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Wedlock House: An Intercourse
1959 • Romance
We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees hi…
Why matched: genres Romance
Cat's Cradle
1959
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally…
Why matched: semantic similarity
Window Water Baby Moving
1959 • Documentary
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and hi…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
1961 • Documentary
Only at a crisis do I see both the scene as I've been trained to see it ( that is, with Renaissance perspective, three-dimensional logic–colors as we've been trained to call a c…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Prelude: Dog Star Man
1962 • Drama • Fantasy
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and…
Why matched: genres Drama, Fantasy
Dog Star Man
1965 • Fantasy
Experimental film following a cycle of seasons as well as the stretch of a single day as a man and his dog slowly ascend a mountain.
Why matched: genres Fantasy
Dog Star Man: Part IV
1964 • Drama
A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buil…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Stars Are Beautiful
1974 • Documentary
We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Dog Star Man: Part III
1964 • Drama
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair, glimpse…
Why matched: genres Drama
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 • Documentary
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 • Documentary
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols…
Why matched: genres Documentary