Symphonie Diagonal/Viking Eggeling

"In Symphonie Diagonal (1925), Eggeling applies an objectively analyzed movement of forms emphasizing line in a series of contrasts – vertical and horizontal, straight and curved, light and dark, strong and weak, disappearing and emerging..."

Flesh/Paul Morrissey

wiki: "Flesh is the first film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy Warhol. The other films in the trilogy include Trash and Heat. All three have gained a cult following and are noted examples of the ideals and ideology of the time period. The films are also known to have broken boundaries and paved the way for future filmmakers.

The film stars Joe Dallesandro as a hustler working on the streets of New York City. The movie highlights various Warhol superstars, in addition to being the film debuts of both Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling. Also appearing are Geraldine Smith as Joe's wife and Patti D'Arbanville as her lesbian lover."

Flesh

Cocked/Matthew Suib

ABOUT: "Philadelphia-based artist Matthew Suib has exhibited installations, video and audio works and photographs internationally at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kunstwerke Berlin, Mercer Union (Toronto), The Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.) and PS1 Contemporary Art Center (NYC)."


Cocked, 2003
Video excerpt

The Brown Bunny/Vincent Gallo

WIKI: "The Brown Bunny is a 2004 American independent film written, produced and directed by Vincent Gallo about a motorcycle racer on a cross-country drive who is haunted by memories of his former lover."

The Brown Bunny 2003

J'interroge et j'invective/Isidore Isou

WIKI: "Isidore Isou (January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007), born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism."

J'interroge et j'invective, poem by François Dufrene, excerpt from Isidore Isou's film Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951).

The Raspberry Reich/Bruce LaBruce

REVIEW: "In Bruce LaBruce's The Raspberry Reich, a small band of left-wing terrorists in contemporary Berlin have incorporated the radicalized student generation of the '60s that Godard made movies about, "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" as he put it, into their romanticized pop politics right alongside Che."

Mothlight/Stan Brakhage

REVIEW: "Mothlight acknowledges the limitations of the screen, the way film traps subject matter in a box, suffocating the life out of it."

The Right Side Of My Brain/Richard Kern

1984, USA, 23 minutes, super 8, black and white written by: Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern produced and directed by: Richard Kern cast: Lydia Lunch, Clint Ruin and Henry Rollins

La Chambre/Chantal Akerman

WIKI: "Chantal Akerman (born June 6, 1950) is a Belgian film director and artist. Her grand-parents and her mother were sent to Auschwitz, but only her mother came back. This is a very important factor in her personal experience and her mother's anxiety is a recurrent theme in her filmography. Renowned for a "hyperrealist" style, Akerman's work seeks to inscribe the "images between the images." Akerman's most famous film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) exemplifies a dedication to the "ellipses of conventional narrative cinema."