Marjorie Cameron

Un marin tombe amoureux d'une femme qui joue le rôle d'une sirène dans un cirque. Il va découvrir que tous ses anciens compagnons ont disparu. Est-ce réellement une sirène ?

Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness… an insensitive un-involvement in the human condition and our own humanity. —Chick Strand

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings and recitations of her poems. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Fondée dans les années 50, l'Eglise de Scientologie s'est développée au fil des années pour devenir l'une des sectes les plus secrètes et les plus puissantes des Etats-Unis. A travers les témoignages de huit anciens scientologues, dont le réalisateur et scénariste Paul Haggis, le documentaire permet de comprendre le fonctionnement de cette véritable machine à endoctrinement, qui parvient à isoler et à asservir ses sujets. Les récits de ces membres repentis montrent combien, dépourvus de leur libre-arbitre, ils étaient prêts à tout pour suivre à la lettre une doctrine imposée par David Miscavige, leader omnipotent de la secte...

Covering the first half of Anger's career, from his landmark debut FIREWORKS in 1947 to his epic bacchanalia INAGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME, Fantoma is very proud to present the long-awaited first volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time. Contains the films: Fireworks (1947) Puce Moment (1949) Rabbit's Moon (1950, the rarely seen original 16 minute version) Eaux d'Artifice (1953) Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman.

Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.

Nine films grouped together that form the basis of Anger's reputation as one of the most influential independent filmmakers in cinema history.