1. Do not August, 1991 (Do not August, 1991)
The film was made in the days of the August 1991 coup in Leningrad, USSR . Respecting the manner of a proprietary parallel cinema with the use of hand-held camera . Subsequently, Lars von Trier in his " Dogma " went on the same way , using a handheld camera without a tripod or placing special light. The soundtrack of the film is the soundtrack Emergency Committee appeal for the All-Union Radio August 19, 1991 . The film captured the moment of change red tricolor flag on the roof of the Mariinsky Palace on August 20, 1991.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas) (Kites at the Kamogawa (for Jonas Mekas))
Black kites soar on thermals along the Kamo river in Kyoto. Flags billow. Cacti spin. Plum trees blossom. Pigeons make love atop a clock. Friends chat by the riverside. Filmed February/March 2019 on a single 40 year old cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 and hand-developed in Caffenol. The film was heavily fogged, but there are some images.
3. Butterfly Disaster
Inspired by a newspaper article about the plight of monarch butterflies, using found footage from four different sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on, bleached and otherwise altered the film to highlight, lament and challenge the monarch butterflies’ dilemma. –Caryn Cline
4. The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology (The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology)
The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title , which is a close examination of the horror genre. The film uses hand painted and decayed 35mm film strips of the classic slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street and its sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge .
5. Rock Piece (Ahuriri Edition)
Using natural elements and sounds, this experimental film explores the connection between the body and land.
6. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt)
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
It has an average vote of 7.679 on TMDB.
7. Glenn Miller 2000 (Glenn Miller 2000)
A monumental homage to Glenn Miller, a one shot film - Glenn Miller 2000. This 26- minute long piece, shot on a circular road in Novi Zagreb in many ways corresponded to the previously discussed attributes that linked Tom's homages and "uses" of Glenn Miller with Miller's music and personality.
8. The Autumn Alley (کوچه پاییز)
A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
9. Gems
"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."
10. Bird Blinds
Safe places to view from.
11. Spring Masks
Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet...</p><p> Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...
12. Cinema Exercises (Esercizi di Cinema)
A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
13. Replika (Replika)
(Replika)
14. Animal Within (Con cierto animal)
Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal.
15. Still Life #02 (Still Life #02)
Still Life #02 is part of a broader investigation on our relationship with images and their immateriality. It emerges from the desire to touch the intangible: the digital image. It manages to embody the pixel and carve it with a chisel; to explore its physical nature through direct intervention.
16. Cellular Immune Response
On Inauguration Day 2017, the filmmaker spent all day in a Washington, DC, used bookstore, where he bought a stack of audiotape secret telephone recordings of marital infidelity from 1969. At the Women’s March, he recognized the cosmic resonance of the phone with all that was happening.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
17. Burial Pyramid
Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.
18. Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head (Pensées et visions d'une tête coupée)
The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore. Smolders has basically taken a standard documentary and chopped it up, using quotes from the long-dead artist, and periodic statements by a historian filling in a few bits of Wiertz’ life.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Tide (潮)
I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.
20. Mutual Exercise (互助练习)
I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.
