WIKI: "Usama Alshaibi (Arabic: أسامة الشيبي) (born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 20, 1969) is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist..."
My Mother Paused By My Father from Usama Alshaibi on Vimeo.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
My Mother Paused By My Father/Usama Alshaibi
My Mother Paused By My Father from Usama Alshaibi on Vimeo.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
MPG: Motion Picture Genocide/Robert Banks
WIKI: "MPG: Motion Picture Genocide is a 1997 film (revised 2002) by Robert Banks. It is an examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in movies..."
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Re:WORDS/Everynone
Friday, September 2, 2011
Shout/Jeff Perkins
Jeff Perkins’ short film “Shout” was created for the 1966 Fluxus Film Festival held at the Cinamatec Theater on West 41st Street in New York. This silent 2 ½ minute film shows a close crop of two men in profile having an argument. Their wild facial expressions break in and out of the camera frame.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Mommy Mommy Where's My Brain/Jon Moritsugu
WIKI: "Jon Moritsugu (born 1965 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American underground filmmaker. Moritsugu's films are defined by their "lo-fi" aesthetic, and are often shot on very poor, 16mm film stock to give them a homemade, muddled quality..."
Monday, August 15, 2011
Without Qualities/ Claude Pérès
''The TAZ is an uprising, a guerilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it."
Starring Myriam Brabant + Heike Fiedler + Natal Haziza + Claude Pérès + Michael Salerno + Sharon Tate + Voin de Voin + Ann Liv Young
Directed By Claude Pérès
Website http://www.without-qualities.com
Monday, August 1, 2011
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y/Johan Grimonprez
ABOUT: "Johan Grimonprez was born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1962. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.
Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his film essay, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997, it eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11th. The film tells the story of airplane hijackings since the 1970s and how these changed the course of news reporting. The movie consists of recycled images taken from news broadcasts, Hollywood movies, animated films and commercials. As a child of the first TV generation, the artist mixes reality and fiction in a new way and presents history as a multi-perspective dimension open to manipulation..."
Friday, July 22, 2011
Candy Is Dandy/Russ Forster
ZINEWIKI: "Russ Forster is a writer and documentary filmmaker living in Chicago. He is the publisher of the zine 8-Track Mind and has been a contributor to Roctober, Crimewave USA, Hard Times, and other zines..."
Friday, July 15, 2011
The Craven Sluck/Mike Kuchar
WIKI: "Mike Kuchar (born August 31, 1942, New York City) is an American underground filmmaker and actor.[1] His films are notable for the low-budget, high-camp/pop aesthetic that influenced subsequent artists such as Andy Warhol, John Waters, and David Lynch. Raised in the Bronx, he made his first films as a teenager in the 1950s with his twin brother George Kuchar and participated in New York’s underground film scene in the 1960s and 1970s..."
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Now/Santiago Álvarez
WIKI: "Santiago Álvarez Román (March 18, 1919– May 20, 1998) was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed many documentaries about Cuban and American culture. His "nervous montage" technique of using "found materials," such as Hollywood movie clips, cartoons, and photographs[1], is considered a precursor to the modern video clip..."
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
the third body/Peggy Ahwesh
WIKI: "Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, the Balie Theater, Amsterdam, Filmmuseum..."
the third body from Peggy Ahwesh on Vimeo.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Altair/Lewis Klahr
ABOUT: "Lewis Klahr is an experimental filmmaker who specializes in cut-and-paste animation techniques using found photos and illustrations. His work is in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. When not working on his own films, Klahr has created the animated openings for TV shows, music videos and commercials. He is also currently a film and screenwriting professor at the California Institute of the Arts."
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Removed/Naomi Uman
IMDb: "Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body."
Friday, May 27, 2011
Middletown/Philip Botti
IMDb: "Filmmaker Philip Botti sets out in his hometown of Middletown, New Jersey to make his first film for free with the help of a super-electronic's store 33 day money back gurantee return policy on video cameras. With camera in hand, Botti documents his oddball group of friends and family: including; a couch potato mother, a chemically imbalanced/g-string wearing hot body contestant, Middletown's number one sex crazed son, a talk show addict and a guy named Sweet Lou."
Monday, May 16, 2011
Very Nice, Very Nice/Arthur Lipsett
WIKI: In the 1960s he was employed as an animator by the National Film Board of Canada. Lipsett's particular passion was sound. He collected pieces of sound from a variety of sources and fit them together to create an interesting auditory sensation. After playing one of these creations to friends, they suggested that Lipsett combine images with the sound collage. The result is a 7 minute long film Very Nice, Very Nice which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects in 1962. Despite not winning the Oscar, this film brought Lipsett considerable praise from critics and directors.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Rose Hobart/Joseph Cornell
WIKI: Rose Hobart (1936) is a short, 19-minute experimental film created by the artist Joseph Cornell, who cut and re-edited the Hollywood film East of Borneo into one of America's most famous surrealist short films. Cornell was fascinated by the star of East of Borneo, an actress named Rose Hobart, and named his short film after her. The piece consists of snippets from East of Borneo combined with shots from a documentary of an eclipse.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man/Ron Rice
"The film describes, poetically, a way of living. The film is a protest which is violent, childish, and sincere-a protest against an industrial world based on the cycle of production and consumption." --Albert Moravia, Rome L'Espresso.
watch here
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Les Mains Négatives/Marguerite Duras
France | 1978 | 18mins | 16mm
Les Mains Negative was shot from the window of a moving car in the early hours of the morning, during a popular holiday season. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of dark-skinned workers, stray prostitutes and vagabonds.
Duras alternates between speaking to a man who painted a prehistoric stencil of hand (main négative) or talking as if she were that man...
Monday, April 11, 2011
狂った一頁/Teinosuke Kinugasa
WIKI: A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji) is a silent film by Japanese film director Teinosuke Kinugasa, made in 1926. It was lost for fifty years until being rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971. The film is the product of an avant garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankaku-ha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation.
The film takes place in an asylum. Although cut together in an ever maddening maelstrom, the film loosely tells the story of the janitor of the asylum. His wife is one of the patients. One day their daughter shows up at the asylum to tell her mother about her engagement. This sets off a number of subplots and flashbacks which stitch together the family history.
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