"Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk (...) did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school in Munich, where he made three short films with his students." - sensesofcinema.com
During a new year's eve party, a married woman confess to the hosts' young son that she had a l...
部分剧集描述:The Island & From the Family of Reptiles (Two Wim Wenders Shorts)
“A commissioned work (in between ALICE IN THE CITIES and WRONG E MOVE) for a television series on WDR, A House for Us. FROM THE FAMILY O F REPTILES and THE ISLAND are a complete program in two episodes. After all with Michael Ballhaus as the cinematographer.
Ute (Katja Wulff), an 8 year old girl, constantl...
"Subjektitüde" is one of Sander's early short films shot in the mid-late 1960's. Her social-critic, feminist standpoint can already be seen here, and the film also holds up well today with its nihilistic, not-compromising, lyrical approach, reflecting the mentality of the youth of that era.
Pornography in the service of politics. An outrageous provocation, this attack on reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors, features head-on, close-up shots of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defence of the law by its author. This is followed by masturbation of the organ by an anonymous female hand, ending with ejaculation into the camera ...
Bourbon Street Blues is made after Tennessee Williams' play The Lady Larkspur Lotion.
"In a rundown French Quarter boarding house, Mrs Hardwick-Moore, a faded beauty in an alcoholic tailspin, chooses to remain blanketed in her delusional dream world, despite its conflict with the reality presented to her by a brusque landlady. This brief, yet intensely evocative, character stud...
A montage of documented industrial architecture and cityscapes of Berlin
and scenes from Ulrike Ottingers Berlin Trilogy:
Ticket of No Return
Freak Orlando
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Selected industrial and city settings from the three films were documented again for Usinimage and intercut with the corresponding fiction film scenes, in order to give the lands...
This little patchwork of car-racing archive footage tries to show the symbolic meaning of a race regarding the mechanization of the world. Technic is more and more about to control the humans, and not backwards. This truly "not new" assumptions remember to the "Frankfurter Schule" with their critics on mechanization. Some of you maybe remember Jürgen Habermas "colonializaton of...