Cinema Regained: Pièce Unique
Overview of films
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Achterland
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker | 84' | Belgium | None
The famous choreographer developed her own creation further with purely cinematographic means. The result is not only a perfectly crafted dance film, -
Agrippina é Roma-Manhattan
Hélio Oiticica | 15' | Brazil | -
For this meditation on the pitfalls of appetite and greed, the artist refers to Agrippina, the widowed Roman aristocrat who wanted the blood of the… -
Anémic cinéma
Marcel Duchamp | 7' | France | None
This characteristically dada film by Marcel Duchamp consists of a series of visual and verbal puns with nonsense phrases inscribed around rotating spi -
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Peter Sellars | 111' | USA | None
Mostly filmed in the vicinity of Wall Street, opera producer Peter Sellars’ non-spoken movie is very loosely based on the 1919 German Expressionist la -
Un chant d’amour
Jean Genet | 26' | France | None
Because of its explicit homosexual content, Un chant d’amour was long banned and was also disowned by Genet later in his life. In a French… -
Film
Samuel Beckett | 24' | USA | None
For the shooting of his only venture into the medium of cinema, famous writer Samuel Beckett made his only trip to America and offered Buster… -
The Honeymoon Killers
Leonard Kastle | 115' | USA | None
In a reaction to Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Kastle wanted to craft a crime movie that avoided all Hollywood glamour. His fans have included Michelange -
The House is Black
Forugh Farrokhzad | 22' | Iran | None
A ‘poetic treatment of leprosy’, but also a factual documentary by one of Iran’s most venerated modern poets, a woman whose writing still permeates Ir -
L’imitation du cinéma
Marcel Mariën | 36' | Belgium | None
Blasphemous or surrealist? The Belgian equivalent to Bunuel’s L’Age d’Or is a Freudian erotic, highly amusing parody on the Church, a film that caused -
In the Street
Helen Levitt | 16' | USA | None
In the Street is considered one of the first American experimental films: a succession of compact, silent dramas shot in East Harlem, a territory unto -
Limite
Mário Peixoto | 120' | Brazil | None
The most legendary silent film in Brazilian history about three shipwrecked people adrift in a small boat on the open sea. -
Miracle
Edward Ruscha | 28' | USA | None
A story about a curious day in the life of an auto mechanic with artist Jim Ganzer and actress Michelle Phillips. Filmed by art icon…