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on the banks of allan water - wilfred noy (1916) #CoMoGBakaUK

not terrible! surprise...

https://i.imgur.com/z17WhNz.png look! nostrils! https://i.imgur.com/XvngqU7.png together - lorenza mazzetti, denis horne (1956) #CoMoGBakaUK part of the Free Cinema movement, from its lone female director, starring as the fakest deaf-mutes to ever grace the screen (did they even try to learn sign-l...

to follow on from above, but this time in fatalistic male melancholy doom-mode

unrequited love - chris petit (2006) #CoMoGBakaUK

a necessary music - beatrice gibson (2009) #CoMoGBakaUK absolutely adored the tiger's mind....this is an earlier work so slightly less mature (quoting from the invention of morel, cringe aspect of using local inhabitants to read related local lines) it still offers echoes of her later themes in the ...

https://i.imgur.com/GqS6OAI.png redshift - emily richardson (2001) #CoMoGBakaUK nocturne - emily richardson (2003) #CoMoGBakaUK aspect - emily richardson (2004) #CoMoGBakaUK block - emily richardson (2005) #CoMoGBakaUK petrolia - emily richardson (2005) #CoMoGBakaUK cobra mist - emily richardson (2...

greennui wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:22 am Place of Work 1976 Directed by Margaret Tait

greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennui.....can you share this in the place? can't find it anywhere!

slow action - ben rivers (2011) #CoMoGBakaUK Utopia is the past, not the past as a golden age but the past as ruins of its own wounds. Unrepeatable. With recreation can come about with a reverse of temporal flow tempered by thermodynamics to an entropy. Entropy moving backwards against itself Receiv...

greennui wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:00 pm The Two Sights 2020 ‘An Dà Shealladh’ Directed by Joshua Bonnetta

oooooh that looks cool!

the white shadow - graham cutts aka dominated by hitchcock (1924) #CoMoGBakaUK half of this is lost, so maybe it redeems itself (tho not, going by plot description) however, betty compson IS gorgeous and fun https://i.imgur.com/SfHWNJh.png https://i.imgur.com/iom2dR4.png https://i.imgur.com/I6lK5jV....

alfalfa - richard kwietniowski (1987) #CoMoGBakaUK

80's gay alphabet...

notes from a journey - daniel & clara (2019) #CoMoGBakaUK More than simply mapping a journey across the country, this film presents a map of Daniel & Clara's engagement with the images of the landscape. By reducing them to impressions, fragments, fictions and forms, the recorded images/sound...

oh, i should say the rinland was nice. anyway, how have we come this far without mentioning psychogeography, that most british (due to ingrained capitalist obsessions of landed property) of cultural contributions? anyway, watched some landscape films i love the mary field films with the droll commen...

probably best if i don't say anything about these homage to the work of phillip henry gosse - pablo martín weber (2020) #CoMoGBakaUK https://i.imgur.com/NKZaYT2.png pervading animal - graeme arnfield (2021) #CoMoGBakaUK https://i.imgur.com/uWIS4NJ.png adeline for leaves - jessica sarah rinland (2014...

anyway, watched something much more representative:

old age pensioners' seaside outing to southend (1938) #CoMoGBakaUK








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3VH0DU_U74

yeah yeah yeah, you soft-soap 'sally is lazy', 'sally is greedy'....


hmmm....

the country and the city - mike dibb (1979) #CoMoGBakaUK yeeeeeesssssssss, i love this kind of stuff: A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’ through 200 years of English literature. https://i.imgur.com/cdcfxGu.png https://i.i...

the jealous doll; or, the frustrated elopement - percy stow (1909) #CoMoGBakaUK nothing about this is not sinister, the horror doll-core, the children sneaking off to a hotel together, the voyeurism....sick edwardians, sick cinema, cynical movie commentary right from the beginning.... https://i.imgu...

the sorcerer's scissors - walter r booth (1907) #CoMoGBakaUK early trick animation or as per BFI: This stunning example of Edwardian cut-and-paste creativity, powered by magical scissors and Hunt’s Fish Glue, is part of the origin story of British animation. Former stage magician and special effects...

AI's interpretation of early uk humour, pretty accurate. and i got a three cell pic! never had that before!

frisson wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 9:19 pm That sounds good! I've also got a few experimental filmmakers lined up to watch

cool! looking forward to see what you watch

made a start on the nonsense how things do develop - hay plumb (1914) #CoMoGBakaUK develop as in how the situation progresses, and develop as in develop a photograph. we will be working at this level of hilarious subtlety for a while.... (still, maybe it's innate sympathy, but i do not find it offen...

I usually don't seek out much from Great Britain so this'll be an interesting challenge! :typing: yeah, britain doesn't exactly get people very excited! but welcome to the CoMo! my focus is gonna be on all the dumb early silent comedies, the golden age of experimental/structuralist stuff of the 70'...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 4:38 pm la commune (watkins)

2000 on imdb.....

wake up! - laila pakalniņa nuisance - frans van de staak a dog's day - murali nair on the old roman road - don askarian fate - zeki demirkubuz last supper at the arabian gray horse - miklós jancsó the road - darezhan omirbayev passing summer - angela schanelec this filthy earth - andrew kötting suns...

lived here many decades, still no clue of the difference between GB and UK

final ballot: the legend of the old shepherd xeudi and his friend reimann - hans-jakob siber stone wedding - mircea veroiu, dan pița mamad - sjuman djaya the hare census - eduard sachariev the hourglass sanatorium - wojciech jerzy has defying everybody - yurii illienko methods of egg-viewing - yoich...

illusions - diana matuzevičienė, kornelijus matuzevičius (1993) #CoMoLietuva hilariously bleak and gorgeous, streaming: http://www.sinemateka.lt/en/documentary#illusions https://i.imgur.com/uIJI2QY.png https://i.imgur.com/T0ZR07u.png https://i.imgur.com/no9aqC8.png https://i.imgur.com/UaPGD19.png ht...

wanderers of white time - rimvydas leipus (1993) #CoMoLietuva another gorgeous little poetic doc streaming: http://www.sinemateka.lt/en/documentary#wanderers-of-white-time https://i.imgur.com/yDOBvYF.png https://i.imgur.com/9g3DvvI.png https://i.imgur.com/QL4u9eL.png https://i.imgur.com/j4IXLbQ.png ...

the bus - laila pakalniņa (2004) #CoMoLietuva The Tallin-Kaliningrad bus crosses three borders during one night: Estonian-Latvian, Latvian-Lithuanian and Lithuanian-Russian. Its passengers need four different currencies to pay for toilets or buy sandwiches during the journey. During the Soviet times...