Hans Richter - Dreams That Money Can Buy
Hans Richter – Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker – was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD659
Artist: Hans Richter
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Classics, Cult, Dada, Experimental, Pioneers, Surrealism.
Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.
Wilhelm Hein / Birgit Hein - Materialfilme
For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of color and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commerc..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 54
Artist: Wilhelm Hein / Birgit Hein
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Abstract Cinema, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Found Footage.
Evgenii Bauer - Mad Love
It was only in the dying days of the Soviet regime that the work of the Russian film pioneer Evgenii Bauer was rediscovered and celebrated. Before a prema..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD515
Artist: Evgenii Bauer
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Classics, Pioneers, Russia.
Joke Olthaar - Hier is Harry Merry
Very enjoyable and endearing, this portrait of the eccentric, one-of-a-kind musician/songwriter Harry Merry.The film follows Harry between stages in Europe and ..(read more)
Label: AS Film
Artist: Joke Olthaar
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Documentary, Eccentrics, Songwriters.
Jonas Mekas - Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of Jonas Mekas' complete film retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris in December 2012 -January 2013, and the BFI retrospective and t..(read more)
Label: Re:voir
Artist: Jonas Mekas
Medium: DVD Box
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Avant-Garde, Classics, Cult, Documentary, Experimental, Pioneers.
Paul Sharits - Mandala Films
In the mid-1960s, Paul Sharits developed an abstract cinema in radical opposition to the pictorial tradition. His works taken together propose a reflection on t..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / EDV 519
Artist: Paul Sharits
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Abstract Cinema, Cinema, Experimental, Psychedelic.
Caroline Martel - The Phantom of the Operator
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the deve..(read more)
Label: Artifact
Artist: Caroline Martel
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Collage, Documentary, History, Network Culture.
Bigert & Bergström - Last Supper
The last supper has been given to prisoners facing the death penalty as long as the punishment has existed. The tradition stems from funeral rites where the dec..(read more)
Label: Filmform
Artist: Bigert & Bergström
Medium: DVD Box + Book
Category: Films.
Tags: Animation, Art, Documentary.
