Keyword: avant-garde

Pearls of the Deep

6.5

1965

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Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented, each showcasing the need and want for human connection. In \Mr. Baltazars Death\, a middle aged couple who are experts at mechanics, travel to a motorcycle race where they congregate with the masses on the section of the course where historically there has been the most action of the destructive kind. In \Imposters\, two elderly hospital patients talk about their past professional glories as a journalist and light opera star respectively. Each man wants to hear about the other more than tell his own story for good reason. In \The House of Joy\, two national insurance agents believe they have an easy sale when they visit an elderly goat farmer/amateur painter, who uses whatever surface as his canvass, and paints his life and his dreams. But the sale will not be as easy as the men first believe it will be. In \The Restaurant the World\, a wedding reception is taking place in one part of a busy self-serve diner. The reception guests are oblivious to the sadness of real life taking place all around their small current vacuum of a world, with the bride determined to make the most of *her* night. And in \Romance\, a working class lad, out on the town on his own, is mesmerized by a young Romani girl.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

6.6

1988

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While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.

Everlasting Love

4.3

2014

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A middle aged teacher meets one of his young students whilst cruising in the local woods. Between them commences a love affair that takes a dark turn.

Cremaster 2

6.5

1999

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A Gothic Western loosely based on Gary Gilmores life, executed for murder in Utah. His life is represented through fantastic sequences, like a séance to show his birth and a prison rodeo staged in a salt arena to symbolise his execution.

The Age of the Earth

6.6

1980

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Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rochas experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolinis murder.

Cassis

5.7

1966

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One day of the Cassis port filmed in one shot.

The Art of Un-War

9.1

2022

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An instigator for social change, Krzysztof Wodiczkos powerful art interventions disrupt the valorization of state-sanctioned aggression.

Return to Reason

6.4

1923

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Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

The Scenic Route

6.8

1978

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Spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.

Lou Reed & John Cale: Songs for Drella

6.9

1990

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Lou Reed and John Cale perform their album Songs for Drella, a tribute to Andy Warhol.

The Man Who Envied Women

5.3

1985

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A broken marriage, artists housing in New York, and Central American politics, director Yvonne Rainer meanders through a lot of philosophical and rhetorical territory.

New Old

7.3

1979

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Chronicles of the Present Times - An experimental trilogy comprising Visa De Censure No.X, Livre De Famille and Anima Mundi. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.