FILMS SEEN, 2020 (JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR)
All films from U.S.A. unless
otherwise specified.
(- seen on video; / repeat viewing; [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
-Diane (Kent Jones) [5]
-Little Women (Greta Gerwig) [7]
-The Golden Glove (Fatih Akin, Germany / France) [7]
-A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, U.S. / Germany) [6]
-Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye, China / France) [W/O] (1:05) [link expired]
-Hole in the Hat (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1991) [s]
/-Signer's Suitcase (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1995)
-Lucky Jack: Three Attempts to Stop Smoking (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 2003)
-Martha's Garden (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 1997)
-Namibia Crossings (Peter Liechti, Switzerland / Namibia, 2004)
Black (Aldo Tambellini, 1970) [s]
Hello (Allan Kaprow, 1970) [s]
/Electronic Opera #1 (Nam June Paik, U.S. / South Korea, 1969) [s]
-In Fabric (Peter Strickland, U.K.) [5]
/-The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
-Hardcore Chambermusic (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 2006)
-The Sound of Insects (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 2009)
-Father's Garden (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 2013)
-Dedications (Peter Liechti, Switzerland, 2016) [m]
/-Amateur (Hal Hartley, U.S. / U.K. / France, 1994)
/-Survivng Desire (Hal Hartley, 1992) [m]
/-No Such Thing (Hal Hartley, U.S. / Iceland, 2001)
/-L'Age d'Or (Luis Buñuel, France / Spain, 1930)
/-The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)
-Facing Failure (Nicolas Winding Refn) [s] [it was a fucking commercial]
-What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch, U.S. / France, 2017) [s]
/-The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, France, 1930)
-Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Belgium) [6]
-Frankie (Ira Sachs, France / Portugal) [6]
-The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (Geoff Bowie, Canada, 2001)
-The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) [W/O] (1:03)
-Poemfield No. 1 (Blue Version) (Stan VanDerBeek and Ken Knowlton, 1967) [s]
/-Gloria! (Hollis Frampton, 1979) [s]
/-OffOn (Scott Bartlett, 1968) [s]
-Prisoner's Dilemma (Richard Serra, 1974) [m]
-Deep Weather (Ursula Biemann, Switzerland / Bangladesh, 2013) [s]
-Midsommar (Ari Aster, U.S. / Sweden) [7]
/Pixillation (Lillian Schwartz / Ken Knowlton, 1970) [s]
/Performer / Audience / Mirror (Dan Graham, 1975) [s]
/Switch! Monitor! Drift! (Steina Vasulka, 1976) [s]
The Sordid Affair (Dimitri Devyatkin, U.S. / U.S.S.R., 1973) [s]
/-Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
-Hotel Diaries: Frozen War (John Smith, U.K., 2001) [s]
-Hotel Diaries: Museum Piece (John Smith, U.K., 2004) [s]
-Hotel Diaries: Throwing Stones (John Smith, U.K., 2004) [s]
-Hotel Diaries: B&B (John Smith, U.K., 2005) [s]
-Hotel Diaries: Pyramids / Skunk (John Smith, U.K., 2007) [s]
-Hotel Diaries: Six Years Later (John Smith, U.K., 2007) [s]
/-Treatise on Slobber and Eternity (Isidore Isou, France, 1951)
-State Funeral [rough cut] (Sergei Loznitsa, Netherlands / Lithuania) [5]
-A Valparaíso (Joris Ivens, France / Chile, 1962) [s]
FEBRUARY
-Miss Americana (Lana Wilson) [5]
-Fruit of Paradise (Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1970)
-Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, Russia) [6]
-A Voluntary Year (Ulrich Köhler and Henner Winckler, Germany) [7]
-Redoubt (Matthew Barney) [W/O] (0:36)
/Boomerang (Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, 1974) [s]
/Baldessari Sings Lewitt (John Baldessari, 1972) [s]
/Jollies (Sadie Benning, 1990) [s]
/Painter (Paul McCarthy, 1995) [m]
/-Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
-Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) [6]
-Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, U.S. / New Zealand / Czech Republic) [4]
-Shakti (Martín Rejtman, Argentina) [s] [7]
-The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, Italy / France / U.S. / Brazil) [7]
-Laurel Sabino y Jaguilla (Beatriz Santiago Muñoz) [s] [6]
/-Beauty No. 2 (Andy Warhol, 1965) [m]
-Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux, France) [7]
/-Atlantiques (Mati Diop, France / Senegal, 2009) [s]
-Liberian Boy (Mati Diop, France, 2015) [s]
-Big in Vietnam (Mati Diop, France, 2012) [s]
-Snow Canon (Mati Diop, France, 2011) [s]
/-Mille Soleils (Mati Diop, France / Senegal, 2013) [m]
-Class Trip (Henner Winckler, Germany / Poland, 2002)
-Still Procesing (Sophy Romvari, Canada) [s] [7]
/-Site Recite (a prologue) (Gary Hill, 1989) [s]
/-Incidence of Catastrophe (Gary Hill, U.S. / U.K., 1988) [m]
/-Granny's Is (David Larcher, U.K., 1989) [m]
/-Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves, 1968)
-Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, Romania) [7]
-Gangster Scribbles (Manuel DeLanda) [s] [5]
-Colors at War (Manuel DeLanda) [s] [7]
Island Song (Charlemagne Palestine, 1976) [s]
/Open Book (Vito Acconci, 1974) [s]
/Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (Martha Rosler, 1977) [m]
/-Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
-The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, Canada, 1970)
-An Algorithm (Bette Gordon, 1977) [s]
-The Wolf House (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cosiña, Chile / Germany) [7]
-My Nudity Means Nothing (Marina de Van, France) [7]
MARCH
-Z = |Z/Z·Z-1 mod 2| -1: Lavender Town Syndrome (Andrew Norman Wilson) [s] [6]
Measures of Distance (Mona Hatoum, Palestine / Canada, 1988) [s]
/Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, 1978) [s]
Whispering Pines 10 (Shana Moulton) [s] [7]
Whispering Pines 3 (Shana Moulton, 2004) [s]
/NOEMA (Scott Stark, 1998) [s]
-Something Good - Negro Kiss (William Nicolas Selig, 1898) [s]
/-Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970) [m]
-System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt, Germany) [7]
/-Kindering (Stan Brakhage, 1987) [s]
-Star Garden (Stan Brakhage, 1974) [s]
-Two: Creeley/McClure (Stan Brakhage, 1965) [s]
-The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (Stan Brakhage, 1997) [s]
/-Still Processing (Sophy Romvari, Canada) [s] [7]
-Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1984)
-Freak Orlando (Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1981)
-The Korean Wedding Chest (Ulrike Ottinger, Germany / South Korea, 2009)
-Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (Ulrike Ottinger and Tabea Blumenschein, West Germany, 1978)
-The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal) [5]
-The Forgotten Faces (Peter Watkins, U.K., 1961) [s]
-The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (Peter Watkins, U.K., 1959) [s]
-maƚni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Chinook Nation) [7]
-Red Moon Tide (Lois Patiño, Spain) [6]
-Sibyl (Justine Triet, France / Belgium) [6]
-The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán, Chile / France) [6]
-Blue Curtain (Noah Rosenberg) [s] [5]
-This Castle Keep (Gina Telaroli, 2016) [s]
-The Water Circle (James Broughton, 1975) [s]
-18 Videos: #15 (Kyle Canterbury, 2006) [s]
-Distance Film (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s] [x2] [8]
-Complex (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Japan, 1964) [s]
-Facial Weaponization Communiqué: Fag Face (Zach Blas, 2012) [s]
-Unison (Zackary Drucker, 2017) [s]
-The Queen of Material (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S., 2014) [s]
-The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell) [5]
-Revolution (Peter Greenaway, U.K., 1967) [s]
-Village, silenced (Deborah Stratman, 2012) [s]
-Apt. 309 (Rosario Sotelo, Mexico, 2014) [s] [x3]
-It Is Here Where We Are... (Andrew Busti) [s] [x2] [6]
-Strange Space (Leslie Thornton, 1993) [s]
/-Lachrymae (Bryan L. Frye, 2000) [s]
-Guided By Voices [noise version] (Stom Sogo, U.S. / Japan, 2000) [s]
-Signal 8 (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong) [s] [7]
-Tape 39 (Amit Dutta, India) [s] [7]
-Mountain Trip (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 1999) [s]
-Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (Alex Piperno, Uruguay / Argentina / Brazil / Netherlands / Philippines) [7]
APRIL
-My Last Film (Zia Anger, 2015) [s]
-My First Film (Zia Anger) [p] [6]
-Wilcox (Denis Côté, Canada) [m] [7]
-The Privileges and Responsibilities of Sisters (Colleen Kelly Poplin, 2014) [s]
-". . ." Reel Five (Stan Brakhage, 1998) [s]
-Utah Sequences (Nancy Holt, 1970) [s]
-The inviolability of the domicile is based on the appearance of the man with the axe at the front door (Alex Piperno, Argentina / Uruguay, 2011) [s]
/-Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (Johan Grimonprez, France / Belgium, 1997) [m]
-Days (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France) [6]
-Krabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong, U.K. / Thailand) [7]
/-Journeys from Berlin/1971 (Yvonne Rainer, U.S. / U.K. / West Germany, 1980)
-Provocation (Lasse Braun, France, 1972) [s]
-The Empirical Effect (Rosa Barba, Italy / Germany, 2010) [s]
-Les Coquillettes (Sophie Letourneau, France, 2013)
-Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, Canada) [3]
-The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr, 2011)
-I Want to Go Home (Alain Resnais, France, 1989)
-The Composition Kids (Julia Feyrer and Pietro Sammarco, Canada / Italy, 2008) [s]
-Irregular Time Signatures (Julia Feyrer, Canada, 2011) [s]
-Dailies (Julia Feyrer, Canada, 2014) [s]
-Sculpture Garden (Julia Feyrer and Derya Akay, Canada, 2014) [s]
-Escape Scenes (Julia Feyrer, Canada, 2014) [s]
-Lines: Vertical (Normal McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, Canada, 1960) [s]
-Makeshift (for Mekas) (Jem Cohen) [s] [6]
-Maman Maman Maman (Lucia Margarita Bauer, Germany) [m] [7]
-Sloth (Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1986) [s]
/-Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland, 1993) [s]
-Universal Hotel (Peter Thompson, 1986) [s]
-Universal Citizen (Peter Thompson, 1987) [s]
-Salut les Cubains (Agnès Varda, France, 1963) [m]
/-2 Into 1 (Gillian Wearing, U.K., 1997) [s]
-What's the Love Making Babies For (Ryan Trecartin, 2003) [s]
-Pink Film (Mary Beth Reed, 2000) [s]
-Nardjes A. (Karim Aïnouz, Algeria / France / Germany / Brazil / Qatar) [7]
-Il mio corpo (Michele Pennetta, Switzerland / Italy) [4]
-Purple Sea (Amel Alzakout / Khaled Abdulwahed, Germany) [m] [5]
-Correspondence (Carla Simón and Dominga Sotomayor, Spain / Chile) [s] [7]
-Sanfield (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [6]
-They Are Lost to Vision Altogether (Tom Kalin, 1989) [s]
-German Song (Sadie Benning, 1995) [s]
-Technoboss (João Nicolau, Portugal / France) [6]
-Intimate Distances (Phillip Warnell, U.K. / U.S.) [m] [6]
-Amor Fati (Cláudia Varejão, Portugal / France / Switzerland) [6]
-First Cousins: Prevost / Provost (Michael Robinson, 2004) [s]
-On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here (Emma Charles & Ben Evans James, U.K. / Kazakhstan) [m] [4]
-Pyrale (Roxanne Gaucherand, France) [m] [7]
MAY
-The Pageant (Eytan Ipeker, France / Turkey / Israel / Germany) [7]
-Swamp (Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, 1971) [s]
-Non Western (Laura Plancarte, U.K. / Mexico / U.S.) [6]
-The Marriage Project (Atieh Attarzadeh and Hesam Eslami, Iran / France / Qatar) [7]
-Prayer For a Lost Mitten (Jean-François Lesage, Canada) [4]
/-Highview [version two] (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong, 2017/2020) [s]
-Sneyd Green (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong, 2017) [s]
-When you're lost in the rain (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation) [s] [7]
/-Jáaji Approx. (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation, 2015) [s]
/-I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation, 2016) [s]
-Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr) [m] [9]
-Canon: Taking to the Street (Dara Birnbaum, 1990) [s]
-A Spy (Hester Reeve Does The Doors) (Suzie Silver, 1992) [s]
-Thank, You (Karissa Hahn) [s] [6]
/-Silica (Pia Borg, Australia / U.K., 2017) [s]
-The Half of It (Alice Wu) [6]
-Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, China) [7]
-L. COHEN (James Benning) [m] [7]
-Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, France, 1963) [m]
/-Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
/-At Land (Maya Deren, 1944) [s]
/-A Study in Choreography For Camera (Maya Deren, 1945) [s]
/-The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren, 1946) [s]
/-Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren, 1946) [s]
/-The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren, 1955) [s]
/-Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (Maya Deren, Teiji Ito, and Cherel Ito, U.S. / Haiti, 1947-51/1985) [m]
/-Meditation on Violence (Maya Deren, 1949) [s]
-Witch's Cradle (Maya Deren, 1944) [s]
-Ensemble for Somnambulists (Maya Deren, U.S. / Canada, 1951) [s]
-The Fall (Jonathan Glazer, U.K.) [s] [4]
/-Highview [version two] (Simon Liu, U.K. / U.S. / Hong Kong, 2017/2020) [s]
/-Lore (Sky Hopinka, Ho-Chunk Nation / U.S.) [s] [7]
/-I'll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You'll Become (Sky Hopinka, U.S. /Ho-Chunk Nation, 2016) [s]
-Monangambeee (Sarah Maldoror, Angola, 1968) [s]
-And the Dogs Were Silent (Sarah Maldoror, France, 1974) [s]
-The Assistant (Kitty Green) [W/O] (0:44)
-The Initiation Well (Chris Kennedy, Canada / Portugal) [s] [6]
-A Month of Single Frames (Lynn Sachs) [s] [7]
-Atomic Bomb Loading Pit (Lukas Marxt, Germany) [s] [7]
-Berzah (Deren Ercenk, Germany / Turkey) [s] [7]
-Semiotics of the City (Daniel Burkhardt, Germany) [s] [5]
-Labor of Love (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany) [s] [tentative 8]
-Further Radical (Stefano Canapa, France) [s] [5]
-Untitled (Janet Lilo, New Zealand) [s] [4]
-Pencicle of Praise (Martha Rosler) [s] [3]
-B4 & After the Studio Pt. 1 (Tony Cokes) [s] [4]
-Porvenir (Renata Poljak, Croatia / Chile) [s] [5]
-Patent Nr. 314805 (Mika Taanila, Finland) [s] [5]
-Amaryllis: a Study (Jayne Parker, U.K.) [s] [3]
-Tell Me (Azar Saiyar, Finland) [s] [6]
-Happy Valley (Simon Liu, Hong Kong / U.S.) [s] [7]
-Untitled Sequence of Gaps (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany) [s] [6]
-The Seismic Form (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria) [s] [4]
-Pomp (Katrina Daschner, Austria) [s] [7]
-Less Lethal Fetishes (TJ Cuthand, Canada) [s] [7]
-Camera Trap (Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia / Germany) [s] [4]
-Hard, Cracked the Wind (Mark Jenkin, U.K.) [s] [7]
-Shepherds (Teboho Edkins, Lesotho / South Africa / Germany) [s] [6]
-The Lovebirds (Michael Showalter) [5]
-DAU. Natasha (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel, Germany / Ukraine / U.K. / Russia) [7]
-Medium (Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina) [7]
-Saint Frances (Alex Thompson) [7]
-Ema (Pablo Larraín, Chile) [4]
-The Infiltrators (Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra) [6]
-Cotton Ikebana (Cauleen Smith) [s] [6]
-Eeb Allay Ooo! (Prateek Vats, India) [6]
JUNE
-Alfred (Esther Urlus, Netherlands) [s] [7]
-Inventing the Future (Isiah Medina, Canada) [7]
-Patrick (Luke Fowler, U.K. / U.S.) [s] [6]
-Air Conditioner (Fradique, Angola) [5]
-Movie That Invites Pausing (Ken Jacobs) [s] [7]
-Images (Robert Altman, U.S. / U.K. / Ireland, 1972)
-horizon (Stephanie Barber, 2014) [s]
-oh my homeland (Stephanie Barber) [s] [7]
-Around Low Tide (Nick Collins, U.K.) [s] [4]
-Room Film With Reflections (Nick Collins, U.K.) [s] [5]
-The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow) [6]
-A Loft Again (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s] [6]
-Momentary Stretch (Maximilien Luc Proctor, Germany) [s] [5]
-DeKooning Passed (Ken Jacobs) [s] [5]
-Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, Italy / France) [8]
-Days of Cannibalism (Teboho Edkins, Lesotho / South Africa / France / Netherlands) [5]
-Miss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey Peoples) [5]
-Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, Malaysia / Portugal / U.S.) [6]
-Crime Wave (John Paizs, Canada, 1985)
-One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning, 1977) [m]
-One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005) [m]
-Matrix [First Dream] (Hollis Frampton, 1979) [s]
/-Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys #1) (Hollis Frampton, 1974) [s]
-One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada) [7]
JULY
-Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) [5]
-Hamilton (Thomas Kail) [5]
-Maggie's Farm (James Benning) [7]
-Oh Mercy [Roubaix, un lumière] (Arnaud Desplechin, France) [5]
-Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog, U.S. / Japan) [7]
-Now! (Santiago Alvarez, Cuba, 1965) [s]
-Glen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1953) [m]
-I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson, 1970) [m]
-Integration Report 1 (Madeline Anderson, 1960) [s]
-A Tribute to Malcolm X (Madeline Anderson, 1967) [s]
-Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1974)
-The Viewing Booth (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Israel / U.S.) [W/O] (0:37)
-Shirley (Josephine Decker) [7]
-Una película en color (Bruno Delgado Ramo, Spain) [m] [8]
/-Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
-Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2006)
-Kubasa in a Glass: The Strange World of the Winnipeg Television Commercial (1975-1994) (Walter Forsberg & Matthew Rankin, Canada, 2006) [m]
-Negativipeg (Matthew Rankin, Canada, 2010) [s]
AUGUST
-Black Is King (Beyoncé Knowles Carter, et al.) [6]
-The Last Angel of History (John Akomfrah, U.K. / Germany, 1996) [m]
/-Artificial Light (Hollis Frampton, 1969) [s]
-Clementine (Lara Gallagher) [4]
-First Cow (Kelly Reichardt) [7]
-The Fever (Maya Da-Rin, Brazil / France / Germany) [6]
-Undine (Christian Petzold, Germany / France) [7]
-She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz) [6]
-Secret Zoo (Son Jae-gon, South Korea) [5]
-Paris Calligrammes (Ulrike Ottinger, Germany / France) [7]
-Under Snow (Ulrike Ottinger, Germany / Japan, 2011)
-We Carry With Us Our Mother (Olivia Ciummo) [s] [7]
-As Long As There Is Breath (Emily Chao) [s] [7]
-Feast (Mike Hoolboom, Canada) [s] [5]
-Stream (Corriente) (Diana Sánchez) [s] [5]
-Girl is Presence (Lynne Sachs and Anne Lesley Selcer) [s] [5]
-Interior (Zack Parrinella) [s] [4]
-//\///\////\ (Michael Robinson and Phillip Andrew Lewis) [s] [6]
-Eviction, Demolition (Karissa Hahn) [s] [6]
-Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (After Nanook) (Matthew Lax) [s] [6]
-Mas Paritarias Menos Yuta (Moira Lacowicz and Leonardo Zito, Brazil / Argentina) [s] [6]
-Amuletos (Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Mexico) [s] [4]
-We Love Me (Naweek Noppakun, Thailand, 2017) [s]
-Rio Grande Sun (Courtney Fellion and Linda Scobie) [s] [5]
-Specialised Technique (Onyeka Igwe, U.K.) [s] [6]
-Wonders in the Suburbs (Jeanne Balibar, France) [6]
/-Ticket of No Return / Portrait of a Woman Drinker (Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1979)
-Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia (Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany / France, 1989)
-The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci, U.K.) [5]
-Camera Sick (Jeremy Moss) [s] [7]
-It Matters What (Francisca Duran, Canada) [s] [4]
-Fire Fly EYE (Kerry Laitala) [s] [7]
-Demoiselle (Eeva Siivonen, Finland, 2017) [s]
-Dusty Wave (Eeva Siivonen, Finland, 2017) [s]
-Fragment (Laura J. Padgett, 1988) [s]
-La Notte Salva (Giuseppe Boccassini, Italy / Germany) [s] [3]
-Locus Suspectus (J.M. Martínez) [s] [5]
-cada vuelte que da una cosa enrollada alrededor de otra (Bruno Varela, Mexico / Bolivia) [s] [7]
-Neon Cortex (Bruno Varela, Mexico / Bolivia) [s] [4]
-Tear Gas (Colectivo los ingrávidos, Mexico) [s] [6]
-Angular Momentum (Michael Betancourt) [s] [2]
-Sacred Geometry (Anna Cecelia Seaward) [s] [4]
-noonwraith blues (Kamila Kuc, U.K.) [s] [6]
-It Was Summer When (Gloria Chung) [s] [x2] [6]
-Interbeing (Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Sweden) [s] [4]
-Starry Starry (Im Youngzoo, South Korea, 2017) [s]
-Westinghouse One (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [5]
-mockingbird (Kevin Jerome Everson) [s] [7]
-Meridian (Calum Walter) [s] [8]
-Die Nacht (Wenhua Shi, U.S. / China) [s] [5]
-liminal poem (Susan Deleo) [s] [4]
-Luminous Variations in the City Skies (Giuseppe Spina, Italy) [s] [5]
-Traces (Carleen Maur) [s] [7]
-Plants Are Like People (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s] [4]
-where i don't meet you (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s] [3]
-Sympathetic Bodies (Margaret Rorison) [s] [3]
-Story of the Dreaming Water - Chapter One (Brittany Gravely) [s] [5]
-The Tower (Silvestar Kolbas, Croatia) [s] [6]
-My Favorite Object (Meredith Moore) [s] [4]
-Hel City (Gregorio Méndez, Spain) [s] [4]
-Fantasy of Being in Exile (Hua Xi Zi, China / U.S.) [s] [?]
-dream less (Charlotte Clermont, Canada) [s] [6]
-Einige Orte Dazwichen (A Few Spaces in Between) (Laura J. Padgett, U.S. / Germany, 2016) [s]
-No Archive Can Restore You (Onyeka Igwe, U.K.) [s] [7]
-Solitaire (Laura J. Padgett, U.S. / Germany, 2017) [s]
-Ghosts of Our Fallen (Kit Young) [s] [6]
-tulips are my father's favourite flower (Nisha Platzer, Canada) [s] [4]
-Itinerary of Surfaces (Carl Elsaesser) [s] [6]
-Distancing (Miko Revereza, U.S. / Philippines) [s] [5]
-Let's Take a Walk (Moira Lacowicz, Brazil) [s] [4]
-Through a Field (Faith Arazi and Madeleine Mori) [s] [4]
-A Winter Song (Jon Behrens) [s] [3]
-The Losing Battle (Jean Sousa) [s] [4]
-Bathers (Douglas Urbank) [s] [5]
-Imitation of Life (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S.) [s] [5]
-To Forget (Lydia Nsaih, Austria) [s] [6]
-The Biscuit Song (Inkblot #11) (Luther Price, 2007-08) [s]
-Universal Leader (Orit Ben-Shitrit, Israel / U.S.) [s] [3]
-Thorax (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s] [7]
-Curious Fantasies (Jesse McLean) [s] [5]
-International Face (Natalie Tsui) [s] [5]
-Global Industries (Phillip Andrew Lewis) [s] [3]
-Horsey (Frédéric Moffet, Canada / U.S.) [s] [4]
-Eastern State (Talena Sanders) [s] [5]
/-As Long As There is Breath (Emily Chao) [s] [7]
-We Carry With Us Our Mother (Olivia Ciummo) [s] [7]
-Flying Over Brooklyn (Ernie Gehr) [s] [7]
/-Fantasy of Being in Exile (Hua Xi Zi, China / U.S.) [s] [This appears to be documentation of a complex Ken Jacobs style projector performance that is just not legible on Vimeo.]
-Tesla (Michael Almereyda) [6]
-Liminal (Philippe Grandrieux / Manuela de Laborde / Lav Diaz / Óscar Enriquez, Mexico / France / Philppines) [5]
SEPTEMBER
-Autoficción (Laida Lertxundi, U.S. / Spain) [s] [8]
-Parts & Labour (Julie Murray) [s] [6]
/-Distance Film (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s] [7]*
-Thrown (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) [s] [6]
-Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Bob Bowen) [4]
-Class Action Park (Seth Porges and Chris Charles Scott III) [5]
-There is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran / Germany / Czech Republic) [6]
-Apiyemiyekî? (Ana Vaz, Brazil / France /Portugal / Netherlands) [s] [7]
-The End of Suffering (a proposal) (Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece) [s] [4]
-Wallander: Sidetracked (Philip Martin, U.K., 2008)
-Wallander: Firewall (Niall MacCormick, U.K., 2008)
-Wallander: One Step Behind (Philip Martin, 2008)
-Aquí y Allá (Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina / France) [s] [6]
-Siberia (Abel Ferrara, Italy / Germany / Mexico) [8]
-Stump the Guesser! (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, Canada) [s] [x2] [7]
- -force- (Simon Liu and Jennie MaryTai Liu, U.S. / Hong Kong) [s] [7]
-Extractions (TJ Cuthand, Canada) [s] [x2] [6]
-Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine (Youssef Chahine, Egypt / France, 1991) [s]
-Hakov Hovnatanyan (Sergei Parajanov, U.S.S.R., 1967) [s]
-LBJ (Santiago Alvarez, Cuba, 1968) [s]
-Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito) [9]
-King of Sanwi (Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana / U.S.) [s] [6]
-Glimpses From a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (Ute Aurand, Germany) [s] [7]
-Figure Minus Fact (Mary Helena Clark) [s] [8]
-Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada) [s] [7]
-Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday (Ricky D'Ambrose) [s] [7]
-At Home But Not At Home (Suneil Sanzgiri, U.S. / India) [s] [5]
-The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, Chile, 1967/2020) [m] [5]
-In The Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson) [s] [3]
-SONE S/S 2014: Chase ATM emitting blue smoke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD ATM emitting green smoke /// Invisibility-cloaked hand gestures in offshore financial center jungle (Andrew Norman Wilson, 2014) [s]
-Letter From Your Far-off Country (Suneil Sanzgiri, U.S. / India) [s] [7]
-Humongous (Aya Kawazoe, Japan) [s] [7]
-The Unseen River (Phạm Ngọc Lân, Vietnam / Laos) [s] [4]
-August 22, This Year (Graham Foy, Canada) [s] [5]
-Shots in the Dark With David Godlis (Noah Kloster and Lewie Kloster) [s] [5]
-In Sudden Darkness (Tayler Montague) [s] [6]
-An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (Steve Reinke, U.S. / Canada) [s] [7]
-A Night at the Opera (Sergei Loznitsa, France) [s] [5]
-Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, U.K.) [7]
/-Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito) [8]*
-The Monopoly of Violence (David Defresne, France) [7]
-Once Removed (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lebanon) [s] [4]
-Single Copy (Hsu Che-yu, Taiwan) [s] [5]
-While Cursed by Specters (Burak Çevik, Turkey) [s] [6]
-Claudette's Star (Ayo Akingbade, U.K.) [s] [4]
-Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part 1 (Alexandra Cuesta, U.S. / Ecuador) [s] [5]
-Look Then Below (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [6]
-Malembe (Luis Arnías, Venezuela / U.S.) [s] [4]
-Resident Ground Floor (Jan Soldat, Germany) [m] [7]
-Apparition (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia / France) [s] [7]
-Hidden (Jafar Panahi, Iran / France) [s] [7]
-A Revolt Without Images (Pilar Monsell, Spain) [s] [7]
-Trust Study #1 (Shobun Baile) [s] [7]
-This Day Won't Last (Mouaad el Salem, Tunisia / Belgium) [s] [7]
-Ekphrasis (Riccardo Giacconi, Italy) [s] [5]
-The Isolated (Jay Giampietro) [s] [5]
-See You In My Dreams (Shun Ikezoe, Japan) [s] [3]
-Episodes - Spring 2018 (Mathilde Girard, France) [m] [6]
/-Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada) [s] [7]
-The Plastic House (Allison Chhorn, Australia) [m] [6]
-Gunda (Victor Kossakovsky, Norway) [5]
-The Calming (Song Fang, China) [6]
/-Look Then Below (Ben Rivers, U.K.) [s] [6]
-The Game of Shifting Mirrors (Amit Dutta, India) [s] [7]
-The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) [m] [7]
-Isabella (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina / France) [7]
-Drills (Sarah Friedland) [s] [4]
-The Chicken (Neo Sora) [s] [5]
-Wild Bill Horsecock (Oliver Shahery) [s] [5]
-The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili) [7]
-A Potentiality (Dana Berman Duff) [s] [6]
-The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco, Spain / Switzerland) [6]
-Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) [6]
-The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz, Germany / Argentina) [6]
-Microcassette - The Smallest Cassette I've Ever Seen (Igor Bezinović and Ivana Pipal, Croatia / Serbia) [s] [4]
-Some Kind of Connection (Sophy Romvari and Mike Thorn, Canada) [s] [5]
-Fauna (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico / Canada) [5]
-Slow Machine (Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten) [5]
-There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina) [m] [5]
-Mangrove (Steve McQueen, U.K.) [5]
-Her Name Was Europa (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy [OJOBOCA], Germany) [7]
-Workers Leaving the Googleplex (Andrew Norman Wilson, 2011) [s]
-Zero For Conduct (Jean Vigo, France, 1933) [m]
-My Mexican Bretzel (Nuria Giménez, Spain) [6]
-Come and dance with me. (OJOBOCA, Germany, 2013) [s]
-Oro Parece (OJOBOCA, Germany, 2012) [s]
OCTOBER
-Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia / France) [7]
-I Carry You With Me (Heidin Ewing, U.S. / Mexico) [4]
-Ouvertures (The Living and the Dead Ensemble, Haiti / France / U.K.) [6]
-Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy / France / Germany) [7]
-Time (Garrett Bradley) [7]
-The Last City (Heinz Emigholz, Germany) [7]
-The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Anders Edström and C.W. Winter, U.S. / Sweden / Japan / U.K.) [7]
-Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (Terence Dixon, U.K., 1971) [m]
-Muhammad Ali, The Greatest (William Klein, France, 1969)
-Tragic Jungle (Yulene Olaizola, Mexico / France / Colombia) [4]
-Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979) [s]
-Toujours moins (Luc Moullet, France, 2010) [s]
-Concrescence (Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, 1996) [s]
-Desert (Stan Brakhage, 1976) [s]
-Cinetracts '20 (various filmmakers) [7]
-Marriage Story (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli) [s] [7]
-French Exit (Azazel Jacobs, Ireland / Canada) [5]
-Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson) [6]
-Cuties (Maïmouna Doucouré, France) [5]
-The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea) [6]
-Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (James Benning, 1978)
-Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (Dalibor Barić, Croatia) [W/O] (0:29)
-The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror That Travels Through Time (Constanze Ruhm, Germany / France / Austria) [6]
-Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross) [7]
-A White, White Day (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland / Denmark / Sweden) [7]
-New Order (Michel Franco, Mexico / France) [2]
-Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu, Romania / Serbia / Switzerland / Sweden / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of North Macedonia) [8]
-I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman) [6]
-The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953)
-On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola) [5]
-Servants (Ivan Ostrochovský, Slovakia / Romania / Czech Republic / Ireland) [6]
-Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner) [5]
-Fictitious Anacin Commercial (David Lynch, 1967) [s]
-Nasir (Arun Karthick, India / Singapore / Netherlands) [8]
-Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen, U.K.) [7]
NOVEMBER
-Kung-fu Master! (Agnès Varda, France, 1988)
-Mank (David Fincher) [5]
-Kajillionaire (Miranda July) [7]
-Michigan Avenue (Bette Gordon and James Benning, 1973) [s]
-I-93 (Bette Gordon and James Benning, 1974) [s]
-Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, U.K. / U.S.) [5]
-Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation, 2014) [s]
-wawa (Sky Hopinka, U.S. / Ho-Chunk Nation, 2014) [s]
-His House (Remi Weekes, U.K.) [7]
-Build the Wall (Joe Swanberg) [m] [6]
-Palm Springs (Max Barbakow) [5]
-Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
-MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard) [5]
-The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant (Jim Finn) [m] [W/O] (0:20)
-Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You. (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho / Qatar) [7]
-After Lucia (Michel Franco, Mexico / France, 2012)
-This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Lesotho / South Africa / Italy) [7]
/-Cinetracts '20 (various filmmakers) [7]
-The Nest (Sean Durkin, U.S. / U.K. / Canada) [7]
-Black Bear (Lawrence Michael Levine) [4]
-Run (Aneesh Chaganty) [6]
-The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi, Chile / U.S. / Germany / Netherlands / Spain) [7]
-Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman) [W/O] (0:32)
-White Lie (Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis, Canada) [7]
-Happiest Season (Clea DuVall) [5]
-Uncle Frank (Alan Ball) [4]
-Education (Steve McQueen, U.K.) [5]
-Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen, U.K.) [6]
DECEMBER
-Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania / Luxembourg) [7]
-Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) [4]
-David Byrne's American Utopia (Spike Lee) [7]
-Dear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky, Russia) [5]
-City Hall (Frederick Wiseman) [7]
-The Maltese Cross Movement (Keewatin Dewdney, Canada, 1976) [s]
-The Midnight Sky (George Clooney) [W/O] (1:02)
/-Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada, 2013) [s]
-horses in the year of the dog (Terra Long, Canada) [s] [6]
-There For a While and Then Gone (Christopher McNamara, Canada) [s] [was supposed to be in 3D but wasn't]
-The Use of Movement (Christopher McNamara, Canada, 2009) [s]
-Tommaso (Abel Ferrara, U.S. / Italy) [6]
-Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon, France) [5]
-Cold Meridian (Peter Strickland, U.K. / Hungary) [s] [5]
/-The Living Room (Michael Snow, Canada, 2000) [s]
-Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, France / Spain / Switzerland, 1955)
-The American Sector (Pacho Velez and Courtney Stephens) [m] [5]
-Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)/
-Inhabitants (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1970) [s]
/-Seasons of the Year (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1975) [s]
-Life (Artavazd Pelechian, Armenia, 1993) [s]
/-We (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1969) [s]
-End (Artavazd Pelechian, Armenia, 1992) [s]
-Our Century (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1983) [m]
-The Land of the People (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1966) [s]
/-Beginning (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1967) [s]
-Mountain Vigil (Artavazd Pelechian, U.S.S.R., 1964) [s]
-Nature (Artavazd Pelechian, Armenia / France / Germany) [m] [7]
-Tenet (Christopher Nolan, U.K. / U.S.) [6]
-In Praise of Shadows (Joshua Gen Solondz) [s] [7]
-Welles/Hopper (Orson Welles, completed 2020) [W/O] (0:52)
-The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois) [W/O] (1:03)
-The Cloud in Her Room (Zheng Lu Xinyuan, China / Hong Kong) [7]
-The Trouble with Being Born (Sandra Wollner, Austria / Germany) [4]
-Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe) [6]
-Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan, Canada) [6]
-Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands) [7]
-s01e03 (Kurt Walker, Canada) [m] [7]
-Electrocute Your Stars (Marie Losier, U.S. / France, 2004) [s]
-Manuelle Labor (Marie Losier and Guy Maddin, France / Canada, 2007) [s]
-The Kid Detective (Evan Morgan, Canada) [7]
-Los conductos (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia / France / Brazil) [5]
-Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee) [7]
-The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane, India) [8]
hey everybody! we survived! :)