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 primary performer, but also as a canvas on which to paint projected images. Further enhanced by editing and effective use of shadows, the film is a transformative experience.
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God an...
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable S...
A stop motion 1930s fairy tale follows a monster that yearns to be a part of civilized human society...
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
Three completely different stories are told through dance.
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spide...
A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-w...
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biologi...
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, w...
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode ...
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, wit...
A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic ...
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten ...
Under the impetus of the 75th anniversary of the bamboo top-handle bags, the House presents a contem...
An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average...
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic jour...
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, h...
A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented ve...
With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan...
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circ...