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Walter Ungerer

6 X 6 (1993) DVD NTSC, color, sound, 35 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

The film is an improvised story about a young man who meets a young woman in a public place. He attempts to establish a friendship. This situation is played out three time, each time with different characters and different actors in different locations. What occurs unfolds differently with each story. In each situation the actors don't know each other. They respond spontaneously as they create the dialogue and the narrative.

Rental: $25.00

Walter Ungerer

and all this madness (2003) DVD NTSC, color, Sound, 79 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

This is a documentary about the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack in New York City. It begins with an interview with an options trader at the American Stock Exchange describing his experience at the location close to the site during the attack. The film goes on with footage shot at the New York City site ten days after the tragedy occurred. It continues with interviews with people from Vermont (Ungerer was living in Vermont at the time) expressing their views about the reason for the attack. Vermonters represented the vast majority of the nation in that they only knew what had happened from the media news reports.

Rental: $150.00

Walter Ungerer

The Animal (1976) 16mm, DVD NTSC, color, sound, 73 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

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: $150.00 (16mm), $150.00 (DVD NTSC)

Walter Ungerer

Computer Animation (1999) VHS NTSC, 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: $75.00

Walter Ungerer

Down The Road (2005) DVD NTSC, color, Sound, 94 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal, Psychology & Mental Health

It is at once an experimental film and a documentary. It illuminates three difficult years in filmmaker Walter Ungerer's life: the sudden and painful end to a seventeen year marriage. In search of answers for the cause of his circumstances, he embarks on a series of interviews with people themselves afflicted with pain and suffering. Though a film about filmmaker Walter Ungerer at a particularly difficult time in his life, down the road is a journey we all take. It is a road we all travel as we face our own mortality.

Rental: $94.00

Walter Ungerer

Early Films 1965-1973 (1965-1973) DVD NTSC, color and black & white, Sound, 61 min

Genre: Experimental

Meet Me, Jesus (1966) 15 mins. Introduction To Oobieland (1969) 10 mins. Ubi Est Terram Oobiae? (part two of oobieland) (1969) 5 mins. Solstice (part three of oobieland) (1971) 31 mins.

Rental: $120.00

Walter Ungerer

The House Without Steps (1979) 16mm, DVD NTSC, color, sound, 92 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Art & Artists, 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 (16mm)

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

Keeping Things Whole (1971) DVD NTSC, color and black & white, Sound, 68 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: History, Personal / Diary / Journal, Political / Social Activism

Unlike the world wars and Korea, not many films have come out of the murderous fatigue of Viet Nam. Perhaps that's because it's not easy to make a film about a difficult, complicated war. Walter Ungerer set out to make a film about the decision facing a conscientious American youth when he is drafted. Arthur, the hero (played by Columbia University student Arthur Albert) is drafted and unsure of what to do. Slowly we are introduced to three sets of characters whose decisions ultimately determine the course of Arthur's resolution to his dilemma, and thus his life. First comes a group of non-Americans. Then a second group consisting of actual friends, family and acquaintances of Arthur the actor. Finally, the third group, an intriguing cross-section of Americans: teenie boppers, suburbanites, Green Berets, an artist and a Spanish American War vet. The final solution is brought about by bringing the non-Americans together in an auditorium, showing them all the previously shot footage and asking them to vote on what they think Arthur should do.

Rental: $120.00

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