Movies: Collage

  • 1979
    Moonlight Sonata

    Moonlight Sonata (1979)

    Moonlight Sonata

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    "After GYMNOPEDIES, I had long wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by [Erik] Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. It was totally designed for the 'Gnossienne V' and the movements of the animation are timed to the ove...

    Moonlight Sonata
  • 1991
    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991)

    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

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    Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, r...

    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
  • 1969
    Não vejo pássaros quando olho para o céu

    Não vejo pássaros quando olho para o céu (1969)

    Não vejo pássaros quando olho para o céu

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    A city is made of people. Here, the figure of the gaze establishes a central role in the relationship with the urban environment, perceiving the interferences and constant verticalization of the contemporary world. How much, in the end, is human natu...

    Não vejo pássaros quando olho para o céu
  • 2019
    Like a Pig in Shit

    Like a Pig in Shit (2019)

    Like a Pig in Shit

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    "Like a Pig in Shit" is a twenty-minute video piecing together audio and visual material found online, a collage technique common to the artist’s practice. It comprises nine movements and a spiraling, ultra-introspective, stream-of-consciousness mono...

    Like a Pig in Shit
  • 2008
    Freshman Psych

    Freshman Psych (2008)

    Freshman Psych

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    A sociopath gathers and drugs groups of college students to bring out their existing suicidal tendencies to the surface then walks among them to enjoy and record their deaths....

    Freshman Psych
  • 2007
    Negativland: Our Favorite Things

    Negativland: Our Favorite Things (2007)

    Negativland: Our Favorite Things

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    Our Favorite Things is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other film...

    Negativland: Our Favorite Things
  • 2012
    All Divided Selves

    All Divided Selves (2012)

    All Divided Selves

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    Collage film about R.D. Laing, who spearheaded the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s, weaves archival material with his own filmic observations. For Laing normality meant adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating world....

    All Divided Selves
  • 1981
    Masquerade

    Masquerade (1981)

    Masquerade

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    For the first time I am animating hand-painted engraved cut-outs on a full-color background. The film is mood-filled: A duel scene in a snowy forest, obviously the morning after a masquerade ball. Harlequin lies dying, while Red Indian walks away wit...

    Masquerade
  • 1963
    Pink Swine!

    Pink Swine! (1963)

    Pink Swine!

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    One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art dada collage film," this free-form short presents cut-out images animated across old photos (a style p...

    Pink Swine!
  • 1969
    Portrait de ma mère poète

    Portrait de ma mère poète (1969)

    Portrait de ma mère poète

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    Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the filmmaker continues the description of the artistic universe of his parents. Born in 1916 in Flanders...

    Portrait de ma mère poète
  • 2003
    The Remote Controller

    The Remote Controller (2003)

    The Remote Controller

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    Using found footage sourced from educational films in the Prelinger Archives, this work explores the subject of experimentation in human body and machine interfaces in the 20th century. The film edits together the different ways we have controlled ou...

    The Remote Controller
  • 2011
    Walt Disney's Taxi Driver

    Walt Disney's Taxi Driver (2011)

    Walt Disney's Taxi Driver

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    Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film Taxi Driver follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City. A 'fair use' parody by Bryan Boyce....

    Walt Disney's Taxi Driver
  • 1984
    Tilt

    Tilt (1984)

    Tilt

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    Made using footage from USA Olympics in Los Angeles 1984 and snippets of Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States. The footage was combined at Goldsmith's Art Department using an unusual Grass Valley mixer that had oscillatin...

    Tilt
  • 1994
    The Smell of Burning Ants

    The Smell of Burning Ants (1994)

    The Smell of Burning Ants

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    A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness....

    The Smell of Burning Ants
  • 2015
    Playground

    Playground (2015)

    Playground

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    A battle between nature and culture, between organic rye-grass and artificial turf. American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yards long and 160 feet wide. These dimensions defined the framework for this film. Made with images found in G...

    Playground
  • 2017
    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter) (2017)

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)

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    EMPATHY (a digital love letter) is a short essay documentary, a heartbreaking comedy about a break-up, an attempt to concretize emotion and evoke empathy from a writer’s approach. After getting her heart crushed in a relationship, a woman writes a l...

    EMPATHY (a digital love letter)
  • 2012
    4'33

    4'33" The Movie (2012)

    4'33" The Movie

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    The climactic scene of John Huston's Key Largo is fused with John Cage's 4'33", all dialogue is stripped away to reveal a cinema of movement, glances and inadvertent comedy....

    4'33
  • 2010
    Black Moon

    Black Moon (2010)

    Black Moon

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    A present-day science-fiction without dialogue, Siegel’s “Black Moon” traverses multiple film tropes – action, guns, lonely campfires, the end of the world – and, like its band of armed female revolutionaries, resists taking up residence in a fixed g...

    Black Moon
  • 2016
    Grete, la mirada oblicua

    Grete, la mirada oblicua (2016)

    Grete, la mirada oblicua

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    Grete Stern decided to be a photographer. Then she also decided to be Argentinian. Those two choices are interwoven in a unique heritage, of paramount importance for modern Argentinian photography, that helps us better understand the world we live in...

    Grete, la mirada oblicua
  • 1981
    Displaced Person

    Displaced Person (1981)

    Displaced Person

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    Daniel Eisenberg's film (or "memory essay," as theorist Nora Alter referred to DISPLACED PERSON) is a challenge to a conventional view of history, a provocation using traditional documentary forms: found footage, newsreels, a radio lecture of French ...

    Displaced Person