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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
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Film Catalog: Online SearchWalter Ungerer The Animal
(1976) 16mm, color, sound, 73 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who never speak, appear at the window; an old woman calls them away. First isolation, then alienation, overcome the couple. The woman has a dream, then disappears. Nothing is explained. Only footprints remain in the snow that covers the supernatural landscape. THE ANIMAL is a film about unutterable loss, fate and the unknowable. Rental: $125.00 |
Walter Ungerer Computer Animation
(1999) 16mm, color, sound, 30 min Genre: Animation BIRDS, ANNA'S AMAZING MOVING ANIMALS, A WARM DAY COMES AFTER A COLD WINTER, RELATIVES IN X, Y AND Z, THE WINDOW and KINGSBURY BEACH Rental: $25.00 |
Walter Ungerer The House Without Steps
(1979) 16mm, color, sound, 92 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature A sensuous woman, an angry artist, a mysterious puppet maker, suspicious townspeople, mischievous kids; these are the characters in THE HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS. The setting is contemporary Vermont, but it is Walter Ungerer's Vermont; the landscape, though beautiful and tranquil, is charged with an ominousness familiar to Ungerer films. Everything takes on a greater importance; time loses its boundaries. Through Ungerer's vision, people are transformed into inhabitants of a world that is at once ordinary and strange. Rental: $150.00 |
Walter Ungerer Inroduction To Oobieland (Oobieland Part One)
(1969) 16mm, color, sound, 9 min Genre: Animation, Experimental Keywords: Hand-processed Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous. Cycles are left incomplete. Chases are never consummated; the day ends with no promise of rebirth. In this way the film touches on our oldest instincts, leaving us saddened and scared by the knowledge of a world that will never know freedom through the completion of action; safety through the sanctification of place. Rental: $20.00 |
Walter Ungerer A Lion's Tale
(1968) 16mm, color, sound, 12.5 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health A film about a daydreaming young man in pursuit of the elusive woman of his dreams, where the dreamer is continually thwarted by the intrusion of the filmmaker's own tricks. Rental: $25.00 |
Walter Ungerer Meet Me Jesus
(1966) 16mm, color, sound, 13.25 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Found Footage, Hand-processed The theme is apparently the birth and growth of civilization, its ultimate destruction and rebirth; however, MEET ME, JESUS is actually about loss: the loss of innocence, dignity and hope. The film's final irony is our usual compensation: "If these wings should fail me Lord, meet me with another pair." MEET ME, JESUS is a compilation film using found footage as well as original material and hand painting on film. Rental: $30.00 |
Walter Ungerer Solstice (Oobieland Part Three)
(1971) 16mm, color, sound, 33 min Keywords: Environment & Nature Someone attempts to find Oobieland. The realm of artificial sound encountered in PART ONE is left behind; there is a terrible silence. The television studio of PART TWO is left behind; big trees and snow populate the visible world. Somewhere a boundary is crossed; the viewer is caught up in a cycle of meetings with strange inhabitants of that short space of time we call winter solstice. Rental: $55.00 |
Walter Ungerer The Terrible Mother
(1972) 16mm, color, sound, 25.25 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature In the kitchen of a Vermont farmhouse four people come to sit around a table. The silence of solstice holds them together. Before a ritualized meal they each tell a story. Their stories are ominous, yet, as in PART ONE, they are incomplete. Earlier, the Terrible Mother has passed on her powers to a young woman. At the close of the film this young woman enters the farmhouse and with final simplicity restores the old order. Rental: $50.00 |
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