An exercise in avant-garde cinema that is freshly humorous and accessible, Daisies is a dark comedy that eschews a traditional narrative for a Dadaist construction of events. Perpetually dressed in vibrantly corresponding costumes and dark black eyeliner, Marie and Marie work together to create mischief. Seeing the world ruined and values ...
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 compiles works from a variety of directors. These films, many of which have been unseen since their original exhibitions, were provided by a variety of film archives. The films showcase the many techniques developed in the earliest days of not only avant-garde cinema but in cinema itself. ~ ...
In order to achieve true musical greatness, an aspiring young musician attempts to "unlearn" everything he knows about playing guitar in this semi-experimental directorial debut from Phish bassist Mike Gordon. Though Rick (Jimi Stout) can feel great music brewing within him, his guitar playing leaves much to be desired. Things take a turn for the ...
Conceptual artist Iannis Xenakis (who died in 2001) composed La Legende d'Eer , an electroacoustic work for seven-track tape, to commemorate the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1978. It featured scattered shards of orchestral sound and cacophonous noises. Xenakis ran the tape continuously for several months straight (in a loop) as an ...
A pioneering lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer has made more than 70 shorts and features over the course of her career. History Lessons, her documentary about lesbianism throughout the 20th century, combines radical sexual politics with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. Using archival footage that goes back as far as the dawn of cinema, ...
Chicago-based avant garde filmmaker James Fotopoulos directs Migrating Forms, a minimalist exercise in sexual dysfunction. A woman with blonde hair (Rebecca Lewis) and a stone-faced man (Preston Baty) have anti-erotic sex, smoke cigarettes, and drink water. They are watched by the man's cat. The scene repeats itself while each parter develops a ...
The sci-fi mythology of glam-rock superstar David Bowie comes to the screen in this film based on playwright Christian Wiehle's Major Tom Science Fiction Performance and starring Wobine Bosch in the role of the man whose existential journey through the far reaches of space held captive an entire generation of music lovers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All ...
Ambient music mainstay Rapoon (aka Robin Storey) offers a look at his more visual side in this release featuring six of the versatile artist's seldom-seen short films. By utilizing a wide variety of visual techniques including slides, slow motion, and montage, Rapoon offers the ideal visual counterpart to the rich and textured sounds of his ...
The performance art release Audiovisualize: Mixed by Addictive TV sets a series of upbeat and cutting-edge video edits to a techno soundtrack featuring such musical artists as Eclectic Method, Bauhaus, Kane & Fodel and Red-Ochre. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
This release from Music Video Distributors features a series of slide images over a digitally remastered edition of the classic album Eskimo by the Residents. Among the half-dozen songs are "The Walrus Hunt," "A Spirit Steals a Child," "The Festival of Death," and "The Angry Anakok." ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Geographically speaking, the iconoclastic yet brilliant composer John Cage identified himself primarily with Manhattan, which served as his home for decades. On October 6, 1977, Cage published a unique work of art in Rolling Stone magazine (with the encouragement of Jann Wenner) entitled "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs," designed to commemorate ...
The compilation release Resistance[S], Vol. II brings into a single collection a panoply of experimental film and video-driven performance artworks, created in numerous countries across North Africa and the Middle East. The collection at hand showcases nine artists with variegated histories and backgrounds; all, however, share common threads in ...
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