Werner Nekes - Media Magica 1: Film before Film
The first film of Nekes, in a series of six, takes us on a journey trough the magical world of pre-cinematic moving pictures and about the Camera Obscura, the p..(read more)
Label: Own / 1
Artist: Werner Nekes
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, History.
Martina Kudlácek - Notes on Marie Menken
Given access to Menken’s archive by her nephew, Kudlácek mixes rare footage with a soundtrack by John Zorn and interviews with Menken’s contemporar..(read more)
Label: Index / 030
Artist: Martina Kudlácek
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Documentary.
Ursula Pürrer, Angela Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek - Flaming Ears
“Flaming Ears” is a pop sci-fi lesbian, fantasy feature set in the year
2700 in the fictive, burnt-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled
lives o..(read more)
Label: Index / 031
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Fantasy.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta - Obsession: Structuring Time and Space
Ivan Ladislav Galeta’s works that are gathered on this DVD – each and every one, a gem of a film of compositional precision and rigidity – represent the a..(read more)
Label: Index / 28
Artist: Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Structural Film.
Peter Whitehead - Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Compilation of Wholly Communion (1965) and Benefit of the Doubt (1967),
coupled with a new interview with Peter and additional rare footage.
With over three hou..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 750
Artist: Peter Whitehead
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Compilations, Poetry, UK.
Derek Jarman - Wittgenstein
Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once stated that philosophy ought to be written as if it were poetry, and a poetic intensity typified his life and his work. No ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 725
Artist: Derek Jarman
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Cinema, Gay Cinema, Queer Culture, UK.
Barbet Schroeder - Maîtresse
Label: British Film Institute / 586
Artist: Barbet Schroeder
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Cinema.
Jeffrey Skoller - Shadows, Spectres, Shards – Making History in Avant-Garde Film
For this critical study Jeffrey Skoller, filmmaker and scholar, analyses some of the richest and least acknowledged avant-garde movies of the past decades, ..(read more)
Label: University of Minnesota Press / 0-8166-4232-X
Artist: Jeffrey Skoller
Medium: Book
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Cinema.
