Category Archives: cinema

Guy Maddin – Brand Upon The Brain

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Brand Upon The Brain (trailer)
Brand Upon The Brain (Trailer) (2007, 3.47MB, 1:34 min)

Brand Upon The Brain (Foley)
Brand Upon The Brain (Foley) (2007, 4.92MB, 3:20 min)

Brand Upon The Brain, a new feature film by Guy Maddin, tours the US this summer accompanied with a live orchestrations by Ensemble Sospeso.
Maddin’s fantastically extravagant Super 8 films are always enchanting and the additional elements of live music, sound effects and narration by quirky celebs is sure to delight cinephiles of all ages. I was lucky enough to catch it in NYC last week with Crispin Glover as a very charming narrator, but the three Foley artists nearly stole the show. You can see them hard at work in their lab coats in the rehearsal video. Looks like it will have further distribution later this year with recorded soundtrack and narration by Isabella Rossellini.

Film site

Strange Culture

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strange culture (2007, 17.7MB, 2:17 min.)

Strange Culture documents the case of artist and professor Steven Kurtz
and geneticist Robert Ferrell, accused in 2004 by the U.S. Justice Department
of “bioterrorism” and currently awaiting trial.
The case threatens to set dangerous precedent by eroding the boundary
between civil and criminal law, and by criminalizing those who legitimately
and legally criticize government policy.
By Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Ice Age Animation Movies

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Ice Age 1
Ice Age 1 (2002, 6MB, 1:56 min.)

Ice Age 2
Ice Age 2 (2006, 8.1MB, 1:26 min.)

Computer-animation extravaganza – Ice Age from 20th Century Fox.
Ice Age is directed by Chris Wedge, founder of Blue Sky Studios and
Ice Age – The Meltdown, by Carlos Saldanha.

‘The Perfect Human’ – the 6th Obstruction

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The Perfect Human
The Perfect Human (2007, 104MB, 12:58 min.)

A remake of Jørgen Leth 1967 classic, and hence both
addendum and homage to Five Obstructions,
With Theodore Bouloukos and Joanne Douglas.
by Doron Golan.

Borat on Politics

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Borat on Politics
Borat on Politics (2004, 25MB, 3:31 min)

Official Borat Homesite.

More Brian Gibson

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Atlantis To Interzone
Atlantis to Interzone (2007, 14.8MB, 2:59 min)

Lang Syne Andalusian
Lang Syne Andalusian (2007, 39.2MB, 6:55 min)

Well, Atlantis to Interzone is a neat bit of cell phone footage
derived work but Lang Syne Andalusian is a tour de force of mashology,
remixing Bunuel’s notorious masterpiece with bits of stock footage.
Again: the musical eye… the musical eye…

Music Credits:
Atlantis to Interzone: Klaxons Atlantis to Interzone (Mr. Miyagis Bootleg Remix)
Lang Syne Andalusian: Soundhog “The Rinse” Mix

Silas & Mange

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Silas & Mange
Silas & Mange (1927, 14MB, 4 min.)

I have always had a thing for silent films.
Rob Sosin and Kevin Maher star in these twisted vignettes,
the restored (1999) films of long dead silent picture stars Silas and Mange.
from Thrillomedy.com

Helen Park – slow burn poetry

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Hope
Hope (2002, 32MB, 5:30 min. )

What Godard Said
What Godard Said (2005, 29MB, 5:19 min.)

Two pieces, extraordinary in both ambition & affect,
from filmmaker Helen Park.

It takes a little while, ‘it did for me’ then not only
does the quiet ecstacy of the thing kick in, but your
mouth drops open at how boldly and confidently this
world grows & blossoms from very simple & at first
apparently unpromising material.
Helen Park also maintains a rather good vlog.

Belleville Rendez-Vous

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Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003, 6.2MB, 2:08 min.)

A deliciously dark and twisted French comic animation film
in which a “Tour de France” cyclist is kidnapped by the Mafia.
Directed by Sylvain Chomet.

Lynch’s Inland Empire

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Inland Empire UK trailer
Inland Empire UK trailer (2006, 13.6MB, 1:53 min)

OK, so there’re the famous rabbits.
It’s only just come out over here so I haven’t
seen it yet but it sounds great.
The New York Times certainly thought so.
UK site
US site