Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).
Oliver Laxe’s stunning film is a breathtakingly shot “Eastern Western” that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Richly suggestive and profoundly hypnotic, MIMOSAS is a head-scratcher whose meanings remain elusive even as its imagery and structural gambits lodge deeply in your mind.
Wiseman’s 1985 documentary is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading racetracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses.
Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).
Oliver Laxe’s stunning film is a breathtakingly shot “Eastern Western” that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Richly suggestive and profoundly hypnotic, MIMOSAS is a head-scratcher whose meanings remain elusive even as its imagery and structural gambits lodge deeply in your mind.
In the 1970s, Pierre was one of the hottest hustlers in Paris, spending his nights with clients who kept him financially comfortable. But the glory days don’t last forever, and in 2007, where BEFORE I FORGET begins, Pierre’s life is very different.
A delightfully demented, surreal, and subversive religious allegory set in the days of covered wagons and American pioneers, GREASER’S PALACE is, at its core, an avant-garde parody of the classic American Western. The film follows Jesse (Allan Arbus), a zoot-suited Christ figure, from his sudden arrival at a small desert outpost to his prophesied death soon thereafter.
The films gathered here all riff on the Western by repurposing, reediting, or manipulating footage – or in the case of THE SONG OF RIO JIM, soundtrack material – taken from classic instances of the genre.
The films gathered here all riff on the Western by repurposing, reediting, or manipulating footage – or in the case of THE SONG OF RIO JIM, soundtrack material – taken from classic instances of the genre.
A delightfully demented, surreal, and subversive religious allegory set in the days of covered wagons and American pioneers, GREASER’S PALACE is, at its core, an avant-garde parody of the classic American Western. The film follows Jesse (Allan Arbus), a zoot-suited Christ figure, from his sudden arrival at a small desert outpost to his prophesied death soon thereafter.
Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).
Craig Baldwin's WILD GUNMAN (1978) is a meditation on the Marlboro Man, using a combination of social satire and recovered film images to deconstruct the myth of the cowboy and the West. Charles I. Levine's HORSEOPERA (A WESTERN) (1970) uses individual shots as loops to create a rhythmic structure that transforms stereotyped Western characters and actions into a plastic mosaic.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time. Based on the account of an imprisoned French Resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and execution of his escape with gripping precision.
Staged at the Factory with a rented horse, this is a homoerotic parody of the Western genre. The acting out of Ronald Tavel’s script takes place on a set crowded with evidence of the film’s production: mounted lights, a boom mic, assorted onlookers, and the Factory doors and telephone all visible in the frame.
Shot on location in Tucson, Arizona, LONESOME COWBOYS is a homoerotic satire of the Western genre, loosely based on ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The film also features brilliant performances by Taylor Mead and by Francis Francine, the star of Jack Smith’s FLAMING CREATURES, as a sheriff who dresses in drag.
LONESOME COWBOY, a self portrait, clocked in at 29 seconds. My late friend and fellow filmmaker, Dean Snider and I had a contest to see who could make the shortest film with a sound track.
Moustapha Alassane’s 'An Adventurer’s Homecoming' is a brilliant comedy that intertwines West African and European modernization plots with outlaw gang and frontier-town-under-attack narratives, often called 'the first African western.' Kevin Jerome Everson’s 'Ten Five in the Grass' examines the craft of the black cowboy by observing the rituals of horse grooming, riding, and roping in Natchez, Mississippi.
CREMASTER 2 is a gothic Western premised loosely on the real-life story of Gary Gilmore, alternating between the Columbia Icefield in Canada and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. ARABESQUE explodes into dance, the dance of the bucking horse, the bull, the clown, the rodeo rider.
A magnificent drama about a thief, his techniques, motives, and secret existence. The plot is modeled loosely on Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, but the rigorous intensity of the treatment is pure Bresson, as he tells the compelling story of an insignificant man who drifts into crime and finally finds grace in a prison cell.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time. Based on the account of an imprisoned French Resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and execution of his escape with gripping precision.
Beirut, 1983. The secret life of 12-year-old Lina revolves around 18-year-old Siham, her domineering aunt’s maid. In a precarious wartime existence where passion and frustrations overshadow everything, Lina hides and encourages Siham’s clandestine love affairs while Siham shows Lina what her life could be like.
Beirut, 1983. The secret life of 12-year-old Lina revolves around 18-year-old Siham, her domineering aunt’s maid. In a precarious wartime existence where passion and frustrations overshadow everything, Lina hides and encourages Siham’s clandestine love affairs while Siham shows Lina what her life could be like.
A magnificent drama about a thief, his techniques, motives, and secret existence. The plot is modeled loosely on Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, but the rigorous intensity of the treatment is pure Bresson, as he tells the compelling story of an insignificant man who drifts into crime and finally finds grace in a prison cell.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time. Based on the account of an imprisoned French Resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and execution of his escape with gripping precision.
This program is anchored by the films that were made by Duchamp directly: ANÉMIC CINÉMA and DISCS, the latter of which was made for inclusion in Hans Richter’s project DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY. The program also includes Duchamp’s collaborations with René Clair & Francis Picabia (ENTR’ACTE) and Maya Deren (WITCH’S CRADLE), his appearances in films by Andy Warhol, and a filmed interview with Duchamp.
A magnificent drama about a thief, his techniques, motives, and secret existence. The plot is modeled loosely on Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, but the rigorous intensity of the treatment is pure Bresson, as he tells the compelling story of an insignificant man who drifts into crime and finally finds grace in a prison cell.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time. Based on the account of an imprisoned French Resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and execution of his escape with gripping precision.
Set at the twilight of the century, WALK THE WALK follows a family of three that splits apart, each member trying to find their own way in post-historical Europe. Abel (Jacques Martial), an athlete, travels to Eastern Europe, encountering the ruins of the Soviet project; the microbiologist Nellie (Laure Duthilleul) remains in southern France, undertaking an inward voyage; their teenage daughter Raye (Betsabée Haas) journeys eastward from Marseille after a potential exposure to HIV.
The films gathered here all riff on the Western by repurposing, reediting, or manipulating footage – or in the case of THE SONG OF RIO JIM, soundtrack material – taken from classic instances of the genre.
The films gathered here all riff on the Western by repurposing, reediting, or manipulating footage – or in the case of THE SONG OF RIO JIM, soundtrack material – taken from classic instances of the genre.
Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).
Oliver Laxe’s stunning film is a breathtakingly shot “Eastern Western” that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Richly suggestive and profoundly hypnotic, MIMOSAS is a head-scratcher whose meanings remain elusive even as its imagery and structural gambits lodge deeply in your mind.
Wiseman’s 1985 documentary is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading racetracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses.
Ben Rivers’s deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally exquisite film was shot during the filming of Oliver Laxe’s film, MIMOSAS, and features Laxe himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining of Paul Bowles’s brutal short story, “A Distant Episode” (1947).
Oliver Laxe’s stunning film is a breathtakingly shot “Eastern Western” that follows a mysterious caravan carrying a dying sheikh into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. Richly suggestive and profoundly hypnotic, MIMOSAS is a head-scratcher whose meanings remain elusive even as its imagery and structural gambits lodge deeply in your mind.
In the 1970s, Pierre was one of the hottest hustlers in Paris, spending his nights with clients who kept him financially comfortable. But the glory days don’t last forever, and in 2007, where BEFORE I FORGET begins, Pierre’s life is very different.
A delightfully demented, surreal, and subversive religious allegory set in the days of covered wagons and American pioneers, GREASER’S PALACE is, at its core, an avant-garde parody of the classic American Western. The film follows Jesse (Allan Arbus), a zoot-suited Christ figure, from his sudden arrival at a small desert outpost to his prophesied death soon thereafter.