Genres: experimental

  • Strange News from Another Star

    “Strange News from Another Star” is an experimental space odessy that contrasts everyday images with archival space photography in order to reflect on the paradoxical nature of desire, and to present the simple truth that each of us possess the means by which to satisfy our own longing.

  • Tourbillon, Le

    Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau’s presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist. (LB) English and French with subtitles.

  • Desert Spirits

    An eerie experimental drama, “Desert Spirits” follows Chris and Gordon into the sphere of the supernatural. When their car breaks down in the middle of the desert, the two decide to take some peyote to kill some time. Little do they realize that the cactus buttons they consume are tickets into another world where lizards talk, sensory overload prevails, and demonic spirits seek prey.

  • Skinned

    The wanton moment in which a young boy recognizes he is no longer infallible.

  • Doppelganger

    Sexy-andro-minimalist-techno party. Who is what?

  • Lesson, The

    A close look at the hilarious representation of language inspired by the absurd, existentialist writings of Eugene Ionesco.

  • Deutschland

    “Bowen returns with a multi-screen fairytale about a Haunted Girl and her Cousin. ‘Deutschland’, like her previous ‘sadomasochism,’ strains cinema through language, asking that we read along with a woman recalling her German roots while a four-play of home movies flicker by underneath her grave. The English text in the present is both summary and benediction (‘The war is over’), understanding that memory turns the people of our lives into characters, and all the characters are us.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2000

  • Promised Land

    “Promised Land” is an experimental documentary film that mixes the personal and the political. It follows the story of my family in Peru, from the middle of the last century through to the present day. It is told from a personal point of view and also in relation to the political developments taking place throughout the Latin American continent. This film waves together these various viewpoints, forming a unique perspective on memory, history and identity. (MA)

  • Exquisite Corpse

    The “Exquisite Corpse” is a drawing method in which three individuals draw part of a body without knowing what the other parts looks like. The results are often bizarre accumulations of characteristics and variations on themes. Here, three curators interpret this method in the form of a rich complex programme of short films on the queer body. Our bodies have often been the site of obsession, whether through our expression of love, sex, and sexuality or hatred of the abject, the ill and the repudiated. The beauty of the Exquisite Corpse is the conceptual interpretive shifts that take place mimicking…

  • Cannot Not Exist

    In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes – often patches of colour against a stark white background – are interspersed with nearly black intermittent smudges punctuating white. These visual themes develop gradually into a series of multi-coloured vertical lines which weave contrapuntally in relation to theflickering (single-frame) paint shapes. Twice, a solid (as if photographed) shape is seen receding from the amalgam of paint. Masses of tiny dots and “curlicue” shapes sometimes interrupt the thematic progression from irregular paint-shape flickerings to fluidity of vertical lines: this theme eventually resolves itself through the intervention…