Your Independent Movie Guide
experimental
By David Finkelstein | May 2013
Multiple individual choices add up to a fixed, static pattern…
This rich, interesting short by Van McElwee begins with a woman crossing the screen towards us on a diagonal path. We see many variations of this motif....
This fun, fascinating short by Van MacElwee is made entirely from old, colorized photos (presumably from postcards) of a large number of capitol buildings,...
In “An Encounter with Simone Weil,” filmmaker Julia Haslett tells us quite a bit about Weil (1909-1943), a French philosopher and writer who believed...
"Half Real" is a shimmering, fascinating short by video artist Van McElwee. The visual textures in this piece, which slowly yet constantly shift, are...
“Flamingos,” the terrific recent feature by Antero Alli, uses the claustrophobic situation of a bank robber holed up in a motel room with his...
"Dreambody/Earthbody" is a compelling new film by Antero Alli, in which he documents recent developments in the Paratheatrical Research work he has been...
"Burning Down the Palace" is a DVD collection of three fascinating collaborative videos by filmmaker Mara Mattuschka and choreographer Chris Haring, on the...
Think Jack Torrance was tormented by inner demons in “The Shining”? Compared to the fixated folks in “Room 237,” he’s as mellow as Mister Rogers...
"It Takes Time to See" is a dance documentary by Deborah Fort and Marsha Tallerico about choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer's seminal 1966 dance...
Fritz Stolberg's "Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing" is a powerful surrealist short, in black and white photography which is reminiscent of the early...