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Forenoon of a Faun

The film consists of three sequences shot by a fixed camera: the first shows the balcony of a hospital with patients (soundtrack from the film "Vivre

1963

Pangaea

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.

2015

Weatherman '69

Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself,

1989

I, Apostate

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists, sc

2018

The Man's Name is Spade

A psychological portrait of a disturbed man whose fragmented thoughts and experiences form the framework of an experimental narrative.

2016

Melting

Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The sp

1965

Acceleration

A film about the dominance of time and space over a human being. A poetic reflection on the transience of material life characterized by a Mediterrane

1968

A Fugue

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

2019

Videograms

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device that

1981

My Friend Ángel

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-lif

1964

Notes on the Circus

The short film is a montage of sped up clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four segment

1967

She Had Her Gun All Ready

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dyn

1978

Bloodlust

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a fil

1999

The Shoplifters

A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naïve Marxist would-be radicals who think that they want to be revolutionaries, but in the fi

2019

Brain Damage

A new film directed by Ira Cohen and produced by BASTET created from never-before-seen original 16mm outtakes, featuring a new soundtrack composed by

2006

Fake Fiction

2018

Neverwhere

A meek office worker finds himself flung into a fantasy world as a naked muscleman. An early version of the Den character, known from the comic magazi

1968

Something New to Die for

Portrait of The Church of the SubGenius in scratch, which means high speed cutting, media manipulation. Contains clips from the Arise, the Church's o

1993

Persian Series #4

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures o

1999

there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

"My name, melancholia".

2020