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Taking photos and making films are two ways of touching people. People have become the main subject of my collections. Collecting is much like an act of faith. It is a creative act, a chance to discover oneself, while at the same time participating in other's passions.
My photographs -and my films- seek out human contact, and they find it.
Since the late 1970s, James Benning's films have been a regular fixture at festivals in Germany and Austria, while frequent television broadcasts have helped expose his work to an even larger audience here than perhaps at home. This 2-disc set presents the products of this intercontinental relationship: Ruhr, Benning's first foray into digital filmmaking, is a modern-day "city symphony" dedicated to Germany's industrial Ruhr district. His latest work, natural history, is an audiovisual portrait commissioned by Vienna's Natural History Museum. Reinhard Wulf's feature-length documentary James Benning: Circling the Image, produced for German television, rounds off the set.
The fact that Siegfried Fruhauf’s films have a certain hypnotic effect cannot be denied. Battles of material take place in them, they contain reflections and illusions, soundtracks filled with noise and visual interference signals run riot; at the same time all the structural experiments the filmmaker risks never rigidify in the merely theoretical. Fruhauf’s cinema is extremely atmospheric and decidedly non-academic. On the contrary, it presents itself as being radically undogmatic, alternating between abstraction and representation, between punk and classicism.
Fourteen films from Stephen Dwoskin, one of the most emotionally intense and underexposed filmmakers in British film. Includes Take Me, Dirty, Girl, Dad, Grandpere'pear, Dear Frances (in memoriam), Pain Is..., Intoxicated By My Illness, Tod Und Teufel, Face Anthea, Behindert, Outside In, Trying To Kiss The Moon and Lost Dreams.
EVERY DAY 1, 2, 3 are 3 small (5” x 51/4”) artist zines about the relation between film and life, living and filmmaking as Sternberg sees it. The books reference different experiences of time respectively:1-daily repetitive; 2- random, contingent; 3- cumulative. Book 3’s images document Sternberg’s studio: film strips, cans of film, editing equipment, optical printer and bolex camera.
Spanning a decades-long artistic career the collected films of James Broughton represent a remarkable body of work by a leading avant-garde American filmmaker--an undisputed master of the fusion of spoken poetry with moving images. A poet and dramatist as
Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemakin
DVD with a feature film and 3 short films by Mahine Rouhi and Olivier Fouchard.
- Ptkho by Mahine Rouhi • 7 mins, 16mm, b/w, 2001
- Tahousse co-directed with Mahine Rouhi • 31 mins, 16mm, color, 2001-2006
- La Promenade Bleue • 14 mins, silent, 16mm, color, 2006
- Le Granier • 15 mins, silent, 35mm, color, 2007
- Carnets D’Ateliers • 76 mins, stereo, HD, color, 2016
Plunge into the visceral, energetic world of handmade filmmaking with this unique, easy-to-read manual. Award-winning animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen guides you step-by-step through the process of creating handmade films using simple, everyday tools. Here, Woloshen shares the knowledge and experience he has acquired over his 30+ years’ experience of making short, abstract films.
The first in a series of DVDs dedicated to the Spanish filmmaker Adolpho Arrietta, with his first three films, El crimen de la pirindola (1965), La imitación del ángel (1966) and Le jouet criminel (1969)
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