Frau im Mond
Fritz Lang’s space travel movie may be let down by a flawed narrative but the context surrounding its creation remains fascinating.
Review by Philip Winter
Fritz Lang’s space travel movie may be let down by a flawed narrative but the context surrounding its creation remains fascinating.
Review by Philip Winter
Herostratus in a nut shell: callow young poet and narcissist played by Michael Gothard decides to indulge in the ultimate act of narcissism - suicide - and flog the whole thing to the ghastly advertising industry.
Review by Philip Winter
Dziga Vertov’s symphonic 1930 experimental documentary film is primarily known as a bold foray into audio-visual synchronisation, commended for its deft and poetic use of concrete sound.
Review by Philip Winter
Jan Němec’s film is an engaging yarn about a small group of bourgeois people who set off for a picnic and soon find themselves in rather sadistic and perplexing company.
Review by Philip Winter
Directed by Swedish silent master Victor Sjí¶strí¶m, this moral tale tinged with supernatural is released on DVD with a new score by KTL.
Review by Philip Winter
The molluscs are subjected to pornographic macroscopic close-up photography exposing labial, clitoral fronds, protusions and sensuous pink umbilicae; Wharton jelly smears; the curlicues and whorls of tentacular mating rituals; the synaesthetic mood pulsing of octopi, a special arm inserted into an orifice… It is reminiscent of an orgasmatron moment in Barbarella or an expanded cinema light show; with jerkier movement and fast editing it could even be Brakhage-esque forensic footage….
Review by Philip Winter
In ‘Occupation: Animation & The Visual Arts’, Ian White takes on the subject of animation beyond the screen. He recounts Oskar Fischinger’s experience of xenophobia at Disney and successively examines an animatronic George W. Bush that in a Philip K. Dick-like twist is more convincing than the real George W. Bush.
Review by Philip Winter