I haven't bothered to include the many recent videos with cyber themes, since most of them are merely flimsy attempts at action/adventure with little thought given to the subject itself.
This initial listing will be expanded to include: beat, dada, cult, experimental, film noir, science fiction, surrealist, underground, and other interesting films. At some point this listing will be subdivided into separate category sections.
Although more information exists in my archives, I haven't had the time to compile individual entries for these films. In the meantime, you can check the Anachron Cinema for links to film sites all over the net.
Initial upload: 1 December 1995
More coming... Stay tuned.
A
B
(feature film... animé, manga)
(feature film... directed by Ridley Scott)
(feature film... check out Aliens: The Web Site... includes automatically loading sound files)
(feature film... )
(feature film... France... directed by Jean Luc Goddard)
(feature film... )
(feature film... )
(TV program series... one installment contained a brief segment on cyberpunk)
(lab footage)
C
(TV series... Star Trek: The Next Generation... 'Borg' episode)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(feature film... screenplay by John Shirley)
(feature film... directed by Ridley Scott)
(feature film... directed by Ridley Scott... based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K.Dick)
(TV documentary)
(feature film... )
(feature film... directed by Terry Gilliam... bureaucratic dystopia)
(19??, film, 87 minutes, color...Giorno Video Pak 2, GPS 034... directed by Howard Brookner... beat scene... featuring William S.Burroughs, Patti Smith, Lauren Hutton, Allen Ginsberg, Jackie Curtis, Terry Southern, Brion Gysin, John Giorno, Francis Bacon)
D
(documentary... Alexander Trocchi... brief appearance by William S.Burroughs... beat scene)
(feature film... robot satire)
(feature film... )
(1971, England, feature film... directed by Stanley Kubrick... based on the novel by Anthony Burgess... "Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.")
(1996, Canada, feature film... directed by David Cronenberg... based on the 1973 novel by J.G.Ballard... starring: Holly Hunter, James Spader...
official film site: Crash)
(19??, Canada, short film... directed by David Cronenberg)
(feature film, 101 minutes... based on the comic by James Obarr... screenplay co-written by John Shirley and David J.Schow... starring: Brandon Lee...
external link: The Crow Home Page)
(TV documentary)
(video reportage... cyberculture, hackers, smart drugs, etc.)
(documentary)
(feature film... )
(documentary... cyborg)
(feature film... )
E
(feature film... utopian future, cryonic suspension...
here's an external link to an unofficial site)
(1977, feature film... directed by Donald Cammell... starring: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver... based on a novel by Dean R.Koontz... artificial intelligence, intrusive technology, robo-rape)
(TV series... Star Trek: The Next Generation... 'Borg' episode)
(documentary... genetics, genetic engineering, biotechnology)
F
(Channel 4 documentary, broadcast 5 December 1995... Timothy Leary)
(feature film... starring: Kurt Russell... sequel to Escape From New York )
(feature film... starring: Kurt Russell)
(feature film... robot)
G
(1996, feature film... Star Trek: The Next Generation... features the 'Borg')
(1997, feature film... directed by Luc Besson... starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich... released by Gaumont... novelization by Terry Bisson)
(feature film... directed by David Cronenberg... starring: Jeff Goldblum)
(feature film... hightech prison)
H
(documentary... genetics)
(documentary... R.Buckminster Fuller)
(1995, manga, 79 minutes... graphics by Masamune Shirow...)
"Absolutely brilliant anime!" -Henry W.Targowski.
(feature film... live-action manga)
I
(technothriller... hackers...
external link to film site)
(feature film... genetics, identity... based on the book by Margaret Atwood)
(feature film... )
(swedish silent film... there are 2 versions of this film... the original version is silent, with inter-titles... version 2 features a spoken soundtrack by William S.Burroughs... beat scene... brilliant)
(experimental... references to William Gibson)
J
(TV series... Star Trek: The Next Generation... 'Borg' episode)
(art film... directed by Ira Cohen... Living Theater)
K
(feature film... based on a short story by William Gibson, who also wrote the screenplay...
external website: Johnny Mnemonic... or read a review in Empire magazine)
L
M
(documentary... cinema)
(199?, feature film, US... starring: Jeff Fahey... virtual reality)
(feature film)
(documentary... directed by Peter Whitehead... featuring: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, John Dunbar)
N
(feature film... starring: Mel Gibson... postapocalyptic)
(feature film... starring: Mel Gibson... postapocalyptic)
(1985, feature film, directed by George Miller... starring: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner... postapocalyptic)
(1995, BBC 2 TV documentary... japanese animation, manga, anime)
(reportage, documentary... Alexander Trocchi, Simon Vinkenoog, Amsterdam, cannabis)
(pilot film)
(feature film... )
P
(1991, feature film, US/Canada, 125 minutes... directed by David Cronenberg... starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider... based on the book by William S.Burroughs... beat scene)
(1995, TV documentary... nanotechnology, near future... K.Eric Drexler appears in this documentary)
(1995, feature film... directed by Irwin Winkler... starring: Sandra Bullock... computer consultant stumbles across sinister electronic espionage... technothriller, hackers... external link to film site)
(documentary)
Q
(filmed theater... directed by Ira Cohen... featuring the Living Theater... Julian Beck, Judith Malina)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(196?, art film... directed by Robert Frank... featuring Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg... beat scene)
R
(TV series... Star Trek: The Next Generation... 'Borg' episode)
S
(documentary... history of cinema)
(1984, feature film... cult)
(feature film... cyborg)
(feature film... cyborg)
(feature film... cyborg)
(feature film... animation, manga)
(feature film... cyborg)
T
(experimental film)
(documentary?... brief cameo appearance of William S.Burroughs)
(documentary)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(feature film... hackers)
(documentary... cinema)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(feature film... virtual reality... external website: http://www.strangedays.com)
(documentary... external website: http://web.emedia.net/sp)
"A documentary about how people are starting to change themselves and the environment." --Anders Sandberg.
U
(documentary)
(feature film... cyborg...
external link: Terminator Home Page)
(feature film... cyborg)
(art film... cyborg... hardcore cyberpunk, fetish, future, cult film)
(feature film... cyborg)
(feature film... directed by George Lucas... dystopia)
(1995, TV short, originally shown on Channel 4... also presented at British Film Festival, 4-10 October 1996 in the section "Short and Curlies"... starring: Sarah Stockbridge, Toyah Wilcox, Don Henderson... british adaptation of the short story "Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson)
(feature film... directed by Paul Verhoeven... based on a story by Philip K.Dick)
(featuring William S.Burroughs... beat scene)
(feature film... virtual reality, cyberspace)
(feature film... directed by Terry Gilliam...
external link: http://www.mca.com/universal_pictures/12/)
(documentary)
V
(non-fiction... computer cracker underground...
external link: Annaliza Savage)
(1992, feature film, US... directed by Roland Emmerich... staring: Ally Walker, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren... cyborg)
(feature film... directed by Wim Wenders)
W
(1983, feature film... directed by David Cronenberg)
(documentary)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(feature film... nanotechnology, virtual reality...
here's a link to the Paramount Pictures Virtuosity pages)
(TV documentary)
(1997, television series... starring: Lori Singer... executive producer, John Shirley... virtual reality)
X
(documentary)
(1983, feature film... directed by John Badham... starring: Matthew Broderick... teenage hacker taps into Pentagon computer)
(film, 85 minutes, color... by David Blair... psychedelic cult favorite...
"The hallucinatory tale of a weapons-guidance-designer/beekeeper controlled by the supernatural images of a 'bee tv' implanted within his head.")
(documentary)
(documentary... directed by Peter Whitehead... poetry reading at Albert Hall... beat scene)
(TV series... directed by David Lynch... Brenda Laurel)
(William S.Burroughs... beat scene)
(performance documentary... Mark Pauline, SRL... website: Survival Research Laboratories)
(documentary film... directed by Robert Snyder... on the work of Bucky Fuller)
Y
Z
Flicker
(website for independent, experimental, and avant-garde films... maintained by Scott Stark)
Kronos
(cult and trash movies... science fiction and horror...
film details and movie posters... what more could you ask for)
Tromaville
(website from the company that gave us the Toxic Avenger and other film piss-takes)
The X-Files
(official website based on the TV series)
