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Newsreel of Dreams No. 2
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Found Footage
"A video/graphic collage of old newsreel footage synthesized with color and superimpositions to produce vision of history as dream-events that look like history but disappear inside each other. Each film is part of an endless series of newsreels of dreams to include any found fil and present newsreel footage.
Rental: $20.00
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Poem Field No. 7
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"Calligraphic computer animation of the enigmatic poem 'There is no way to peace- Peace is the way.' Black and white animation is colored by Brown/ Olvey. This film with soundtrack by John Cage is a lyric accidental stylization of christian myth/crosses. The patterns are written by random programs on a computer with help by Ken Knowlton." S.V.
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See, Saw, Seems
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"Juxtaposed to what we see... is what we think we saw...this is, the memory of dream is as real as the dream itself, but it is completely different from the dream. This film is an experiment in animation, in which the eye of the viewer travels deeper and deeper into each scene, finding new relationships and visual metaphors in what appears at first sight, a simple scene. Symbolic intention is the mother of symbolic retention..that is, sight you are..if you think you are" S.V.
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Transforms
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"Computer animation tricks the eye to believe space and 3d. This film made at the University of Toronto is an experiment in international remote-control film making. Made in ciooperation with a Canada Council grant and the programming help of Les Mezi and Tom Britton. Demonstrates the ease of making drawing into a computer image." S.V.
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Vanderbeekiana
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
"A 1968 CBS 'Camera Three' interview/documentary, including the interpolation of three Vanderbeek films: See Saw Seems, Image after Image, Poem Field no. 1." S.V.
Rental: $40.00
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Videospace
Genre: Experimental
"A film of video light and color. Dancers move through computer-generated patterns and fields of soft color to the music of Ravel. An experiment in video graphics combining the new technologies of video matting and analog computer patterns. One of the most successful of the Boston Symphoney Experiments, 1972, aired nationally." S.V.
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Who Ho Ray No. 1
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"The shapes of sound filmed from a computer system that reproduces analog patterns from sounds. This pioneer work in animated computer mandalas is a lyric abstract song to the analog molecular rhythms of the computer. "S.V.
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Yet
Genre: Experimental
A short film-fillum.
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You Do, I Do, We Do
Genre: Animation
"A visual trip of unfolding unconscious drawings that reveal themselves only to change again. Animated biological and erotic day dreams of men into beasts by one of the leading animated film experimenters in the country, inspired by a trip to Haiti." (S.V.)
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A La Mode
Genre: Experimental
"A montage of women and appearances, a fantasy about beauty and the female, a fomage, a mirage. An attire satire." S.V.
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Astral Man
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"An animated vision... a subliminal glance at man in light and space" S.V.
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What, Who, How
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Keywords: Art & Artists
An animated collage film, a landmark in the beginning of social surrealism and pop art in 1957.
Rental: $30.00
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Wheeeeels No. 1
Genre: Experimental
A companion piece to Wheeeels No. 2, exploring more of the highways and by-ways of "American on Wheels" with the filmmaker's gentle surgery on the American pop-consciousness very much in evidence.
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Achoo Mr. Keroochev
Genre: Animation, Experimental
"A sneezing, displeasing, crooked-looked of visual pratfalls by a patented politician in animation and live." S.V.
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Dance of the Looney Spoons
Genre: Animation, Experimental
An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as a children's film.
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Mankinda
Genre: Experimental
Various projects by Vanderbeek include the construction of the "Movie Dome" in Stony Point, New York, an audio-visual laboratory for simultaneous projection of dance, magic theatre, sound, and film; computer graphics: the development of images and graphics designed by manmade dialogue; animation and new graphics, projection systems, multi-media: integrated information concerts, movie-murals experiments with motion/light/stills/film/magic theatre. MANKINDA is an experimental combination of verse and hand-painted images creating graphic as well as verbal excitement. The letters themselves assume an almost ideographic significance. Vanderbeek described this film as a "visual tunnel, with a poem carved in light upon walls."
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Science Friction
Genre: Experimental
" A social satire aimed at the rockets, scientists, and competitive mania of our time." S.V.
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Wheeeeels No. 2
Genre: Experimental
"Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy farce farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion, motion is the means, the automation is the mean mania of today." S.V.
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Blacks & Whites, Days & Nights
Genre: Experimental
"A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it is but never stays that way. The soundtrack punches out a wild monotone of dirty, nonsense limericks to the accompaniment of hand-drawn images related only in their complementary rhythm." -- David Holmstrom
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Skullduggery
Genre: Experimental
Double exposure and other methods are used to include animated collage "live" newsreel footage, mixing the eye with live scenes and unlive scenes, to jibe at world so-called leaders.
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Snapshots of the City
Genre: Experimental
"A Claes Oldenburg 'happening.' A black statement about the City in which two people represent the populace after a bomb raid." S.V.
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Summit
Genre: Experimental
"World leaders at the crossroads" S.V. "... Constructs a plastic universe where familiar objects lose their usual relations, and when we have adjusted to the new picture, another shuffle occurs- more improbable and more comic than before." Dick Bergman
Newsreel of Dreams No. 1
Genre: Experimental
Dream matrix, history written in lightning image, memory and the TV syntax, images flowing and fused together to other images and electronic tapestry of images half seen, sought for, seeking man's dreams, movies as dreams, history as media. "The artist will tell you it is as much a process he is interested in ... as a result. Art is a process -- life is a process -- are they the same process? So many of the artists became unhappy about this eternal, unyielding quality in their art, and they began to wish their work were more like shoes, more temporary, more human, more able to admit of the possibility of change. The fixed, finished work began to be supplemented by the idea of work as a process, constantly becoming something else, tentative, allowing more than one interpretation." -- Dick Higgins
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Breathdeath
Genre: Experimental
Dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. It is a collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing a harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with the inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks at death ... a parabolic parable. Awards: Bell Telephone Prize; Third Experimental Film Competition, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, 1964; Midwest Film Festival, 1964; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1964.
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Phenomenon No. 1
Genre: Experimental
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Poem Field No. 1
Genre: Experimental
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Poem Field No. 2
Genre: Experimental
COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color. There are eight films in the computer animated art series. As samples of the art of the future all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and words. In effect these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from "mental movies." POEMFIELD No. 2 and 5 are all colorized by Brown and Olvey.
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Man And His World
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Computer animation in four languages
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Panels for the Walls of the World
Genre: Experimental
An experiment in videotape control, an electric collage that mixes the images by way of electronic mattes, superimpositions, and other electronic means of integrating as many as eight separate images onto one screen. A film commissioned by CBS for TV, it is the first such attempt to examine the almost unlimited graphic and visual possibilities of videotape intermix.
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Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall
Genre: Experimental
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Spherical Space No. 1
Genre: Experimental
Man does not move in or reach for vanishing one-point perspective, he lives on a sphere spinning in orbit. This film is a metaphor of the change of perspective from the 19th century railroad man to 21st century spaceman. The nude dancer extends herself and moves through a bending landscape, sky, trees, earth seem to circumnavigate about her. The piece is danced by Elaine Summers.
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T. V. Interview
Genre: Experimental
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Oh
Genre: Experimental
Assassination, falling down, animated drawings from the landscape of memory, mankind falling down, faces within faces, a haunting view of man drawn in brilliant animation graphics.
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Super-Imposition
Genre: Experimental
Similes of a slippery TV tube gesticulate break and supply -- a long view of multiple images (Mr. Johnson's war, is it Howard Johnson's or President Johnson's war?) -- a long curving view, breakfast with aspirin, good grief -- or Goodbye. (SUPER-IMPOSITION is a videotape experiment with multiple images, made with film artist-in-residency at Colgate University.) Life and art ... interacting ... it is interesting to note that movies and psychoanalysis are approximately the same age ... there are now more TV sets in America than bathtubs. There are more radios in America than people. Although 75 percent of Japanese households have television sets, statistics show only 35 percent have running water and fewer than ten percent have flush sanitation. Some 40 percent of American children have one or more.
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Will
Genre: Experimental
Man dance -- hand glance on-off video electromagnetic circumnavigation -- man in space man's foot to the ground -- a color collage of graphics by electronic mixing -- (A videotape electronic collage. All the color has been added to black and white film by electronic means.)
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Film Form No. 1
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Dance
"A hypnotic dance film of colors, dancers, forms and music all sweeping through the tv tube eye, mixed together into a flow of female bodies and colors, a brilliant study of color printing from black and white. " S.V. "The mysterious, gracefully repeated dancer of Stan Vanderbeek's Film Form No. 1 puts the video film in a perspective that makes the mere ordering of space for a few minutes seem reason enough for the whole perilous business of reducing time and movement to anything so substantial as film or tape." Roger Greenspun
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Found Film No. 1
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Political / Social Activism
"A nit-witty film-flam -slap-strack-collage of tempting TVee tits and bits, lest we forget the steady drone of TVee spots, running together the non-such nonsense of social surrealism" S.V.
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Symmetricks
Genre: Experimental
Computer-animated drawing that works at the speed of light. Developed as an experiment at MIT while at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, this film explores the rapid tracking of drawn line images compounded by the symmetry of multiple images; one result of the experiment is the phenomenon of color that comes from the black and white images, a blend of music and images that mystifies and delights the eye.
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Euclidean Illusions
Genre: Experimental
A fantasy film of illusive geometry, changing and rebuilding itself by computer animation, unique visual magic done while artist-in-residence at NASA in Houston in conjunction with Richard Weinberg.
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Meditation N. O.
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Found Footage
Scratch and painting on film, mostly on found footage. Very light and fast, kind of Zen of cinema.
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Avocada
Genre: Experimental
"a study of high-art writhing. Carole Morell writhes as if she were born to writhe in movies; writhes like a movie star among flickering candles and smouldering camera movement. Avocada has a percussive Peruvian soundtrack. It is steeped in blue green shadows. It is incomparable and nutritiously beautiful. It is a film possessed of gilded glamour"
Rental: $70.00
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Shoppers Market
Genre: Experimental
"a documentary film of marked lyrical and experimental tendency which was photographed and recorded in a L.A. supermarket. It consists of five sequences: 1) description of people 2) Comedy 3) choreographing natural movements 4) transformation fo visual reality 5) empathy"
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Mr. Guest Meets Dr. Fake
Genre: Experimental
"When Mr. Guest's orders are to restore order in the Midtown Sector, he deals with the evil Dr. Fake in his usual ruthless way". V.V.
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Mrs. Wong
Genre: Experimental
"Almost new-like view of Mrs. Wong's burglarized apartment, interview with her by an almost reporter, and with almost Hitchcockian-like comic relief." V.V.
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Revenge of Mr. Guest
Genre: Experimental
"Mr. Guest's sixth sense leads him to private eye Crapp's office just in time to ruthlessly prevent his own destruction." V.V.
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Patience
Genre: Experimental
Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal
"For Anne Kofke. 1970 Summer diary. The first of my own work to truly enrapture my imagination of the incredible possibilities for expression contained within film." J.V.
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Shovelling
Genre: Experimental
"...first shot on 8mm, then refined on 16mm. Loop variations of a man shoveling snow. Good use of film grain. In this film (as in Gehr's REVERBARATION) The film image qualities merge almost unrecognizably with the video image qualities. SHOVELING is good to look at." Jonas Mekas
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Perfectly Normal
Genre: Experimental
"A plastic kiss for the Rolling Stones. How can I describe the subtleties of this film to you, when they whisper of themselbes like fresh meat." J.V.
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Rivers of Darkness/ Rivers of Light
Genre: Experimental
"For Anne Kofke" "RIVERS, particularly, reveals many interesting qualities. There is a sensability in it that I am willing to trust to the end, no matter what weaknesses the film contains. The attitude, the feeling is right, and most of the images are right. Strong lyrical qualities. A beautiful merging of personal incongruities and irrelevancies. Good use of superimpositions. The only time the film fails (to me) is in its ovvasional frame freezes which look like infatuations in otherwise healthy lyrical footage.... I find Jon Voorhees a rare new talent and I am looking forward to more of his work" Jonas Mekas, Village Voice, March 1973
Rental: $40.00
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Serving Time
Genre: Experimental
"A diary. Nine months: AMy 1971-January 1972. Encompassing those things that touch our persons; earth, air, water, fire and celluloid. Finished and dedicated to Alexander Schweig on the occasion of his birth." J.V. "Time looks simple" David Kofke "...more of a poem than a story of one life. Using eloquent visual imagery, the film successfully explores the passage of time, the transition from birth and youth to age and death." Richard R. Shepard, New York Times, February 1975.
Rental: $32.00
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Whispers Delaying Grace
Genre: Experimental
"Dampness permeates the stillness./ The quality of the sounds/ that enter this geography of the senses/ is far distant/ almost overhead-/ the slow surf, miles away./ crickets./ a slamming screen door, way over and down./ and then a dog barking./ then another dog, farther, barking at the lives of the people in their homes;/ their lights reach out through the shining night./ Moonlight glows from beneath the shadows./ The heart swells./ It is our dream- and we are a part of it." J.V.
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Destiny... The Universal Fantasy
Genre: Experimental
"The vision of a 17-year old Parisian woman as she makes her daily 20-minute metro ride to work. In four daydreams she sees her man, an unemployed American musician, seem to live a period of two or three hundred months during the length of her ride" J.V. "....breathes the sanest way it could, i.e., deeply, slowly or quickly and regularly. It has a perfect equillibrium." Roland Lethem, Brussels
Rental: $28.00
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Four Films
Genre: Experimental, Installation
Keywords: Art & Artists, Literature & Theater
"The four films included in this reel are: SUN IN YOUR HEAD(1963); 20 JULI 1964 AACHEN (1967); STARFIGHTER (1967); NOTSTANDSBORDSTEIN (1967). The first one, and the last one of the four, can also be performed with actions and audience participation. All four films originated as parts of other shows performed by Vostell. For more detailed description of Vostell's work one should look up the book "de-coll/agen 1954-69," published by Edition 17 Galerie Rene Block, Berlin. Other reference materials are vailable through Something Else Press (Dick Higgins) and Fluxus."--Jonas Mekas
Rental: $30
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Visibles
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Includes: Science Friction (1959) 10 min, A la mode (1959) 7 min, Breathdeath (1963) 15 min, Poemfield No. 2 (1971) 6 min, Achoo Mr Kerrooschev (1960) 2 min, See Saw Seams (1965) 9 min, Panels for the Walls of the World (1967) 8 min, Oh (1968) 10 min, Symmetricks (1971) 6 min
DVD PAL Sale: $30.00 Individual/Home-use Only
Film for a Blind Poet (Filme Para Poeta Cego)
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Documentary about the life and work of one of the most important poet in the Brazilian literature, Glauco Mattoso: blind, masochist, foot fetishist and gay. In a poetic way, just as the work of its object, the film reveals the fine line between the high literature and vulgarity. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Rental: $40.00
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