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Jim O'Rourke

Jim O'Rourke

Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000, he relocated to New York before moving on to Tokyo, Japan, where he currently resides. O’Rourke is best known for his numerous solo and collaborative projects, many of which are entirely instrumental, and for his tenure as a member of Sonic Youth from 1999 to 2005.

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Movies Made By Jim O'Rourke (28)

Hands That Bind (2023)

A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright. ...

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Yoko (2023)

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death. ...

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Drive My Car (2021)

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his ...

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ML-AP (2021)

Menchu ​​Lamas and Antón Patiño have spent a whole life together dedicated to painting, where the spirit of play and artistic exploration of their early years remains intact. In Alcabre, Vigo, they have their watchtower by the sea. ...

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from my kitchen window the building was blinking (2020)

Presented virtually at ISSUE Project Room Artist Fund Benefit Oct. 2020. ...

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Hitokara ヒトカラ (2018)

A poem about grief and the artificial, a copy of a copy of a copy, a therapeutic slow cinema meditation on solitude and the psychoanalytic and healing aspects of karaoke and all it implies, its emotional mechanics, modern art as endless duplication, the Re ...

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Until First Light (2018)

Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister ...

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On Generation and Corruption (2017)

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo's landscape and water sites, the film ta ...

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The Creeping Garden (2014)

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists. In recent years this curious organism has become the focus of much rese ...

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My Man (2014)

As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and adopts her as his daughter. ...

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The End of Summer (2013)

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of he ...

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Magnetic Reconnection (2012)

A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man-made debris littered throughout the landscape surrounding the town of Churchill, Manitoba in Canada's Arctic. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature and the futility o ...

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Petrel Hotel Blue (2012)

Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious Rika and becomes enchanted by her presence. While, Yukio can't get Rika out of his mind, he faces off agains ...

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Generator (2012)

Takashi Makino's source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of immersive films. Generator may well be the earthiest of his films so far, made as a reaction to the Fukushima disaste ...

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Sketches of Kaitan City (2010)

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas busin ...

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Still in Cosmos (2009)

An immersive work that uses skilled manipulation of the film surface and a powerful drone soundtrack to create a layered and dense universe of controlled chaos. In about eighteen minutes we experience life to the fullest, from birth to death and eternity. ...

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The World (2009)

The four elements referred to as "water", "flame", "wind" and "earth" in this film all exist individually while responding to each other, by fighting and loving each other, foster the concept of a world in each individual's "subjectivity". ...

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The Seasons (2008)

A presentation of an expanding formation of "Elements of Nothing". The systematic harsh noise shaped by water and trees gives birth to a storm of novel imagination in the viewer's emotions. ...

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H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (2007)

In the bleak, disturbing and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals come to life, there's no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Danwich outskirts or even the grues ...

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United Red Army (2007)

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that cu ...

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Elements of Nothing (2007)

For this film, Takashi Makino allowed himself to be inspired by the earth. In a never-ending stream of images, we recognize elements from the forest that he then reduces to an abstraction. The film came about as a classical composition in which the picture ...

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No is E (2006)

With the aid of a layered construction of the image, Takashi has managed to capture the different reflections of light on the surface of water. The acoustic-noise-like music and the dancing particles of light move like swarms of microorganisms and in this ...

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Grizzly Man (2005)

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed hims ...

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Love Liza (2002)

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law. ...

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Demonlover (2002)

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage. ...

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Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilde ...

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Things Behind the Sun (2001)

A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts. ...

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Mongoland (2001)

Pia is coming home for Christmas after traveling in England for about 6 months. She wants to catch up with her boyfriend, Kristoffer, who was supposed to have joined her on the trip, but backed out at the last minute. Finding him, however, is turning out t ...

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Movies Starring Jim O'Rourke (10)

Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero (2019)

In May 1997, Tim Taylor, creative force behind the beloved Dayton, Ohio rock weirdos BRAINIAC, was on the verge of his band signing to a major record label when his life was cut tragically short by a freak accident. He was 28 years old. Devastated, his fam ...

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Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016)

Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic filmmaker/musician/composer/artist Tony Conrad. ...

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Kikoe (2009)

Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews with multiple musicians, artists, and writers as well as live footage. ...

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Prisoner/Terrorist (2007)

During a militant attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leading to him being captured and held indefinitely in prison. Exposed to mistreatment behind bars, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced ...

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Her Noise - The Making Of (2006)

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover ...

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In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session (2005)

With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack. ...

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Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes (2005)

Sonic Youth's 2005 performance at Les Eurockéennes de Belfort festival, one of France's largest rock music festivals. ...

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Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage (2003)

Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this Soundstage performance, recorded on May 7, 2003 at WTTW Grainger Studio in Chicago. The band, which settle ...

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Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) (2003)

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a ...

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Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth (2000)

This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking the band's 20th anniversary covers its history from the beginnings to today. Numerous video clips and films of live gigs as well as interviews with, and reminiscences of, collaborators over the years w ...

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