After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive public access endeavor: a collaboration with Scott Arford called Fuck TV. Whereas The Pain Factory predominantly revolved around experimental music performances, Fuck TV was a comprehensive and experiential audio-visual presentation. Aired to a passive and unsuspecting audience on San Francisco’s public access channel from 1997 to 1998, each episode of Fuck TV was dedicated to a specific topic, combining video collage and cut-up techniques set to a harsh electronic soundtrack. The resultant overload of processed imagery and visceral sound was unlike anything presented on television before or since. EPISODES: Yule Bible, Cults, Riots, Animals, Executions, Static, Media, Haterella (edited version), Self Annihilation Live, Electricity.
Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to “travel” within the photographs, producing a volatile animation.
In a remote and seemingly peaceful province of Ilaya, there lived two teenagers who explore their lives as the world around them grows darker.
A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.
Cold pearly winters and the brutality of war running simultaneously.
Mi pesadilla fue que me mataba la guerrilla
A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.
An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.
a soldier returns from a war in Europe, only to grow more bitter as he realises a more sinister truth.
A surreal, visceral peek inside the shattered mind of a person struggling with the apocalyptic grip of deep mental illness.
Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.
Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.
A young woman, overcome with hunger, trades her brother for a sack of rice. The cost will be even higher than she bargained for.
Les Dames Aveugles
Two friends await in the airport for a third friend to arrive. As the passangers come by, pictures not taken accompany a conversation between the two friends.
You are born — without warning — into a strange area full of distant screaming.
1993 recording of band Les Rallizes Dénudés performing at the Baus Theater.
An abstract exploration of teenage hood and future discontents. It is the search for an alternative.
A girl and an older man discuss the nature of reality while doing chores on a pig farm.
The Tragedy of an Artist, is an experimental short shot over the course of a week. This film is meant to illustrate who Hero Foltz is as a person and his struggles with self identity