Notfilm

Notfilm

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical...

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Between Two Cinemas

Between Two Cinemas

Ross Lipman's new film frames an act of self-archiving within a larger, essayistic mediation on the relationship between experimental practice and...

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The Case Of The Vanishing Gods

The Case Of The Vanishing Gods

A cultural history of ventriloquism disguised as a sci-fi TV series, integrating live actors with vintage and artist-made puppets. The Case of the...

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The Restoration of John Cassavetes' 'Shadows'

The Restoration of John Cassavetes' 'Shadows'

Documentary short chronicling the process of restoring John Cassavetes' debut feature, Shadows (1959)

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Casa Loma

Casa Loma

Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

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Rhythm 06

Rhythm 06

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

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Dr. Bish Remedies

Dr. Bish Remedies

From Ross Lipman's "personal ethnographies" series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in...

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The Interview

The Interview

Two women meet at a crossroads... A chance encounter between two women struggling to stay afloat, in an era of the downsizing of dreams. Ross...

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In the Middle of the Nights: From Arthouse to Grindhouse and Back Again

In the Middle of the Nights: From Arthouse to Grindhouse and Back Again

This short essay film looks at the star-crossed release history of J.L. Anderson and Franklin Miller's rediscovered classic SPRING NIGHT, SUMMER...

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The Exploding Digital Inevitable

The Exploding Digital Inevitable

THE EXPLODING DIGITAL INEVITABLE is a live documentary essay integrating an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs, and rare archival...

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The Cropping of the Spectacle

The Cropping of the Spectacle

In this live cinema essay, Ross Lipman investigates the birth of the Television Spectacle. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary POINT...

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The Prometheus Complex

The Prometheus Complex

The Prometheus Complex is second in a series of four documentary-fiction hybrid films investigating the house of mirrors of the subconscious mind...

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