Genres: experimental

  • Sudden and Unexpected

    “Like the beginnings of his films, the endings too are halting. In ‘Plotzlich und Unerwartet (Sudden and Unexpected)’ Udo Kier shuts a door after saying goodbye to the camera, signaling the abrupt end to a maze-like plot which loops around itself, so that the order of events remains opaque (we see the same event from three different perspectives but they seem to occur sequentially).” – Alice Kuzniar, Audacious Allegories: The Queer German Cinema

  • KEIN FILM | NO FILM …(a motion PICTURE experience)…

    “Film is no longer what it should have been.” Rhythm in the age of its digital producability – an oscilloscope loosely based on Eadweard Muybridge.

  • Brick Wall

    On one level the film simply records the process of bricklaying and thus it conjoins both sides of Winkler’s life – his artisanal work as a bricklayer and his artistic pursuit as a filmmaker. On another level, however, the film is a highly abstract work that transforms the structure of a brick wall into a virtual canvas.

  • Walnut Tree, The

    As a follow-up to the award-winning “Zyklon Portrait,” “The Walnut Tree” offers a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches to examine Holocaust memory, the family, and the role of photography in history. Three girls in Dutch costumes stand posing for their father. This fleeting moment, made static in a photograph, is contrasted with the moving imagery of railway tracks – tracks that carried the death transports – now blurred with memory and time. In a matter-of-fact tone, Schogt’s mother describes how her parents tore several pictures out of the family albums when they fled the Nazis in 1943. The…

  • Neurofeedback

    This film is about the depressive experience and explores visually the mental languages experienced by those who suffer from clinical depression. The film sets out to relate to any person how the experience feels and to what intensity. It is an educational film, an experimental film, and an artistic expression to the world. The silence of suffering is apparent to those who understand the depressed mind. The film embraces the brain and how the two (brain and depression) are a dual mystery to the human condition. For those who sufer, they will feel welcome and embraced, to those who do…

  • Sea of Souls

    This film is about a personal shamanic journey. This is also a haunting visual poem. Two souls in one world, one breath, one life, one realm. The underwater realm becomes the environment where this merging of souls takes place. The dance emulates the movement of water. Dancer Penny Couchie moves like the ocean. She becomes the ocean and the life within it. According to the Haida legend, the undersea realm is where human souls resort after death. Using this statement as a concept, exploration of the human soul is investigated. We will be bridged together, into one living being, yet…

  • Crack, Brutal Grief

    “Powerful and raw, CRACK, BRUTAL GRIEF is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder’s obsessions with history, media culture, psychology, technology, and the cruelty found in nature. The film acts as a primal scream, literally and metaphorically. The point of departure for the film came shortly after the gruesome suicide of Elder’s close friend. Elder began an investigative examination of graphic images of suicides, scenes of horror, and hard-core pornography found on the internet, which ultimately form the thesis of this cathartic expression of grief. ‘Increasingly angered by the Web’s banalization of suffering, I decided to fashion a compilation film,…

  • Day Jesus Melted, The

    “The Day Jesus Melted” is a playfully poignant story of a child’s confrontation with the mysterious world of faith.

  • Subterranean Passage

    “Once I had the power to disappear, to sink inside the dragon’s dreams, to touch the dragon’s sandy skin, as if it were my own” (Amanda, in “Subterranean Passage”). Original poetry from Barbara Klar and Michael Crochetiere, excerpts from Maria Flook, Julia Alvarez, Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe, together with a foreboding electro-acoustic soundscape by composers Robert Rosen and Shawn Bell combine to create a dark, fluid universe where unexpected story fragments arise suddenly and, one by one, become integrated into the children’s resolute mission. “Subterranean Passage” is a haunting, evocative lesson in constructing and controlling one’s own psychic…

  • camp

    Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps. A series of short, expressionistic vignettes weave together these horrific experiences. Part documentary, part drama, “camp” uses a variety of mediums to explore the emotional reality of those marked with the pink triangle.