Tscherkassky's latest epic is a sly comedy that mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of advertising. With references to Méliès, les Lumières, Cocteau and Fernand Léger, COMI...
Nathaniel
Dorsky
USA
"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a...
Italy
Amazing images gleaned from the archives of the EYE Film Institute of Netherlands; a parade of pint-sized pulchritude.
Ken
Jacobs
USA
Stroboscopic home movies, from Rome to NYC.
Friedl
vom Gröller
Austria
A young woman is photographed in a Parisian courtyard. Her belle laide looks convey a paradox of emotion and many untold mysteries.
Basma
Al Sharif
USA, Palestine
A slideshow depicting abandoned houses develops into a pre-apocalyptic paradise for the state of Palestine.
Thom
Andersen
USA
From the director of "Los Angeles Plays Itself" comes another city symphony exploring Los Angeles' gentrification through a thoughtful montage of façades and a playful excursus through its musical history.
Lucien
Castaing-Taylor
USA
A quiet, ravishing pastoral to restore the senses. A shepherdess guides a parade of sheep across Montana's Hell Roaring Creek; a quotidian ritual that exists out of time.
John
Price
Canada
A home movie fresco comprised of bold colour experiments and an intimate race with time.
Ken
Jacobs
USA
Stroboscopic home movies of a famous filmmaker, by another.
Eriko
Sonoda
Japan
Semi-opaque reflections of a landscape seen through a train window not only reflect back, but multiply and create a rhythmic composition worthy of hanging on a wall. With sonic dislocation and frame by frame animation, Eriko Sono...
Oliver
Husain
Canada
Ornate aesthetic interventions in a historic Toronto neighbourhood cum suburb. Art combats against poor taste.
Eve
Heller
USA, Austria
A single roll of Super 8mm to capture the mystery in the everyday, blown up to 35mm.
Christopher
Becks
France, Canada
A serene, yet kinetic in-camera meditation on an old barn in Normandy.
Nathaniel
Dorsky
USA
"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring." (N. Dorsky)
Paolo
Gioli
Italy
With exhilirating rhythms and flashing sideways motion, the latest by celebrated Italian aritst Paolo Gioli is a 16mm, black and white ode to faces and the city. Il Finish delle Figure reminds one of Muybridge but relays a sense ...
Helga
Fanderl
Germany
Intimate Super 8 portraits from a great love affair.
Segundo
de Chomón
France
Illusions of gutteral gold.
James
Benning
Germany
Ruhr is legendary American filmmaker James Benning's monumental meditation on the Ruhr, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. While Ruhr marks Benning's foray into both high-definition video and the European landscape (leav...
T.
Marie
USA
The apocalyptic sublime of J. M. W. Turner’s 1840 masterpiece The Slave Ship, with its firery conflagration and strewn debris amid wild waters, is the source for T. Marie’s time-based pixel painting-film Slaveship.
Dominic
Angerame
USA
Luscious chiaroscuro images of the construction and destruction of modern structures exposing the inner soul of things. An ode to human endeavour as much as a harkening back to the 20s and 30s city symphony films.
Tomonari
Nishikawa
Japan
An entrancing patchwork of spectral apparitions from the platforms of Tokyo's busiest railway line.
Callum
Cooper
United Kingdom
An ecstatic, taxonomic montage of London row-houses shot with an iPhone.
T.
Marie
USA
A shimmery, abstract tryptich inspired by Claude Monet.
Since the twenties when the city symphony film came into vogue with filmmakers like Walter Ruttmann, Paul Strand and Dziga Vertov seeking to capture the impressionistic velocity and transience of modern life, this lyrical form h...
As with painting, natural light and colour are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for film artists. Modulations of memory and emotion, like time, can be measured by the changing of the seasons as revealed by some of these perso...
James
Benning
Germany
Ruhr is legendary American filmmaker James Benning's monumental meditation on the Ruhr, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. While Ruhr marks Benning's foray into both high-definition video and the European landscape (leav...
USA
"A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring." (N. Dorsky)
The ocean has always been a mythic source of life, as much as it has a legendary call to death: A programme of paradoxical beauty and the possibility of extinction.
The explosive material in cinema’s history is not simply nitrate, the combustible celluloid that once reigned supreme. It is film’s commanding presence, which transports viewers through time and space with thrilling illusionary e...