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Non-Narrative
see all genres ›The short form has proven ideal for more abstract cinematic expressions, whether channeling dreamtime logic or pastiching elements from other media.
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Filmstudie
Hans Richter, painter and filmmaker, was introduced to abstract art in 1912. He moved from Germany to Switzerland in 1916, where he joined the Dada movement and began film experiments. Richter continued filmmaking in the United States after 1940. The readings on the soundtrack are fragments from several poems by Dadaist Hugo...Start your free trial to watch
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The Floor of the World
In the shifting landscape of dirt and sky, excavation and construction merge. Figures move back and forth between life and death, and possibly somewhere else. The ephemerality of existence is a mundane question in this world, where numbers mark the way. THE FLOOR OF THE WORLD turns out to be easily...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fourth Watch
The ancient Greeks divided the night into four sections; the last section before morning was called the fourth watch. In these hours before dawn, an endless succession of rooms is inhabited by silent film figures occupying flickering space in a midcentury house made of printed tin. Their presence is at...Start your free trial to watch
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Ghost Algebra
Under erratic skies, a solitary figure navigates a landscape of constructed nature and broken bones. She peers through a decaying aperture, waiting and watching; the fragility of the body is exposed for what it is: ephemeral, liquid, a battlefield of nervous dreams. Using found and natural objects, rephotographed video,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Girl's Nervy
Jennifer Reeves rekindles the avant-garde tradition of frame-by-frame filmmaking with this spirited painted film. Sinewy fissures splinter the geometric confections and viscous pools of decaying nitrate are set dancing to the slightly warped sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Raymond Scott’s big band jazz....Start your free trial to watch
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The Graceless
A post-9/11 meditation on the new millennium, THE GRACELESS is a video tapestry of digital and analogue artifacts rephotographed and collaged from discarded 16mm educational films, Air Force test footage, live broadcast streams of pre-invasion television news and reality entertainment. Layers of images collide and tear away,...Start your free trial to watch
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Grain Graphics
In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames. In grainy negative, a small number of figures interact in various ways in each of...Start your free trial to watch
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el güero
"A refreshing look at karaoke, psychedelic dance moves and donuts all mashed together into a small and swinging film about a man who considers his private thoughts and private jokes worth sharing with a large audience. And it’s unlikely that many would disagree." - Impakt FestivalStart your free trial to watch
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Gymnopédies
Lawrence Jordan took not only the music but the title from Erik Satie. These three pieces are probably the most famous of Satie's musical series. The precise sense of the word "gymnopédies" is unknown. Etymologically it denotes the goings on of named (gymno) children (paidos); yet here the word might also connote the...Start your free trial to watch
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Highway
Hilary Harris’ nervy tour of Robert Moses’ New York hearkens back to the classic city symphonies of the 1920s but cut to fit the “go go go” energy of the new era. “The most exciting thing in film is movement,” Harris once wrote, and in HIGHWAY he shows why, shooting from a moving car for the road itself of its ramps, signs...Start your free trial to watch
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Honeymoon in Reno
Director Dominic Angerame was hoping to strike it rich on his honeymoon in Reno. In a way he did, seeing that his camera was filled with very rich imagery in recording this visual journal of his brief visit to Nevada. The soundtrack is a creation of Katie Steinorth who translated the Buddhist chant of "Om...Start your free trial to watch
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I'd Rather Be in Paris
I'D RATHER BE IN PARIS depicts the filmmaker's visual concern with his physical environment by autobiographically exploring his alternatives: Chicago, San Francisco and the editing room itself. These urban explorations tend to concentrate on high-speed assemblages of cityscape abstractions.Start your free trial to watch
