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  • 2020
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    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    2.00 2020 HD

    Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

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  • 2024
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    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

    1 2024 HD

    A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024.

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  • 2022
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    reminiscence on the garden

    reminiscence on the garden

    10.00 2022 HD

    A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that...

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  • 2024
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    A Brief History of Circles

    A Brief History of Circles

    1 2024 HD

    An experimental video essay which uses circles and waves to explore neurodivergent experience.

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  • 2023
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    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

    1 2023 HD

    Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the uncertainty...

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  • 2020
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    Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

    4.00 2020 HD

    Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

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  • 2013
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    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    1 2013 HD

    This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...

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  • 2023
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    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    1.50 2023 HD

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  • 1970
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    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

    1 1970 HD

    A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness...

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  • 2021
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    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    2.50 2021 HD

    A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make...

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  • 2024
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    Letter to My Tribe

    Letter to My Tribe

    1 2024 HD

    Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother, who...

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  • 2018
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    Wild Plants of Palestine

    Wild Plants of Palestine

    1 2018 HD

    Wild Flowers Plants of Palestine follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from...

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  • 2023
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    Swimming, Dancing

    Swimming, Dancing

    1 2023 HD

    Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog....

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  • 2024
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    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    10.00 2024 HD

    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

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  • 1970
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    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now)

    1 1970 HD

    YouTuber Jeffiot goes digging for the origins of skull trumpet / doot doot / mr skeltal, and ends up taking a trip to the early web heyday of...

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  • 2023
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    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    Referred Pains: the Necessity of the (Minor) Malignant Violation in Slapstick Comedy

    1 2023 HD

    An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren. Source: The Cure (1917) Dir....

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  • 2023
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    CARA-B

    CARA-B

    1 2023 HD

    A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

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  • 2020
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    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna

    2.50 2020 HD

    A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...

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  • 1970
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    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    Rebuild of Evangelion Series Analysis

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2022
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    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    1.50 2022 HD

    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

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