Manuel DeLanda Movies
- 2011
Blank City
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In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...
- 1980
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller01980HD
A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.
- 1986
Joan Does Dynasty
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Joan Braderman talks about and appears in front of a projected version of the soap opera Dynasty.
- 1983
Judgement Day
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Insects are tortured in various ways amidst the sounds of screaming.
- 1979
Ism Ism
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Once thought lost, but recently found and restored by Anthology Film Archives, artist/philosopher Manuel De Landa’s Super 8 Ism Ism captures...
- 1981
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies01981HD
A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...
- 2016
Anonymous Multitudes
Anonymous Multitudes02016HD
My take on New York City crowds. Some effects involve tracking individual faces and a lot of masking work, others use multiple slices of the same...
- 1982
Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed
Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed01982HD
Directed by Manuel DeLanda.
- 2015
time/ OUT OF JOINT
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With research that spans the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger to modern mythologies in which time reversal plays a crucial...
- 1970
Atomic Flesh
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The next chapter in the battle of effects versus porno.
- 2021
Geometric Becomings III
Geometric Becomings III02021HD
Image and sound by Manuel DeLanda.
- 2020
Gangster Scribbles
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A beguiling swirl of movie references buried beneath oscillating animated interventions.
- 1978
Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches
Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches01978HD
The editing strategies parallel the personal relationships depicted, and a mismatched cut is literally only the other side of a mismatched couple....
- 2019
Colors at War
Colors at War02019HD
The hell of war (movies) made remarkably vivid and surreal.
- 2017
Twisted Flesh
Twisted Flesh02017HD
A battle between special effects and porno, Will porno always win? If you think the effects are winning just squint.
- 2016
Fractured Landscapes
Fractured Landscapes02016HD
Using multiple layers of the same shot and animating masks on each produces a wide variety of effects that fracture and distort the shot. These were...
- 2015
Continuous Variations
Continuous Variations02015HD
An experimental film; a digitally filmed video distorted by custom made machine learning algorithms, creating generative fractured city landscapes.
- 1977
The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle
The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle01977HD
The film consists of five different versions of the same scene.
- 1970
Electric Arthropods
Electric Arthropods01970HD
From the 1970s urban interventions on billboards, Ism Ism (1970), to his recent digital manipulation of digital footage, Manuel DeLanda keeps testing...