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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
1) Ruins rider
Publisher
Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in the lost territories of the Balkans, RUINS RIDER portrays the secret ruins that triggered trances over the past centuries. Using an array of hypnotic pulsating flickers, filmmaker Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt conceived an explosive kinetic experience. Accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by Marc Hurtado of the cult project Etant Donnes, RUINS RIDER is a visceral experience of hypnagogic archeology and raw energy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This collection brings together a unique group of avant-garde film works. Tearing apart the barriers between eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the unstrapped brain of subterranean luminosity and high voltage experimentations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'Damned If You Don't' is Friedrichs subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano. --Kanopy.
5) A rebours
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents this transgressive short film compilation. Conceived by the underground film society Cinema Abattoir, the A Rebours short film anthology convey the spectator side of experimental and avant-garde cinema.
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This short film weaves an unexpected narrative from Hitchcock’s trail of walk-on parts, in which the master himself is pursued by a number of shadowy doppelgängers, caught up in a world of mistaken identity. Playing out a multi-leveled ‘reality’, Grimonprez’s cinematic twists and turns echo the trademark of the Master of Suspense, while radiating a quiet and beguiling surrealism reminiscent of that other great master, Rene Magritte.
7) What I Will
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An anthropologist, who tries to decode corporate culture, gets obsessed with the story of a parachutist who died after his equipment malfunctioned. In the parachutist’s finitude - caught in an ultimate meditative moment of plunging to an approaching death - the anthropologist sees a sudden and catastrophic voiding of the webs that hold and cradle us all.
8) Seeing red
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'Seeing Red' is the latest work from veteran avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich. In this, one of her most deeply personal films to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her evolution both as a woman and as an artist, tackling her own insecurities via several on-camera diary entries. While 'Seeing Red' is a film about the existential crises of the individual, it is also a film about what unites all humanity and what unites humanity with all the matter...
11) An Optical Poem
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
35mm 1.33:1 color sound, 7:02 minutes; production assistance John Cage; music_Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2_by Franz Liszt; courtesy Warner Bros.,Turner Entertainment Co. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt's rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where "the keen sensation of depth becomes...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is "jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian formula, as sordid family secrets spawn unintentional murder most foul. Winner of the FIRPRESCI Prize at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Nominated...
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:14 minutes; preserved by Lawrence Jordan and Michael Hinton from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack; distributor Canyon Cinema; courtesy of the filmmaker. Alchemical images of transformation fill the screen in Lawrence Jordan's magical collage animation where several ambiguous characters - a boy, a deep-sea diver and a Lady with the orbital head - make a surrealistic dream-like journey. Produced from line...
15) Photographs
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This experimental film, set to music by Bach, illustrates quotations from the works of Karl Marx with PHOTOGRAPHS of proletarian daily life from the mid-1800s to the present. Peter Voigt and photographer Arno Fischer worked on the four double-stelae of Berlin’s Marx-Engels Forum project from 1977 to 1982. For the stelae they were planning, they researched PHOTOGRAPHS in Amsterdam, New York, Washington, London and Moscow. This film is a direct result...
16) Walden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground. *"...a groundbreaking work of personal cinema." - **Experimental Cinema***
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Arabic
Description
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
18) Magdalena Viraga
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film about the inner life of a sex worker imprisoned for killing her pimp won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for “Best Independent/Experimental Film of the Year”, and was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial as well as in over 40 other film festivals worldwide. Tinka Menkes brilliantly portrays the emotionally frozen protagonist on a circular inner journey,...
20) Casual Relations
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
An ordinary day. Or is it? People go about their habitual behavior. Characters appear and then reappear in other scenes that may or may not belong together. In CASUAL RELATIONS, hints of melodrama shudder beneath the surface and no one is quite who they seem to be. Everyone is haunted by memories of popular culture -- from classic movies, to the Rolling Stones, to vampire films. Meanwhile, the countdown of Golden Oldies continues late into the night…...
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