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Experimental Film


Experimental Film



VIVIAN OSTROVSKY - PLUNGE

16 films by Vivian Ostrovsky made between 1982 and 2014.

"An intimate - yet humorous - act of cultural resistance, the cinema of Vivian Ostrovsky is a gesture, implying the filmmaker's entire body - as she travels around the world, carrying the gear, framing with a camera-eye. She digs in archival footage for an immense repertory of cinematic gestures performed by others - and playfully edits them with her own Super-8 shots. Multi-culturalism and polyglotism are woven into this poetics of displacement." - Berenice Reynaud


2 DVDs (With Subtitles Subtitles) / 2019 / 215 minutes

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MARIE LOSIER - HELLO HAPPINESS!

10 short films by Marie Losier.

French-born New York filmmaker Marie Losier learned the 16mm Bolex camera from George and Mike Kuchar and made a series of "Dream Portraits" of New York filmmakers, theatre, music and performance artists.

Marie Losier is the most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today. Her films wriggle with the energy and sweetness of a broken barrel full o' sugar worms!!! No one makes pictures like Marie, Edith Sitwell's inner Tinkerbell!!! - Guy Maddin

Marie Losier's movies are as sweet and sassy as her name and well worth a gander or goose by all off beat cineastes. So beat off to a different drum and marvel at the wad of wonders that only a French woman could generate. Take a trip down a sprocketed spiral of celluloid strips into a glory hole of impressive dimensions. What pops through will surely enlarge with persistent, ocular manipulation. - George Kuchar

SELECTED SHORTS IN 16 MM:
L'Oiseau de la Nuit 20', 2016
Bim, Bam, Boom, las Luchas Morenas! 13', 2014
Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams 16', 2014
Byun, Objet Trouve 7', 2012
Slap the Gondola! 15', 2010
Manuelle Labour 10', 2007
Eat My Make-up! 6', 2005
Electrocute Your Stars 8', 2004
Bird Bath and Beyond 13', 2003
The Ontological Cowboy 16', 2005


DVD (With French Subtitles) / 2016 / 124 minutes

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SANDY DING - PSYCHOECHO

By Sandy Ding

Sandy Ding is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from CalArts Film School USA in 2007 and started teaching in China Central Academy of Fine Arts since 2008. He produced several psycho-active films with the idea of combining ritual process in projection and sound. His work is energy patterns, telling mysteries with abstractions or powerful symbolic elements. He is equally interested in live performance of theater projections, untypical gallery projections, installations and live noise music to extend the idea of experimental film.

FILMS
Mancoon 10 min, 16mm, silent, color, 2007
Water Spell 42min, 16mm, color, 2006-2007
Prisms 20 min, 16mm, color, 2012
Dream Enclosure 18 min, 16mm/Digital, b/w, 2011-2014
The Radio Wave Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers 10 min, 35mm, silent, b/w, 2006

BONUS
River in the Castle 4 min, 16mm, silent, b/w, 2016
Original noise music: "Peacock and Ocean Erosion" by Liquid Palace 28 min, 2016.


DVD / 2016 / 132 minutes

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STUDIO EEN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM THE LOWLANDS

a collection of 12 films from the Dutch film cooperative Studio Een

In 1990, as a student, Karel Doing decided to create Studio een. Many artistic, avant-garde, underground movements and counterculture movements seemed to be over. The rise of video and its academic use began to compete with Super8. To work against the decline of the Super 8 format and techniques, Karel Doing and two of his friends (Saskia Fransen and Djana Mileta) from the art school in Arnham, started to think about creating a new space and promoting the invention of DIY techniques for filming and processing Super8 films.

In this particular context, Studio een was launched. Conceived as a actual workspace, Karel Doing, Djana Mileta and Saskia Fransen, began by establishing it within a large network of festivals, galleries and other workspaces. They bought optical printers from a professional laboratory that was set to shut down and started to learn by themselves, out of necessity, how to process film. It wasn't long before Studio een became well-known in DIY film circles and began to host various artists who come to meet each other, not only to exchange ideas and work together on the use of Super8 or 16mm, but also to experiment with diverse narrative and sound forms. Some members, Joost Rekveld for example, chose to pursue a career as a musician as well as a filmmaker.

After 7 years in Arnhem, Studio een moved to Rotterdam where it continued to thrive. It became a model for many artists in creating their own laboratories, research centers and studios dedicated to experimental cinema.

Studio een no longer exists, but the laboratory itself continues in Rotterdam under the name of Filmwerkplaats by being involved in new experimentations in filmic creation while promoting the works of members and invited artists.

This DVD edition includes works of various Dutch artists who had a main role in the early years of Studio een, from 1992 to 1996.


DVD-9 (Black and White, With Booklet) / 2016 / 114 minutes

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MY SEVEN PLACES

By Boris Lehman

My Seven places' starts at the moment I was evicted from several places which are dear to me. They served me well as homes, both as place for living and working. This was the start of my urban wandering, which would take me ten years - a journey of 300.000 kilometers - before returning just about to my starting point. The adventure was both physical and metaphysical. Fragments of documentary films, a personal diary, bedside-table notes, piece of fiction, 'My Seven places' is an essay about passing time, embellished by a jumble of reflections both light and serious; finally, it is an attempt to simply exist. The fourth episode of my autobiographical fiction, which started in 1983


2 DVDs (French, With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 323 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 10: CHRISTOPHE KARABACHE

A documentary on the Lebanese experimental filmmaker Christophe Karabache by Frederique Devaux and Michel Armager.

Christophe Karabache is an independent French-Lebanese filmmaker born in Beirut in 1979. In 2000, he began exploring various film formats at l'Etna, an alternative workshop in Paris. He shifts between documentary and fiction formats, bringing to mind the wounds of Lebanese society, displaced beings, the fragmentation of identity. Pulsating scenes and jolting cuts demonstrate his desire to destroy cliches. The shock of the imagery in his feature-length films, made after 2010, bears witness to a penetrating critical eye on Lebanon's cultural shifts and the rupture of meaning.


DVD (French, With English, French Subtitles) / 2012 / 74 minutes

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LA CICATRICE INTERIEURE

La Cicatrice interieure of Philippe Garrel, 60', 1972

with: Nico, Philippe Garrel, Pierre Clementi, Christian Paffgen, Daniel Pommereulle, Balthazar Clementi, Jean-Pierre Kalfon


DVD (French, With English, French, Japanese Subtitles) / 1972 / 60 minutes

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MARCEL HANOUN - OCTOBRE A MADRID

By Marcel Hanou

DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 1964 / 63 minutes

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MAURICE LEMAITRE - LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE?

LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? (62 mins, 1951, 16mm) Digital Restoration master made by Light Cone and the CNC.

PORTRAIT OF MAURICE LEMAiTRE by Pip Chodorov (2004, 15 min, 16mm/DV)


DVD (French, With English, French Subtitles) / 1951 / 77 minutes

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7 FILMS BY BORIS LEHMAN

With 7 short films by Boris Lehman

Selection of 7 films by Boris Lehman:

1. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER IN HIS STUDIO, 40', 16mm color, 1985
2. SILENT AS A FISH, 38', 16mm color, 1987
3. EARTHEN MAN, 40', 16mm color, 1989
4. THE LAST SUPPER The Gospel According to St Boris, 14', 16mm color, 2003
5. ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS A Portrait of Richard Kenigsman, 51', 16mm couleur, 2009
6. ARTIST BEING WATCHED, 36', 16mm couleur, 2008
7. THINGS THAT CONNECT ME WITH BEINGS, 15', 16mm couleur, 2010


2 DVDs (French, With English Subtitles) / 234 minutes

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CINEMAS DE TRAVERSE

Documentary about films and experimental practices in the world.

This journal was compiled between 2005 and 2009 on four continents. This is a subjective journey through the approaches and experimental procedures to show the magnitude of this research and to honor filmmakers who participate in the history of cinema: Jonas Mekas (USA), Peter Kubelka (Austria), Boris Lehman (Belgium), Joseph Morder (France), Peter Tscherkassky (Austria), Guy Sherwin (UK) among others. These byways lead us to the places of production and distribution networks created specifically for experimental films.


2 DVDs (French, English, With French, English Subtitles) / 182 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 1-4: MARTINE ROUSSET, NICOLAS REY, VIVIAN OSTROVSKY & PIP CHODOROV

A documentary film by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger about 4 experimental filmmakers: Martine Rousset, Nicolas Rey, Vivian Ostrovsky & Pip Chodorov.

The strength of contemporary experimental cinema has encouraged us to meet and to film the most active filmmakers, distributors, movers and shakers in this art form. This developed into a number of autonomous portraits, forming a series demonstrating the plurality of approaches and practices in experimental film. Our independent productions introduce or complement the work of the artists, technicians, distributors and programmers who participate in the life of contemporary art cinema.

Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger have been making experimental films and documentaries since 1980. Frederique Devaux is film critic and professor. Michel Amarger is a journalist, specializing in cinema, for Radio France International.

This DVD is a collection of the first four Cinexperimentaux titles by Devaux and Armager


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 168 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 5: ROSE LOWDER

A documentary by Frederique Devaux & Michel Amarger on the filmmaker Rose Lowder. Includes 12 films by Lowder.

Rose Lowder is an artisan of cinema. Her 16mm camera takes the place of a loom for the weaving of images. She has consecrated her life to these tapestries, these embroideries whose motifs have for many years come from nature, in a state of incessant becoming. Like her elders, the Impressionist painters, she renders her bouquets stroke by stroke, image by image, color after color, to give life to her pointillist compositions in motion.

2002, 24min. Followed by 12 films by Rose Lowder : CHAMP PROVENCAL 1979, 16mm, color, 9' VOILIERS ET COQUELICOTS : 2001, 16mm, color, 2' BOUQUETS ECOLOGIQUES #21 a 30 : 2003-2005, 16mm, color


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 50 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 6: MARCEL HANOUN

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+2 films by Marcel Hanoun

Marcel Hanoun, one of the most innovative of filmmakers, gives us what he names "a lesson in cinema." Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger filmed this piece at his country house, composing an abundantly rich portrait. Film clips and sparks of theoretic bravura testify to the feverish creativity and the drunken agitation behind which lurks the ever-composed voice of the filmmaker.


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 150 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 7: STEPHANE MARTI

A documentary film by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+ 3 films by Stephane Marti

Stephane Marti is a teacher and film-maker who, since 1976, has been expounding the plasticity of experimental cinema, freeing it from the dominant codes of narrative cinema. An avid defender of Super-8mm film (which he has been using for 30 years), he has fought for the acknowledgement of its excellence as a film-making tool. His work, which screens in festivals and at international events, has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles. Flamboyant, baroque and sensual, his work revolves primarily around the question of the body and the sacred.

+ 3 films by Stephane Marti
Allegoria 1979 Super8 14min
Diasparagmos 1980 Super8 13min
Mira Corpora 2004 Super8 45min


DVD (French, With English, French Subtitles) / 98 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 8: COOPERATIVE LIGHT CONE

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger with 4 bonus films.

Light Cone is an experimental film distribution cooperative, founded in Paris in 1982. This film covers different moments of its existence, showing its spirit, practice and daily routines, thus shedding light on one aspect of the french experimental cinema community.

The strength of contemporary experimental cinema has encouraged us to meet and to film the most active filmmakers, distributors, movers and shakers in this art form. This developed into a number of autonomous portraits, forming a series demonstrating the plurality of approaches and practices in experimental film. Our independent productions introduce or complement the work of the artists, technicians, distributors and programmers who participate in the life of contemporary art cinema.

Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger have been making experimental films and documentaries since 1980. Frederique Devaux is film critic and professor. Michel Amarger is a journalist, specializing in cinema, for Radio France International.

Cinexperimentaux #8: Cooperative Light Cone
2002-2008, 22min by Devaux & Amarger.
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Germaine Dulac Arabesque 1929, 6min2
Robert Breer Eyewash 1959, 2min10
Gill Eatherley Hand Grenade 1971, 5min15
Metamkine ACIDFILMDA 1992, 5min25


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 54 minutes

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CINEXPERIMENTAUX 9: STEPHEN DWOSKIN

A documentary by Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger
+2 films by Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where he settled and participated in the founding of the London Filmmaker's Co-op. His experimental films, for which he himself does the camera work, play with ideas of desire, sexual and mental solitude and the passage of time. In his films he also explores representation in cinema, performances, personal impressions and his own physical handicap which has been a source of inspiration for him throughout his career. His sensitive and emancipating works have been the subject of various international presentations.


DVD (French, With English Subtitles) / 114 minutes

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DADA CINEMA

Rhythmus 21, Hans Richter
Symphonie Diagonale, Viking Eggeling
Le Retour a la Raison, Man Ray
Entr'acte, Rene Clair & Francis Picabia
Le Ballet Mecanique, Fernand Leger
Filmstudie, Hans Richter
Emak Bakia, Man Ray
Vormittagsspuk, Hans Richter

"The cinematographic universe of Dada is a crossroads of iconographic subversion and abstraction, formal geometry and corporal eroticism, bathed in a general indifference to "making sense" - unless it is making sense of its own deconstruction." - Philippe-Alain Michaud


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DOMINIC ANGERAME - CITYSCAPES

9 films by Dominic Angerame

DVD / 119 minutes

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MAURICE LEMAITRE - FILMS IMAGINAIRES (IMAGINARY FILMS)

5 short films by Maurice Lemaitre

AU-DELA DU DECLIC (10 mins, 1965-78, 16mm)
UN NAVET (31 mins, 1975-77, 16mm)
FILMS IMAGINAIRES (30 mins, 1985, 16mm)
FIN DE TOURNAGE (27 mins, 1985-90, 16mm)
L'AYANT-DROIT (22 mins, 1991, 16mm)


DVD / 120 minutes

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PAUL YEDERBECK ALIAS YEDERBECK - EXPANDED ANIMATION CINEMA

"I was a bourgeois painter, then a progressive painter, and then no longer a painter, but just a worker in the pictures." - Paul Yederbeck (1965-2001)

ALIAS YEDERBECK Virtual Panorama Installation 63'
QUEST-CE QUE MONSIEUR TESTE? 26'
ALIAS YEDERBECK DOCUMENTATION FOOTAGE 16'


DVD (German, With English Subtitles) / 105 minutes

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VIRGIL WIDRICH - SHORT FILMS

8 short films and 2 bonus tracks from filmmaker Virgil Widrich

FILMS
TX TRANSFORM 1998, 5', color, stereo + MAKING OF
COPY SHOP 2001, 12', b/w, stereo + MAKING OF
FAST FILM 2003, 12', color, stereo + MAKING OF
MAKE/REAL 2010, 5', color, stereo
WARNING TRIANGLE 2011, 6', color, stereo
BACK TRACK 3D & FLAT versions 2015, 7', b/w, stereo + MAKING OF LIGHT MATTER 2018, 5', b/w, stereo
TX REVERSE 2019, 5' color, stereo + MAKING OF
BONUS: VIENNA TABLE TRIP 2016, 2', color, stereo
NENA & DAVE STEWART: BE MY REBEL 2018, 3', color, stereo


DVD (With English, French, German Subtitles) / 79 minutes

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