Manuel DeLanda Movies

  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

    72011HD

    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...

    Blank City
  • 1980
    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

    01980HD

    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.

    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
  • 1986
    Joan Does Dynasty

    Joan Does Dynasty

    Joan Does Dynasty

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    Joan Braderman talks about and appears in front of a projected version of the soap opera Dynasty.

    Joan Does Dynasty
  • 2016
    Anonymous Multitudes

    Anonymous Multitudes

    Anonymous Multitudes

    02016HD

    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...

    Anonymous Multitudes
  • 1982
    Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed

    Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed

    Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed

    01982HD

    Directed by Manuel DeLanda.

    Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed
  • 1983
    Judgement Day

    Judgement Day

    Judgement Day

    4.21983HD

    Insects are tortured in various ways amidst the sounds of screaming.

    Judgement Day
  • 2015
    time/ OUT OF JOINT

    time/ OUT OF JOINT

    time/ OUT OF JOINT

    02015HD

    With research that spans the work of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger to modern mythologies in which time reversal plays a crucial...

    time/ OUT OF JOINT
  • 1979
    Ism Ism

    Ism Ism

    Ism Ism

    51979HD

    Once thought lost, but recently found and restored by Anthology Film Archives, artist/philosopher Manuel De Landa’s Super 8 Ism Ism captures...

    Ism Ism
  • 1981
    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies

    01981HD

    A short survey of the small-gauge narrative film, beginning with the Kuchars' Sylvia's Promise (1962). Primarily focused on East Coast artists, the...

    The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies
  • 1970
    Atomic Flesh

    Atomic Flesh

    Atomic Flesh

    41970HD

    The next chapter in the battle of effects versus porno.

    Atomic Flesh
  • 1978
    Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches

    Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches

    Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches

    01978HD

    The editing strategies parallel the personal relationships depicted, and a mismatched cut is literally only the other side of a mismatched couple....

    Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches
  • 2015
    Continuous Variations

    Continuous Variations

    Continuous Variations

    02015HD

    An experimental film; a digitally filmed video distorted by custom made machine learning algorithms, creating generative fractured city landscapes.

    Continuous Variations
  • 2021
    Geometric Becomings III

    Geometric Becomings III

    Geometric Becomings III

    02021HD

    Image and sound by Manuel DeLanda.

    Geometric Becomings III
  • 2020
    Gangster Scribbles

    Gangster Scribbles

    Gangster Scribbles

    02020HD

    A beguiling swirl of movie references buried beneath oscillating animated interventions.

    Gangster Scribbles
  • 2019
    Colors at War

    Colors at War

    Colors at War

    02019HD

    The hell of war (movies) made remarkably vivid and surreal.

    Colors at War
  • 2017
    Twisted Flesh

    Twisted Flesh

    Twisted Flesh

    02017HD

    A battle between special effects and porno, Will porno always win? If you think the effects are winning just squint.

    Twisted Flesh
  • 2016
    Fractured Landscapes

    Fractured Landscapes

    Fractured Landscapes

    02016HD

    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...

    Fractured Landscapes
  • 1977
    The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle

    The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle

    The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle

    01977HD

    The film consists of five different versions of the same scene.

    The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle
  • 1970
    Electric Arthropods

    Electric Arthropods

    Electric Arthropods

    01970HD

    From the 1970s urban interventions on billboards, Ism Ism (1970), to his recent digital manipulation of digital footage, Manuel DeLanda keeps testing...

    Electric Arthropods