FILMS SEEN, 2023
(- seen on video; / 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
-A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1991)
-One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve, France / Germany, 2022)
-There There (Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2022)
-Descendant (Margaret Brown, U.S., 2022)
-Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills, Canada, 2022)
-Song of Retrospection (Ryu Ho-son, North Korea, 1986)
-Snow in Venice (Don Owen, Canada, 1971) [s]
-All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen, India / U.K. / U.S., 2022)
-No Bears (Jafar Panahi, Iran / Turkey, 2022)
-Living (Oliver Hermanus, U.K., 2022)
\-Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater, U.S. / Netherlands, 2022)
-Lake Placid '80 (Nam June Paik, U.S. / South Korea, 1980) [s]
-Lindsay Lohan (Richard Phillips, U.S., 2011) [s]
-This Is a Television Receiver (David Hall, U.K., 1976) [s]
-A Minute Ago (Rachel Rose, U.S., 2014) [s]
-Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, U.S., 2022)
-A Sign of the Times (Peter Rose, U.S., 2023) [s]
-Grand Jeté (Isabelle Stever, Germany, 2022)
-Last Things (Deborah Stratman, U.S. / France, 2023) [m]
/-The Pressures of the Text (Peter Rose, U.S., 1983) [s]
-Alcarràs (Carla Simón, Spain / Italy, 2022)
-Mad God (Phil Tippett, U.S., 2021)
-Gush (Fox Maxy, U.S., 2023)
-This House (Miryam Charles, Canada, 2022)
-Film Spatial (Camille Henrot, France, 2008) [s]
-GreenScreen Refrigerator Action (Mark Leckey, U.K., 2010) [s]
/Electronic Opera #1 (Nam June Paik, U.S. / South Korea, 1969) [s]
/This Is a Television Receiver (David Hall, U.K., 1976) [s]
/Three Transitions (Peter Campus, U.S., 1973) [s]
/Television Delivers People (Richard Serra and Carlota Schoolman, U.S., 1973) [s]
-Maldone (Jean Grémillon, France, 1928)
-The Love of a Woman (Jean Grémillon, France / Italy, 1953)
-A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser, U.S., 2023)
FEBRUARY
-And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden / Denmark, 2023)
-Marx Can Wait (Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 2021)
-Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2022)
-Spiral 5 PTL (Perhaps the Last) (Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, and Mimi Shevitz, U.S., 1979) [s]
-Full Time (Éric Gravel, France, 2021)
-Four seasons bouquet (Emma Roufs, Canada, 2022) [s]
-A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong, China / France / Hong Kong, 2021)
-Resurrection (Andrew Semans, U.S., 2022)
/-Poem Field No. 1 (Stan Van Der Beek, U.S., 1967) [s]
/-Pixillation (Lillian Schwartz, U.S., 1970) [s]
/-Gloria! (Hollis Frampton, U.S., 1979) [s]
-Barbarian (Zach Cregger, U.S., 2022)
/Boomerang (Richard Serra and Nancy Holt, U.S., 1974) [s]
/Performer / Audience / Mirror (Dan Graham, U.S., 1975) [s]
/Baldessari Sings LeWitt (John Baldessari, U.S., 1972) [s]
/Double Portrait (Takahiko Iimura, U.S. / Japan, 1987) [s]
/Now (Lynda Benglis, U.S., 1973) [s]
/-Performance (Laura Parnes, U.S., 1995) [s]
-Allensworth (James Benning, U.S., 2022) [m]
-Silver Haze (Sacha Polak, U.K. / Netherlands, 2023)
-Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams, Canada, 2023) [s]
-Playland (Georden West, U.S., 2023)
/Open Book (Vito Acconci, U.S., 1974) [s]
/The Pressures of the Text (Peter Rose, U.S., 1983) [s]
-Perpetrator (Jennifer Reeder, U.S., 2023)
-Women Talking (Sarah Polley, U.S. / Canada, 2022)
\-Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford, U.S., 2022)
/-Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, U.S., 1967)
/-The Passing (Bill Viola, U.S., 1992) [s]
MARCH
-Forever Young [Les Amandiers] (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, France, 2022)
/-Last Things (Deborah Stratman, U.S. / France, 2023) [m]
-M3GAN (Gerard Johnstone, U.S., 2023)
-Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg, Canada / Croatia / Hungary, 2023)
My Father (Shigeko Kubota, U.S. / Japan, 1975) [s]
/Performance (Laura Parnes, U.S., 1995) [s]
/Talent Show (Laura Parnes, U.S., 1995) [s]
/Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained (Martha Rosler, U.S., 1977) [m]
-Cairo Conspiracy (Tarik Saleh, Egypt / Denmark / Finland / France / Sweden, 2022)
-R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu, Romania / Belgium / France / Sweden, 2022)
-Last Days of August (Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, U.S., 2022) [s]
/-Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams, Canada, 2023) [s]
-Nostalgia (Mario Martone, Italy / France, 2022)
-in water (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2023) [m]
-Anhell69 (Theo Montoya, Colombia / France / Germany / Romania, 2022)
-Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2022)
-There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, U.S.S.R., 1970)
-Isolation (Abbott Meader, U.S., 1974) [s]
-Racetrack (Abbott Meader, U.S., 1972) [s]
-Gallery (Abbott Meader, U.S., 1968) [s]
-Color Prism Suite #1: Of Life and Farce (Zack Parrinella, U.S., 2016) [s]
/Measures of Distance (Mona Hatoum, Canada / Palestine, 1988) [s]
/Jollies (Sadie Benning, U.S., 1990) [s]
/Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, U.S., 1978) [s]
/Pop Pop Video: Kojak / Wang (Dara Birnbaum, U.S., 1980) [s]
/Dance Number One (Raphael Montañez Ortíz, Puerto Rico, 1986) [s]
/Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, U.S., 2007) [s]
-Parafango (Charles Atlas, France, 1984) [m]
-Happenstance (part one of many parts) (Gary Hill, U.S., 1983) [s]
-The Line (Ursula Meier, Switzerland / Belgium / France, 2022)
-Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Bolivia / France / Uruguay, 2022)
/-OffOn (Scott Bartlett, U.S., 1968) [s]
/18 Videos: #15 (Kyle Canterbury, U.S., 2006) [s]
/St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby, U.S., 2004) [s]
/Optra Field VII-IX (T. Marie, U.S., 2011) [s]
/-videØvoid: TexT (David Larcher, U.K. / France, 1996) [m]
-ER (Clemens Krauss and Benjamin Heisenberg, Germany, 2012) [s]
-A Flower In the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire, France / Germany / South Korea, 2022) [m]
-Being In a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (Luke Fowler, U.K., 2022) [m]
-Souvenir d'Athènes (Jean-Claude Rousseau, France, 2023) [s]
APRIL
-Astrakan (David Depesseville, France, 2022)
/-Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, U.S., 2016)
National Anthem (Kota Ezawa, U.S., 2020) [s]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Koto Ezawa, U.S., 2005) [s]
/Planet X (Ulysses Jenkins, U.S., 2006) [s]
Smothering Dreams (Dan Reeves, U.S., 1981) [s]
-The Face of the Jellyfish (Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina, 2022)
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, U.K., 2022)
-Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster (Umut Subaşı, Turkey, 2023)
-Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustaee, Iran, 2022)
-Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan, U.S. / China / Japan, 2023)
-Cruces (Maximilien Luc Procter, U.S., 2023) [s]
-Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1972)
/Mansfield 1962 (William E. Jones, U.S., 2006) [s]
/Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs, U.S., 2006) [s]
/What Rules the Invisible (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong, 2022) [s]
/Origin of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard, France / Switzerland, 2000) [s]
-Yanagawa (Zhang Lu, China, 2021)
-Coconut Head Generation (Alain Kassanda, Nigeria / France, 2023)
-The Divide [La Fracture] (Catherine Corsini, France, 2021)
-It Is In Us All (Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ireland, 2022) [W/O] (0:35)
-A Respectable Woman (Bernard Émond, Canada, 2023)
/F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy, U.S., 2022) [s]
The Thought Leader (Liz Magic Laser, U.S., 2015) [s]
/2 Into 1 (Gillian Wearing, U.K. 1997) [s]
/An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (Steve Reinke, U.S. / Canada, 2020) [s]
/Hotel Diaries: Dirty Pictures (John Smith, U.K., 2007) [s]
-Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, U.K., 2022)
-Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux, France, 2022)
-Henny Penny: The Sky is Falling (Raphael Montañez Ortíz, U.S., 1958) [s]
-A Chair (Takahiko Iimura, Japan, 1970) [s]
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, U.S., 2022)
-Black Shampoo (Greydon Clark, U.S., 1976)
Parallel I-IV (Harun Farocki, Germany, 2014) [m]
/HYPERLINKS or It Didn't Happen (Cécile B. Evans, U.K., 2014) [s]
-About Thirty (Martín Shanly, Argentina, 2023)
-Fugue (John Gianvito, U.S., 2022) [s]
-Bibi Seshanbe (Saodat Ismailova, Kazakhstan, 2022) [m]
-Three Sparks (Naomi Uman, Albania / Mexico, 2023)
-Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra de Mata, Portugal / France, 2022)
-A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas (Esy Casey, Philippines, 2022) [m]
-What are the Wild Waves Saying? (Declan Clarke, Ireland, 2022)
-Private Footage (Janaína Nagata, Brazil, 2022)
-Currency (Crystal Z Campbell, U.S., 2019) [s]
-To Write from Memory (Emory Chao Johnson, U.S., 2023) [s]
-Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-liang? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France, 2022) [s]
MAY
-lovertits (Ayanna Dozier, U.S., 2022) [s]
-A Picture for Parco (Ayanna Dozier, U.S., 2022) [s]
-an exercise in parting (Ayanna Dozier, U.S., 2022) [s]
-Fin de Siglo (Maike Mia Höhne, Cuba / Germany, 1998) [s]
-I Cannot Now Recall (Kersti Jan Werdal, U.S., 2023) [s]
-Onlookers (Kimi Takesue, Laos, 2023)
-Promised Lands (Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Austria / Germany / Uganda, 2018) [s]
-NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid, Austria, 2023) [s]
-Yaangna Plays Itself (Adam Piron, U.S., 2022) [s]
-II. (Alexandre Larose, Argentina, 2022) [s]
-I. (Alexandre Larose, Argentina, 2022) [s]
-Where (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan / France, 2022)
-Anti-Cosmos (Takashi Makino, Japan, 2023) [s]
-Tous les jours de Mai (Miryam Charles, Canada, 2023) [s]
-Coaley Peak (A Fragment) (Dan Guthrie, U.K., 2022) [s]
-Lotus-Eyed Girl (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka / U.S., 2023) [s]
-The Apocalyptic is the Mother of All Christian Theology (Jim Finn, U.S., 2023) [m]
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, U.S. / Finland, 2023)
/-Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, France / Italy, 1974)
-Exterior Turbulence (Sofia Theofore-Pierce, U.S., 2023) [s]
-Fragile (Sasha Waters, U.S., 2022) [s]
-Unseen Film Substitution (Michael Betancourt, U.S., 2022) [s]
-Amulet (Ruth Hayes, U.S., 2022) [s]
-How To Microwave a Cauliflower (in 3 easy steps) (Patrick Tarrant, U.K., 2022) [s]
-Intricate Domestication (Eduardo Gutierrez Carrera, Peru, 2022) [s]
-Catalogue Vol. 4 (Dana Berman Duff, U.S., 2018) [s]
-Waiting Room (Alex MacKenzie, Canada, 2022) [s]
-Dykeotomy (Debroah Fort, U.S., 1992) [s]
-Full River Red (Zhang Yimou, China, 2023) [W/O] (0:42)
-Which Colour? (Shahrukhkhan Chavada, India, 2023)
-Légua (João Miller Guerra and Filia Reis, Portugal / France / Italy, 2023)
/-So Is This (Michael Snow, Canada, 1982) [m]
-Mix-Up or Méli-Mélo (Françoise Romand, France / U.K., 1986) [m]
-WVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time) (Michael Snow, Canada, 2003) [s]
-It's Raining in the House (Paloma Sermon-Daï, Belgium / France, 2023)
-Only the River Flows (Wei Shujun, China, 2023)
-This Isn't What It Appears (Heehyun Choi, U.S. / South Korea, 2022) [s]
-A Prince (Pierre Creton, France, 2023)
-Night Walk (Sohn Koo-yong, South Korea, 2023) [m]
-Story of the Eye (Gabriel Shigueo, Brazil, 2023) [s]
-Sea of Glass (Francisco Rojas, Chile, 2022) [s]
-Vision of Paradise (Leonardo Pirondi, Brazil / U.K. / U.S., 2022) [s]
-Homecoming (Catherine Corsini, France, 2023)
/-Odette Robert (Jean Eustache, France, 1971) [m]
-Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Delights (Jean Eustache, France, 1981) [m]
-Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (Angel Díez, France, 1997) [m]
/-My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, France, 1974)
/-The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, France, 1973)