"Night Awake" is an experimental noise film provoking 3rd eye opening (seeing what is inside, beyond the limit of symbols). By transferring camera into a spiritual medium...
A weary and depressed Christ-like beggar, trekking along in a Parisian limbo, Pierre glides freely between Aragon’s Paris Peasant, Soupault’s Last Nights of Paris...
Echoes of Silence – a movie with no dialogue – was shot in 1964 on a small budget in Greenwich Village...
"OUT-TAKES starts with Mekas alone at night while the city sleeps, editing his old films. As he looks back over his life he starts to talk, insisting that his life’s work amounts to ‘just images, some fragments of this world’ that he will bring together for himself and a few friends. But as images of the people who brought joy into his life pass by, we realize that most of them are no longer alive. Mekas sees them again, but he is seeing them alone. As much as it is about his happy life, the film is also about emptiness, loss, and a longing for some sort of spiritual consolation."
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES originated from my reading of the One Thousand and One Night.
Guns of the Trees deals with the thoughts, feelings, and anguished strivings of my generation...
Cinema already has its masterpieces (…) Vomiting up old masterpieces is the only way for us to manifest our originality...
Bard, in this second film, again leaves the field open to an incessant coming and going of Parisians attending the opening of the minimalist painter Olivier Mosset...