A classic film from the japanese New Wave of the 60s now rediscovered by a new generation of film buffs. Eros + Massacre focus the life of early 20th century anarchist poet Sakae Osugi through his relationship with three women and the eyes of two students from the 60s that investigate the poet's social and political theories. Marked by surprising avant-garde montage and directing skills, the film works creatively on aspects of narrative, life, society and love.

(DVD projection with English subtitles)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the debut film by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, is a cult documentary following a Japanese motorcycle gang that tries at all cost to provoke the established conventions. Surprisingly, it's the gangs own internal logic that throws it to a state of near conformism to the rules of society. A valuable document of an era of rebellion and adventure in a country where the restrictions to the free individual manifest themselves in an almost programmatic manner, even in those who wish to free it.

(DVD projection with English subtitles)

An experimental moralistic comedy filled with black incongruous anarchic humour, In 10000 Years tells the story of a man who travels to the future only to learn that everything has changed. A moral satire within a minimalist setting that wishes to transcend time, space and history resorting to new cinematic possibilities. In the 60s, Isao Okishima collaborated with the revolutionary contra-culture directors Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu having latter focused on writing for several animation tv series and films.

Original soundtrack by Taku Unami.

(DVCam projection with English subtitles)

Prisioner / Terrorist marks the return of Masao Adachi to the director's chair after an absence of 36 years. An experimental and revolutionary contra-culture director in the 60s, Adachi left his home country, in the 70s, to join the Japanese Red Army (JRA) in Lebanon. Now back in Japan, after a period of 3 years in prison, he directed this film inspired in the life of Kozo Okamoto who was involved in terrorist activities in the JRA. The film reflects as well on the director's own personal experiences, ideology and human condition.

Original soundtrack by Otomo Yoshihide with the participation of Jim O'Rourke, Tetuzi Akiyama, Sachiko M, among others.

(DVD projection with English subtitles)

The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape" style. The walled garden is composed of fifteen rocks arranged in five groupings set in a bed of raked white gravel. In MA, the viewer is invited to experience the garden as an embodiment of ma, a Japanese concept that conveys both time and space. Slow-moving images of the garden are intercut with poetic reflections from a text by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, accompanied by a music track composed for the film by Takehisa Kosugi.

Born in 1937, Takahiko Iimura is a pioneer of experimental cinema, video and installation in Japan. He has directed more than 40 films and videos since the 60s and has presented his work throughout the world in various museums, galleries and screenings. Most recently he has focused on producing DVDs and CD-ROMS of his work, including older and new material. Thematically Iimura approaches various subjects but most prominently: ecology, meditation, erotic, social critique and sound. He also worked with the fluxes movement, most notably with Yoko One and Nam June Paik.

"Using various camera speeds and in-camera superimpositions, Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu, Nepal, of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. The finished film develops an interesting parallel between the man's careful bathing as the river flows past and Iimura's careful analysis of the man's physically simple activities as the film flows through the camera. The spiritual illumination the man receives is reflected by the mandala-like circular illumination created by the flickering light of the 16mm viewer. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a film whose minimal action and quiet pace can create meditational possibilities for viewers." | Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978)

Imago consists on the layering of multiple short duration fragments of TV broadcasts, using only images of presenters and newscasters, captured on free TV channels in Athens Greece.

The video is silent, however the environmental soundtrack of each specific screening can be defined as the 'audio' of imago.

Official selection of the San Francisco International Film Festival 2004.

Born in 1970, Nikos Veliotis is a greek musician and video artist that builds films from images and photographs found on the internet and TV broadcasts. He uses simple animation and superposition techniques to produce videos that focus critically on themes of information excess and the value of image in contemporary society.

Untitled is a monochromatic minimalist film that employs simple mechanical techniques like film loops, sprays, gels, unfocused lenses and hand-shadows, to achieve hypnotically elaborate ends. Slowly mutating light sculptures, angel-white auras, fusing penumbrae and pulsing vertical lines occur upon the occulted rythms of film projection where the projector's machine materialism is melted into ethereal experiences.

The musical score of Untitled was conceived and performed by Olivia Block.

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have exhibited their solo and collaborative performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), P.S.1 MoMA (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Diapason Gallery (NY), Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa), Robischon Gallery (Denver), ICA (London), Barbican Art Gallery (London), Peter Kilchmann Gallery (Zurich), Viennale (Vienna), KW (Berlin), Hartware Medien Kunst Verein (Dortmund), TENT. (Rotterdam), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museu do Chiado (Portugal), RIXC (Latvia), Image Forum (Tokyo). Their work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Paris), as well as numerous private collections. Gibson and Recoder are based in New York City.