Saila/Julia Ostertag

ABOUT: "born in Stuttgart... Lives in Berlin and Hanover..." website...

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.

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."

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."

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."

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.

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.

Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man/Ron Rice

WIKI: Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963) is an experimental film by Ron Rice. It stars Winifred Bryan as the Queen of Sheba and Taylor Mead as the Atom Man. Featured players are Ron Rice, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jack Smith, and Jonas Mekas. Rice died before the editing was complete, so Mead finished the project in 1981.

"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.

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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...

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.