CROOKED BEAUTY
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 34 minutes |
“Being told that I had a ‘mental illness’ was both horrifying, and very conveniently let me off the hook for having responsibility for my life…”
Posted on November 3, 2011 by David Finkelstein
THE MIAMI DENTIST
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
It makes one feel as if the universe is playing a joke on all of us, but because we are the butt of the joke, no one is laughing…
Posted on October 29, 2011 by David Finkelstein
DIES IRAE
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
All of the images all show a road, path, or a central line of some kind which vanishes into the distance, and this pathway is always placed centrally…
Posted on October 28, 2011 by David Finkelstein
MARKS…HOLES
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
A kind of music which combines images and sounds to create a set of formal variations which are playful, spacious, and exciting to watch…
Posted on October 27, 2011 by David Finkelstein
SITTING
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
This video beautifully captures something I have never seen before in a film: the relationship between an artist and a model, particularly when it is considered as a constantly changing stream of color and light…
Posted on October 25, 2011 by David Finkelstein
THE GLITTER EMERGENCY
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
“The Glitter Emergency” is a short fairy tale film by Paul Festa about Peggy, a one-legged girl with a peg leg, who dreams of releasing her inner ballerina…
Posted on October 24, 2011 by David Finkelstein
APPARITION OF THE ETERNAL CHURCH
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 54 minutes |
Festa is investigating a key question about musical aesthetics, and he has invented a methodology to study it which provides very illuminating results…
Posted on October 23, 2011 by David Finkelstein
CRIES AND ECHOES (DVD)
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 74 minutes |
Priscilla McLean is a skilled, original composer with considerable musical gifts. As a filmmaker, however, she is clearly just beginning to find her voice…
Posted on October 22, 2011 by David Finkelstein
IN/FLUX (DVD)
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
The lowave label has added an important title to their growing catalogue of “must have” collections…
Posted on October 21, 2011 by David Finkelstein
TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 125 minutes |
People who are attracted to occult practices which are far outside of mainstream religions are, by definition, non-conformists…
Posted on October 3, 2011 by David Finkelstein
RECENT VIDEOS OF MIKE KUCHAR
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  Year Released: 2007-2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: minutes |
In anticipation of the upcoming screening of new videos by legendary filmmaker Mike Kuchar at the Berks Filmmakers in Reading, PA on October 26th, Film Threat takes a look at his recent work…
Posted on October 24, 2010 by David Finkelstein
RESISTANCE(S) VOL. 3 (DVD)
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 118 minutes |
“Resistance(s)” is a DVD series of experimental films by artists from the Middle East which is produced by the Lowave label, and the new Volume 3 is just as fine as the first two…
Posted on October 8, 2010 by David Finkelstein
THREE LANGUAGE VIDEOS
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Year Released: 2006-2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 45 minutes |
The playful relationship between the text and the images, and the constant references to the visual syntax of films, make the experience of watching these films a little like bungee jumping…
Posted on October 6, 2010 by David Finkelstein
THE LAST HAPPY DAY
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 38 minutes |
A stunningly beautiful essay film by Lynne Sachs, in which she uses the remarkable story of her distant cousin Sandor Lenard, a Jewish Hungarian doctor who survives two world wars, as a lens for her meditations on trauma, survival, history, and healing…
Posted on August 20, 2010 by David Finkelstein
JEWS
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Year Released: 1984 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 19 minutes |
Deutsch’s contribution is mainly to edit the footage for the highlights and themes, and the film comes off as a celebration of a vibrant and joyful way of life, now vanished…
Posted on July 17, 2010 by David Finkelstein