Movies: Expanding Cinema

  • 2016
    Spaghetti Wrestling

    Spaghetti Wrestling (2016)

    Spaghetti Wrestling

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    An Expanded Cinema Aktionpainting Performance at Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples, Italy, where art, wrestling and food play important roles....

    Spaghetti Wrestling
  • 1937
    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937)

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

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    To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their moveme...

    Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
  • 1937
    Parabola

    Parabola (1937)

    Parabola

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    Parabola is a celebration of film’s ability to create new ways of seeing the forms around us. Creating juxtapositions between light/shadow, stasis/motion, and form/music, this black-and-white short invites us to see the parabolic curve, or “nature’s ...

    Parabola
  • 1956
    The Boy Who Saw Through

    The Boy Who Saw Through (1956)

    The Boy Who Saw Through

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    A young boy has developed an ability to see through walls, much to the consternation of his stuffy Victorian parents....

    The Boy Who Saw Through
  • 1967
    Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

    Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1967)

    Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

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    Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical, avant-garde kaleidoscope about a man named Finnegan who dreams about his wake and then wakes up from...

    Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake