1. Black River
An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that is home to the oldest trees east of the Rocky Mountains.
2. John Baldessari: Some Stories
Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his career, and provides clues to the understanding of the artist's paintings, photographic work and books.
3. Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image
In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary between words and comprehension, the physicality of text, and figurative interactivity.
4. IDOMU Ⅲ (いどむの遺言 Ⅲ)
8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area. Idomu’s will / last request. Spiritual journey with Mt.Buko folklore and mountain Gods . An important message that the director saw after surviving a near-death experience and depression. ...Why don’t the flowers grow in the right places? Where have all the cute children gone?...
5. IDOMU II (いどむの遺言・続編)
8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt. Buko and is striving to protect the natural environment and cultural ground that inhabit the local area. Idomu’s Testament - Sequel or IDOMU II. In Saitama prefecture Chichibu city there’s a mountain which was most loved by Tokugawa Ieyasu . It is Mount Buko, which rose 2 hundred million years ago when the pacific plate moved the underwater volcanoes around Hawaii. It is like the giant turtle shell where Myouken bodhisattva stood. A gentle mountain which heals people’s hearts and gives them the blessings of green and water.
6. Natsu ni umareru (Natsu ni umareru)
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age , he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.
7. Atlantis
A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
8. Bradley Eros: The Performance of Cinema
Bradley Eros is at the forefront of the NYC underground and experimental cinema movement, blending the boundaries of experimental film, expanded cinema, and performance art. Whether it be by himself or through one of his many collaborative groups, Eros reutilizes the visual language we all know in a sensory engaging and thought provoking way. Experience Eros and the Optipus Group collaborate on a piece that celebrates the life and death of celluloid.
9. The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition) (The Allegory of The Bla Bla Bla (Video Edition))
This work is an attempt to overcome alienation amidst the fragmented construction reality of everyday narrative. Rethinking the meaning of reflections and shadows, framed subjects, body movements, screen, as well as sounds that are constructed by connecting the expression of their existence with the history of representation in modern art.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. Vide-Uhhh!
Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh! is an experimental piece, showcasing the VCR recording itself as Jesse England takes it apart, messes with key components and even attempts to break it.
11. A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety
Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".
12. In The Pines (In The Pines)
This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and "mechanical", "reality" and "representation", "wholeness" and "partiality", " determinacy” and “indeterminacy”, “visibility” and “invisibility”, “natural” and “non-natural”.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
13. OASIS (OASIS)
The stress, pressure, and fast pace that we experience daily make us overlook our well-being. We live immersed in a constant fleetingness that wreaks havoc on our way of life. Oasis is a critique of the overwhelming mass society that consumes us and emphasizes the need to stop, to find calm: an oasis in the midst of the desert.
14. Majestic Mountains
Relax and unwind with this stunning collection of beautiful scenery, filmed in high-definition, from some of the most beautiful places in the world. An original music soundtrack blended with natural sounds accompanies the scenery in 5.1 surround sound. The pristine natural scenery combined with soothing music will create a calming, peaceful atmosphere in your home.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
15. Beijo de Borboleta (Beijo de Borboleta)
(Beijo de Borboleta)
16. Biography
An attempt at an unadulterated biography of one life of many within a moment, which always will be, and always was, a memory.
17. Dreaming Dogs (Dreaming Dogs)
A pack of strays – seven dogs and one woman live in the shadows of Moscow. Hidden from the totalitarian authorities, two species share their existence on the verge of disappearance. They are straying in constant restlessness through a savage landscape where the city is cracking. Shot from the animal’s point of view, patterns of mutual dependence and taming begin to blur.
18. Goya's Gaze (La mirada de Goya)
A psychedelic essay on Goya's paintings, image and sound. The stippled ceiling acts as noise in the images.
19. No Plan B
A young lesbian filmmaker seeks to reclaim herself months after having her first sexual experience, which was with a man. This visual essay explores her relationship to her sexuality, girlhood, womanhood as well as her desires for something more.
20. Winterreise (Winterreise)
(Winterreise)
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
