Genres: experimental

  • Ditty Dot Comma

    “Ditty Dot Comma” is the first motion picture musical salute to visual punctuation. Set to the cool jazz styling of drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, and including the pulsating piano rhythms of Oscar Peterson, we make this musical leap into this abstract animated film. Using animated shapes, drawn directly onto the film’s emulsion, Woloshen opens the door into the abstract world, and propels the audience into a pure widescreen experience. Liberated from plotlines, language and recognizable forms, a universal film experience emerges, suitable for all ages and nationalities.

  • Tracing Soul

    “Tracing Soul” is a poetic bodyscape where the sacred, sensual, primordial and profane female form imagines and evokes the possibilities of the soul through the coalescing of the fragments, intimate gestures, oblique angles, disintegrating lines and shadows, music and text enveloping the bodily compositions. Also available on the DVD compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”

  • Mothercraft

    In part, a thank you to his mother, and in part a musing over how he became so “arty.” Filmmaker Roy Mitchell looks at his mother, her life, and the inspiration she gave him.

  • leda & the swan

    “leda & the swan” is an intimate and sensual rendering of the impulses which shape our search for meaning. A filmmaker asks two actors to dramatize a personal story about the end of a traumatic love affair, and quickly finds herself deeply immersed not only in the actors’ complex interpretation of her story, but also in the emotional world of their own evolving relationship. Through the intermingling of the ancient myth of Leda and the Swan, the filmmaker’s personal story, and the intricate dynamics of the young actors, the deeper, poetic and archetypal aspects of all love stories – of…

  • Light Magic

    “Movies arise out of magic.” – Stanley Cavell “Light Magic” utilizes and examines one of the earliest photographic processes, discovered at the birth of the photographic medium: the photogram. This technique combines science and art in order to record the process of transformation. Images created through this technique are traces of light that pass through each object, leaving their mark on the film surface. Photograms bring both the maker and the viewer closer to the object, thus revealing its essence – that neither the naked eye nor the camera lens could see. “Light Magic” was one of the fifteen films…

  • Brig, The

    The Living Theatre production of Kenneth Brown’s play ‘The Brig’, filmed on the stage of The Living Theatre and with the original cast. “‘The Brig’ is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice Film Festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shock-wave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do – seizes an audience by the shirt-front and slams it around from wall to…

  • Daily

    5 am she rises. 7 am she is ready. This film observes one woman’s morning routine. We track this intimate ritual. She is mechanical and efficient. Her morning drill is done with precision, yet her look is vacant. Despite the clockwork, things are not as “together” as they seem. Disconnected editing and sound create an otherworldly space; her apartment is neverneverland. Time is manipulated and actions are exaggerated. Her person is fragmented. She could be a cartoon.

  • Death to Everyone

    “Using the drawings of Bruno Schulz, who must be numbered among the great writers of the 20th century for his two slim books of short stories, Torossian builds up a disturbing imagescape of sexual malice and voyeurism. Torossian’s films are characterized as much by her reuse of other artists’ work as they are by her trademark collage techniques.” – Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

  • Awake

    A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from Gertrude Stein’s “Making of Americans” on disillusionment.

  • Get Happy

    “Get Happy”, as the title suggests, is a joyous carefree romp through the swinging world of Benny Goodman and his orchestra. This richly textured “cameraless” animation propels the audience through the highs, lows, and refrains of a big-band classic. With a new sound synchronization formula, “Get Happy” delivers an unabashed stream-of-consciousness, fluid with several well-delivered visual punches and crescendos. In Cinemascope.