Category Archives: Film

Tony Cederteg

While never really working on his first short film Fikon Tony Cederteg made these short little films with his cell phone – mostly for the music of Jony but obviously in some restlessness.

AD Projects Presents Camera Vivant

As our fourth Guest Contributor, we invited the curatorial team from AD Projects to contribute a post. AD Projects will be presenting an evening of videos on Tuesday October 24 from 7 to 9 pm, at the Big Screen Plaza. In the spirit of film they have put together the following: Last year, AD Projects coined [...]

Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner’s reputation as an actor is irrefutable, but until recently most probably weren’t aware that he was a talented photographer as well. Yul Brynner: A Photographic Journey has just been released by Edition 7L. The four-volume book, edited by Brynner’s daughter, Victoria Brynner, includes a selection culled from 8,000 images and press cuttings, and [...]

Stan Brakhage – “The Riddle of Lumen”

From UbuWeb.

Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1962)

The House is Black is the only film made by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This short documentary about a leper colony has been called “the greatest of all Iranian films” by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Taken from UbuWeb.

Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935

The outstanding “Lullaby of Broadway” performance, mass ornament, montage from Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935.

Drumming in the Wilderness

From 1990: The Bronx Warriors (Castellari, 1982) From Week End (Godard, 1967)

Emile de Antonio – Painter’s Painting (1972)

The player will show in this paragraph An extraordinary film by radical filmmaker Emile de Antonio on post-war American painting featuring candid and revelatory interviews by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Clement Greenberg. Taken from UbuWeb. (It’s 116 minutes.)

Superflex – Burning Car

Stills and low-quality video of the Danish art group Superflex’s Burning Car. For more information, including how to download a high quality version free from The Pirate Bay, visit Superflex’s website.

Blast of Silence

From Allen Baron’s 1961 classic dirty New York noir Blast of Silence, recently released by Criterion on DVD.