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Hard Core Logo
The THIS IS SPINAL TAP of Canadian punk mockumentaries is about a legendary (but fictive) Canuck hardcore unit that reunites years after its acrimonious breakup to play a one-shot benefit and play such ramalama hits as "Something's Gonna Die Tonight," "Rock 'n' Roll is Fat and Ugly" and "Who the Hell You Think You Are?"...Start your free trial to watch
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Hard Core Logo II
Bruce McDonald, director of the rock doc about Hard Core Logo, has lived with the guilt of immortalizing lead singer Joe Dick's death on film. He is asked to interview Care Failure of the band Die Mannequin, who claims to be channeling Joe's spirit. Bruce is convinced Care is suffering from a case of...Start your free trial to watch
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Azole Dkmuntch
At an open microphone performance, a man in a blue tuxedo claiming to be named Azole Dkmuntch heaps transgression on transgression in his bargain-basement retelling of his clearly ludicrous but deceptively poignant personal history. He rips and roars though a bevy of outre afflictions from AIDS to spousal abuse to heart...Start your free trial to watch
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Mort à Vignole
A tragic family death combined with a haunted fascination for old 8mm home movies provokes Belgian cineaste Olivier Smolders' exquisite, deeply felt exploration of the cinematic image. From a patchwork of disparate times and places (including the filmmaker's childhood in the then-Belgian Congo and his own 8mm recording of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Adoration
This dazzling yet graphic and unsettling film, shot in 35mm black-and-white, features a young Japanese man (Takashi Matsuo) lovingly filming and recording the voice of his female companion (Catherine Aymerie) before proceeding in a harrowing direction. Among the best-known works of acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Olivier...Start your free trial to watch
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L'amateur
A bereft filmmaker asks a series of women to pose nude for his camera in this striking and moody short film by Belgium's Olivier Smolders. The silent encounters act as counterpoint to a contemplative internal monologue musing on love, loss and the subtle power-plays of aversion and desire underway in an atmosphere pervaded by...Start your free trial to watch
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Neuvaine
The title (NOVENA in English) refers to the nine days of prayers undertaken in Roman Catholicism as an act of devotion or penitence with the aim of obtaining a state of grace. In Olivier Smolders' brooding, impressively refined short film, realized in black and white with liturgical choral music punctuating its obsessive...Start your free trial to watch
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Ravissements
A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a nun narrates an account of religious rapture. Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders continues a brilliant exploration of religious ecstasy, figured in and epitomized by the erotic,...Start your free trial to watch
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Pastoral no.5
An open glade with a couple making out on a blanket foregrounds a lovely wooded hill that filmmaker, visual artist and interdisciplinarian Jonn Herschend frames for another of his chronicles of dysfunction in the workplace. The director of a film using the park as a location calls action and a couple walks out of the trees...Start your free trial to watch
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Self Portrait as a PowerPoint Proposal for an Amusement Park Ride
Interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and publisher Jonn Herschend has said he was raised in an amusement park and his sense of the absurd certainly gives a certain credence to the claim. A simple PowerPoint proposal to tear down a make-your-own sandwich shop to make way for a thrill ride reveals the hidden...Start your free trial to watch
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We Are Not Having Any Trouble in Our Department Despite What You've Heard
Artist and filmmaker Jonn Herschend offers a delightful musing on the emotional agendas that often underlie professional relationships. A promotional video for a Danish art museum in which the spokeswoman discusses the evolution of the museum turns into a literal battle over a failed relationship and the...Start your free trial to watch
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Genet
"I don't know why I shouldn't talk about myself. I'm the person who knows the most about myself. Right?" So begins a fascinatingly frank conversation with the great French writer Jean Genet, conducted in the summer of 1981 (five years before his passing) by actor, theater director, and filmmaker Antoine Bourseiller. Genet,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Day I Vanished
After shooting himself with a mysterious syringe that renders him invisible, a man wreaks havoc on those unfortunate enough to have wandered into his domain. He-Man creator and genre auteur Don Glut pays tribute to H.G. Wells' creation with a series of sight gags and charmingly rough science-fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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The Teenage Werewolf
A "Monster Mash" riff grinds away as a door opens on leather-clad teenage toughs huddled in a dark room. A caption reads, "This is Doctor Mabuse." Underground genre legend Don Glut spins a short take on the man-as-wolf mythos in dusty sepia with snowbound suburbia as a backdrop. - Jackson ScarlettStart your free trial to watch
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For What Purpose
Wooden crates, bundled cardboard, trash cans and stacks of magazines become fodder for a protracted brawl between two young men over a briefcase. But what could be inside? An amateur production from the young Don Glut who would later go on to create not only the novelization of a STAR WARS film but many...Start your free trial to watch
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Spy Smasher vs. The Purple Monster
When he was only twenty, comic book author Don Glut completed what could be hailed as the ultimate in fan-fiction: SPY SMASHER VS. THE PURPLE MONSTER, a winning lo-fi tribute to two beloved Republic Studios serials. Glut's five-part mini-serial captures all the charm of the hokey but heartfelt mid-century...Start your free trial to watch
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Wrath of the Sun Demon
A Volkswagen Beetle screeches around a bend in a country road as the sun nears eclipse. "No! Don't let it happen now!" a man screams, transforming into monster strongly reminiscent of the "Creature" (from the cinematic Black Lagoon) in this teenage production from Don Glut. Glut would go on to a prolific...Start your free trial to watch
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The Genii of Fire
A royal couple, heedless of the warnings of a holy man, enters the temple of the "Genii of Fire" where they are captured and blinded by the awesomeness of Georges Méliès' pyrotechnics and special effects. A showcase for the wonders of the moving image, this film features dazzling costumes and sets that...Start your free trial to watch
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The Miser
A fragment of a Georges Méliès film, THE MISER starts in a counting house where the titular miser is adding up his money and refusing those variously wretched souls who come to him for help. His cash goes missing in the lost middle part of the film and we resume with him groveling in the village on the point of suicide over...Start your free trial to watch
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Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
Georges Méliès teaches a greedy merchant a lesson in this convoluted story of an alchemist who receives ghostly visitors after his assistants slip a hallucinogen into his cough medicine after he turns away a penniless woman with a sick child. The ghosts are not particularly scary but they send the man to a...Start your free trial to watch
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The New Lord of the Village
An imperious lord of the manor in 18th century France is taught a lesson in humility when a Gypsy woman entices him to an enchanted forest and sets up a trial that will see his fortunes change when a lowly blacksmith and tailor who accompany him become his betters. Georges Méliès is at his magical best,...Start your free trial to watch
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Dream of an Opium Fiend
An evil opium purveyor dances for joy when he knocks a bourgeois Frenchman into a hallucinatory swoon with a puff on a pipe. Georges Méliès dips into his bag of special effects and pulls out an old favorite: the "Man in the Moon." Pure whimsy. - Marilyn FerdinandStart your free trial to watch
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The Good Luck of a Souse
In this fragment of a short by Georges Méliès, a construction worker gets a surprise in the basket he carries on his back: the daughter and wife of a drunkard, ejected out of a window. The commotion attracts a milling crowd. While the interior of the drunk's apartment is little more than a painted...Start your free trial to watch
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Why That Actor Was Late
A corpulent actor's way is blocked at every turn as he tries to get from a busy cafe to the theatre where he is performing. A showcase for the unknown actor's ability to knock over and irritate everyone from cafe patrons to stage carpenters, the film also features a couple of working automobiles to dazzle...Start your free trial to watch
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Circus Savage
If there is such an old-fashioned thing as "stream of consciousness" in cinema, I suppose this is it. It certainly felt like a flowing stream or river while I was editing day after day, fitting found-sound to found (out-take) footage accumulated over almost sixty years of filmmaking. All the images and sounds buried on reels...Start your free trial to watch
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Night Vision
Canadian director/film editor Stéphane Lafleur's breathtaking contribution to Canada's National Parks Project, NIGHT VISION actualizes the fears and desires of a young girl with stunning images of Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, at night. Haunting music by Mathieu Charbonneau, Andre Ethier and Rebecca Foon...Start your free trial to watch
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The Stars and the Waves
John Walker's impressions from Prince Edward Island National Park are filtered through the dreams, memories and idle vacation activities of musicians Dale Morningstar, Sophie Trudeau and Chad Ross staying at a lovely, old inn on the island. Moving from pensive and disconnected to joyful sharing on a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Heart and the Money
To marry for money or give all for love is the dilemma faced by the lovely Suzanne. An ambitious mother pushes her toward security but Suzanne's heart longs for the sunlit joy of her boat rides with Raymond to gather wild irises. Louis Feuillade's artistically composed frames (plus one heart-tugging...Start your free trial to watch
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Jasper in a Jam
The legendary JASPER IN A JAM, though stunning to look at in all of its George Pal stop-motion glory, also plays fast-and-loose with stereotypes (both in its African-American protagonist but also with subplot involving a Native-American character). The animation is remarkable. The music is fantastic. But the storyline, as in...Start your free trial to watch
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Jasper and the Haunted House
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring...Start your free trial to watch
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while walking down the street, Bimbo...Start your free trial to watch
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Wot a Night
Tom and Jerry (not the later cat-and-mouse duo but a Mutt and Jeff-type pair of button-nosed, humanoid pals) are taxi drivers who pick up a couple of beardos at the train station. They take these passengers to a creepy castle where they end up trapped themselves as skeletons cavort and spirits sing spirituals. This haunted...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Penguins
A Fleischer Brothers "Color Classic" with a notably swinging soundtrack, this 1937 cartoon short features a bunch of the naturally tuxedo'd Far Southerners being warned off snooping around human habitats by a Mama Penguin who sings "Curiosity Killed the Cat." Once inside somebody's shuttered winter cabin,...Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Tom
An early use of vignette masking shows a clownish servant peeking through several keyholes in what might be a brothel. He spies natural and artificial beauties alike but comes a cropper when he looks through the wrong keyhole. The glory that is the first woman's hair is a sight for the ages. - Marilyn FerdinandStart your free trial to watch
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Newark Athlete
An unnamed man (a local recruit from Newark) juggles Indian clubs in one of the first of W.K.L. Dickson's many films shot to demonstrate the possibilities of the young medium. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2010 for perpetual preservation, its blink-and-you'll-miss-it fragmentary status belies its extreme...Start your free trial to watch
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film....Start your free trial to watch
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Trinidad
Rudy Burckhardt shot plenty of film while he was stationed in Trinidad with the Signal Corps in the early 1940s. This short film compiles some of the choicest bits. Burckhardt samples architectural detail and delves into street-side commerce with a curiosity reminiscent of the earliest Lumière films. Montage sequences...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mirrored Curtain
"Let's See It" on this brand new episode of TAKE ME THERE. Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world where there's always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space, an unnamed border. Another...Start your free trial to watch
