Andres Duque

Comments

TOMATO KETCHUP KOTEI

An uncomfortable and lucid film in its plea against war and totalitarianism.

Zorns Lemma

Quintessential film of structural cinema. A much debated concept that suggests a philosophical inclination, an intellectual conception of cinema.

Fuego en Castilla

José Val del Omar's second title of his "Elementary Triptych of Spain", that achieved a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival for its technical achievements. A film with indescribable haptic and mystics results.

Mann & Frau & Animal

An assertion and affirmation of female sexuality and its independence from male values and pleasures.

Red Shift

Nelson’s depiction of family life is both candid and considerate, displaying an amalgamation of emotions ranging from delight to distress.

Mountaineer Spinning

Highly stroboscopic and hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in otherworldly spaces and plays of near-abstraction and suggestive imagery.

The Perfumed Nightmare

Kidlat Tahimik's diaristic cinema gradually makes us aware of what cultural colonialism really is as he rebels against it, after he leaves his town in the Philippine Islands and travels to Paris.

MESTO NA ZEMLE

With only two films to his credit, Aristakisian is one of the filmmakers I admire for most wisely combining a poetry where the sacred and the profane converge.

The Sun and the Moon

The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, of two women's terrifying encounter with Otherness in the form of a man, abject and monstrous, and for them either to witness, accept or partake in his annihilation.

Weather Diary #5

The latest 'chapter' of the remarkable Weather Diary series finds Kuchar observing his personal, social and natural environment with wry humour and introspection. His unpretentious style makes me think of him as one of the best filmmakers ever.

Further remarks

This list no has no special order. They are all daring, subversive and aesthetically disruptive. Surely they are not the successful ones for this type of poll, but they are essential for the history of cinema and therefore they should not be overlooked, in my opinion. This list is much longer and still counting.