Movies: Expressionism

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Woken up from a delightful dream, a nondescript citizen finds himself irredeemably able to see what is decreed forbidden. Dreading the outcome of his disobedience, he is yet desperately incapable of blocking this unlawful vision......

Loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep', this film follows Jude Slater, a man who has recently inherited the house of an important figure in the town of Freasdal. What horrors lay in wait beneath the foundations of...

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches....

Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that mirrors the moralism and bigottery of a generation that seems to think, that the world is a moral playground.” Emil Nolde’s...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the ...

The first release of the Residents' film debut "Vileness Fats", in a re-edited and re-scored form....

Sound and Image scape by Mateo Berman-Sample....

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion....

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić....

An abstract collage representing the disorientation inherent in the existence of thought....

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the narrative takes place from two perspectives that ultimately come together; one of a nameless Grim Reaper (onl...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, but it carries an Expressionist and social emphasis that is characteristic of Nordic 'angst.' The art...

A young man has been mutilated into a cyborg warrior, known as Bovine Rider, by the intergalactic alien council called FORESIGHT. FORESIGHT instruct him to battle another rider to complete his training so that they can have a warrior to control and l...

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!...

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