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Film (short, 1965)

kinostr — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:47:15 GMT

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' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts. This was Samuel Beckett's only venture into the medium of cinema.

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Whistle and I'll Come to…

kinostr — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:28:23 GMT

Whistle and I'll Come to You (TV short, 1968)
Director: Jonathan Miller

Whistle and I'll Come to You is a supernatural short television film which aired as an episode of the British documentary series Omnibus. Written and directed by Jonathan Miller, it is based on the ghost story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" by M. R. James, first published in the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), and first aired on BBC1 on 7 May 1968.

It stars Michael Hordern as Prof. Parkin, a Cambridge academic who, whilst on holiday at a coastal East Anglian village, happens upon a strange whistle whilst exploring a Knights Templar cemetery exposed by coastal erosion. When blown, the whistle unleashes a frightening supernatural force.

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Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship…

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:17:06 GMT

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.

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#kino #experimental #film #dirigeable #doot

Melancholia (short, 2003)

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:16:48 GMT

Melancholia (short, 2003)
Directors: William Basinski, James Elaine
Duration: 3mins30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_pi8fhWfw

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 the sufferer and thus needs layers and strata and veneers in perpetuity in which to cloak and conceal itself." –Rick Moody, The Black Veil.

In Melancholia, one is immediately transfixed by the lilting, repetitive piano melody of Basinski's "The Saddest Melody Ever Heard". Drawn slowly through the dark veil of a lonely tunnel of trees, eventually the world is revealed, shining deceptively. Immediately one begins a bumpy journey around a dull and hollow shell, before being drawn back, away through the encroaching black veil that cloaks and colors all perception. Shot in Super-8 at the World's Fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY, Elaine & Basinski's Melancholia is a concise, darkly romantic psalm, an elegy, a love letter to a broken world.

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The Life and Death of 9413,…

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:31:46 GMT

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (short, 1928)
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich

A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.

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#drama #horror #art #experimental #classic #shorts
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A Trip To The Moon (1902)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:18:31 GMT

A Trip To The Moon (1902)
Director: Georges Méliès

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

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Free Fall (short, 1964)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:00:44 GMT

Free Fall (short, 1964)
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Duration: 10mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zd8NcYI9JA

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

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Outer Space (short, 1999)

kinostr — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:34:27 GMT

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 collapse.

The Austrian found footage auteur masterfully reworks sequences from Sidney J. Furie’s ’80s horror film The Entity to craft this tactile and immersive examination of cinematic space. Tscherkassky creates a maelstrom of audiovisual fragments and shards that delightfully destroy narrative norms.

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#shorts

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (short, 1999)

kinostr — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:07:54 GMT

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (short, 1999)
Director: Mark Leckey
Duration: 15mins

a compilation of found footage from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s underground music and party scene in the U.K. It follows on the path of several previous appropriative art video artists and critics have remarked on its similarities with William S. Burroughs' technique of cut-ups, a literary technique whereupon a text’s sentences or words are cut up and later randomly re-hashed into a new text. Through “found and original footage of discos and raves across Britain during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s” he “chronicle[s] the rites of passage experienced by successive generations of British (sub)urban youth”.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore patches up several videos of young people dancing, singing and partying. It starts with the disco scene of the 1970s, touches upon the Northern soul of the late 1970s and early 1980s and climaxes with the rave scene of the 1990s. One underlying soundtrack plays during the whole video, giving a sense of unity and narrative to the video. At one point an animated element - a bird tattoo image - appears as if released from the hand of a dancer, then carried into the next shot finds its place on the arm of another of the film's nightclubbing subjects. Some dance moves are played on loop for a few seconds, some are played in slow motion. Writing about Leckey’s first few video pieces, which in addition to Fiorucci… include We Are (Untitled) (2000) and Parade (2003), the art critic Catherine Wood said that they “represent the human subject striving to spread itself out into a reduced dimensionality. His subjects dance, take drugs and dress up in their attempts to transcend the obstinate physicality of the body and disappear in abstract identification with the ecstasy of music, or the seamlessness of the image.”

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#shorts #films #kino #video

Engram (short, 1987)

kinostr — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:01:35 GMT

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 Inagaki.

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#shorts #films #japan #experimental #cinema

The Black Tower (1985-87)

kinostr — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:50:07 GMT

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 embracing of genre, and the fractured realism and creeping terror of the story plays out despite and because of them.

Enchanting and good-humoured (as with almost all of Smith’s films), The Black Tower tells a singular story of architectural horror and madness worthy of the ungovernable geographies of Machen, Welles, or Lovecraft, situating itself firmly in the quotidian grit of Thatcher’s Britain. Constantly pointing to its own telling, as well as the mode and method of that telling, Smith’s film questions the viewer’s own certainty even as the narrator loses theirs — at the same time challenging not only the veracity of the film but also the viewer’s complacency watching it.”
-Thogdin Ripley, The Quietus, October 2017

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Patriotism or the Rite of Love…

kinostr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:24:01 GMT

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 short feature, his only foray into filmmaking, yet made with the expressiveness and confidence of a true cinema artist. All prints of Patriotism (YÃ‚Âžkoku), which depicts the seppuku of a army officer, were destroyed after Mishima's death in 1970, though the negative was saved, and the film resurfaced thirty-five years later. New viewers will be stunned at the depth and clarity of Mishima's vision, as well as his graphic depictions of sex and death.

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#movies #kino #films #mishima #shorts #noh

Food (1992) - Director: Jan Švankmajer (Short,…

kinostr — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 15:26:41 GMT

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.

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#kino #short #shorts #fullmovies #art #artstr #foodstr #czech #stopmotion #claymation
#comedy #fantasy #surreal

Meditation on Violence (1948) (Documentary/Short…

kinostr — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:40:46 GMT

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 beauty. The film stars Chao-Li Chi and music by Teiji Ito.

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#40s #experimental #documentaries #art #films #kino #movies #fullmovies #shorts #artstr #documentary

David Lynch Cooks Quinoa (2007)

kinostr — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:52:38 GMT

David Lynch Cooks Quinoa (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11p0y9z1XOU

Director: David Lynch
(Short documentary, 21mins)

full recipe:

Yield: 1 bowl
Cooking Time: 17 minutes

Ingredients: 1/2 cup quinoa
1 1/2 cups organic broccoli (chilled, from bag)
1 cube vegetable bullion
Braggs Liquid Aminos
Extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt

Preparation:
* Fill medium saucepan with about an inch of fresh water.
* Set pan on stove, light a nice hot flame add several dashes of sea salt.
* Look at the quinoa. It’s like sand, this quinoa. It’s real real tight little grains, but it’s going to puff up.
* Unwrap bullion cube, bust it up with a small knife, and let it wait there. It’ll be happy waiting right there.
* When water comes to a boil, add quinoa and cover pan with lid. Reduce heat and simmer for 8 minutes.
* Meanwhile, retrieve broccoli from refrigerator and set aside, then fill a fine crystal wine glass—one given to you by Agnes and Maya from Lódz, Poland—with red wine, ‘cause this is what you do when you’re making quinoa. Go outside, sit, take a smoke and think about all the little quinoas bubbling away in the pan.
* Add broccoli, cover and let cook for an additional 7 minutes.
* Meanwhile, go back outside and tell the story about the train with the coal-burning engine that stopped in a barren, dust-filled landscape on a moonless Yugoslavian night in 1965. The story about the frog moths and the small copper coin that became one room-temperature bottle of violet sugar water, six ice-cold Coca-colas, and handfuls and handfuls of silver coins.
* Turn off heat, add bullion to quinoa and stir with the tip of the small knife you used to bust up the bullion.
* Scoop quinoa into bowl using a spoon. Drizzle with liquid amino acids and olive oil. Serve and enjoy.

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The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)

kinostr — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:46:27 GMT

The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)

'The Girl Chewing Gum is a twelve-minute 16 mm film made by British artist John Smith in 1976, when he was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in London. Shot primarily in Dalston, close to the artist’s home, the film is at once a portrait of street life in East London and a wryly funny critique of the myth of documentary neutrality.'

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