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Blond Barbarism Blonde Barbarei
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Philosophical
"Dore O.'s latest film, BLONDE BARBAREI, was shot in black and white and later sepia-colored throughout. It uses much music reminiscent of a Gregorian choral, a figure (a woman) moves in front of windows, looking down on houses, on roofs, into a courtyard with trees. The atmosphere is that of rain, of sadness, a closed-in life which she does not leave, always the windows, the variation of moving back and forth before them ... halting, a strange rhythm which sometimes seems to accompany, sometimes seems to run against that of the music but which still leaves one with the impression that it had been specifically 'composed' for that particular sound track. "Yes, the windows are factory windows, each consisting of many various glass panes which accounts probably for an association of church windows. But as in a church, it is the closed-in atmosphere, the sadness, the tendency to move slowly, that counts. "So that the film is a metaphor, for the life certainly of a woman (but then of men too?), lives imprisoned in the worlds around them, bourgeois marriage, bourgeois professions, everything that looms above & around us, 'inescapably.'" -- Andreas Weiland
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
Runs Good
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Films about Film, Media
Sound: Cisko Curtis A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The film is also concerned with such perceptual phenomena as color-space, "false tones" caused by varying black-white alternations of simultaneously seen rhythms set up by multiple repetitive actions, and the use of image outlines as "containers" for other imagery. Sort of a working notebook, which is continued in EASYOUT and DOWN WIND. Award: First Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1971
Rental: $50.00
16mm Rental: $50.00
Saugus Series
Genre: Experimental
Saw: Chris Casady; Key: Mort Subotnick; Blue Paint: 7-K Color Co; Mix: Don Worthen. Actually, seven short films, one-and-a-half to six minutes long, united by a common soundtrack. Each is an evolving "still life," made up of meticulously assembled but spatially contradictory elements. For example, in one part the sun can be seen, by its shadows, to be traveling in one direction in the upper half of the screen, and in the opposite in the lower half. Commentary on Part 5: P: Now you might say this is an interesting sort of design .... B: But after a while you'd grow tired of looking at it. It would lack interest. P: And so the artist must always temper his repetition of movements of forms with what might be called a certain amount of variety. B: Suppose I enlarged some of them, changed their direction, make some smaller, add dark values and lighter values .... P: Or perhaps a tree, sharply contrasting in value from the surrounding shapes. B: There is sharp contrast, at this point, between the fan and the surrounding objects in a Great Triangle someplace perhaps a mile or a mile and a half above the surface of the Earth. P: And here we see order; order which includes omission and alternation from nature. Award: Tom Berman Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1975
Rental: $25.00
16mm Rental: $25.00
Sidewinder's Delta
Genre: Experimental
"When a giant trowel is plunged into the floor of Monument Valley, it's as though John Ford had hired Claes Oldenburg to dress his set. The film, O'Neill's most ambitious to date, with a dreamy, narrative subtext underlying its sensuous surface, is framed by abstract animations which denote scratches or scraped-off emulsion in much the same way that Roy Lichtenstein offered a benday-dot brushstroke as a painterly gesture." -- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice "Almost every sequence in SIDEWINDER'S DELTA concludes with a rough end -- punches, flares, white flashes, etc. But unlike the academy leaders of RUNS GOOD with their rhythmic, emblematic and referential functions, as well as their purely reflexive alienation effect, these glimpses of film technology in SIDEWINDER'S DELTA serve primarily to delineate and verify the conceptual unit of O'Neill's filmmaking, for we can see directly at what stage his idea was completely formulated, and in the case of some early scenes with sync-punch mattes, exactly what elements were compounded in what way to compose this particular idea structure of ideograph." -- William Moritz
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Foregrounds
Genre: Experimental
"FOREGROUNDS, like SAUGUS SERIES, is devoted almost entirely to carefully constructed spatial ambiguities. The most visceral of these prints a rotating boulder, occupying half of the screen, over a slow lateral pan across the desert (painted by Neon Park). A faint superimposition of leaves on top of the landscape has the effect of pushing its vista farther back in space. Correspondingly, the boulder bulges out of the picture-plane like a Cezanne apple. The effect is so strong that even when O'Neill begins to animate 'scratches' over the image, one's eye refuses to surrender the illusion of volume." -- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Sleeping Dogs
Genre: Experimental
The day they filled all that gravel in front of Jack and Jerry's old studio on Venice Blvd. A yellow bird fascinated by reflection. Several views from the San Francisco Marine Museum on a gray day in December. Three views of Mercer Street, New York after the second big snowstorm of January, '78. Several fogs, a strange puddle, and a female Husky induced to howl by humans. (This film is perhaps best seen after one of the others, like a "chaser.")
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Water and Power
Genre: Experimental
Its title comes from the Los Angeles water district. Much of the film was shot in the Owens Valley and in an old office building in downtown LA and is metaphorically about the exchange of energy between two places. It is also about water, in all of its states, and about cyclical motion: the planets, the tides, the implied rotation of the camera on its axis, and the repetitive actions of the performers. There are also quotations from older movies and their soundtracks: at times their landscapes become continuous with those of the present. Human habitation in this wilderness is tenuous and risky. "... reveals a modern city as layer over layer of experience, and makes no pretense of reducing Los Angeles to anything like a single, coherent understanding. In WATER AND POWER, LA is not merely an elaborate reality; it is a nearly overwhelming surreality." -- Scott McDonald, Wide Angle "The 'reality' animated by the film is LA; its topography and social ambiance, its myths of creation and embedding of a dream. It is surely the greatest of contemporary 'city symphonies.'" -- Paul Arthur, Moving Picture "The continuous shifts and surprises that lie at the heart of the film's form make a kind of grand metaphor for the never-ending change that underlies nature, civilization and the multiply symbiotic interchanges between them." -- Fred Camper, Chicago Reader Exhibition: NY Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival; Image Forum, Tokyo; Telluride Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival; Helsinki Film Festival; Bombay Film Festival and others.
Rental: $100.00
16mm Rental: $100.00
Aesthetic Quality, An
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Political
"Obern's camera wanders around an apartment filled with an incredible amount of Nazi memorabilia while on the soundtrack a rather vacuous voice- perhaps the actual collectors?- tells us how beautiful this stuff really is. The effect is almost as sickening as a piece of authentic concentration camp footage." - Kevin Thomas Los Angelos Times
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Social Activism _Political
"A lyrical film which studies the early mood of the June 23, 1967 peace march in Los Angelos. Dealing with the march before the police riot, it includes a view of the crowds, the marching, the waiting police, Dr, Spock, Rap Brown, and Cassius Clay," V.O.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Untitled
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: art, cameraless
" The image is anything imaginable that could be done to film that wasn't photographed with a camera. It consists of abstract colors playing off each other to color lines statically fighting each other to a 'rain' of color. The changing sequences of color go well with the static changes of the sound." G.O.
Rental: $25.00
16mm Rental: $25.00
Complexe
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Comedy
"If there is any such thing as a popular avant-garde film, this 1964 picture is it: audiences have found it one of the funniest of all surrealistic comedies. About man's place in the world, or lack of it, the pictures uses single-frame techniqes with actors skating on geta or sailing through the streets on tatami, or barely moving as the high-speed world rushes about them. An invited entry to the 1965 Tours Festival, this picture is the first 16mm by its young (born 1938) director." Donald Richie
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Burning Star, A
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: Family
"A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated. Maintaining a solid rhythm and perspective, this film highlights the meaning and importance of "viewing" and "filming" in documentary." (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Asian Currents Programme)
Rental: $150.00
16mm Rental: $150.00
Dioptric
Keywords: Philosophical
Original format: 16mm (transferred to DVD) Through images of the night sky and pictures and text from an imaginary scrapbook, the filmmaker explores the production and mediation of personal history.
Rental: $50.00
DVD NTSC Rental: $50.00
Lili on Air
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Political / Social Activism
"Lili On Air" engages with ideas of femininity and war, translation and myth as experienced through the cinema and radio during World War II. Media, like troops, can be mobilized and this video examines the way technologies are organized to particular ideological ends.
Rental: $50.00
DVD NTSC Rental: $50.00
VHS NTSC Rental: $50.00
MiniDV NTSC Rental: $50.00
Plus Tard
Genre: Experimental
Shot on 16mm. In PLUS TARD (LATER) a woman is trapped in a circle of repetition and in a struggle to reach an unattainable goal. Images question and confront her and the hope of something new is slowly growing.
Movie
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Ethnic / Multicultural, Personal / Diary / Journal
Originally super-8 blown up to 16mm Produced and directed by Vivian Ostrovsky. Edited by Ostrovsky and Gisele Meichler. Sound by Ostrovsky and Patrick Genet. From Paris to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Rio, from Jerusalem to New York. With a Super 8 camera shooting only at night. Hungarian crooners, Indian tribal chants, opera arias and an occasional samba make up the soundtrack of this "hand-held" diary.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Copacabana Beach
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Comedy, Ethnic / Multicultural
Originally super-8 blown up to 16mm A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer and hints of Carmen Miranda.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Allers-Venues
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal
Originally super-8 blown up to 16mm Produced and directed by Vivian Ostrovsky. Edited by Ostrovsky and Gisele Meichler. Sound by Ostrovsky and Patrick Genet. A month in the country. In summer, a group of friends rent a house in southern France. People come and go, making their way through chickens, dogs and cats. Playful sounds and a wacky collage of music make up the soundtrack.
Rental: $45.00
16mm Rental: $45.00
*** (Three Stars)
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal
Originally super-8 blown up to 16mm Produced and directed by Vivian Ostrovsky. Edited by Ostrovsky and Jean Pecheux. Sound by Ostrovsky and Patrick Genet. Sarah and Paul leave their native California once a year to eat their way through France. They test the Michelin guide's recommendations for three-star ratings (the top rating) and between meals still have time to do some wine-tasting at the best cellars. The filmmaker follows them around in a second car...
Rental: $35.00
16mm Rental: $35.00
Eat
Genre: Experimental
Originally super-8 blown up to 16mm Produced and directed by Vivian Ostrovsky. Mix by Patrick Genet. 16mm edit by Francois Sculier. An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.
Rental: $45.00
16mm Rental: $45.00
I Am The Walrus
Genre: Experimental
"This film entitled I AM THE WALRUS, was made on the idea of the Beatles' song of the same name. I have taken the song and have given to it a visual interpretation that I or anyone might get when he hears the song and thinks about the lyrics, I will not tell the impressions that I got from the film, I would rather that you view the film and try to figure it our for yourself. I will say however that you should try to see the images on the screen not as they are but rather as they might be when taken in relationship with the lyrics of the song. Remember the film is only a commentary on the theme of the song, not vice versa.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
"A montage of still and moving images, mixing and alternating black people and white people, fantasy and reality, a presidential suite and a mother's kitchen: a sensitive, poetic evocation in the manner of the film-maker's "Remembrance". Brilliantly colored and nostalgic, it comprises a magical transformation of painterly collage and still photographic sensibility into filmic time and space." -- Charles Boultenhouse "(Edward Owens) may well be one of the few for whom 'amateur' and 'professional' need have no significance whatsoever: true to his own native talents, with grim determination uncanny, whether the mind in the arts is for or against beauty or its opposite twin, chaos. So that with each subsequent struggle to complete a film he will leave us breathless with anticipation for his next work." -- Gregory Markopoulos on Edward Owens' film AUTREFOIS
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Tomorrow's Promise
"Edward Owens shows in "Tomorrow's Promise" a style pictorially so exciting that the next he must do is listen to my advice." -- Parker Tyler
Rental: $80.00
16mm Rental: $80.00
Sutra (Tribute to J Coltrane)
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography & Autobiography
"this film is made for the people who try to live and will try to live furthermore. And, again, the film is dedicated to the late great musician, John Coltrane, whose works showed us the true joie de vivre".
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Biography & Autobiography, Personal / Diary / Journal
This stunningly emotional film is about duty, heroism, pride and loss as seen in the home movies of a military family. The piece takes you on a journey inward, towards family and identity. Although it might seem preoccupied with loss, in its pensive music it is actually a song of hope - a wish for the future.
Rental: $50.00
16mm Rental: $50.00
Easy Out
Genre: Experimental
Sound: Stan Levine; Mix: Don Worthen. Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The Creator, impassively observing the inexorable flow of His mountains. The name "Easyout" is derived from a commercially available bolt and stud-extracting tool, whose function seemed strangely parallel to that of the film.
16mm Rental: $30.00
Last Call at the Chelsea
Genre: Narrative
Keywords: Body, Psychology & Mental Health, Queer / Bi / Trans
Dr. Julia world-renowned mathematician and legendary hermaphrodite, makes one final call to her friend before her appointment with Dr. Ovorkian, the famous suicide doctor. Filmed on location at the Chelsea Hotel.
DVD NTSC Rental: $25.00
Every Woman Here: Remnants of Seneca 1982-2006
Genre: Documentary
Keywords: Queer / Bi / Trans
Every Woman Here includes excerpts from nine oral herstories, samples of 15 songs from Peace Camp Sings (produced by Sorrel Hays and Marilyn Ries, 1986), three songs from the Average Dyke Band, 1985 and 305 images from dozens of photographers.
DVD NTSC Rental: $25.00
DVD NTSC Sale: $50.00
