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SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Megumi Ogata

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurício do Valle

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

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Cast: Blake Eckard

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Lynda Davis

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Carol Warner

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tony Denham

"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Beavers

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pavla Maršálková

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Genre: Documentary

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A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margarita Terekhova

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bob Ostertag

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Cage

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

Genre: History

Cast: Norma Valdi

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Hemmings

A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stan Brakhage

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

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Cast: Mark Turbyfill

Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dušan Huđec

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jany Gastaldi

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonas Mekas

The story of EGUMI LEGACY is set on the remote island of Egu, where the inhabitants sole means of entertainment comes from listening to the beautiful...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Takuya Eguchi

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

Genre: Documentary

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Two disillusioned cops, lost in a world where beauty has become the main criterion of selection, in search of a serial killer of bearded women.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sébastien Nadaud