Jim O'Rourke Movies

  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

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    Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
  • 2007
    H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories

    H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories

    H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories

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    In the bleak, disturbing and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals come to life,...

    H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories
  • 2018
    Until First Light

    Until First Light

    Until First Light

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    Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives...

    Until First Light
  • 2005
    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

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    With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
  • 2007
    Elements of Nothing

    Elements of Nothing

    Elements of Nothing

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    For this film, Takashi Makino allowed himself to be inspired by the earth. In a never-ending stream of images, we recognize elements from the forest...

    Elements of Nothing
  • 2000
    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth

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    This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band’s 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous...

    Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
  • 2012
    Generator

    Generator

    Generator

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    Takashi Makino’s source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of...

    Generator
  • 2018
    Hitokara ヒトカラ

    Hitokara ヒトカラ

    Hitokara ヒトカラ

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    A poem about grief and the artificial, a copy of a copy of a copy, a therapeutic slow cinema meditation on solitude and the psychoanalytic and...

    Hitokara ヒトカラ
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

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    Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  • 2006
    No is E

    No is E

    No is E

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    With the aid of a layered construction of the image, Takashi has managed to capture the different reflections of light on the surface of water. The...

    No is E
  • 2009
    Kikoe

    Kikoe

    Kikoe

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    Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews with multiple musicians, artists, and writers as...

    Kikoe
  • 2021
    ML-AP

    ML-AP

    ML-AP

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    Menchu ​​Lamas and Antón Patiño have spent a whole life together dedicated to painting, where the spirit of play and...

    ML-AP
  • 2017
    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

    On Generation and Corruption

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    Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between...

    On Generation and Corruption
  • 2009
    The World

    The World

    The World

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    The four elements referred to as "water", "flame", "wind" and "earth" in this film all exist individually while responding to each other, by fighting...

    The World
  • 2008
    The Seasons

    The Seasons

    The Seasons

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    A presentation of an expanding formation of "Elements of Nothing". The systematic harsh noise shaped by water and trees gives birth to a storm of...

    The Seasons
  • 2020
    from my kitchen window the building was blinking

    from my kitchen window the building was blinking

    from my kitchen window the building was blinking

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    Presented virtually at ISSUE Project Room Artist Fund Benefit Oct. 2020.

    from my kitchen window the building was blinking
  • 2009
    Still in Cosmos

    Still in Cosmos

    Still in Cosmos

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    An immersive work that uses skilled manipulation of the film surface and a powerful drone soundtrack to create a layered and dense universe of...

    Still in Cosmos
  • 2012
    Magnetic Reconnection

    Magnetic Reconnection

    Magnetic Reconnection

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    A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man-made debris littered throughout the landscape surrounding the town of...

    Magnetic Reconnection