Friday, October 29, 2010

Infidèles (Unfaithful)/Claude Pérès

ABOUT: "Director Claude Pérès takes viewers on a haunting journey with this groundbreaking drama. 

The premise is simple: Pérès and a man he's never met will sleep together while the cameras roll. No contract, no film crew, no boundaries. The end result is a film that challenges viewers to look into the heart of human desire.

There’s palpable tension as "the director" (Pérès) and "the actor" engage in conversation and gradually give in to the film’s unusual and unpredictable scenario. Pérès loosely structures the encounter as an interview in which he poses piercing questions to his onscreen lover, himself, and the audience. 

It’s is the kind of film that seeps into the viewers’ subconscious and rattles their comfort levels. 

After watching Unfaithful, audiences will never look at cinema the same way again."


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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Lead Shoes/Sidney Peterson


WIKI: The Lead Shoes (1949) is an experimental or surrealist film directed by Sidney Peterson at Workshop 20 at the San Francisco Art Institute. The film was made using distorting lenses.

On December 30, 2009, it was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant and will be preserved for all time.


The Lead Shoes (1949)
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The lollipop generation/G.B. Jones


WIKI: G. B. Jones is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines based in Toronto, Canada. Her drawings have been featured at galleries around the world, and her films screened at numerous film festivals, both in Canada and abroad.

The Lollipop Generation is an underground experimental film. "Shot on Super 8 and video, The Lollipop Generation takes these tools of the traditional home movie and uses them to make a fucked up family film." The film was made over a period of 13 years, "one Super-8 reel at a time", whenever the director could afford to buy another cartridge of film. In the end, the Toronto band Kids on TV organized a benefit so that GB Jones could finish it.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA/Jean-Luc Godard

WIKI: "The densest of Godard's films, Histoire(s) du cinéma is an examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century; in this sense, it can also be considered a critique of the 20th century and how it perceives itself. The project is considered the major work of the late period of Godard's career; it is alternately described as an essay and a poem."

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei/ Shuji Terayama


WIKI: Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji?, December 10, 1935—May 4, 1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters[1], he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
: A young boy is the emperor of a country in which children have overthrown the adults.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Tromeo and Juliet/ Lloyd Kaufman


WIKI: Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by James Gunn, who also wrote the film's screenplay.

The film is more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of Troma-esque sexuality and violence. The title of the film is a portmanteau of "Troma" and "Romeo & Juliet".

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sentimental Punk/ Kurt Kren



Kurt Kren (September 20, 1929 - died in Vienna on June 23, 1998) was an Austrian avantgarde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Shabondama Elegy/ Aryan Kaganof





WIKI: Aryan Kaganof (born Ian Kerkhof) is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist. In 1999 he changed his name to Aryan Kaganof.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Le sexe enragé de la fée sanguinaire/Roland Lethem

WIKI: Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer.

Influenced at his beginnings by Bunuel, Cocteau, the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema (Seijun Suzuki, Ishirô Honda, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoko Ono), stunned by the Festival of the film expérimental of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsabilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Fame Whore/ Jon Moritsugu




IMDb: This film involves three interwoven stories with the only seeming connection being the delusions of the involved leads. In the first element of the film, a hot-tempered world tennis star loses endorsement contracts when the press outs him even though he claims the report is false. In the second, a talent-less woman struggles to make it in the world of fashion design or the music video business. In the last, an animal activist runs a dog-adoption agency and has an imaginary friend who appears in a St. Bernard suit. Written by John Sacksteder