Keith Griffiths Movie Trailers
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A Fratricide Trailer (1981)
26 October 1981
A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns Trailer (1983)
08 June 1983
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
Anamorphosis Trailer (1993)
09 April 1993
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis.
Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns Trailer (1983)
28 September 1983
Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.
Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
Abstract Cinema Trailer (1993)
24 June 1993
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes Trailer (2005)
09 September 2005
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929 Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the brothers working in a slightly different vein than the one that would come to characterize their later work.
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy staring at the sun, to travels around the Pacific and life in New York.
The Falconer Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters.
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field.
Dry Season Trailer (2006)
01 September 2006
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals.
The Cardinal and the Corpse Trailer (1992)
01 June 1992
‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair.
The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded in bringing about a rich and sardonic humor lurking at the edge of the playwright's macabre, death-obsessed imagination in an allusive homage.
The Dilapidated Dwelling Trailer (2000)
06 October 2000
Documentary with fictional elements exploring issues around housing in the United Kingdom.
Rose Red Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits.
The Doll's Breath Trailer (2019)
11 September 2019
Afraid of losing his wife, Horatio creates a replica he calls Hortensia. But things don't go as planned.
This Unnameable Little Broom Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Trailer (2010)
25 June 2010
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside.
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.
Berberian Sound Studio Trailer (2012)
30 August 2012
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film.
Memoria Trailer (2021)
30 September 2021
After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
Syndromes and a Century Trailer (2006)
31 August 2006
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia Trailer (1991)
13 February 1991
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
The Sandman Trailer (2000)
04 November 2000
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Trailer (2006)
02 December 2006
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street.
Faust Trailer (1994)
10 September 1994
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.
Temptation of Sainthood Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
The story of a man who believed God was changing him into a woman so he could save the world.
Alice Trailer (1988)
03 August 1988
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit.
Cemetery of Splendor Trailer (2015)
02 September 2015
In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life Trailer (1995)
01 August 1995
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant.
Little Otik Trailer (2001)
25 January 2001
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child.
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
Conspirators of Pleasure Trailer (1996)
17 October 1996
Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs.
Brothers and Sisters Trailer (1980)
24 September 1980
Thriller about the murder of a prostitute. Centred round the lives and life styles of two brothers at the time of the murder.
Screen Pioneers No:3 Raul Ruiz Trailer (1985)
20 March 1985
This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the director.
Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.
Food Trailer (1996)
01 April 1996
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Innocence of Memories Trailer (2016)
29 January 2016
Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in '70s Istanbul.
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee Trailer (2009)
05 May 2009
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
London Trailer (1994)
03 June 1994
A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 general election.
Luna Trailer (2014)
26 September 2014
Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing.
Radio On Trailer (1979)
30 November 1979
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Mekong Hotel Trailer (2012)
27 July 2012
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter.
Robinson in Space Trailer (1997)
10 January 1997
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country.
Snow Business Trailer (1983)
19 January 1983
Interview and profile of experimental filmmaker Michael Snow from 1983. Includes extracts from 'Back and Forth', 'Wavelength', 'La Region Central', 'So Is This' and gallery piece 'Two Sides To Every Story'.
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You Trailer (1993)
31 December 1993
Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.
The Calligrapher Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand.
Half Moon Trailer (2006)
21 August 2006
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Scénario du film Passion Trailer (1982)
28 January 1982
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion.
Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns Trailer (1983)
14 September 1983
History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) Trailer (2010)
16 September 2010
Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life - one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams.
Street of Crocodiles Trailer (1986)
01 July 1986
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection Trailer (2003)
26 June 2003
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
Displacements Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
An abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for his film 'Asylum', made in collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair.
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer Trailer (1984)
20 June 1984
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil.
In Absentia Trailer (2000)
21 October 2000
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window.
Asylum Trailer (2000)
11 September 2000
Asylum is a film very much derived from chaos, expressing implicitly the ideas conjured up by its title.