Flaming Creatures is built up of exotic tableaux, with a mixture of typical film dialogues and pop music; a whole which breathes the decadent and refined atmosphere of a Von Sternberg, but which also has all the characteristics of a home movie; an undogmatic film in both technique and substance, so the crucial images seem to have been made at a transvestite party which got out of hand on the roof of a movie theatre in Lower East Side of New York.
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Lune
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Stephen Dwoskin - Focus
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Anamnesis
A master does not need any proof of skill. Not even any finger exercises. He makes masterful exercises in a cinematographic idiom that he invented him
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Stephen Dwoskin - Focus
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6/64 Mama und Papa
Short film based on an actionist happening, filled with images of naked bodies.
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Stephen Dwoskin - Focus
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Sirius Remembered
Sweeping camera movements by avant-garde film master Brakhage around a dead dog.
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Pull My Daisy
The intelligent, spontaneous spirit of the Beat Generation on top form.
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Stephen Dwoskin - Focus
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1963
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 45"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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