FILMS SEEN, 2012

All films from U.S.A. unless otherwise specified.

(/ repeat viewing; [v] video piece; [p] paracinema (installation, etc.); [s] short, under 30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon repeat viewing; \ repeat viewing of something I walked out of or fell asleep during)

 

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JANUARY

-Turn Me On, Goddammit! (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, Norway) [7]

Tin Pressed (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [x2] [7]

Shayne's Rectangle (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [x2] [5]

-Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (Constance Marks) [5]

-The Muppets (James Bobin) [5]

-Young Adult (Jason Reitman) [4]

/-Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia) [8]

/-The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany) [9]

-Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, Germany) [7]

-Rapt (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium) [7]

-Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany) [5]

-Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, U.S. / France) [7]

The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, U.S. / New Zealand) [6]

-The Hunter (Rafi Pitts, Iran / Germany) [6]

/-The Descendants (Alexander Payne) [5]

-Medianeras (Sidewalls) (Gustavo Taretto, Argentina / Spain / Germany) [5]

-Our Life (La Nostra Vita) (Daniele Luchetti, Italy) [W/O] (0:34)

-Nuit #1 (Anne Émond, Canada) [W/O] (0:35)

/-Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]

/-Demolition of a Wall (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]

/-A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France, 1902) [s]

/Un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, France, 1929) [s]

/-La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962) [s]

/-(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) [s]

-Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam, Belgium) [W/O] (1:10)

-Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine) [6]

/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]

-Kill List (Ben Wheatley, U.K.) [4]

/-Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]

/-Report (Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]

/-passage á l'acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]

/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]

-Ghost Algebra (Janie Geiser) [s] [7]

/-Ulysse (Agnès Varda, France, 1982) [s]

/Capitalism: Slavery (Ken Jacobs, 2007) [v/s]

 

FEBRUARY

/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)

/-The Conjuror (Georges Méliès, France, 1899) [s]

/-The Haunted Castle (Georges Méliès, France, 1897) [s]

/-The Man With the Rubber Head (Georges Méliès, France, 1901) [s]

/-Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1895) [s]

/-Arrival by Train at Perrache (Louis and August Lumière, France, 1898) [s]

/-The Georgetown Loop (Louis and August Lumière, France / U.S., 1903) [s]

/-The Georgetown Loop (Ken Jacobs, 1996) [s]

-New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge (Edison Company, 1899) [s]

-New York City Trolley (unk., c. 1902) [s]

/-How It Feels to Be Run Over (Cecil Hepworth, U.K., 1900) [s]

/-Explosion of a Motor Car (Cecil Hepworth, U.K., 1900) [s]

-Habemus Papam (Nanni Moretti, Italy / France) [4]

-The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, U.S. / Sweden / U.K. / Germany) [although I zipped through the middle hour] [4]

Arcana (Henry Hills) [v/s] [5]

-In The Open (Albert Sackl, Austria) [s] [8]

/-The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, U.K.) [7]

/-In The City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, Spain / France, 2007)

/Ydressa, The Bears, & Etc. (Agnès Varda, France / Canada, 2004) [v/m]

A Loft (Ken Jacobs) [v/s] [7]

-Bestiaire (Denis Côté, Canada / France) [6]

/-Ballet Méchanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]

/-Go! Go! Go! (Marie Menken, 1964) [s]

/-Prefaces (Abigail Child, 1981)

/-Porter Springs 4 (Henry Hills, 1999) [s]

-Self Control (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [7]

-Soft Palate (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [7]

-Pater (Alain Cavalier, France) [7]

-Shadow Cuts (Martin Arnold, Austria) [s] [5]

-Keyhole (Guy Maddin, Canada) [8] [tentative grade]

-Pixilation (Lillian Schwartz, 1970) [s]

-UFOs (Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton, 1971) [s]

-Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer, Canada, 1970) [s]

-Surfacing on the Thames (David Rimmer, Canada, 1970) [s]

-Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, U.K., 1986)

By foot-candle light (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [7]

-Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer (John Schultz) [5]

-Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Stephen Daldry) [3]

-The Woman in Black (James Watkins, U.K. / Canada / Sweden) [5]

/-Rhythmus 21 (Han Richter, Germany, 1923) [s]

/-At Land (Maya Deren, 1944) [s]

/-Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970) [s]

/-Chevelle (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]

/-Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1961) [s]

/-Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]

-Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]

/-Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1967) [s]

/-Dog Star Man, Part 2 (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]

-Buenos Noches, España (Raya Martin, Spain / The Philippines) [6]

/Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1960) [s]

/-Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1967) [s]

-Bang! (Robert Breer, 1986) [s]

/-My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, U.S. / Sweden, 1969) [s]

/-Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949 / 1960s) [s]

/-Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) [v/s]

-Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín, Chile / Germany / Mexico) [6]

 

MARCH

-Children (Terence Davies, U.K., 1976) [m]

-Madonna and Child (Terence Davies, U.K., 1980) [s]

-The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenberg) [s] [6]

-Death and Transfiguration (Terence Davies, U.K., 1984) [s]

-Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, France, 1945)

/-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971)

-So Sorry (Ai Weiwei, China) [v/m] [5]

/-Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964) [s]

/-Picture and Sound Rushes (Morgan Fisher, 1973) [s]

/-Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm (Morgan Fisher, 1973) [s]

-Cue Rolls (Morgan Fisher, 1974) [s]

/-Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher, 1984) [s]

-Apart (Aaron Rottinghaus) [4]

Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs) [v/m] [7]

-Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen, China) [8]

-Sound of Noise (Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Sweden / France) [7]

/-(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) [s]

/-Kuhle Wampe, or: Who Does the World Belong To? (Slatan Dudow, Germany, 1932)

\-Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, U.K.) [4]

/-Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, U.K., 1978) [m]

-Mr. Hayashi (Bruce Baillie, 1961) [s] [x2]

-Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, 1970) [m]

/-Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land, 1975) [s]

/-Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada / U.S., 1967) [m]

/-Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)

/-Wavelength (MIchael Snow, Canada / U.S., 1967) [m]

[not a mistake; showed it for two classes in one day]

/-Snakes and Ladders (Kathrin McInnis) [v/s] [7]

To Parsifal (Bruce Baillie, 1963) [s]

/Mr. Hayashi (Bruce Baillie, 1961) [s]

Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964) [s]

/Tung (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]

/Castro Street (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]

/All My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]

Flight (Greta Snider, 1997) [s]

The Strawberry Tree (Simone Rapisarda Casanova, Canada) [v] [7]

/Peyote Queen (Storm de Hirsch, 1965) [s]

/Schmeerguntz (Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley, 1966) [s]

/__ _____ (Short Line Long Line) (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, 1967) [s]

/Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1970) [s]

Washing Walls with Mrs. G. (Tony Buba, 1980) [s]

/The Red Book (Janie Geiser, 1994) [s]

Egypt (Kathrin Resettarits, Austria, 1997) [s]

/Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2008) [s]

American Falls (Phil Solomon) [p/v/m] [7]

Kiri (Sakumi Hagiwara, Japan, 1972) [s]

Switch Back (Nobuhiro Kawanaka, Japan, 1976) [s]

At Yukigaya 2 (Mako Idemitsu, Japan, 1974) [s]

Heliography (Hiroshi Yamazaki, Japan, 1979) [s]

Dutch Photographs (Isao Kota, Japan, 1974) [s]

My Movie Melodies (Jun'ichi Okuyama, Japan, 1980) [s]

Un Relatif Horaire (Yo Ota, Japan, 1981) [s]

Atman (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1975) [s]

Spacy (Takashi Ito, Japan, 1981) [s]

Like a Train Passing 1 (Kohei Ando, Japan, 1978) [s]

If The War Continues (Jonathan Schwartz) [s] [7]

/Soft Palate (Martin Arnold, Austria) [v/s] [6]*

The Discipline of DE (Gus Van Sant, 1978) [s]

A Lax Riddle Unit (Laida Lertxundi) [s] [7]

/Ricky (Janie Geiser) [v/s] [8]

Undergrowth (Robert Todd) [s] [4]

Conjuror's Box (Kerry Laitala) [s] [5]

Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack) [s] [7]

/In The Open (Albert Sackl, Austria) [s] [8]

Vergence (Tina Frank, Austria) [v/s] [4]

Nocturne (Phil Solomon, 1980) [s]

/The Snowman (Phil Solomon, 1995) [s]

/Psalm 2: "Walking Distance" (Phil Solomon, 1999) [s]

/Crossroad (Phil Solomon and Mark LaPore, 2005) [v/s]

/Rehearsals For Retirement (Phil Solomon, 2007) [v/s]

21-87 (Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1964) [s]

Forest Walk (Mike Hoolboom, Canada) [v/s] [6]

untitled Canyon Cinema leader (Bruce Baillie, date unk.) [s]

Yellow Horse (Bruce Baillie, 1965) [s]

Termination (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]

Quixote (Bruce Baillie, 1965) [m]

/Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie, 1967) [s]

Woman with Flowers (Señora con flores) (Chick Strand, 1995/2011) [s]

Peril of the Antilles (Fern Silva, U.S. / Haiti) [s] [7] [tentative grade]

Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves) (Hayoun Kwon, France) [v/s] [shown w/o subtitles]

Saskatchewan (Richard Wiebe) [s] [5]

Correspondence (Robert Fenz, Germany) [m] [4]

Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine (Stephen Wetzel) [v/s] [5]

This Our Still Life (Andrew Kötting, U.K.) [v/m] [4]

Amos Fortune Road (Matthew Buckingham, 1996) [s]

As Above, So Below (Sarah J. Christman) [v/m] [5]

And I Will Rise if Only to Hold You Down (Jennifer Reeder) [v/s] [7]

Palaces of Pity (Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal) [v/m] [W/O] (0:20)

Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves) [s] [7]

Passage Upon the Plume (Fern Silva, Egypt / Turkey) [s] [8] [tentative grade]

Within (Robert Todd) [s] [4]

/Sack Barrow (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]

/-By foot-candle light (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [7]

-August Song (Jodie Mack and Emily Kuehn) [v/s] [6]

/-Snakes and Ladders (Kathrin McInnis) [v/s] [7]

 

APRIL

/In The Open (Albert Sackl, Austria) [s] [8]

/A Lax Riddle Unit (Laida Lertxundi) [s] [7]

/By foot-candle light (Mary Helena Clark) [v/s] [7]

-Clouds (Peter Gidal, U.K., 1969) [s]

/If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning, 1990) [v/s]

Jollies (Sadie Benning, 1990) [v/s]

/-Five Year Diary - Reel 80: Emily Died (Anne Robertson, 1998) [s]

/-Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)

-Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, Norway) [7]

-Headshot (Pen-Ek Ratanruang, Thailand) [W/O] (1:05)

/-Perils (Abigail Child, 1986) [s]

/-Mutiny (Abigail Child, 1983) [s]

/-Mayhem (Abigail Child, 1987) [s]

-metronome (Stephanie Barber, 1996) [s]

-catalog (Stephanie Barber, 2005) [s]

-dogs (Stephanie Barber, 2000) [s]

/the visit and the play (Stephanie Barber, 2008) [v/s]

/dwarfs the sea (Stephanie Barber, 2007) [v/s]

/the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber, 2008) [v/s]

/-Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) [m]

/-Peggy and Fred in Kansas (Leslie Thornton, 1989) [s]

Welcome to Pine Hill (Keith Miller) [v] [6]

/-Bestiaire (Denis Côté, Canada / France) [7]*

-Return (Liza Johnson) [5]

-The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt, U.K. / U.S.) [4]

/-Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990) [m]

-The Machine That Killed Bad People (Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1948)

-Footnote (Joseph Cedar, Israel) [6]

-Depart (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s] [7]

-4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, U.S. / Switzerland / France) [6]

The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt) [v] [6]

-Phantoms (Chris Kennedy, Canada / Germany) [s] [6]

-This Must Be The Place (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France / Ireland) [5]

-Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, Canada) [5]

-Monuments (Redmond Entwistle, U.K. / U.S.) [s] [7]

-Make it new John (Duncan Campbell, U.K., 2009) [m]

/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007) [v/s]

/False Aging (Lewis Klahr, 2008) [v/s]

/dwarfs the sea (Stephanie Barber, 2007) [v/s]

This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi, Iran) [v] [8]

/-Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell, 2007) [s]

/-Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Mièville / Jean-Pierre Gorin, France / Palestine, 1976) [m]

/-The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium / France / Italy) [6]

 

MAY

/-Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) [8]

\-Palaces of Pity (Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal) [v/m] [5]

-Marvel's The Avengers (Joss Wheedon) [5]

-Girl Model (David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, U.S. / France / Japan / Russia) [6]

-Happy Feet Two (George Miller) [4]

-Our Grand Despair (Seyfi Teoman, Turkey / German / The Netherlands) [7]

-When Night Falls (Ying Liang, China / South Korea) [v] [7]

-Light in the Yellow Breathing Space (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka / South Korea) [v/m] [7]

-The Great Cinema Party (Raya Martin, The Philippines / South Korea) [v] [7]

-Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh) [5]

Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) [8]

-Ashes (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / U.S.) [s] [7]

 

JUNE

-The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan) [6]

/-Light in the Yellow Breathing Space (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka / South Korea) [v/m] [6]*

/-Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1966)

-Wanderlust (David Wain) [5]

-Traveling Light (Gina Telaroli) [v/m] [6]

-Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass) [3]

-Polisse (Maïwenn, France) [5]

-Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon) [5]

-Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Takashi Miike, Japan) [6]

-White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1981)

/-Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980)

-Irresistible (Ann Turner, Australia, 2006)

-Hanezu (Naomi Kawase, Japan) [3]

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) [7]

-Room 237 (Rodney Ascher) [7]

-The S From Hell (Rodney Ascher) [v/s] [7]

-Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (Matthew Akers) [W/O] (0:51)

 

JULY

-Student (Darezhan Omirbayev, Kazakhstan) [8]

-Breathing (Karl Markovics, Austria) [6]

Magic Mike (Stephen Soderbergh) [7]

Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin) [4]

-The Three Stooges (Bobby and Peter Farrelly) [5]

-2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy, Germany / France / Belgium) [5]

-Gerhard Richter Painting (Corinna Belz, Germany) [4]

-Dreileben: Don't Follow Me (Dominik Graf, Germany) [5]

Many a Swan (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s] [x2] [still not sure]

The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan) [5]

-Danube Hospital (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria) [7]

-Abendland (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria) [6]

Ice Age: Continental Drift (Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier) [4]

Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman) [6]

-Beauty (Oliver Hermanus, South Africa) [W/O] (0:32)

/-The Future Is Bright (Jodie Mack) [s] [6]

-Persian Pickles (Jodie Mack) [s] [7]

-Blanket Statement #1: Home Is Where The Heart Is (Jodie Mack) [s] [5]

/-Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack) [s] [8]*

-Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger, Germany / Austria) [W/O] (0:34)

/I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977) [s]

Pagan Rhapsody (George Kuchar, 1970) [s]

/-Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, 1966) [s]

One Night a Week (George Kuchar, 1978) [s]

Motel Capri (George Kuchar, 1986) [s]

/-The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, U.S. / New Zealand) [6]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (David Bowers, U.S. / Canada) [3]

 

AUGUST

-Bernie (Richard Linklater) [5]

-anders, Molussien [differently, Molussia] (Nicolas Rey, France) [9]

-The Hunger Games (Gary Ross) [4]

-LOL (Lisa Azuelos) [W/O] (0:52)

/-The School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)

-Pacific Sun (Thomas Demand, Germany) [s] [x2] [7]

-The Raven (James McTeigue, U.S. / Hungary / Spain) [3]

-Warrendale (Allan King, Canada, 1967)

-The Five-Year Engagement (Nicholas Stoller) [7]

-A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel, France / Italy / Switzerland) [4]

-Bachelorette (Leslye Headland) [3]

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Peter Hedges) [4]

-Meanwhile (Hal Hartley) [m] [7]

-Soviets Plus Electricity (Nicolas Rey, France, 2002)

/-Schuss! (Nicolas Rey, France, 2005)

/-differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey, France) [9]

-Caesar Must Die (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy) [6]

ParaNorman (Chris Butler and Sam Fell) [6]

/-Tin Pressed (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [7]

-London: The Modern Babylon (Julien Temple, U.K.) [4]

-Shanghai (Dibakar Banerjee, India) [7]

-Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, U.K.) [9]

-Ishqzaade [Born to Hate, Destined to Love] (Habib Faisal, India) [4]

Penance [Shokuzai] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) (Eps. 1, 2, 5) [v] [4]

-La Sirga (William Vega, Colombia / Mexico) [5]

-Clip (Maja Milos, Serbia) [3]

-untitled Viennale trailer ("That's All, Bin!") (Chris Marker, France / Austria) [v/s] [7]

-Barbara (Christian Petzold, Germany) [7]

-Camion (Rafaël Ouellet, Canada) [5]

/Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, 1972) [v/s]

/Performer / Audience / Mirror (Dan Graham, 1975) [v/s]

/Electronic Opera No. 1 (Nam June Paik, U.S. / South Korea, 1969) [v/s]

/Three Transitions (Peter Campus, 1973) [v/s]

-Gangs of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap, India) [6]

/-The World (Jia Zhangke, China / Japan / France, 2004)

-As If We Were Catching a Cobra (Hala Alabdalla, Syria / France) [viewed w/ French subtitles] [W/O] (0:44)

-The Crimes of Mike Recket (Bruce Sweeney, Canada) [4]

-Compliance (Craig Zobel) [4]

-The Lebanese Rocket Society (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Lebanon / Qatar / United Arab Emirates) [5]

-Far From Afghanistan (John Gianvito / Jon Jost / Soon-Mi Yoo / Minda Martin / Travis Wilkerson) [5]

 

SEPTEMBER

-Big In Vietnam (Mati Diop, France) [s] [6]

-Tabu (Miguel Gomes, Portugal / Brazil) [7]

-Birds (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal) [s] [5]

-Waiting Room (Vincent Grenier, U.S. / Canada) [v/s] [7]

-Three Sisters (Wang Bing, France / Italy / Hong Kong) [7]

-Ritournelle (Christopher Becks and Peter Miller, Germany) [s] [7]

-Burning Star (Josh Solondz) [v/s] [6]

-Reconnaissance (Johann Lurf, Austria / U.S.) [s] [7]

-21 Chitrakoot (Shambhavi Kaul, India) [v/s] [8]

-Phantoms of a Libertine (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [silent mix] [7]

-Pipe Dreams (Ali Cherry, Lebanon / France) [v/s] [6]

-A Minimal Difference (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [s] [8]

-Concrete Parlay (Fern Silva, U.S. / Egypt / Turkey / France) [s] [4]

-17 New Dam Road (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [6]

-Wadena (Peggy Ahwesh) [v/s] [7]

-The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra de Mata, Portugal / France) [7]

-Watch the Closing Doors (Jim Jennings) [v/s] [4]

-Shoot Don't Shoot (William E. Jones) [v/s] [7]

-Walker (Tsai Ming-liang, China / Hong Kong) [s] [7]

-The Transit of Venus 1 & 2 (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K., 2005 / 2012) [s] [6]

-Quando I Corpi si Toccando [When Bodies Touch] (Paolo Gioli, Italy) [s] [6]

-View from the Acropolis (Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebran de Haan, The Netherlands) [s] [8]

-Ich auch, auch, ich auch [Me too, too, me too] (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria) [s] [7]

-Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / U.K. /France) [v/m] [6]

-I am micro (Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, India) [s] [7]

-Orpheus (Outtakes) (Mary Helena Clark) [s] [8]

/-Many a Swan (Blake Williams, Canada) [s] [6]

-The mutability of all things and the possibility of changing some (Anna Marziano, France / Italy) [s] [5]

/-UFOs (Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton, 1971) [s]

-Black TV (Aldo Tambellini, 1968) [s]

-various untitled video works (Francesca Woodman, 1975-78) [v/s]

-Springtime (Jeroen Eisinga, The Netherlands) [s] [buzz!]

-Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz, Germany) [7]

-The Land of Hope (Sion Sogo, Japan) [7]

/-Concrete Parlay (Fern Silva, U.S. / Egypt / Turkey / France) [s] [6]*

/Site Recite (A Prologue) (Gary Hill, 1989) [v/s]

The Passing (Bill Viola, 1991) [v/m]

/-Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, U.K.) [9]

Amour (Michael Haneke, Austria / France / Germany) [5]

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine) [7]

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico / France / The Netherlands / Germany) [7]

Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl, Austria / Germany / France) [6]

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, and Jeff Simpson, U.K.) [4]

/Pacific Sun (Thomas Demand) [v/s] [5]*

/21 Chitrakoot (Shambhavi Kaul, U.S. / India) [v/s] [7]

/Many a Swan (Blake Williams, Canada) [v/s] [6]

/Concrete Parlay (Fern Silva, U.S. / Egypt / Turkey / France) [s] [6]

Departure (Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [7]

Auto-Collider XV (Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [6]

Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan / France) [7]

Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter, U.K.) [5]

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach) [8]

Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France) [6]

Everyday (Michael Winterbottom, U.K.) [4]

untitled 35mm glass slides (Luther Price)

/Phantoms of a Libertine (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [7]

/A Minimal Difference (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada) [v/s] [7]*

/Shoot Don't Shoot (William E. Jones) [v/s] [7]

Sorry Horns (Luther Price) [s] [7]

/Orpheus (Outtakes) (Mary Helena Clark) [s] [8]

/Pipe Dreams (Ali Cherri, Lebanon / France) [v/s] [5]*

/UFOs (Lillian Schwartz, U.S., 1971) [s]

The Color of the Chameleon (Emil Christov, Bulgaria) [6]

Passion (Brian De Palma, France / Germany) [6]

-The Possession (Ole Bornedal, U.S. / Canada) [5]

/-The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru / Spain, 2009)

-Motorway (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong) [5]

-In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [no English subtitles] [tentative 8]

-Pieta (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) [3]

-Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee) [6]

/Site Recite (A Prologue) (Gary Hill, 1989) [v/s]

/Boomerang (Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, 1974) [v/s]

/Baldessari Sings Lewitt (John Baldessari, 1972) [v/s]

-Tower (Kazik Radwanski, Canada) [6]

-The Capsule (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) [m] [4]

-The Connection (Shirley Clark, 1962)

/-Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves) (Hayoun Kwon, France) [v/s] [6]

-Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, Canada / France) [7]

-A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay / Spain) [m] [5]

-Premium Rush (David Koepp) [W/O] (0:53)

Hotel Transylvania (Genndy Tartakovsky) [5]

/-Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

/-Mukhsin (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, 2006)

-Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, Austria) [8]

Here Is Everything (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Canada / U.S.) [v/s] [5]

/17 New Dam Road (Dani Leventhal) [v/s] [6]

Bloom (Scott Stark) [v/s] [7] [tentative grade]

-At Rest (Lorenzo Gattorna) [s] [5]

Public Lighting (Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2004) [v]

-Beauty Plus Pity (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Canada / U.S., 2009) [v/s]

/-Lesser Apes (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Canada / U.S.) [v/s] [6]

-I am a Conjuror (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Canada, 2003) [v/s]

 

OCTOBER

/Open Book (Vito Acconci, 1974) [v/s]

/Now (Lynda Benglis, 1973) [v/s]

/Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (Martha Rosler, 1977) [v/m]

Frankenweenie (Tim Burton) [4]

/-Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Austria / U.K., 2006)

Argo (Ben Affleck) [5]

-Nature Calls (Todd Rohal) [W/O] (0:37)

-Aurora (Cristi Puiu, Romania) [4]

/-White Material (Claire Denis, France / Cameroon, 2009)

-How To Survive a Plague (David France) [7]

/-Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990) [m]

/Painter (Paul McCarthy, 1995) [v/m]

/Whispering Pines 6-8 (Shana Moulton, 2006) [v/s]

-Detropia (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) [7]

-Vamps (Amy Heckerling) [7]

Looper (Rian Johnson) [7]

/-The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina / France / Italy / Spain, 2008)

/010101 (T. Marie, 2009) [v/s]

/Time Dilations: Out of Step (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2001) [v/s]

/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]

/North Southernly (Vincent Grenier, 2005) [v/s]

/Television Delivers People (Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, 1973) [v/s]

/Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, 1978) [v/s]

Switch! Monitor! Drift! (Steina Vasulka, 1976) [v/s]

/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007) [v/s]

/-differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey, France) [9]

-The Girl From Nowhere (Jean-Claude Brisseau, France) [7]

-Sister [L'enfant d'en haut] (Ursula Meier, France / Switzerland) [6]

Cloud Atlas (Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, U.S. / Germany / Hong Kong / Singapore) [6]

/-Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, Portugal / France / Switzerland, 2006)

 

NOVEMBER

-The Cabin In The Woods (Drew Goddard) [6]

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) [7]

-Amity (Alejandro Adams) [6]

/-Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, 2009)

-The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, U.K., 1976) [s]

-Save The Date (Michael Mohan) [6]

Elementary Phrases (Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, 1994) [m]

/Seasons... (Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, 2002) [s]

The Secret Garden (Phil Solomon, 1988) [s]

/Remains To Be Seen (Phil Solomon, 1989) [s]

/Rehearsals For Retirement (Phil Solomon, 2007) [v/s]

/Last Days In a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon, 2008) [v/s]

SuperEverything* (The Light Surgeons, U.K. / Malaysia) [p] [3]

/American Falls (Phil Solomon) [p/v/m] [7]

Medusa Smack (Vanessa Renwick) [p/v] [6]

Dialog (The Light Surgeons, U.K.) [p/v] ["Are we supposed to be back here?" --Nola]

Viewmaster: a Digital Mutoscope (George Griffin, 1976/2009) [p/s]

Night Hunter House (Stacey Steers) [p/v] [6]

-Ted (Todd MacFarlane) [5]

/Mansfield 1962 (William E. Jones, 2006) [v/s]

Introduction to the End of an Argument (Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, Palestine / Canada, 1990) [v/m]

Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries 7) (John Smith, U.K. / Palestine, 2007) [v/s]

-I Want to See (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Lebanon / France, 2008)

the war (James Benning) [v/m] [7]

Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (Paul Cronin, 2003) [v/m]

-Tiger Tail In Blue (Frank V. Ross) [7]

/-In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [7]*

-Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore) [5]

Whose Utopia (Cao Fei, China, 2006) [v/s]

The Casting (Omer Fast, Israel, 2007) [single-channel version] [v/m]

Suspiria (Stan Douglas, Canada, 2004) [v/s]

-God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait) [5]

-United Red Army (Kôji Wakamatsu, Japan, 2007)

/-Vamps (Amy Heckerling) [7]

How to Scientifically Remove a Shiny Screw with Chinese Characteristics in Eighteen Turns (Ai Weiwei, China) [v/s] [6]

-The Imposter (Bart Layton, U.K. / U.S.) [7]

/-American Falls (Phil Solomon) [p/v/m] [7]

/-Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali / France / U.S., 2006)

/Walker (Tsai Ming-liang, Hong Kong) [v/s] [7]

-The Invisible War (Kirby Dick) [W/O] (0:32)

-Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France) [8]

 

DECEMBER

-Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003)

Ready (Re'Search Wait'S) (Ryan Trecartin, 2009-10) [v/s]

-Eat Sleep Die (Gabriela Pichler, Sweden) [7]

-This Is 40 (Judd Apatow) [5]

-It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt) [m] [5]

-Swoop (Caroline Koebel) [s] [6]

-Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, France) [6]

-Starlet (Sean Baker) [6]

-Brownian Movement (Nanouk Leopold, The Netherlands) [7]

-The Sheik and I (Caveh Zahedi, U.S. / United Arab Emirates) [W/O] (0:36)

-Price Check (Michael Walker) [5]

-Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) [7]

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow) [4]

-Pitch Perfect (Jason Moore) [5]

-Rise of the Guardians (Peter Ramsey) [4]

-The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon) [6]

-Jesse & Celeste Forever (Lee Toland Krieger) [4]

-Thursday Through Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile / The Netherlands) [W/O] (0:50)

-Flight (Robert Zemeckis) [4]

/-Keyhole (Guy Maddin, Canada / U.S.) [8]

-Hello I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso) [5]

-Across & Down (Lori Felker, U.S. / Uganda) [s] [7]

-Dresden Dynamo (Lis Rhodes, U.K., 1971) [s]

-20Hz (Semiconductor) [v/s] [4]

-Memories Look at Me (Song Fang, China / The Netherlands) [7]

-Lincoln (Steven Spielberg) [7]

-Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik) [6]

-Keep The Lights On (Ira Sachs) [8]

-Struck By Lightning (Brian Dannelly) [2]

fuck you 2012. when you lie to me, i hurt you.

 

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