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Film (short, 1965) Director: Alan Schneider A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi&

The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920) (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) Directors: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener alt: In 16th century Prague, Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinruck) interprets an alignment of stars as a sign that disaster is about to befall the city's Jews.

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69) Director: Jan Dibbets Duration: 23mins On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the…

13 Lakes (2004) Director: James Benning 13 Lakes is a 2004 American independent non-narrative experimental film by independent filmmaker James Benning. Consisting of 13 ten-minute-long static shots of different lakes in the United States, 13 Lakes is an instance of slow cinema, placing emphasis on introspection and…

Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (short, 1906) Original title: Le dirigeable fantastique Director: Georges Méliès An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight. #short #airship #classic #kinostr #shorts #kino #experimental #film #dirigeable #doot…

Thanatopsis (short, 1962) Director: Ed Emshwiller Duration: 5mins Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are

Filming 'The Trial' (1981) Director: Orson Welles (Unedited) - Rare Orson Welles Documentary A rare Q&A session with Orson Welles, which Welles had originally intended to be part of a film essay on the making of The Trial (1962) similar to 'Filming Othello', but never

Melancholia (short, 2003) Directors: William Basinski, James Elaine Duration: 3mins30s Super-8/video, USA, 2003 "All the world is melancholy, every member in it." –Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy. "Melancholy is a way of thinking, a way of thinking about thinking, and it needs to consume

Outer Space (short, 1999) Director: Peter Tscherkassky Duration: 10mins A premonition of a horror film. A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film itself as it starts to cause the world to…

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…

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…

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) Director: Sophie Fiennes Writer: Slavoj Zizek 'Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.' #fullmovies #documentaries #documentary #kino #kinostr #film #movies #philosophy #psychoanalysis…

Naked (1993) #fullmovies #british #movies #film #kino #kinostr #blackcomedy #comedy #drama…