Stephen Dwoskin's Film Is... The International Free Cinema - index of films
All films mentioned in the book Film Is... The International Free Cinema by author, teacher and filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin.
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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de LaberdesqueA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
- DirectorPim de la ParraStarsKitty CourboisJoris IvensFons RademakersThis short is an early example of the Dutch New Wave, typified by featuring rebellious flower power youth, and by using handheld camera and jump cuts.
- DirectorTakahiko IimuraThe act of making love seen through close-up and magnifying lens.
- DirectorIan Hugo
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKing AmpawChristian FriedelPeter KaiserBecause the driver is unable to fulfill correctly his order to kill somebody, he and his friends have to pay the price. "Alabama" is a road-movie. The camera is constantly in the back of the car shooting through the back window... But more important than this story is how the song "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan is changing when it is interpreted by Jimi Hendrix. And the recurring album of the Stones "His Satanic Majesty's Request".
- DirectorOskar FischingerShort colour animated film showing shapes moving and set to a musical score. The shapes are coloured and primarily geometric in nature.
- DirectorHans RichterA short film which consists of a collage of images at a Berlin street carnival.
- DirectorBruce BaillieStarsElla FitzgeraldA 3 minute pan to the left.
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinImages of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauAlain CunyJean-Marc BorySaddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
- DirectorOskar FischingerStars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsKarl ScheydtElga SorbasJan GeorgeRicky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting brother. When Ricky asks the hotel clerk for a girl, one of the cops sends his girlfriend Rosa. However, she falls for the killer.
- DirectorKurt KrenStarsGünter BrusThis three-minute film was far more akin to the American-style "happening" in that the content was not particularly extreme. It was built up from items such as broken bicycle parts, a nude model, pieces of furniture, and these elements were then obscured or transformed by having a layer of paint thrown on them.
- DirectorMarie MenkenStarsAndy WarholAn experimental film which captures the creativity of Andy Warhol with images of cats, Brillo boxes, and other artwork.
- DirectorMarcel DuchampA spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsArthur BraussKai FischerErika PluharGoalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
- DirectorGeorge KucharStarsJames BrawleyGeorge KucharStella Kuchar
- DirectorMary Ellen ButeTed NemethMelville WebberScreen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" accompanies images of common objects and abstract forms photographed in soft focus and through prisms: rings, pyramids, the staff of musical notes, and floating lights are all seen in multiple images, sometimes as if through a kaleidoscope, other times as if in animation. Images appear and patterns move across the screen. Sparklers celebrate at the film's end.Titled as Anitra's Dance
- DirectorStan BrakhageNotes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
- DirectorStan BrakhageThis film is a 'deconstruction' of 'Dog Star Man'. It takes the four 'rolls' of super-fast edited, often poetic, imagery of 'Dog Star Man' and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls(=4) then each combination of two rolls (=6) then each individual roll (=4). The 'plot' is of a man who goes up a mountain with a dog to chop down a tree, but he has some unspecified transcendental experience while he is there.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew CybulskiEwa KrzyzewskaWaclaw ZastrzezynskiAs World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.Ashes and Diamonds
- DirectorStephen DwoskinWe see what is apparently a girl asleep but the camera only shows us the soles and toes of her feet.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsJohn CageMaya DerenAlexander HammidSilently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
- DirectorMarcel HanounStarsMaurice PoullenotEllen BernsenRaymond JourdanA fictional war criminal is put on trial.
- DirectorPiero HeliczerJeff KeenStarsKate HeliczerPiero HeliczerJacqueline KeenA deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.Year mentioned is 1964.
- DirectorFernand LégerDudley MurphyStarsKiki of MontparnasseFernand LégerDudley MurphyA pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels, cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, a heavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on her shoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaClaude BrasseurDanièle GirardTwo crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
- DirectorAndrea TonacciStarsPaulo César PeréioAbrahão FarcJura OteroThe actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character's fiction. As the involuntary object of chance and circumstance, he looks for a meaning and way out, while being pursued by outlaws, a magician, a romantic fantasy, a drunk and his own self-image. The humour, the reason of the persecution, situations, personages, set decoration, dialogs and soundtrack (which uses themes from other films) lead us to symbols, metaphors and the refusal of a possible logical narrative, in a way to allow the viewer to experiment a sensation analogous to the one of the main character, inducing in him the need of thinking a meaning while lost and led by the sustained expectation, and by the intentionally recurrent anti-climax.
- DirectorOwen Land
- DirectorKurt Kren
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsGregory BattcockDavid BourdonTally BrownAndy Warhol's infamous lost campy classic charting the adventures of Batman two years before Adam West donned the Caped Crusader's wings in the classic TV show.
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsFlorence AllenGavin ArthurImogen CunninghamA short film by James Broughton capturing the various activities of people around the same bed.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinCarola RegnierStarsStephen DwoskinCarola RegnierThe film expresses the emotional feelings of a man with special needs, and a beautiful woman.
- DirectorFrans ZwartjesTitled as Behind Your Walls
- DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsPaul von HindenburgThis movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
- DirectorHellmuth CostardStarsHellmuth CostardHans ToussaintA subversive and experimental film by Hellmuth Costard.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsLuzi KrynDietmar KrachtSteven AdamczewskiIt's love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim's outrageous genre, social satire.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsMargit CarstensenHanna SchygullaKatrin SchaakeA troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
- DirectorStan Brakhage
- DirectorRobert BreerRob Breer blazing the trail.
- DirectorGregory J. Markopoulos
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.As Blood of the Condor
- DirectorStan Brakhage
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsDavid HemmingsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsRobert BensonAn early experimental black and white animated film from artist Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsVivaLouis WaldonViva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
- DirectorStan Brakhage
- DirectorAlbie ThomsStarsBronwyn Stevens-Jones
- DirectorMike KucharStarsBob CowanJanice JonesDonna KernessA tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.Year mentioned: 1961
- DirectorTom O'HorganStarsElsa GressTom O'HorganOle SarvigDocumentary portraying the American composer and director Tom O'Horgan's' "La Mama Troup", an avantgarist theater group trouting the immediacity of total theater and at the time situated at Elsa Gress' Decenter in Denmark.
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensStarsJef LastHein BlokCo Sieger
- DirectorBruce ConnerStarsToni BasilBruce Conner's 1966 dazzling dance short, "Breakaway", a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.
- DirectorStan VanderbeekStarsBuster KeatonAn apocalyptic vision using cartoons and other imagery
- DirectorJoris IvensClose shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratcheting, signals changing.as The Bridge
- DirectorJonas MekasJudith MalinaStarsWarren FinnertyJim AndersonHenry HowardA ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardJean-Henri RogerAn examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.
- DirectorJay LeydaArrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.
- DirectorBill VehrStarsMario Montez
- DirectorLutz EisholzStarsBruno S.Roland NeumannLotte Pause
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- DirectorSidney PetersonA soundless film starts in a studio: an artist sits, a nude stands; a page burns, paper cutouts appear, images are distorted. The artist removes his eye; it falls from his hand, seeing images spin as it rolls. A man falls, objects in the studio falls on him, he's not the artist. A woman gets help from a man in a lab coat; he and the man on the floor fight over a shotgun. Outside, in the city, people and cars move backwards. On the street, those from the studio chase a woman who's stolen leeks. In the backward cityscape, they move forward. They run toward a seaside amusement park. The artist follows, his head in a bird cage. He ends up with the woman who went for help; or does he?
- DirectorGerardo VallejoStarsGerardo Ramón RealesLife in Tucuman sugar mills through the story of a Tucuman farmer and his three children.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsJody BabbsTally BrownTosh Carillo
- DirectorCarmelo BeneStarsCarmelo BeneTonino CaputoAnne WiazemskyAfter a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
- DirectorRichard GarrickStarsWilliam RoselleLucile TaftCharles W. TravisFremont, a stock-broker, plays poker; his wife is a bridge friend; their son Carl inherits a craving for card playing, for which he neglects his studies, his business, and his sweetheart, Nita. Carl asks his father for money, and is told that no more gambling debts will be paid for him or his mother. His mother overhears this, and takes money from her husband to pay a gambling debt. Carl is accused of the theft, shields his mother and is cast out. As Nita bids him good-bye, his friend and classmate, Zimar, invites him to accompany him to India. Carl declines. A year later the ragged Carl wanders the streets, his gambling passion stronger than ever. He is knocked down by a man, who, sorry for his action, tosses him money. With this, Carl wins more money, which he gives a poor woman in a generous spirit. His studies completed, Zimar returns and gives an exhibition of his hypnotic power by curing Nita's headache. He proposes, and when Nita tells him she loves only Carl, the noble Zimar tells her he will cure Carl and make him worthy. Carl is located by the crystal. Unable to borrow money with which to gamble, Carl robs the poor woman of the money he gave her, and is captured by her husband. Nita and Zimar appear, and Carl is hypnotized and taken home, where Nita makes the parents realize their responsibility for Carl's passion. Zimar tells them he will cure this craving by causing Carl to experience a gambler's hell. In a hypnotic trance, Carl plays cards with Nita and his parents, and Nita wins. Carl creeps to her room, steals her winnings, and when she awakes, stabs her. Her body changed to the Queen of Hearts. He flees, and is intercepted by his parents, whom he also stabs. He gambles with Nita's winnings, and draws the Queen of Hearts, which changes to a picture of the dead Nita. He finds Nita in his nurse, after he has become a maniac. He finds Nita and his parents in the death chair, and in the final horror, finds Hell's flames full of playing cards which assume their forms. And in the end of the terrible trance, Carl and his mother are senseless and Zimar announces that they are cured. Nita, believing fully in Zimar's power, is perfectly willing to marry Carl.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
- DirectorJoyce WielandA cat eats pieces off several fish.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningImages of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat.
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- DirectorGregory J. Markopoulos
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyAndy WarholStarsBrigid BerlinRandy BorscheidtChristian PäffgenLacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsBeverly GrantJoan AdlerA black and white short film in which two women play a game of Chinese Checkers.
- DirectorBarbara RubinFor all intents and purposes, "Christmas on Earth" is a performance art film about genital worship. At twenty-nine minutes, Barbara Rubin has created the ultimate study on the celebratory and erotic nature of free love. The film is tinted in various colors (hence the title), and finds various people engaging in sexual activity. Men with women, men with men, women with women, and several orgies throughout.as Christmas on Earth
- DirectorDanièle HuilletJean-Marie StraubStarsGustav LeonhardtChristiane LangPaolo CarliniThe life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- DirectorRon RiceStarsJack SmithBeverly GrantMario MontezAn experimental film consisting of images of satin, beads, painted faces, and people dancing.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsNicoPhilippe GarrelChristian PäffgenA composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
- DirectorHenri ChometteAn experimental avant-garde film from director Henri Chomette in which the pure elements of form are emphasized.
- DirectorJonas MekasThe short film is a montage of sped up video clips of The Ringling Brothers Circus in action set to a musical track. The film is separated into four segments, each segment which focuses on different acts within the circus. The later segments often incorporate clips from earlier segments, mostly as background to the featured acts. The speed of the video clips match the tempo of the soundtrack music.
- DirectorLen LyeAnimated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- DirectorGeorge KucharStarsMike AbramsBockoBob CowanMade when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new, but also the main actor, Bob Cowan, happened to be depressed also and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was also separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the repressed desires of everyone. - George Kuchar.
- DirectorBeverly ConradStarsFrancis Francine
- DirectorOskar FischingerThis is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue environment, one red cube slowly drifts on a reflecting floor. Suddenly there are multiple red cubes drifting and dancing in various formations. Over the course of the film the angularity of square shapes are transformed into circular and cylindrical shapes. The climax of the film features a multitude of these shapes in Busby Berkeley-like formation, as various circular figures grow and disappear among a simulated sky, with the blue colors giving way to red.
- DirectorBruce ConnerExperimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
- DirectorGianfranco Baruchello
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsBingingham BirdieRufus CollinsGregory CorsoThe couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
- DirectorPontus HultenHans NordenströmStarsP.O. UltvedtA humorous short by Pontus Hulten and Hans Nordenström in which anarchy reigns and results in the destruction of a city.
- DirectorAlbie ThomsStarsDavid E. Perry
- DirectorJosef BerneStarsJulie HaydonOle M. NessFrank EklofOn a desolate farm, a man and his grown daughter eek out a living. He's aging and ill; she's lonely and wan. He's adamant that she have no contact with men, so she's a prisoner of the farm. One hot day, while she takes a nap beside a haystack after plowing, a drifter approaches her. She sees a chance at a life less desperate. The drifter comes for supper and the old farmer let's the young man spend the night. But will he allow his daughter's longing to express itself, and if she must, who will she choose?
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsKenneth AngerAn experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.