Arcadia Public Library

Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award...

Offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, Manhatta (1921), The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022)....

Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, IT TAKES FROM WITHIN presents a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease. An ominous, bleak atmosphere permeates a desolate town where an unnamed man and woman make preparations to attend a burial. The tension builds as the two experience increasingly disturbing incidents involving manifestations of dread and despair while the internment draws near. Official Selection at **The Chicago International Arthouse...

A fragmented portrait of a young boy called Crimson, nicknamed after the color of the hoodie he always wears. We follow him and his best friend, lmani, as they make their way to a corner store. When a rookie police officer gets a call regarding a possibly dangerous altercation that the two youngsters might be involved in, he rushes to the store and enters the site with his gun already drawn. The film becomes an exploration of how stories surrounding...

For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I—the first experimental...

When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must take action to save her sweetheart, Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia - the 'perfect' robot-woman the Doctor has created.

This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and then commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time. Recorded in Leipzig on May 14, 1986,...

Movies about movies—they always seem to have scenes set in screening rooms. And we, the audiences, are invited in, to see how the film business works. The screening rooms seem to be sacrosanct chapels where one can worship but it’s also a place where the people behind the movie screens can let their hair down and reveal their most inner thoughts about each other. It’s a private place in a very public arena. It’s a microcosm of the world but...

This documentary features four individuals who have been devoted to personal odysseys - a cause, a quest, an ideal - to the point of total consumption. At first glance the characters appear disconnected: a former German terrorist, an “ex-gay” evangelist, a bank robber and a martial arts student. But as their stories unfold, one starts to see the parallels between the uncommon, common experience of these four men. In telling this echoing story,...

Haunted by Spielberg’s "Jaws" since childhood, a filmmaker discovers why the movie affected him so deeply.