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Graveyard, The
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Story of Sarah
Genre: Experimental
Originally on super-8 this film posits biblical narrative as personal history. It was optically reprinted on 16mm in 1998.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Razed By Wolves
Genre: Experimental
A fairy tale princess transported into an urban landscape with a talking doll serving as interlocutor.
Rental: $35.00
16mm Rental: $35.00
Utopia
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists, Literature & Theater
Utopia is an experimental animation that utilizes layers of traditionally painted cells, rotoscoping, xerox copies and double exposed footage. Here, Narcissus is represented as a female artist who possesses the power to create and inhabit her own realm of existence.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Through Revolving Doors
Genre: Narrative, Experimental
Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health
Through the disintegration of the photographic image, this experimental narrative explores the deceptive construction of memory caused by psychological trauma.
Rental: $35.00
16mm Rental: $35.00
Zeger's Note
Genre: Experimental
A note from a friend in Holland invokes a series of memories and dreams from the past and reminds the maker of the fragility of his own existence. Filmed in Holland and the USA.
Rental: $75.00
16mm Rental: $75.00
Half-Sister
Genre: Experimental
A recently discovered photograph of my half-sister, who was killed in the German concentration camp of Auschwitz, inspires the imagination to conceive a life that would have been.
Rental: $75.00
16mm Rental: $75.00
Balcony, The
Genre: Experimental
The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard. Shot over a period of fifteen months and from one vantage point, THE BALCONY speculates on the evanescence of all our lives.
Rental: $125.00
16mm Rental: $125.00
Forgotten Tenor
Genre: Experimental
On VHS. $75 for rental and $150 for (organization/college) purchases. "Demonstrating the process of oral history, avant-documentarian, Abraham Ravett constructs the life of a largely unknown bebop saxophonist out of a few film traces, some fading memories, and a handful of soaring records. All that's missing from this self-interrogating, experimental bio pic is the story of Ravett's own fascination with the material -- but then that's the movie itself." -- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Rental: $75.00
16mm Rental: $75.00
Horse/Kappa/House
Genre: Experimental
Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan is the setting for The Legends of Tono (Tono monogatari), a unique collection of regional folktales, gathered in the early 20th century by Yanagita Kunio. The tales manifest and explain invisible forces and malevolent events which shape the psycho-cultural dimensions of Japanese indigenous beliefs and folk faith. Inspired by The Legends of Tono, HORSE/KAPPA/HOUSE records the surrounding landscape in a number of small villages throughout Iwate Prefecture in order to create a cinematic space which echoes, by implication and association, the external and unseen world in the environment. Exhibition: Ann Arbor Film Festival; Semana de Cinema Experimental, Madrid; Humboldt Film Festival; Athens Film/Video Festival; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival; Sydney Film Festival; Melbourne Int'l Film Festival; Victoria Int'l Film Festival.
Rental: $50.00
16mm Rental: $50.00
Politician, or Vote for Me, The
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Man in the Box, A
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Films about Film, Media
"Rather than looking outward, and creating a spherical universe around itself (e.g. Michael Snow's LA REGION CENTRAL) , the camera is introspective, defining itself by how it 'sees the world'; it never sees anything but itself. A MAN IN THE BOX is a camera's photographic memory, trying to focus upon its own image." R.R.
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Still Life #1: Cherries
Keywords: Philosophical, Psychology & Mental Health
A meditation piece. Close-up of bing cherries being pitted. Action seen again. Itself seen. Seen twice or more/Ha!/Each/Round/Red/Is/Yet/Solid. R.R.
Rental: $20.00
Palimpsest I/Palimpsest II
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
A pure celluloid sculpture: a re-prepared surface. R.R.
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16mm Rental: $20.00
Super8 Rental: $20.00
Still Motion
Genre: Experimental
"Wood into stone before my very eyes. Fenceposts house the forested winter sun." R.R.
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16mm Rental: $20.00
Eclipse: Still Life No. 3
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Films about Film, Media
Aesthetic by Hosea Hirata. The wording of things; the thinging of words; emerging, together.
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Letter to a Long Lost Friend
Genre: Experimental
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Palimpsest III
Genre: Experimental
Calligraphy and the silver screen. Again, toss coin: heads, silent speed; tails sound speed.
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This is Only a Test
Genre: Experimental
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16mm Rental: $25.00
Eclipsed: Still Life No. 4
Genre: Experimental
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16mm Rental: $20.00
The Golden Gate (Das Goldene Tor)
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Found Footage
Weaves together fragments of nature films about insects and reptiles, images from space programs, and astronomy with filmmaker's own footage of human activity from his immediate environment. "The Golden Gate," a term that dates back to pre-Christian mythology, describes the spiritualization and renewal of divine fire by passing through the winter solstice.
Rental: $150.00
16mm Rental: $150.00
Jakob
Genre: Experimental
A study of movement within the frame and its boundaries. Hand painted 16mm leader with cutout super-8 images glued onto the frames.
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Floating Under a Honey Tree
Genre: Experimental
"An image of a child on a swing leads us into a mesmerizing journey through the veils of time and memory." -- SFIFF
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16mm Rental: $20.00
Moon Streams
Genre: Experimental
"MOON STREAMS builds up a surface tension that seems quite rocky and solid. This surface gradually begins to crumble and a bubbling of dusty gold begins, like a geyser, to break up this tension. The surface of paints and rhythms begin to flow with the water and everything inside the body of work begins spilling out until electrical creative charges accompany the liquid gold and rock. Suddenly, out of this storm comes a red and yellow explosion of warmth and creativity, spilling out over the body like a lava flow." -- Courtney Hoskins
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Sand Castle
Genre: Experimental
SAND CASTLE grasps for visual memories of home in the midst of a sense of displacement. In the film, paint, clay, sand, and jello, combined with images of houses embody the textures and impression of the past.
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Garden Path
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
Film by Stan Brakhage and Mary Beth Reed. GARDEN PATH depicts the creative process of hand painted film giant, Stan Brakhage. Inspired by Monet's paintings from Giverny, Brakhage's luminous abstract painting transforms the screen into an oneiric botanical landscape. Brakhage's painted loops leap out of black and white footage of the master at work, painting and printing.
Rental: $20.00
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Montessori Sword Fight
Genre: Experimental
A young girl struggles to perfect her new found passion, swordfighting. She discovers her role model when a band of Montessori school children invite her to a demonstration given by a legendary Hollywood master. After intense training, the children's adroit sword play awakens their competitive instincts. They rebel against their teacher, and a harrowing duel ensues. The heroine faces internal turmoil, when the Montessori gang forces her to choose between her master's path and their growing power. The film combines optically printed and hand processed original and appropriated imagery.
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Elations In Negative
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Literature & Theater
A bloody adaptation of a William Carlos Williams poem.
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Girls Daydream About Hollywood
Genre: Experimental
"A fragmented psychic landscape where TV clips, bar talk, and rape loom close, trying to reconstruct and resolve sexual abuse becomes a complex project of association and recall." -- Elisabeth Subrin, Visions
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Taste it Nine Times
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: History
Nine optically-printed film sketches depict the passions, fetishes and humor of various women of history and fantasy.
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Monsters in the Closet
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: queer_bi
Dirty little girl stories, girl gangs, and other tales from the closets of adolescence.
Rental: $45.00
16mm Rental: $45.00
Configuration 20
Genre: Experimental
Primordial sounds and organic creatures evoke the moment when life began.
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
Girl's Nervy, The
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: cameraless
A nostalgic and exuberant study of the single frame and eye popping rhythms. Constructed by cutting, pasting, and painting both clear film and filmed images.
Rental: $25.00
16mm Rental: $25.00
Chronic
Genre: Experimental
"(Chronic) conveys a disturbed mind through a pastiche of visual styles, effectively and often movingly with a camera that seems both playful and emotionally subjective. The rapidly shifting tones and moods of this work both give it energy and suggest the "unquiet thoughts" of a mind that hasn't found a resting place". -- Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader.
Rental: $120.00
16mm Rental: $120.00
We Are Going Home
Genre: Experimental
"We are Going Home" is a 10 minute experimental film shot in June 97, at a Philip Hoffman's film retreat in rural Ontario. The film was made in the memory of Marian McMahon, an experimental Canadian filmmaker who died of cancer in the fall of 1996. "We are going Home", solarized, tinted, and optically printed, is a surreal portrait of desire, ghosts and pursuit.Ę Rhythmic color shifts in the emulsion brings life to the country landscape, which comes to embody the terrain of the subconscious. Three women act seek pleasure and past in parallel universes which cannot intersect. Consciousness is always singular. AWARDS/FUNDING 1998: Waggaman Film Completion Grant, UC San Diego. 1999: Black Maria Film Festival, Juror's Citation. Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Co-op Award.
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
Darling International
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Erotic
Co-maker: M. M. Serra An exploration of sexual fantasies of a NY metal worker. "An evocative work whose sexual sadomasochistic scenario, grainy visual texture and layered soundtrack render it highly tactile, fairly begging to be touched." -- Shannon Kelly, Sundance Film Festival 2000, Festival Guide
Rental: $75.00
16mm Rental: $75.00
Fear of Blushing
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: cameraless
Bleached, painted and optically-printed, Fear of Blushing combines alternating textures, irrepressible color and corroded figures with menacing sound bites, effects & rhythm. Fleeting visions and voices emerge in unusual juxtapositions, suggesting a psycho-cinematic free-association. As individual frames are never projected for more than 1/8 of a second this film discourages reflection and is best experienced in the immediate present. Only after the onslaught can you wonder what horrible thing was buried there.
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
Skinny Teeth
Genre: Experimental
Video "Appropriated audio from motivational tapes and raw hewn video footage of the exploits of two punk girls creating a disturbance in an Ohio Mall (circa 1988) challenge the great society of the American heartland. A savvy examination of hard-edge adolescent aggression and an attack on 'proper' codes of behavior. The future is yours." -- Karyn Riegel
Rental: $20.00
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ode
Genre: Experimental
Experimental narrative, shot originally on super-8. Theme song performed by Yo La Tanga. Based on the real life legend of Billy Joe McAllister.
Rental: $150.00
VHS NTSC Rental: $150.00
then a year
"A camping trip shared by two longtime friends provides the basis for a beautifully nuanced study in friendship and the irretrievability of the past in "Old Joy." Second feature by director Kelly Reichardt trades the humid Florida swamplands of her impressive 1994 debut, "River of Grass," for the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest, but maintains the earlier film's richly atmospheric feel for regional American landscapes and the characters that populate them." -- Scott Foundas, Variety
Rental: $75.00
Egypt
Genre: Experimental
Subtitled print.
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
La Vache Qui Rumine
Genre: Experimental
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16mm Rental: $20.00
Puritan's Dream, A
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $40.00
16mm Rental: $40.00
Work In Progress
Genre: Experimental
Super-8.
Rental: $20.00
Super8 Rental: $20.00
Mexican Footage, The
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: art
"When Ron Rice died, in Mexico, he left a dozen rolls of exposed film. This sample contains four rolls of beautiful color and black and white, shot in Mexico." -- Jonas Mekas.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Flower Thief, The
Genre: Experimental
Starring Taylor Mead "In the old Hollywood days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of ideas failed (writers, directors, was called upon to 'cook up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed in the field of stunt." -- R.R. "Rice, by deliberately flouting established movie making traditions, reveals himself primarily as a professional rebel rather than the leader of a new movement. But in the highly specialized area of experimental films, he has produced a major work."-- Eugene Archer, The New York Times.
Rental: $130.00
16mm Rental: $130.00
DVD NTSC Sale: $300.00
Senseless
Genre: Experimental
Soundtrack: Bartok, Mexican and Indian music; Edited by Howard Everngam. "Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico... highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal developement of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty an ddestruction."-- David Brooks.
Rental: $80.00
16mm Rental: $80.00
Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man, The
Genre: Experimental
With Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice. Edited, from notes and memory, & musical score by Taylor Mead. Other performers: Judith Malina, Julian Beck, Jonas Mekas, Charles Rydell, Ed Sanders, Jack Smith, Jay Hoppe, Danny Dumbrowski, Will Guy, and friends. Titles by Bob Smith. Archival restoration by Anthology Film Archives, 1981/1982. "Ron Rice died before he had completed shooting the film. he had, however, put together a 'fundraising version' of the film. After his death, Howard Everngam, and old friend of Ron's, according to his best knowledge of the filmmaker's intentions, put together a version of the film which was available through the Film-Makers' Cooperative until now. In 1979-82, using SHEBA materials deposited with Anthology Film Archives, and guiding himself by memory and notes made during the shooting, Taylor Mead prepared the present, definitive version of the film, and the soundtrack. The previous versions of the film--Everngam's and Ron's fund-raising versions are being preserved at Anthology for scholarly use."-Jonas Mekas.
Rental: $150.00
16mm Rental: $150.00
Chumlum
Genre: Experimental
With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez, Joel Markman, Frances Francine, Guy Henson, Barry Titus, Zelda Nelson, Gerard Malanga. Music by Angus McLise. Sound Technician: Tony Conrad. "It's not unlike a bizarre dream, in riotous color.." New York Herald Tribune.
Rental: $60.00
16mm Rental: $60.00
DVD NTSC Sale: $200.00
Rhythm 21
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: art
"Richter's first film, RHYTHM 21, stands at the very beginning of the avant-garde film movement. For the first time, a film has utilized the movie screen as a directors substitute for the painters' canvas, as a framed rectangular surface on which a kinetic organization of purely plastic forms is composed. For normally, the movie screen is perceived as a kind of window, more or less arbitrarily circumscribed, behind which an illusion of space appears. In RHYTHM 21, high contrast, it is a planar surface activated by the forms upon it. Thus its forms, like those of abstract painting of its time (especially Mondrian and Van Doesburg), have no physical existence except on the screen, nor do we sense their lateral extension beyond the limits of the screen as is usually the case with images created by camera vision. In RHYTHM 21, the screen is articulated by movements of mathematical percision and maximum of graphic clarity. Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental geometry and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting opposites."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Rhythm 23
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: art
"More complex than RHYTHM 21, the film is nonetheless a logical extent of Richter's conviction that film is modern art. Again, the orchestration of basic geometric forms according to precise rhythmical patterns is the basis for this second experiment. The construction of a system of shutters on strings, and moveable slides, enabled Richter to film light reflections on a screen instead of having animated 'cut-outs.' The premier at the UFA Kurfuerstendamm Theatre in Berlin ended in near riot."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Film Study
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: art
"Richter's first film in a Surrealist vein the mood of FILM STUDY is lyrical and poetically evocative. Its magic propels us into a world fantasy, forcing us to dream with open eyes, as objects and forms float past, transforming themselves as if by a logic beyond rational comprehension. The music is by the noted composer Darius Milhaud."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Ghosts Before Breakfast
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: art
Photography by Reimar Kuntze. Music by Paul Hindemith. With Darius Milhaud, Jean Oser, Walter Gronostay, Werner Graeff, Paul Hindemith, and Hans Richter as actors. "Pure vintage dada. A humorous, delightful, grotesque in which ordinary objects rebel against their daily routine and, for a brief period of liberation, fallow their own laws. A bow-tie undoes itself, bowler hats float gracefully through the air, coffee cups leap from a tray to smash themselves on the ground, and so forth. At the stroke of noon, they return to their normal functional state. GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST represents one of the earliest collaborations between avant-garde filmmaker and composer: Paul Hindemith's score accompanied the film when it was first shown at an avent-garde music festival in Baden-Baden in 1928."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Race Symphony
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
"Richter's brilliant gift as an editor in nowhere more evident than in this impressionistic documentary on the preparation and start of a horse race at a track near Berlin. Marked by a sharp pace and an acute visual observation of telling gesture and detail, it is hard to believe that this film was made over 40 years ago. It was produced for Maxim-Emelka, a Berlin studio, as an introductory to the feature film, ARIADNE IN HOPPEGARTEN."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Everything Turns, Everything Revolves: Excerpt
Keywords: art
Photography by Reimar Kuntze. Music by Walter Gronostay. "A day at the carnival--sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of EVERYTHING TURNS, Richter's first sound film. At its premier at Baden-Baden Richter got into a fight with two Nazi officials who disliked the films 'modernism.' Yet in 1936 it was awarded first prize for artistic merit by the Nazi's, with Richter's name suppressed from the credits. He had long since left Germany."--Standish D. Lawder.
Rental: $30.00
Dreams That Money Can Buy
In collaboration with Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Darius Milhaud, John Cage, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, Louis Applebaum. Internat. Award "for the best original contribution to the progress of cinematography", Biennale, Venice. -- Hermann Weinberg
Rental: $150.00
8 x 8
A Chess-sonata in 8 episodes, with Jean Arp, Jacqueline Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Julien Levy, Alexander Calder, W. Sandberg, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Jean Cocteau, Achmed ben Driss, Jose Sert, Frederick Kiesler, Paul Wiener. -- Herman Weinberg
Rental: $150.00
Passionate Pastime
Genre: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: history
Hans Richter's documentary on the game of chess. Narrated by Vincent Price. Outlines the history of chess from ancient times to the present and traces its origins in India, China, and Persia. Prints, painting, illuminated manuscripts, live photography and rare chess pieces are shown as well as chess figures designed after Picasso and Braque.
Rental: $75.00
2616
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture
"An old house in a student ghetto in Austin, Texas. A five-minute walk from the tower where Charles Whitman started shooting people one day; a few hours drive from Dallas where Kennedy was killed. Both these things happened while I lived there. The house is now a parking-lot, and the people who lived there are scattered in every sense". D.R.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Balconies One
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Landscape & Architecture, Psychology & Mental Health
"The film of an abandoned factory building. The textures of steel, concrete, wood; the textures of rubble and decay; the textures of film grain; the textures of the mind." D.R.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
March on the Pentagon
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: History, Political / Social Activism
"On October 21, 1967 over 100,000 people came to Washington D.C. to oppose the war in Vietnam. The rally assembled in front of washinton monument, then marched to the pentagon. There they were met by U.S. Troops, marshalls, tear gas, etc. At the time it was difficult to judge the impact of the demonstration, but most of the participants came away strongly affected by their experience. It was an important event in American history, but one badly covered by the press, who left it to the demonstrators themselves to write and film a record of the march. "
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Mindscape #1
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal
The obsessive, oppressive progress of images against a background of droning sound. An uncomfortable film with a quality of ightmare and madness." D.R.
Rental: $20.00
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Mindscape #2
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal
The Mindscape series is an experiment in a kind of 'diary' film dealing with specific periods in my life in terms of images, not of events. A sort of progress report to myself on the state of my mind -- in that sense a private film not meant to communicate.
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Zen Guts
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Children & Youth, Dance
"Color shapes and textures move with the rhythm of Yugoslav folk-music. A happy film, kids and folk-dance freaks will especially like.
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Smara, The
Genre: Experimental
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Sailor Dance
Genre: Experimental
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Jerovi
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Erotic, Literature & Theater
Jerovi a sexual probe of the Narcissus myth. His beautiful male subject clothed at first in rich brocade, but later nude, is photographed lingeringly in a lush garden. If sensual self-love in practice doesn't offend you, you'll find some vivid camera imagery."
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Lupe
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Biography & Autobiography, Queer / Bi / Trans
Strangely neglected for way too long, Jose Rodriguez Soltero's Lupe is an underground classic of the stature of Flaming Creatures, Scorpio Rising, Hold me While I'm Naked, or The Chelsea Girls. It is ostensibly a biopic of Lupe Velez inspired by Kenneth Anger's sketch of the Mexican spitfire in Hollywood Babylon and, stylistically, by Von Sternberg's Marlene Dietrich vehicles. Rodriguez Soltero takes some liberties with the facts and produces a color-saturated, gorgeous dime-store baroque that tells of Lupe's rise from whoredom to stardom, her fall into fractured romance and suicide, and her ascension into the spirit world. It is consistently inventive and surprising, and wrapped in a dense soundtrack that combines, Elvis, Cuban boleros, Spanish flamenco, The Supremes, and Vivaldi. It features some of the main players of the Ridiculous Theatrical Playhouse (Charles Ludlam plays a keen lesbian seducer and Lola Pashalinsky, Lupe's maid). Mario Montez never looked better; no wonder this was his favorite film. Whether they know it or not, Pedro Almodavar, Vivienne Dick, and Bruce LaBruce have a grandfather in Jose Rodriguez Soltero. --Juan Suarez
Rental: $145.00
16mm Rental: $145.00
Dialogue with Che
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $100.00
16mm Rental: $100.00
Habitue
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $20.00
16mm Rental: $20.00
Hummingbird & The Flood, The
Genre: Experimental
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16mm Rental: $20.00
Man Who Could Not See Far Enough, The
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Films about Film, Media
THE MAN WHO ... uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space. Spectacular moving multiple images; a physical, almost choreographic sense of camera movement; and massive, resonant sound have inspired critics to call it "stunning" and "hallucinatory." The film ranges in subject from a solar eclipse to an ascent of the Golden Gate Bridge, and moves, in spirit, from the deeply personal to the mythic. "[A] powerfully formal, analytic inquiry into the nature of vision and cinema ... painfully beautiful images of mysterious events and things that split, multiply, migrate and quiver with a hallucinatory vibrance ... a rich fabric interlacing the metaphysical with the ironical." -- Sally Banes, The Village Voice
Rental: $75.00
16mm Rental: $75.00
Secondary Currents
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health
SECONDARY CURRENTS is a film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an "imageless" film in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and subtitled narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech, and sound. A kind of comic opera, the film is a dark metaphor for the order and entropy of language and has been the subject of a number of articles on the use of language in the arts. Percussion by Jim Meneses. "Prizbah ke no panz fatundo. Elmo cheshkadashi par lo biorn fatooshka! Como cinquema no delamyero sima disi, si cueja filidistro cuamchano mirichi-vasi komino sano dimensia!" -- M'hidradane Vododook
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Pressures of the Text, The
Genre: Experimental
THE PRESSURES OF THE TEXT (1983, 17m) integrates direct address, invented languages, ideographic subtitles, sign language and simultaneous translation to investigate the feel and form of sense, the shifting boundaries between meaning and meaninglessness. A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative, and pornography, it has been performed as a live work at major media centers and new music festivals in the US and Europe. The piece was written, directed and delivered by Peter Rose; co-directed by Jessie Lewis; with sign language and ideographic symbols by Jessie Lewis; and with English simultran by Fred Curchack.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Video Performance DIigital Speech
Genre: Experimental
Rental: $100.00
VHS NTSC Rental: $100.00
Digital Speech
Genre: Narrative, Experimental
Keywords: Films about Film, Media
DIGITAL SPEECH (1984, 13m) uses a traveler's anecdote, a perverse variant of a classic Zen parable, as a vehicle for an exploration of language, thought and gesture. The tape plays with the nature of narrative, with ways of telling, performing and illustrating, and uses nonsense language, scat singing and video rescan for comic comment.
Rental: $30.00
16mm Rental: $30.00
Subcutan
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Environment & Nature, History
A portrait of Vienna in the "year of remembrance," 1988. A cinematographic approach to the history and obsessions of this town. A glance under the skin of everyday life, searching for the open sores in the soul of this would-be metropolis. The objects found: The old lady listening through the wall. A peep show for Catholics. A couple giving life to child they long for. A song for Kurt Waldheim. Fish from the Danube, crashing against a kitchen wall. The torture of zither playing, etc. A personal statement on my hometown, work close to the traditions of Austrian experimental film. A coughing up and spitting out. -- J.R.
Rental: $40.00
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Six Short Films
Genre: Experimental
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Black Harmony, Hi-Fi
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture, Personal / Diary / Journal
A portrait of a place in the context of being an outsider; a personal travelogue working to concentrate the perceived qualities of life, light, and the spirit of the island. The textural dynamics of sound and image were strongly considered in the editing process to crystallize my observation and experience while there.
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Blessed in Exile
Genre: Experimental
Seeking the dynamics of two seemingly disparate cultures (Hassidic Jews, Jamaican Baptists) and unifying them through a textural image and sound weave. A powerful, emotional quality is apparetn in the religiosity, ritual
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Crisis in Utopia
Genre: Experimental
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Reagans Speak Out on Drugs, The
Genre: Experimental
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Ft. Lauderdale: A Portrait
Genre: Experimental
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Passion: a Letter in 16mm
Genre: Experimental
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Christmas On Earth
Genre: Experimental
"A study in genital differentiation and psychic tumult." --Candy O' Brien "What you will be renting now is just what was filmed, uncut, unedited. Projection instructions: The film remains on two reels (A and B), requiring two projectors, to be projected simultaneously at sound speed. The film on the first projector fills the screen, while the image on the second projector is approximately one half smaller and fills the middle of the screen, superimposing on the first image. This can be done either by using different lenses, or by placing one projector closer to the screen. They begin simultaneously, though due to slight differences in speed of each projector, they end slightly different. I've added black leader to compensate for that. When both images are off, turn projectors off. I suggest if possible to use to of the same kind of projectors, and check them before projection. I also suggest that since this is the first time of veiwing this, to put Reel A on the largest screen, and Reel B on the inner, smaller screen, making sure each film is being projected heads out. To complete the cycle, a radio must be hooked up to a PA system, with a nice cross-section of psychic tumult like an AM rock station, turned on and played loud. Also (optional) color gels may be used in front of projector and moved and alternated by hand during the film. PLEASE return this film as it was send to you, whole. Thank you, Barbara Rubin. P.s., PLEASE PROJECT MY FILM IN THE IMAGE IN WHICH IT WAS CREATED-- i.e. EXACTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS!" --B.R.
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Ballet of Lights
Genre: Experimental
8mm
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Shadows Choose Their Horrors
Genre: Experimental
Available on DVD or VHS SHADOWS CHOOSE THEIR HORRORS is the dark and melodic diary of a necromancer living on the edge between the mortal world and the realm of lost souls. Sinister forces surround Madame G (Winsome Brown) as she tries to bond with her favorite undead. Using magic and ritual to give them new life and pleasures, Madame G is shocked by a devastating outcome. This camp and experimental reworking of early silent horror was inspired by both the un-staged Aaron Copland ballet GROHG (1922-25), and the film which stirred the young Copland to write the ballet: NOSFERATU. SHADOWS... was originally made for a performance of GROHG by the American Ballet Symphony Orchestra at Bard Music Festival.
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Time We Killed, The
Genre: Narrative, Experimental
The Time We Killed, her debut feature exploring the inner life of a writer unable to leave her NY apartment on the brink of the US invasion of Iraq. Robyn (played by poet Lisa Jarnot) confronts her growing agoraphobia in this beautifully shot and emotionally compelling portrait of contemporary alienation. (Ariella Ben-Dov)
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Avant-Garde Mock-Film
Genre: Experimental
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The Slasher Film... A Graphic Look
Genre: Experimental
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Light Work Mood Disorder
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: cameraless, Found Footage
Double-projection film (side-by-side projection), soundtrack on CD. LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER mixes and subverts symbols of science, industry, medicine and illness, as it meditates on the deteriorating celluloid and physicality of the pre-digital age. Two screens and pulsating, layered music immerse the audience in colorful rhythmic molecular forms, morphing frequencies and visual textures. Reeves sewed together 20th century educational films and affixed dissolved pharmaceuticals directly to the film. The projector acts as a microscope enlarging thread, crystallized antibiotic, heart, and mood medications, forming a concentrated fusion with Burr's composition of sine-waves, organ and multi-tonal bass clarinet. The animated abstractions rupture and echo the images of brain dendrites, synapses, human x-rays, scientific experiments and factory machine. The rhythmic and visceral imagery is reflected in the movement of Burr's austere and hypnotic soundtrack as it envelops the audience.
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LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER and HE WALKED AWAY
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: cameraless
LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER and HE WALKED AWAY program Film by Jennifer Reeves, Music by Anthony Burr NTSC Digital Beta exhibition tape contains a full program of 54 minutes (Originally 16mm double-projection with live music) *no other video formats available. This film and music collaboration between filmmaker Jennifer Reeves and composer/musician Anthony Burr was originally performed with two 16mm projectors, a laptop, and bass clarinet. The two dual-projection films were bridged in performance by a musical interlude played by Burr. Developed between 2006-2007, the program was performed at Rotterdam International Film Festival, Dundee Contemporary Arts: Kill Your Timid Notion Festival, Tonic (NY), and Diasapon Gallery (NY). LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER Light Work Mood Disorder is a dual-projection film that mixes and subverts symbols of science, industry, medicine and madness. Side-by-side screens and multi-layered music immerse the audience in colorful rhythmic molecular forms, morphing frequencies, and visual textures, which are broken down to the particle level. Found images from the 20th century educational films are literally sewn together with melted down pharmaceuticals affixed to the film. The tactile imagery forms a concentrated fusion with pulsating sine waves, bass clarinet and organ. Illustrations of synapses, dendrites, electromagnetic waveforms and assembly-lines both create and describe the movement of the sound and light waves that envelop the audience. Intensity builds with the discoveries and destruction's of science, cinema and 20th century industrial production. HE WALKED AWAY A dual-projection film, He Walked Away, reframes and superimposes shots and outtakes from earlier Reeves films featuring landscape, portraiture and direction-on-film work (Configuration 20, Fear of Blushing, The Time We Killed). The score composed by Anthony Burr recasts the same austere harmonic material of Light Work Mood Disorder in a more explicitly "musically" coded framework. "Much in the way musicians will mine their previous compositions to create newly evolved works, He Walked Away is a distinct yet nostalgic film. It distills what my eyes have witnessed and lost in 15 years of artistic growth: discoveries, vanishings, and essential growing pains." -Jennifer Reeves
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Bohemia" The Life of a New York City Poet"
Genre: Documentary
Keywords: Art & Artists, Multicultural, History
Bohemia features interviews with, and the poetry of, various poets of different races and ages, all of whom are living and working in New York City. Viewers will get an insight into what inspires these poets and how they express themselves in one of the toughest cities in the country for struggling artists.
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Deux Fois
Genre: Experimental
Jackie Raynal is perhaps best known as the former programmer of two of New York's premiere art cinemas - the Carnegie Hall and the Bleecker Street - who began her career in the 1960s as a film editor for New Wave directors such as Eric Rohmer, Jean-Daniel Pollet and Jean Eustache. Challenged by Zanzibar patroness Sylvina Boissonnas to stop editing other people's films and make her own, Raynal traveled to Barcelona, where she completed DEUX FOIS (1969)in a single week. One of the most enigmatic of the Zanzibar films, it is composed of a series of unconnected episodes, some repeated twice. The fairy-tale phrase "once upon a time" is turned on its head, as is the logic of classical film construction. With herself as the film's "star", Raynal announces each of the film's sequences and proclaims, theatrically and ironically, "tonight will be the end of meaning."
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Merce Cunningham
Genre: Documentary
Keywords: art & artists, dance, music
The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.
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Notes on Jonas Mekas
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: art & artists, biography, films about film
Documentary film about Jonas Mekas.
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Trailers
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: art / artists, landscape / architecture
A collection of trailers for the following films: "Merce Cunningham", "Deux Fois", "New York Story", "Hotel New York", "Autour de Simon Lazard".
Trains Are For Dreaming
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: environment / nature, family, history, personal diary / journal
Eight super-8 film years condensed into seven eye-popping minutes. A dreamer moves through landscapes to far seas-over tracks, winding roads, skies and waters-a journey of flight and fancy.
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Toil of Three Cities/Liebesmueh
Genre: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: personal_diary_journal
Music: Charlie Morrow, DJ Robeat, Matthew Lee Knowles, Virgil Segal, Brandstifter. Language: English with some translated German. Shot in New York, London and Berlin, this experimental documentary performance narrative is a tongue-in-cheek video fable that tells the tale of an artist struck by the extreme, sustained physical exertion of ordinary workmen. She seeks meaning in her own life by searching for the reasons behind their seeming enjoyment of "backbreaking work for the pleasure of others." She decides to practice yoga to strengthen her own body and open her heart, but feels inadequate to the task, so she sets out on a quest to find a guru-worker to tell her why they work so hard. Feeling guilty that her own heart is not so pure, she tries to avoid detection and arrest, but that inevitably happens. While in prison she meets 12 hard-working prostitutes who do manage to open her heart, then 4 little girls show us what is and is not valued as labor in contemporary society. By the end, the construction worker's words of wisdom provide a surprising insight that can only exist in Rosenthal's absurdist universe, which, of course, tells much about our own. Includes evocative, powerful original jazz and experimental music by Charlie Morrow and four other composers, additional text, video, audio and performance by DJ RoBeat, Super-8 footage by Bill Creston, and images from Rosenthal's extensive library. Premiered at Directors Lounge Internationall Film Festival, Berlin, Feb. 2012. LIMITED EDITION OF 30 SIGNED/NUMBERED
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Secret Codes
Genre: Experimental
Audio: DJ RoBeat. A predominantly grayscale image and text video that gives way to a startling color still, "SECRET CODES / GEHEIME VERSCHLUSSELUNGEN / BEHALTENER SIMPOLN" uses Rosenthal's own hands, plus a collage of aberrant palms original created for her photograph-photostat multi-panel piece "Poodle Dog/Oz House/Aberrant Palms" in 1990, re-vivified here to investigate the nature of individuality, and its covalent relationships with language and culture. The relentless, compelling audio track is an electronic collage created by Berlin experimental musician, DJ RoBeat. (Premiered at Lettretage, Berlin, Feb. 2010) CULTURAL STATEMENT ABOUT "SECRET CODES": I have shown work in Berlin 2-4 times a year for five years. I go simply as an artist, I'm introduced as a "New York artist", and listed in the film programs as "American". But it is as a Jew that everyone questions me in private. This video is an attempt to address the great similarities between all human beings, and yet the very small things that make us different, and yet which seem to get all the attention.
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Dog Recognition
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: ethnic_multicultural, philosophical
Audio segments by Russel. Languages: ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, CHINESE, AND GERMAN, all simple, as on-screen text. Note: versions are available in each of these languages separately, or in any combination of two or more of them. "DOG RECOGNITION" is a quick-paced, hysterical inquiry into the mind of a dog recognizing other dogs, himself as a dog, and the difference between himself and the other animals he happens upon. How does one recognize others like oneself? Premiered X-Fest, Remote Video Lounge, NYC, 2004.
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Hot and Cold Shakeup
Genre: Narrative, Experimental
Keywords: personal_diary_journal, philosophical
Seemingly simple and straightforward, as is characteristic of all Rosenthal's work, "HOT AND COLD SHAKEUP" was actually fabricated using one trick of videography, and one fakery of physics. Also characteristic of this life/art creator, is puns and idioms appear in some way, and that her inspiration sparks from real experience. This idea came in a flash while thinking about a love affair. So you get the idea, alternate titles included the following "I'm So Stuck On You I'm Not Normal." "He's No Great Shakes But He Gets Me Off." "I'm No Great Shakes But I Get Him Off." "No Great Shakes But We Get Off." "Can't Shake Him When He's Hot, Can't Shake Him When He's Cold." "Can't Shake Him When I'm Hot, Can't Shake Him When I'm Cold." As of March, 2012, this video has not yet premiered, although it has been shown in previews at eMediaLoft.org, NY. LIMITED EDITION OF 30 SIGNED/NUMBERED.
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Car Coming
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: personal_diary_journal, science_medicine, technology
A 1-minute performance video in which a toy hotrod revs up, races through its shallow depth of field and crashes into the camera. Although one of her very simplest videos, "CAR COMING" is yet another example of Rosenthal's zany investigations into threat and safety, seriousness and play, time and space, size and scale, life and art. Never shown at the time it was first shot or for almost 20 years, this video finally premiered as a loop in a small Rosenthal installation at Fusion Art Museum in New York, in the September, 2009 exhibition "Art of the Crash" curated by Shalom Neuman.
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Bird Rescue
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: personal_diary_journal, philosophical
"BIRD RESCUE" is a stationary camera recording made during 10 minutes of one day in 1997, when, while talking in their loft at 727 Avenue of the Americas, NY, artists Barbara Rosenthal and Bill Creston reallize that a bird, possibly an escaped domesticated parakeet, has gotten trapped between the chicken-wire enforced privacy-glassed panes of their fire-escape windows, and they try to rescue it. This video is PART ONE, in which they free the bird from between the panes, only to have it fly into the loft itself. Coming soon: PART TWO, in which Bill gently catches the creature, it plays dead, and then happily surprises them by flying out the window. Never shown when it was made, nor for over a decade thereafter, this video was premiered as an installation-loop during Rosenthal's show of Flying Art at Morgenvogel, Berlin in 2010.
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Dead Heat
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: philosophical, structural
"DEAD HEAT" gets its title from "dead heat" meaning "tied race". In this video, the screen is split into 4 horizontal layers in which moving subjects (bird, horse, myself, ship) start together, then repeatedly traverse it at their own speeds, intermittently lapping, but starting and ending simultaneously on first and last frames. We all start and end in the same way -- birth and death -- but our "speeds," our lives, within that span are very different. Like almost all Barbara Rosenthal's work, it is formed over time from several inspirations that she records when first noticed or created, then later composited or issued when their relationships, and meanings, become apparent. The four segments were individually recorded by various video technologies in 1987, 2005, 2006, and 2009. Premiered during Barbara Rosenthal's solo mini-retrospective "33 Existential Videos", curated by Klaus Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge at Z-Bar Screening Room, Berlin, 2009. Reviewed by Clare Carswell in Flash Art Interntional, Oct. 2009. CULTURAL STATEMENT ABOUT "DEAD HEAT": Since AIDS and Cancer have been picking off so many of my friends and relatives, I've noticed that although these issues are addressed in art politically, very little is really said in American art about death in a metaphoric way. This is an attempt to address that issue.
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Rules
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: philosophical
Audio segments by Brandstifter. Languages: ENGLISH and TRANSLATED GERMAN, both simple, as on-screen text. "RULES" is an text-animation in black and white, with startling, disturbing electronic sound cut in sync with rapidly moving statements that make us realize the many shades of meaning even simple words can have. While considering the parameters of a real-life relationship supposedly founded on the principles of freedom and liberty, the artist discovered many barriers, restrictions, limitations, guidelines, and pillars, which, if disturbed, might cause a great quake. Suddenly, while contemplating this phenomenon, and realizing that such was the nature of just about everything, this video was born. Premiered at Rosenthal's solo screening, "Existential Word Play", at Berlin Lettretage, Feb. 2010.
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Two Physics Videos: "Space and Time" and "Some Balls Stick, Some Balls Fall"
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: philosophical, science_medicine
"TWO PHYSICS VIDEOS" is a compilation of two of Barbara Rosenthal's short-shorts in which the most outwardly obvious things we take for granted in the course of existence are presented to us in the simplest, most straightforward (and therefor absurdist) way possible. "SPACE AND TIME", shot in 1990, is a text and live-action performance video depicting xeroxed text from philosopher John Redford's book and model of Space and Time. The spacial configuration and timing of the videographed xerox itself, and the foley performance sound, humorously remind us that even the infinite is finite on the screen, but at least perhaps it is not futile to attempt a definition. Shot when "cut" and "paste" meant "cut" and "paste." (1min 5sec) "SOME BALLS STICK, SOME BALLS FALL" is probably the most deceptively simple performance video of all Rosenthal's 100+ deceptively simple performance videos. In it, the off-camera performer (Rosenthal, of course) throws wads of soaked newspapers at a blackboard, the resulting bangs and splatters depicting violence, anger, humor, news commentary, frustration and pure physics. Shot with a black and white 1/2 open reel analog Sony Portapak, the first video equipment Rosenthal ever owned, bought used from Lauren Ewing via Technisphere in 1976. Ambient audio.(2min 35sec 10fr). Neither "SPACE AND TIME", shot in 1990, nor "SOME BALLS STICK, SOME BALLS FALL", shot in 1976, were ever shown until their premier as an installation loop in "Attract/Repel: Art and Physics" at Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Maddy Rosenberg Nov.-Dec. 2010. LIMITED EDITION OF 20, SIGNED AND NUMBERED
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Fly Bus Into Finland
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: ethnic_multicultural, personal_diary_journal, philosophical
Languages: UNIMPORTANT OVERHEARD BACKGROUND CONVERSATIONS IN ENGLISH AND FINNISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES. I shot the "FLY BUS (OUT OF RUSSIA) INTO FINLAND"footage, which you see in toto, with just a few bad frames cut from the beginning, and the last segment stretched in time so you can watch it better, on the bus from St. Petersburg, Russia to Helsinki, Finland in 2007. I'd had a big show of cartoon prints and books, and animation videos in Moscow, and then gone to the small village about 5 hours north by train where Dostoyevsky summered called Starya Russa. I'd wanted to relax for a few days there, and then another few days at another small village 2 hours farther north before going on the Puppet Theater and Hostel in St. Petersburg. But I was expelled from Starra Russa, under threat of arrest, because my papers were not in order, forced to give up my train tickets, my luggage taken from me and handed to the driver, as I was pushed onto a bus by the hotel concieriege. In St. Petersburg, $250 of backshish replaced my papers, which then allowed me to making this trip out of the country altogether. The journey was exemplified, I thought as I traveled, by this little creature accompanying me: both feeling we couldn't escape fast enough on our way to the free world. Premiered as an installation-loop during Rosenthal's show of Flying Art at Morgenvogel, Berlin in 2010. LIMITED EDITION OF 30, SIGNED AND NUMBERED.
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Words Come Out Backwards When Spoken To Screen Left
Genre: Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: personal_diary_journal, philosophical
"WORDS COME OUT BACKWARDS WHEN SPOKEN TO SCREEN LEFT": One irregularly-shaped portrait still of Barbara Rosenthal shot by Bill Creston purses her lips to speak, and out comes a strange configuration of letters on the screen as we hear her voice recite them in ways much more familiar. How did she think up this project? She answers, "Last night I was awake talking to myself, when the words appeared visimagically before my lips, and kept coming out. If you were on my right and saw them also, they'd be backwards coming forwards as they were." This video is yet another example of how Rosenthal apprehends the same universe as appears before the eyes of us all, yet finds its way into her mind and out again as art to reassert and interpret itself in the most surprising ways! Premiered at Rosenthal's solo show "Existential Cartoons", L-Gallery, Moscow, in 2006.
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Society
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: philosophical
"SOCIETY" is another example of a Barbara Rosenthal investigatory single fixed-camera short performance video inspired by an insight occurring from a real event in a real day. Here she sits at a desk with a lamp, a phone, and the Manhattan White Pages, reading all the entries under "Society", and thereby, through this list of how we group ourselves, with no commentary other than subtle vocal inflection, telling us so much about self, other selves, urban identity and humanity.
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Helen Webster: Cancer and Self-Discovery
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: body, ethnic_multicultural, philosophical, science_medicine
"Few independents are courageous enough to let their subjects come across in the simple, direct way that was once video's hallmark. That's why it was so refreshing to discover "HELEN WEBSTER: CANCER AND SELF-DISCOVERY"], amid all the "televisionese" evident in this festival. Shot in black-and-white on half-inch portapak, Rosenthal has let a marvelously articulate woman speak to us without embarrassment, with considerable laughter and occasional perplexity, about what it is like to live 15 years with cancer--'half-bald, with one breast, and a bag strapped to one side of my abdomen.' With poems she's written and thoughts organized not to waste the viewer's time, Helen Webster is funny, moving and irresistible as she talks about sex, her fear of death, and thoughts about suicide." --Deirdre Boyle Sightlines. Award-winner when premiered at Global Village Documentary Festival, NYC, 1983.
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Pregnancy Dreams
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: body, children_youth, family, personal_diary_journal, philosophical
In "PREGNANCY DREAMS" Barbara Rosenthal, nude and nine months pregnant, reads from her Journal dreams of filthy bathrooms, impeccably clothed men, and other parallels. Originally shot in Super-8 film by Bill Creston (seen nude in the mirror with his camera on this very hot August day) as tests of filmstocks for his recording of the birth and subsequent film "OLA: A FILM BY HER FATHER", "PREGNANCY DREAMS" was greeted by calls of outrage when premiered at BACA (The Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association) in 1979, but digitally remastered in 2005, it has gained an increasingly receptive audience through the years.
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33 Existential Video Shorts
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: body, family, personal_diary_journal, philosophical, science_medicine
The 33 shorts in 72 minutes comprising "33 EXISTENTIAL VIDEO SHORTS" was compiled for Barbara Rosenthal's solo mini-retrospective in video at the Z-Bar Screening Room in Berlin by curator Klaus Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge Contemporary Art And Media, on June 25, 2009. Included in this screening, an on this DVD, is the world premiere of "Dead Heat" as well as some of her best-known and rarely shown shorts, in 3 sections: 1. SOLO PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: "Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide", "Words Come Out Backwards", "Whispering Confession", "I Have a New York Accent", "I've Got the World in the Palm of My Hand", "Breaking Glass", "Lying Diary/Provocation Cards", "Handwriting Analysis", "How Much Does the Monkey Count", "How Much Does the Monkey Remember", "Video Will", "Society", "News Wall", "Pregnancy Dreams"; 2. PLAYING WITH OTHERS: "Playing With Matches", "Shadow Boxes", "Mandates for Art", "News to Fit the Family", "Nonsense Conversation", "Rock-A-Bye Rock Lobster", "Colors and Auras"; 3. CONCEPTUAL VIDEOS WITH TEXT, NEWS AND GAMES ABOUT DIMENSION, DURATION, TIME, PHYSICS, LOCATION AND RELATIONSHIP: "Dog Recognition", "Quotation from Paul Gauguin/This is Not a Book", "The Screen Will Be Black and Silent", "Siddhartha", "World View", "Space and Time", "A Boy and His Father Butcher a Deer", "Dead Heat", "American Denominations", "Vienna Photos", "Something from Oliver North". LIMITED EDITION OF 30, SIGNED AND NUMBERED
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Existential Word Play
Genre: Animation, Documentary, Experimental
Keywords: body, personal_diary_journal, philosophical, science_medicine, technology
Compiled for Barbara Rosenthal's solo screening in Berlin at Lettretage - Das junge Literaturhaus in Feb., 2010, "EXISTENTIAL WORD PLAY" is a series of 34 zany shorts which all use text, speech, nonsense and bizarre audio to play with the notion that communication may not be possible at all, no matter how hard we try... Includes remastered works since 1982, plus four premieres: "Feet Handoff," "Rules," and the most harrowing two, "Push Me" and "Secret Codes." Four include German, and one Yiddish. Features Ola Creston, Sena Clara Creston, Bill Creston and the late poet Hannah Weiner, plus audio segments by German experimental composers DJ RoBeat and Brandstifter. The full program, and this DVD, comprise the following shorts, in this order: "Lettering Too Big", "Secret Of Life", "Nancy and Sluggo", "A Boy and His Father Butcher a Deer", "Boggle", "Paths To Follow", "Words Come Out Backwards", "Quotation from Paul Gauguin, "This Is A", "Dog Recognition", "Postcards", "Rules/Regeln", "Space and Time", "World View", "Names and Faces", "Siddhartha", "Black and Silent", "Whispering Confession", "Secret Codes", "Push Me", "Burp Talk", "Daily News", "News To Fit The Family", "I Have a New York Accent", "Lying Diary/Provocation Cards", "Semaphore Poems", "News Wall", "Nonsense Conversation", "Society", "How Much Does the Monkey Remember", "Feet Handoff", "Pregnancy Dreams", and "Handwriting Analysis."
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Early Works
Genre: Animation, Experimental
RHYTHMUS 21 1921 4 min RHYTHMUS 23 1923 4 min FILMSTUDIE 1926 5 min GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST (Vormittagsspuk) 1927-28 7 min RACE SYMPHONY 1928-29 7 min TWO PENCE MAGIC (Zweigroschenzauber) 1928-29 2 min INFLATION 1927 3 min EVERYTHING TURNS EVERYTHING REVOLVES 1929 3 min
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Give Chance a Chance: A Portrait of Hans Richter
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Interview with artist-sculptor-filmmaker-surrealist Hans Richter -- his place in history and his pioneering work in several areas. Richter talks about his career -- which started at the beginning of the century -- early experiments with the movie camera, association with the world of the Surrealists, conflict with the National Socialists in Germany, the origins of Dada, and the evolution of his own style in painting, drawing and collage. Many films clips and examples of his graphic work illustrate his themes.
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Analogies
Genre: Experimental
INCANTATIONS (1968-1972) 8 min ANALOGIES: STUDIES IN THE MOVEMENT OF TIME (1977) 14 min THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH (1981) 33 min SECONDARY CURRENTS (1983-1990) b/w 16 min SPIRIT MATTERS(1991) 6 min I'm an escape artist. I aspire to travel in the fifth dimension, to speak unknown languages, to discover the next stage in the evolution of thought. I construct structural parables that allude to the possibility of there being more to the universe than is permitted by our explanations. - Peter Rose
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