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The Jupiter Menace (1982 documentary by Lee Auerbach and Peter Matulavich)
The Jupiter Menace is an incredible rare documentary (it was even difficult to find a proper cover). One could really speculate why – and it is really fun to enumerate the options. Some may say it’s either because it is a complete bogus story of end-of-the-world millenarian conservative Christian radical trash or maybe even because it’s an…
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Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Being a Frank Herbert’s Dune fan I always thought that a sci-fi masterpiece like this, so complex and rich, deserves a glorious visual adaptation. If someone was cut for the job, then the person couldn’t be anyone else but Jodorowsky. “Jodorowsky’s Dune” is a documentary by Frank Pavich. It tells the story about Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful…
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The Future Is Not What It Used to Be (2002)
A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. His project of collecting everything around him will perhaps be the most significant of all his works. Kurenniemi records his thoughts, observations, objects and images constantly, with manic precision, with the…
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My Car Is My Lover
A mecaphile is a man who loves his car so much, that he engages in sexual activity with it. This documentary is about two such men, Edward and Jordan, who met online and now are both attending a huge car convention (yeah, can’t wait to see their reaction…). Throughout the jorney they tell us their…
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)
A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed “The Artist is Present,” a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum’s atrium,…