Movies: Expressionism

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction t...

The first release of the Residents' film debut "Vileness Fats", in a re-edited and re-scored form....

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore peace to his disrupted lifestyle...

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!...

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Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are interrupted in their work one day when a creature in the old vent above their station drops fragments of an...

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This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from....

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his time and today a star of the younger generation of contemporary artists. ARTE is showing the documentar...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the ...

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, goddess and a prophetess in turn. Her jerky, sombre and introspective movements proudly claim the expr...

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment....

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Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

Woken up from a delightful dream, a nondescript citizen finds himself irredeemably able to see what is decreed forbidden. Dreading the outcome of his disobedience, he is yet desperately incapable of blocking this unlawful vision......

An abstract collage representing the disorientation inherent in the existence of thought....