Films that bypass film history and provide new ways of seeing. These programmes aim to re-introduce the tradition of programming films made by and for amateurs, those non-conformists who like and “cultivate an art (or science) for their own pleasure”, giving rise to films and reflections that “excite” the senses and the intellect, giving movement to vision and the spirit.
The Cabinet d’Amateurs is an opportunity, slipping and sliding between several view-points, to see afresh films that comprise a history that is still to be constituted, which, as with the experimental science of the 18th century, experimental love and the experimental novel of the 19th century, in their combination offer both a chance to view, survey, and food for thought. The amateur of centuries past foreshadowed the collector of the 20th century. Indeed a film collection can exist immaterially, in our minds, via infinite reverberations through time, finding, revealing, bringing to light connections, problematics, with no concern for any form of categorisation: genres, films, whether made for audiences large or small, long and short, early and contemporary films, giving house room to films both welll-known and those neglected, unknown and stirring into life in our imaginary museum, in our internal viewing chambers.
Claudine Eizykman

1993
LEN LYE AND THE CINEMA OF COLOURS.
MAN RAY, “DIRECTOR OF BAD MOVIES”
MYTHS AND RITES. First series
MYTHS AND RITES II. Motorbikes and History
MYTHS AND RITES III . Tributes through the Gaze
MICHAEL SNOW & THE CINEMA T.E.L

1994
IMPULSE PROPULSION IMPULSION
SIDNEY PETERSON & ANAMORPHOSES in CINEMA
NEWS ITEMS
FILM, C’EST DU BELGE !
THE FACE: BRUCE BAILLIE, FACE – LANDSCAPE
CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE
TRIBUTE TO KENNETH ANGER. THE REBEL EXPERIENCE
ED EMSHWILLER . “I wanted something different to happen”

1995
THE MOVEMENTS OF LIGHT .
WESTERN : VISION OVERTAKEN - THE CALIFORNIAN AVANT-GARDE.