Movies: Expressionism

Loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep', this film follows Jude Slater, a man who has recently inherited the house of an important figure in the town of Freasdal. What horrors lay in wait beneath the foundations of...

A young man has been mutilated into a cyborg warrior, known as Bovine Rider, by the intergalactic alien council called FORESIGHT. FORESIGHT instruct him to battle another rider to complete his training so that they can have a warrior to control and l...

Woken up from a delightful dream, a nondescript citizen finds himself irredeemably able to see what is decreed forbidden. Dreading the outcome of his disobedience, he is yet desperately incapable of blocking this unlawful vision......

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are interrupted in their work one day when a creature in the old vent above their station drops fragments of an...

With a pair of scissors and some paper, he turned his art into a weapon the Nazis feared. A look back at the eventful career of satirist John Heartfield (1891-1968), pioneer of photomontage and modern graphic design....

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During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory while his mother tries to contact him....

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from....

An abstract collage representing the disorientation inherent in the existence of thought....

The journey before the inevitable, the clock starts ticking, life begins and ends....

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In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction t...

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment....

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change....

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches....

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the ...