The author of more than 200 films of scientific research in the avant-garde spirit, Painlevé devoted his life to filming the infinitely small with state of the art equipment. This collection features Mathusalem, Hyas et Stenorinques, L'Hippocampe, Barbe Bleue, Le Vampire, Oursins, Histoires de Crevettes, Les Amours de la Pieuvre, Acera ou le Bal des Sorcieres and Cristaux Liquides.
Images disintegrate and the gelatine layer - where the chemicals are embedded, dissolves. All that\'s left is the \'raging of the elements\' in a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape. \'The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film\' - Reble.
A fine retrospective of the pioneer of \'direct film\' whose techniques included painting and scratching images directly onto celluloid, using found footage, casting shadows of objects onto unexposed film and experimenting with early colour techniques. A
Ixe - EEKS is the four points of the compass, the four ends of the cross, is War, Sex, Religion and Drugs. Includes a 40 page booklet connected to the film.
Piece touchee, Passage a l\'acte and Alone: Life wastes Andy Hardy. Arnold calls these pieces his \'revenge on film history\'. Inspired distortions of popular cinema that challenge the supposedly stable system of Hollywood space and time and undermine the
Features five films addressing love and stereotypes: 'L'Amour-systeme', 'L'Amour reinvente', 'Des scenes d'amour tres realistes avec force details et gros plans', 'L'amour, qu'est-ce?' and 'Chantal D, Star'.
One of the major works of letterist cinema, LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? had as much of a direct or hidden influence on the New Wave as it does on today's Avant-Garde. Its first screenings in Paris in 1951 became major events. The critics despised it, but this work is and will remain a landmark in film History.
\'Meshes of the Afternoon\' was a genuine landmark which launched the American post-war avant-garde movement and has continued to influence experimental film-makers. Through a variety of disorientating creative devices, everyday objects acquire strangely
"In September 1947 I disembarked in Haïti, for an eight-month stay, with eighteen motley pieces of lugage; seven of these consisted of 16-millimeter motion-picture equipment (three cameras, tripods, raw film stock, etc.), of which three were related to sound recording for a film, and three contained equipment for still photography." - Maya Deren
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