Onan/Takahiko Iimura

ABOUT: "Iimura is one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema and video art. He directed his first experimental films in New York during the 1960s. His work explores a variey of subjects from ecology, erotic imagery, and social critique. In the 1970s he began working with video. In the 1990s he discovered the domain of multimedia and created interactive art where the visitor can become an integral part of the installation."

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Ballet Mécanique/Fernand Léger

WIKI: "Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil's score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. As a composition, Ballet Mécanique is Antheil's best known and most enduring work. It remains famous for its radical style and instrumentation as well as its storied history."

Looking for Jimmy/Julie Delpy

Synopsis: "Julie Delpy describes her directing debut, LOOKING FOR JIMMY, as "more of an experiment than an actual film." Shot on digital video, at a cost of about $3000, it was shot over a 24-hour period in Los Angeles, stopping the camera only to change the tape. It's a freewheeling excursion through contemporary Los Angeles."

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La jetée/Chris Marker

WIKI: "La jetée (English: The Jetty or The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel."

365 Day Project/Jonas Mekas

WIKI: "Jonas Mekas born December 24, 1922 in the village of Semeniškiai, near Biržai) is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.
Beginning in the fall of 2006, Mekas planned to film 365 short videos for Apple Computer's Video iPod, releasing one a day on his website."

Anemic Cinema/Marcel Duchamp

WIKI/ "Anemic Cinema or Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a Dadaist, surrealist, or experimental film made by Marcel Duchamp. The film depicts whirling animated drawings -- which Duchamp called Rotoreliefs -- alternated with puns in French. Duchamp signed the film with his alter ego name of Rrose Sélavy."

Inferno/Dario Argento

WIKI: "Inferno is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The convoluted story concerns a young man's investigation into the disappearance of his sister, who had been living in a New York City apartment building that also served as a home for a powerful, centuries-old witch."

Eros+Massacre/Yoshishige Yoshida

WIKI: "Eros + Massacre (エロス＋虐殺, Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu) is a Japanese black and white film released in 1969. It was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada.

The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, assassinated by the Japanese military in 1923. The story tells of his relationship with three women."

Celestial Subway Lines/Ken Jacobs

"released on tzadik 2004(www.tzadik.com)
the nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye.
music: john zorn(&ikue mori) "

Looking for Langston/Isaac Julien

WIKI: "Produced in 1989, the film is presented in black and white combining authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic story line celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York."