Ros Bandt

Le Seuil du Vide

Bonkers post-new wave surrealist fairy tale out of France in 1974, directed by Jean Francois Davy. Wanda, a painter, rents a triangular Parisian apartment from a creepy old lady on the condition that she never open a certain mysterious locked door. A nice reworking of the old Bluebeard plot -- soon enough the door opens to reveal an acid-tinged theater of illusions, a kind of goth, baroque salon if you can imagine. Some nice color-filtered psychedelic scenes worthy of Shuji Terayama or Pierre Clementi. Highly recommended!

Fun with Colored Foil

Manfred Burggraf, Fun with Colored Foil (Watson-Guptill, 1967)

The Spirit of the Beehive

Watched this again the other day and was reminded how great it is. This time my favorite scenes were: dad's headphone reverie, mushroom picking, cat petting (although this quickly goes awry), and bonfire jumping. Here's a quick rip of Luís de Pablo's music. One of my absolute favorite film scores -- if you like Lubos Fiser's Valerie soundtrack then you might be into it.

G. Ernesaks

1978 tv show -- title translates as "Mysterious Exchange Student." Kinda eerie looking at this post-Fukushima.

Dance of the Trees

From Peter Slade, Child Drama (1954).