The Dead

4.7

Dec 31 1960

•

0h 11m

•

"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic potential. The action of making The Dead kept me alive." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2013.

Cast

See all

Kenneth Anger

Recommendations

See all

4.3

Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit: Part I

1974

An experimental short by Hollis Frampton who films the female form during various activities.

6.2

Looking for Sally

1925

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.

6.9

56

2016

5.2

Home

2017

A tormented woman believes a rare planetary alignment is actually a cosmic message from her distant interstellar home.