Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Ballet Mecanique (1924)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. A Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by Fernand Léger in collaboration […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Robert Wiene is best known for directing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but this is yet another masterwork. It’s been remade four times, as Mad Love in 1935, The Hands of Orlac, Hands of a Stranger in 1962 and Body Parts in 1991. They all are versions of the 1920 novel Les Mains d’Orlac by French writer […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Waxworks (1924)
This silent German film is one of the first — if not the first anthology films, as it tells multiple stories comprising fantasy adventure, history and horror. The connecting story is about a writer accepting a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of tales about the exhibits in his wax museum, which […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Ballet Mecanique (1924)
A Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written and co-directed by Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy with cinematographic input from Man Ray, Balley Mecanique is as gorgeous and groundbreaking today as it was nearly a hundred years ago. Flashes of images — a young woman and a smile are all the humanity we […]
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