formula, a constantly evolving work updated with each presentation, is a perfect synchronisation between sound frequencies and the movements on the screen. It places the viewer in a binary geometry of space and exploits the darkness to amplify one's perceptions. There is a complete integration of the various elements, composing music, images, lighting and orchestrating the relationships between them through a highly precise score.
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.
BARE BONES is an experimental short film written, directed and scored by DEBBY FRIDAY. Conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown and shot in Vancouver, BC on 16mm, the film tells the story of a young woman who swallows a bee and begins to undergo a hallucinatory and transformative experience. Abstract visual sequences depict time and space fracturing around her as she succumbs to wave after wave of pure feeling.
In a city inhabited by drawn beings, an indigenous boy witnesses a holographic appearance. It is the arrival of an entity of unknown materiality. With a mysterious presence and exotic allegories, it starts to enchant the residents, awakening their most insane senses.
Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other films. It is sort of a preliminary sketch for The Very Eye of Night. ~ David Lewis, Rovi
Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.
Music is everything. Tom listens to music to get by day to day, but what would happen if he had to suffer through his first world problems without his beloved earbuds?
A young man and his dog encounter a sinister force while on a walk through the woods.
As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.
Like a Wave in the Sea
"River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired 'hero of the right.' Impunity is not just the stuff of autocratic dictatorships in the third world. The American form of impunity is going to get us all killed."
A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.
An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.
A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.
REMIXXX'd is the execution of the director's 8 previous works thru simultaneity.
3 minute experimental film.
5 minute experimental film.
10 minute experimental film.