TRAVEL DREAM AND DREAM TRAVEL
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 22 minutes |
A pair of poetic meditations on the notion of travel, and the part that it plays in our desires and memories…
Posted on May 20, 2013 by David Finkelstein
VAT
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 23 minutes |
The fact that the symmetry here is created by motion thought time as well as by the three spatial dimensions makes it particularly awe-inspiring to watch…
Posted on May 19, 2013 by David Finkelstein
STEADFAST
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
Like looking at a wonderful painting, but with a mesmerizing aspect of motion added to it…
Posted on May 18, 2013 by David Finkelstein
AND/OR
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
Multiple individual choices add up to a fixed, static pattern…
Posted on May 17, 2013 by David Finkelstein
THE CAPITOL OF THE MULTIVERSE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
The video made me aware of how ubiquitous this particular trope of architectural language is…
Posted on May 16, 2013 by David Finkelstein
AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
Weil was obviously an unusual human being, one who went on a hunger strike in sympathy with soldiers suffering on the front when she was 6…
Posted on May 15, 2013 by David Finkelstein
HALF REAL
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
McElwee is inviting us to revel in the tactile sensuousness of light and color itself…
Posted on May 14, 2013 by David Finkelstein
FLAMINGOS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
The film’s three main characters may not be likable, but the lurid glare of their intensity is riveting…
Posted on April 28, 2013 by David Finkelstein
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (DVD)
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
The workshops have clearly opened a door for these people to find levels of reality that are normally closed to us, and they find the experience thrilling and liberating…
Posted on April 21, 2013 by David Finkelstein
BURNING DOWN THE PALACE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 98 minutes |
Waring’s focus on electronics, video games, and online culture are a dynamic complement to Mattschka’s focus on the physical and tangible…
Posted on April 14, 2013 by David Finkelstein
THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
“The Mind is a Liar and a Whore” is the apt title for director/writer Antero Alli’s entertaining and illuminating feature which uses the situation of a bio-terrorist attack in a US city to explore the many strategies which the human mind invents to cope with the uncertainties of life…
Posted on October 21, 2012 by David Finkelstein
IT TAKES TIME TO SEE
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
“Trio A” last only 4 and a half minutes, but it is exceedingly complex and dense…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by David Finkelstein
OF THIS, MEN SHALL KNOW NOTHING
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
Stolberg has an uncanny ability to assemble fragmentary bits of action and imagery to simulate the hallucinatory intensity of a dream or a vision…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by David Finkelstein
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
A witty and insightful essay about the dilemma of mass media and our emotional life, but it is a video which itself uses a variety of sophisticated media strategies…
Posted on September 14, 2012 by David Finkelstein
FIN DE SIÉCLE
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Quillian has a sharp eye for creating arresting, off balance visual compositions, and for using simple visual elements to create the sense of wonder and strangeness…
Posted on September 14, 2012 by David Finkelstein
