Owen O’Toole – Super8 films

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Piza (1982, 13 MB, 2:44 min)

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Frames (1985, 31 MB, 6:25 min)

Early experimental Super8 films by Owen O’Toole.

Short interview with him here.

Deadlock

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Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)

from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.

Kurosawa trailers better than most entire films…


Scandal – trailer (1950, 7.7MB, 1:38 min)


The Idiot – trailer (1951, 6.3MB, 1:22 min)

Don’t know whether these are the original, or re-edited, trailers
but they’re wonderful, wonderful.
Watch and marvel.
I know neither of these films but I can’t wait to get my sweaty
palms on the DVDs from Eureka Cinema’s Masters of Cinema series.

A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater

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A Scanner Darkly (trailer) (2006, 3MB, 1:15 min.)

“A Scanner Darkly” movie was filmed digitally and then animated
using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.
by Richard Linklater.

Eadweard Muybridge

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a couple waltzing – spinning disc (1893, 4MB, 2 sec. loop)

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a couple waltzing – mirror simulation (1893, 2.4MB, 2 sec. loop)

Endlessly fascinating work from luminary Eadweard Muybridge.
Read more here. See more here.

Henry Hills – Money

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Money (1985, 47MB, 14:27 min.)

Henry Hill

By Mica Scalin.

"Dreams That Money Can Buy" at Tate Modern

DREAM

In the Turbine Hall in 2006 and Realityfilm presented
a ‘psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret’ with live music by
The Real Tuesday Weld providing a new original score for the
film

When Clouds Clear


When Clouds Clear (2008, 15.3MB, 2:26)

Directed by Anne Slick and Danielle Bernstein,
When Clouds Clear is a remarkably intimate portrait
of a tiny Ecuadorian village’s struggle against
mining companies that seek to take over (and destroy)
the land they have long cultivated as their home.

Shot on a lovely mix of Super 8, 16mm, and video
to show the complexities of different viewpoints, the
film is one of the most beautiful I have had the
privilege of viewing this year.

Robert Todd – NEST


Robert Todd – NEST (2008, 33.2MB, 4:36)

More from the brilliant, always poignant Robert Todd.

The NEST is a place of resting, but for the restless spirit,
it is a moving island. Here we find silence, if not solace.

This film is both the third in a series and the first of a
trilogy. To understand how it fits within Todd’s vision,
you should go watch more on his site. It will take your
breath away.

DVblog will eat itself

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mouth study (2005, 7.8MB, 3:40 min)

Using footage from the ‘cutting edge cinema‘ thing
we posted here before Lewis LaCook,
created an utterly exuberant & assured piece of appropriation
video with 186,000 ideas per second.