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The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

Andrew Noren’s The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse film series has an autobiographical dimension and is both a testimony to his private life and a tribute to love.

8 movies 1968 – 2004 7h 58m total
Directed by Andrew Noren

Movies in this collection

Huge Pupils
Huge Pupils

Huge Pupils

1968 50m Dir. Andrew Noren

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.

False Pretenses
False Pretenses

False Pretenses

1974 1h 2m Dir. Andrew Noren

Part II of Andrew Noren's The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse

The Phantom Enthusiast
The Phantom Enthusiast

The Phantom Enthusiast

1975 1h 10m Dir. Andrew Noren

A rhythmic study of materiality and melancholy in human form.

Charmed Particles
Charmed Particles

Charmed Particles

1978 1h 18m Dir. Andrew Noren

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa.

The Lighted Field
The Lighted Field

The Lighted Field

1987 1h 2m Dir. Andrew Noren

Ghost pictures from the "other" world, which is this world. The ghost is in love, at work, at play with bright companions. Flutter of phantoms, trick of light, sleight of the eye. A comedy of mirrors. Love advice from the grave... remember you must die.

Imaginary Light
Imaginary Light

Imaginary Light

1994 31m Dir. Andrew Noren

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle, alive and moving, making shadow and, therefore, time."

Time Being
Time Being

Time Being

2001 1h 2m Dir. Andrew Noren

“Cinema isn’t materials…it is refined, imaginative seeing…darkness made visible…[it] existed long before modern devices, since the first opening of the first animal eyelid…scene one, take one.... We invent the world as we are seeing it. Anything can happen” (Andrew Noren)

Free to Go (Interlude)
Free to Go (Interlude)

Free to Go (Interlude)

2004 1h 3m Dir. Andrew Noren

Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The fool’s paradise of the illusory window is savored and shattered and seen for what it is.