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Engram (short, 1987) Director: Toshio Matsumoto Duration: 12mins Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos movies inside of movies photos inside of movies movies inside of photos and (even) a film director inside a TV set. Composer: Takashi…

The Black Tower (1985-87) Director: John Smith Duration: 23mins “Smith’s ‘accidental horror’ film wears its constructivist tricks as a primary-coloured cloak around the barest of wireframe figures. That Smith dismisses the plot as secondary to the film itself reveals more about his artistic leanings than any supposed…

Bob Ross: The Happy Painter (2011) Director: Sherry Spradlin Documentary that takes a behind-the-scenes look at American painter Bob Ross's journey from humble beginnings to pop culture icon. #documentary #kinostr #art #artstr #painting #fullmovies #documentaries #movies #films #asmr…

The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) (1987) Directors: David Weiss, Peter Fischli (Duration: 30mins) The Way Things Go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 16 mm art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It documents a long causal chain assembled of…

Orpheus (Orphée) (1950) Director: Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from…

Sisters with Transistors (2020) Director: Lisa Rovner Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. #documentary #music #experimental #kinostr #kino #fullmovies #art #radio #documentaries…

Beyond the Mind’s Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey (1992) (LaserDisc) Director: Michael Boydstun BEYOND integrates the latest in computer animation technology and artistry with original music from renowned composer Jan Hammer. The Mind’s Eye, Miramar’s first computer animation odyssey, has been described as a “modern Fantasia” - this…

The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog (1982) Director: Jack Bond Made around the time of Fitzcarraldo’s release, this documentary follows Werner Herzog on a journey across France and Germany and sees the director talk at length about his life and films. #documentary #kinostr #kino #herzog #films #cinema #art #psychology…

Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death (憂國, Yūkoku) (1966) (Short, 29mins) Director: Yukio Mishima Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima foreshadowed his own violent suicide with this ravishing…

Four American Composers: Philip Glass (1983) Director: Peter Greenaway 4 American Composers offers startling and intimate insights into the music and ideas of four very original American composers: John Cage, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Robert Ashley. Incorporating performance and conversations with and about the artists, these programs create an…

Dig! (2004) Director: Ondi Timoner Dig! is a 2004 American documentary film about the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, focusing on the developing careers and the love-hate relationship of the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor-Taylor

John Whitney, Anthology (1961-75) & John Whitney- A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992) John Hales Whitney Sr. (April 8, 1917 – September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the pioneers of computer animation. During the

The Cube (1969) Director: Jim Henson The Cube was an avant-garde drama written for television by Jerry Juhl and Jim Henson (and produced and directed by Henson). The hour-long piece takes place within a single set: a white, cubed space composed of rectangular panels, in which the nameless…

Food (1992) - Director: Jan Švankmajer (Short, 17mins) Food is a 1992 Czech animated comedy short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation. It examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. #animation #kinostr #kino #short #shorts #fullmovies #art #artstr #foodstr #czech #stopmotion #claymation…

Waiting For Godot (2001) Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg 2001 Channel 4 presentation of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Two tramps (Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy) wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave. #kinostr #fullmovies #kino #comedy #drama #tragedy #art #films…

Meditation on Violence (1948) (Documentary/Short ‧ 12mins) Director: Maya Deren Meditation on Violence is a 1948 American experimental short film directed by Maya Deren. Shot in 16 mm, It explores in playing out the movements and performance of the Wu-tang ritual. It also obscures the distinction between violence and…

Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991) Director: David Blair Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a “television” implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe hallucinations. (Also features a cameo by William Burroughs.) from wikipedia: As the first film…

Grim (1985) (Short, 8mins) Takashi Ito A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas. "Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary every

Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969) Episode 1: The Skin of Our Teeth (50 mins) 'An extraordinary cultural tour through the centuries. Kenneth Clark's landmark 1969 series, offering his personal perspective on the history of western art and philosophy.' 'In this first episode

The Electronic Super Highway: Nam June Paik in the Nineties (1995) 'Jud Yalkut 1995, 40 min, color, sound This portrait of Nam June Paik was produced as a "video catalogue" for the national touring exhibition The Electronic Super Highway, which premiered at The Museum of Art in