Cinema Exercises

The Song of Italy

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The footage was later

1967

The Song of Assisi

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The footage was l

1967

The Five Obstructions

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrat

2003

A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a figu

2013

Série 7 (Éclatements de bulles de savon)

Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of rec

1907

Cine de Emboscada

2017

Chance, History, Art...

Anne Bean, John McKeon, Stuart Brisley, Rita Donagh, Jamie Reid and Jimmy Boyle are interviewed about their artistic practice and the legacy of Surrea

1980

idizwadidiz

Two friends walk and draw circles. It is what it is, idizwadidiz, c’est ce que c’est, seskecé. Nice weather.

2017

Leftovers

A manufactured memory.

2017

Man with a Movie Camera

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

1929

Cinnamon

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

2006

Atlantis

A documentary portrait of Utopia, loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-resurrection via a 1970s

2014

Decasia: The State of Decay

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

2002

Easy Rider

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

2006

Broad Sense

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses t

2012

The Island

The Island is a short film shot entirely on Pulau Bidong, an island off the coast of Malaysia that became the largest and longest-operating refugee ca

2017

Ganga

The second entry in Velu Viswanadhan's series of experimental documentaries. This film traces the Ganges river upstream.

1985

The Mind and the Crime

The discovery of a human torso thrown into a waterway, leads the viewer to observe the work of modern criminology and the task of special agents to tr

1961

December Hide-and-Go-Seek

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and know

1993

South

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation move

2020