With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of t...

Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of t...

After a six -or seven- year study of Hammurabi's Code, original Babylonian Text and translation, I'v...

Out of the vagueries of sometime beseeming repetitive light patterns, and the delicately variable rh...

This is an architectural garden of the variably brash rock-solid liquid-encompassing, but always imi...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

6-18-67 is a short quasi-documentary film by George Lucas regarding the making of the Columbia film ...

The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical bir...

A somber journey on the road. A post with three lights. A crowded street. Stashed cables. The city. ...
Mostly dark, rejecting images which are repeated. A stone wall, the chamber of a revolver which is, ...

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...

Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Ot...

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound ...

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of...

This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-yea...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of t...