Lens Distortion #10

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 for chronological order.

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

ในปี 1974 ผู้กำกับชิลี-ฝรั่งเศส อเลฮานโดร โฮโดโรว์สกี ได้เริ่มโครงการที่เต็มไปด้วยอุดมคติในการดัดแปลงนวนิยายที่มีอิทธิพลของแฟรงค์ เฮอร์เบิร์ต เรื่อง Dune (1969) สำหรับโรงภาพยนตร์ หลังจากใช้เวลาสองปีและเงินหลายล้านดอลลาร์ โครงการขนาดใหญ่ดังกล่าวจบลงด้วยความล้มเหลว แต่ศิลปินที่โฮโดโรว์สกีนำมาร่วมงานนั้นยังคงทำงานกันต่อและท้ายที่สุดได้วางรากฐานสำหรับโรงภาพยนตร์วิทยาศาสตร์สมัยใหม่.

Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in 1995. Also included are numerous interviews with cast, artists, and other crew members. The documentary was released as a bonus feature on the extended collector's edition of Avatar.

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition (for "close-up" of textures). The tone of the film is primarily dark blue, and the paint is composed (and rephotographed microscopically) to suggest galactic forms in a space of stars.