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A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

Genre: Drama

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Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Taris

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Luana Velis

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge.

Genre: Documentary

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Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alex Allin

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Zappa

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: André Soubeyran

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

Genre: Animation

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The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiki of Montparnasse

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

Genre: Animation

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Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Genre: Documentary

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Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Werner Graeff

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Sasaki

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Ree Gilbert

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Jourdan

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stan Brakhage

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jules Raucourt

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marc Barbé

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonas Mekas