Movies: Vito A. Rowlands
- 2022
Immaculate Generations no. 1 (2022)
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If the eyes are the window to the soul, "Immaculate Generations no. 1" presents its viewer with a singular look into thousands of souls. Equal parts Carl Sagan and William Blake, this flicker film is composed of tens of thousands of individual retina...
- 2024
For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens (2024)
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A visual essay about Benjamin Christensen's 1922 "Häxan," released as part of the Radiance Films limited edition Blu-ray on 11/11/2024....
- 2024
Ovid, New York (2024)
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Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes....
- 2021
Relax with Draco (2021)
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A hipster vampire in Brooklyn uses a meditation app to keep from biting people....
- 2021
Flames that Drift (2021)
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"Flames that Drift" (Laai ende Drift) is an experimental poetry film on super 8mm film that enters into direct intertextual dialogue with Antwerp poet Paul van Ostaijen's 1921 collection "Occupied City," and more specifically his "Music Hall" poems, ...
- 1969
5-cent American Flag (1969)
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A cryptopolitical forensic investigation of the JFK assassination through acoustic ballistics and signs embedded into 1963 5-cent American flag stamps....
- 2020
Into the Silver Ether (2020)
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New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own....
- 2020
Entre les images (2020)
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In Vito A. Rowlands' "Entre les Images", orphaned 35mm frames from lost silent films are threaded together and interlaced with narration relating a tale of youth, love, war and grief, the conflagration of a world at war poetically mirrored in the bur...
- 2019
Ascending Double Helix (2019)
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A man struggles with his faith and is perennially caught between ascension and fall. "Ascending Double Helix" explores the boundaries between the mythologized and the visceral body, blending sculpture with the sublime, and taking as its cue the motif...
- 2020
Moon, Waxing (2020)
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A slow iris pull on a reflected interior bulb at twilight triggers mydriasis and miosis. As the interior moon waxes, pupils will wane. Your eyes will move diametrically against the slow increase of circular light in the frame and the film will contro...
- 2020
Cloud Commuting (2020)
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Clouds migrate dramatically across the cornered façade of an office building as the sun goes down. Dispersed light imbues each of the 137 visible windows with new life between each frame and paints golden streaks that unfold like a symphony against t...
- 2020
Twilight Triptych (2020)
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Three interior perspectives on magic hour in isolation that emerge like muted post horns, pieces of dusk that radiate both glorious impermanence and chaotic entropy....