Kenneth Anger – MRQE

Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof (TV)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

Pop Odyssee 1 – Die Beach Boys und der Satan (TV)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A German documentary that explores the darker side of the Beach Boys, primarily focusing on Brian Wilson and the Pet Sounds album, with detours to the Manson Family.

Fireworks

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fireworks revolves around a young man associating with various navy sailors, who eventually turn on him, stripping him naked and beating him to death, ripping open his chest to find a clock ticking inside. Several fireworks then explode, accompanied by a burning Christmas tree and the final shot shows the young man lying in bed next to another topless man.

Mansfield 66/67

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfields life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan.

The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectators unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd. In an attitude as playful at that Maddins films this documentary follows the mediumistic experiments of this master of illusion, filmed during the spirit shootings he presented in Europe.

Flicker

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize human consciousness. It looks simple enough; a 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The Dream Machine enthralled mystics and freethinkers everywhere; Kurt Cobain had a dream machine, and William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to storm the citadels of enlightenment. With a custom-made Dream Machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin; his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the most eccentric counter-cultural icons. Taking the Dream Machine as the basis of its explorations, FLicKeR asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness, and imagines a humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.

Anger Me

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until present day.

Notes on Marie Menken

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Jonas in the Desert

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas – one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.

Lucifer Rising

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Egyptian gods summon the angel Lucifer, in order to usher in a new occult age.