Tag: experimental film

Party at the Czech Death Temple, 1969 

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High angle black and white shot of a family of four outside in a park. The father and the mother are looking directly into the camera, their children (son and daughter) are looking down. They are dressed in fine clothing, suits and blazers, and there is a gated off bush behind them.

|Finn Odum| It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.  The lights in your apartment are dimmed. There’s a migraine kicking in, and your insomnia is fighting the sedative in your medication just long enough to keep you conscious. You’re aching for the sweet release of death sleep—but you know that if you try to lay down… Continue reading

Toward a Cinema of Noise: Demonlover (2002)

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Diane (Connie Nielsen), a woman with short brown hair, reclines on a couch and looks at the viewfinder of a digital camcorder. Her mouth is slightly open in an inscrutable expression of engrossment. She holds a cigarette between her fingers.

|Natalie Marlin| Noise was roiling in Olivier Assayas’s blood as the 20th century neared a close. At the end of his 1996 film Irma Vep, the director of the film-within-a-film has disavowed his initial attempt at a conventional filmmaking style. The star has left the picture. The narrative is… Continue reading

Paying Attention to Man Ray: Some Reflections on What Experimental Cinema Can Do For Us Right Now

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|Sophie Durbin| As a child, it would’ve been hard to fathom that going to the movies would one day be as esoteric as spending a night at the opera. But some time in the past five years, I realized that spending much of my free time on film had suddenly cast me as an eccentric clinger-on to… Continue reading