The Private Life Of A Cat
The Private Life Of A Cat (1947) is a collaboration between Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid. This twenty minute film is a document of their cats as they… Read more »
Tag: short film
Queens At Heart
An anonymously made film about four trans women, Queens At Heart (1967) survives today due to the efforts of the UCLA film archive. It’s an exploitative documentary that’s too sensitive… Read more »
Tygrys
Jacob Chelkowski’s Tygrys (2015) is a film concerned with pornography. Porn’s lexicon of heteronormative images, the rituals of sexual performance, and the still taboo nature of kink are all at… Read more »
X is Y
X is Y (1990) is classic Richard Kern. Since his heyday as one of the great provocateurs of the Transgressive Cinema movement Kern has been working primarily as a photographer…. Read more »
Scorpio Rising
Kenneth Anger’s intentions in film were not concerned with narrative or reflective technique. Kenneth Anger saw filmmaking as the manipulation of light, Lucifer’s source of power, and believed that the… Read more »
Jazzin’ For Blue Jean
Everyone knows who Buster Keaton is and is familiar with his unique and often inventive contributions to the medium of film. But how many people have noticed David Bowie’s fascination… Read more »
Chumlum
In 1964, filmmaker and poet Ron Rice completed his fourth film Chumlum. Rice had met avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith the previous year, having cast the director in The Queen Of… Read more »
The Red Balloon
When you are a little boy like I was when I saw The Red Balloon (1956) for the first time it has an indescribable effect on you. Sure a film… Read more »
The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (1968) captures the fervor of the Yippies’ protest of the Vietnam war at the Pentagon on October 7th, 1967. This non-violent protest… Read more »
Une Visite au Louvre
During the last few weeks I have begun again a survey of the cinema focused upon the “alternative” of cinematic expression. I must confess that I do not feel intellectually equipped… Read more »
