Genres: experimental

  • UR Lucky

    I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up. The film is about not being able to have control over the event, and the acceptance of this fact. This is the first film in my Performance Trilogy, a series of films which also include “Snow Search” and “Making a Scene.” (MD)

  • Unconscious London Strata

    …the nearest equivalent to the NON-pictorial workings of my mind which these London scenes, before my eyes and camera lens, would afford – each scenic possibility distorted from any easily identifiable picture to some laborious reconstruction of the mind’s eye at the borders of the unconscious. It was two years before I could even begin to edit; and then some visual-song of all of England’s history began to move thru this material… (SB) “Prisms, focus shift and visible grain lend a degree of abstraction to images which slowly become recognizable (and, to the British eye, familiar) buildings and house fronts……

  • Under the Lizards

    The spirit of modern Polish society is embodied in a rich cultural heritage. Internationally celebrated filmmaker and artist David Rimmer reveals Polish life through a montage of live music footage, personal interviews with artists (primarily musicians), and everyday images. This poetic documentary captures the essence of a people who have maintained an undying commitment to artistic expression despite historical challenges. Included are reflections on the emergence of jazz music at a time when it was banned by the state, the changeover from communist rule to a free marketplace, and the role of women artists in Poland. Award: Best Documentary (Arts…

  • Under White Skies

    “Under White Skies” is a visual discussion of an event, a woman’s lonely decision that is portrayed in stark black and white. Three points-of-view depicting the same event result in one reality. Time, place and order are taken out of context within an essentially narrative structure.

  • Understanding Science

    A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments received from “out there.” A visual assault course of home movie footage of the filmmaker’s family, drawings and text repeated and reprocessed on film, video and computer. A correspondence course from expatriot Australian de Bryun. Can we ever truly understand science?

  • Undivided Attention

    An episodic road movie, “Undivided Attention” offers experiences in cinematic metaphor and structure that contradict, tickle and soothe our desire to understand and make sense of what we see or think we see. A young couple driving in an open car take the viewer through more than twenty intriguing sequences that stimulate the visual sensibility as the film explores the relationship between intellectual and sensual knowledge. It also comments on some conventions of narrative and documentary and has some fun with film theory. “Undivided Attention” works on various levels, the most accessible being entertainment value and on a more astute…

  • Unknown Soldiers

    “In ‘Unknown Soldiers’, Veronika Soul uses experimental film techniques to create a visual and aural mélange that features children’s harrowing tales of wartime Japan, a retelling of ‘Godzilla,’ a Japanese tourist atop the Empire State Building, and a meditation on the role of the hamburger in the life of a traveller… Hers is an original, amusing and sometimes distrurbing vision of East-West relations.” – Karen Cooper, Director of Film Forum, NYC

  • Bird

    This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I’ve had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

  • Upon Waking

    “Upon Waking” explores the family ritual of image gathering. A personal narrative which chronicles a fictitious bond between the filmmaker and her great-great grandmother through journals. Visual imagery, incorporating both film and video, works to create a metaphor of intervention and celebration of the gendered self.

  • Urban Fire

    A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of the city. The last birth combined with the fire and destruction. The pure feeling… mind motion. The Urban Fire. OUTSIDE “Snow-blind on the street, there’s a glimpse of a Brick Wall. The heat of freeze acts on your eyes; one great glowing asprockalips, the bubblin’ sabbatier.” – Philip Hoffman