Manuel DeLanda Movies

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Directed by Manuel DeLanda.

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

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...

The next chapter in the battle of effects versus porno.

Image and sound by Manuel DeLanda.

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...

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

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

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