Young Person's Guide to Cinema

Presented as part of the exhibition "RIVER OF FUNDAMENT", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.

A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style. Preserved...

Handen (Hands) is an experimental documentary film by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. the film is a moving and poetic observation...

Breakfast is a bit tense this morning. Randy attempts to lighten the mood by telling his girlfriend Bella about the crazy dream he had.

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will r...

A bored couple cheat on each other.

Several people with amnesia realize they may have been involved in something sinister on a cosmic scale.

One of the few Brakhage films featuring spoken dialogue and a central character, this sly and bitter polemic pits an actor (poet? director?) against a...

A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist...

Heterophobia traces the quick fall into hell of Mariano. A young gay man who, having been first raped and then rejected by an heterosexual friend with...

Ed Emshwiller’s tender portrait of his wife, avant-garde science fiction writer Carol Emshwiller.

A filmmaker is invited to an actor's house, who is keenly interested in his story. For the story to be told, the characters need to speak for themselv...