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From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Hammer

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

Genre: Drama

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Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

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“My filming for The Suppliant was done in February 2003, while a guest in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of Jacques Dehornois. When I recollect...

Genre: Documentary

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The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tomoko Naraoka

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Cage

"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yasuki Kume

An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Randy Danson

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Axel Jodorowsky

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ethan Haslam

Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Zappa

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Ormond

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kusaka

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gail Zappa

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Mitsuru Chiaki

Shot on 16mm, as part of the commercial shorts collection for the 53th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Feiyang Luo

Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Beavers

Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Zappa

"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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takashi Ito