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Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Zappa

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

Genre: Animation

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CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurício do Valle

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zadour Bonyadi

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

Genre: Documentary

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A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

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Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

Genre: Drama

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A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

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An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the...

Genre: Music

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A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

Genre: Documentary

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A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tina Aumont

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bentallé

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...

Genre: Documentary

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A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers,...

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A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

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Cast: Carolee Schneemann

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Makiko Esumi

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

Genre: Fantasy

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This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is...

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Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Genre: Documentary

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