The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov, who died 100 years ago. His treatise was devoted to the study of sexuality and its denial in Christianity. The film was made in the style of experimental films of the 1920s with a non-linear narration full of strange surrealistic images. He is black and white and devoid of dialogue. Filmed on film 16 mm of firm "Svema", released in the USSR. This added to his exoticism. The image was put to the music of Alexander Scriabin “The Poem of Ecstasy” (1907).
Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini.
A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.
Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.
A proto-music video: three minutes of experimental animation set to the tune of Romeo Nelson's 'Head Rag Hop'.
3 minute experimental film.
5 minute experimental film.
10 minute experimental film.
Tones rise and fall as images replicate and reorder, dizzying, nauseating -- vexing.
20 minute experimental film.
4 minute experimental film.
"a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement."
A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.
'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'
Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.
Platitudes begin at peaks then rapidly descend and dismantle in order to ascend more acutely until they repeatedly and successively overwhelm.
A 3D visual vapor release by James Webster.