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The Film-Makers' Cooperative
c/o The Clocktower Gallery
108 Leonard Street, 13 floor
New York, NY 10013 USA
phone: 212-267-5665
fax: 212-267-5666
e-mail: film6000@aol.com
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Film Catalog: Online SearchWillard Maas Excited Turkeys 16mm, color, sound, 12 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Comedy "A realism like that of GREED is lifted to a level where it becomes poetry. This is done by stylization and a few well-chosen details... a masterpiece." --Jonas Mekas, Village Voice "A black comedy which, in its cruel ending, has been compared to Harold Pinter. It is a hilarious satire on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Everything is there but the soup, but it's nuts for sure. This is Mass' first comedy, and those who know his early classic works are in for some surprises. Also HAwkins' imitations of sobs, snores and gobbles are fabulous, expecially the ghostly turkey at the end, shot in negative. A favorite on Mass' recent tours of Texas, the Midwest and the South." --The Gryphon Film Group Rental: $50.00 |
Willard Maas Geography of the Body
(1943) 16mm, black and white, sound, 7 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Art & Artists, Body, Literature & Theater Commentary by the British poet, George Barker. An analogical pilgrimage evokes the terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent. Extreme magnification increases the ambiguity of the visuals, tongue-in-cheek commentary counteracts or reinforces their sexual implications. The method is that used by the imagist-symbolist poet. Rental: $45.00 |
Willard Maas Image In The Snow
(1948) 16mm, black and white, sound, 29 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Political / Social Activism Assisted by Marie Menken. Original 12-tone score by Ben Weber. A modern morality, in which a young man led by despair searches a city for salvation. His spiritual journey through the lyric landscape of a dream leads him to a world of violence and disillusionment. Award: Cannes Film Festival Rental: $65.00 |
Willard Maas Mechanics of Love
(1955) 16mm, black and white, sound, 7 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Literature & Theater, Philosophical Made with Ben Moore. Original zither score by John Gruen. The act of love portrayed through poetic symbols. "Daring and ingenious ... daring because of its 'forbidden' subject matter; ingenious because commonplace objects are uncommonly related to build an action without actors, the effect of which is vivid, witty and downright bold." -- Lewis Jacobs Rental: $45.00 |
Willard Maas Narcissus 16mm, black and white, sound, 59 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Literature & Theater A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are more rewarding for the study of his changing reflections. There are three mirrors, each reflecting a dramatic study in self-love. The first, love that deserves the adoration of the opposite sex; the second, homosexual love that investigates itself and its own sex; the third, love that insures one a place in the present and history. --W. M. Rental: $95.00 |
Willard Maas Orgia
(1967) 16mm, color, sound, 12 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Erotic A fragment of an abandoned, long work concerning St. Teresa of Avila. A sexual orgy symbolizing the decadance of modern society. Maas, who acts in this film, plays the devil while a wild orgy goes on in his living-room. There is the fantastic drag queen doing her job in the bathroom while frenzied love-making, to the incomparable baroque-jazz music of Tiji Ito, is carried on in Maas's baroque apartment. The camera in bird-swift flight depicts a scene of total decadence as Andy Warhol's Jackie Kennedy careens through the air. By way of explanation: the opening scene shows the director handing out masks to the actors-the same ones used in LSD WALL by John Hawkins. The taking of LSD was part of the original script. --W. M. Rental: $50.00 |
Cari Machet Fretless Forgiveness
(1995) VHS NTSC, sound, 5 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Family, Political / Social Activism, Psychology & Mental Health An ancestral piece that engages only the paternal parts of my family. This is a portrait of a facet of the makes in my family, these physical aspects are of a metaphor that mostly speaks of the spaces between the male and female in my family. This is also a self portrait of my relationship to the male figures and to life structures that represent maleness. --C. M. |
Cari Machet Ornamented Bath
(1999) color & b/w, sound, 50 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Body "Cari Machet does for the bath what Jim Broughton did for the bed" -- Stan Brakhage Rental: $50.00 |
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