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Stan Brakhage

Daybreak & Whiteye (1957) 16mm, black and white, sound, 8 min

Genre: Experimental

These two films investigate frustrations in loving. DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. -- Cinema 16 ... a winter landscape transforms itself, through the magic of motion, temperament and light, into pure poetry of white. -- Jonas Mekas

Rental: $25.00

Robert Breer

Jamestown Baloos (1957) 16mm, color, sound, 6 min

Genre: Animation, Experimental

Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health

Bergamo Award Mixing photographs, newspaper clippings, and quickies paintings of an insolent taschime, he ran them together as fast as racing cars. The eye absorbs them imperturbably, as if they constituted a coherent sequence. It is a succession of different images itself which comes to constitute an illusory form, comparable to that of solids in movement, and which reduces every attempt at analysis to a simple impression. -- Benayoun, Positif

Rental: $20.00

Robert Breer

A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957) 16mm, black and white, sound, 2 min

Genre: Animation, Experimental

Keywords: Dance

... a brilliant and astonishing ballet with unprecedented virtuosity! -- Burch, Film Quarterly

Rental: $20.00

Rudolph Burckhardt

Aviary, The/Nymphlight/A Fable For Fountains (1957) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 18.75 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

N.B. Three titles on one reel. Three films made in collaboration with Joseph Cornell.

Rental: $50.00

Jerome Hill

Albert Schweitzer (1957) 16mm, color, sound, 81 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Biography & Autobiography

The definitive cinema biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. -- Noel Productions Academy Award: Best Documentary Feature of 1957

Rental: $150.00

Peter Kubelka

Adebar: 2x (1957) 16mm, black and white, sound, 3 min

"His films exist outside the art-as-a-game scramble. Each of his films is what it IS - and TO perfection ... and WITH, yes, feeling: but of such a nature as to render 'sentiment' a hard word or else a word hard to use in relationship. There is NO sentimentality in his works such as would divide the emotional and intellectual responses to them. Each WORKS, as he did work to make each one an expression of his whole being at the time of making and, thus, no two of his films are in any way alike -- each film being as distinct from every other as any moment of a man's life may be if he lives it fully ... which is to say: to perfection! "And his works are sound films. Here, at last, is a film-maker's ear that creates in contrapuntal accord with his eye in the making. He achieves this, too, thru his sense of the perfect - so much so that if, for instance, ADEBAR is projected even one frame out of sync the whole track becomes exceptional 'background music' but in no sense the experience of his making ... and if the projectioning is perfectly synced (the distance between gate and sound-reader exactly 26 frames) the experience is an indescribably new one for any with eyes and ears to see/hear it." -- Stan Brakhage

Rental: $30.00

Peter Kubelka

Adebar: 5X (1957) 16mm, black and white, sound, 7.5 min

Genre: Experimental

"His films exist outside the art-as-a-game scramble. Each of his films is what it IS - and TO perfection ... and WITH, yes, feeling: but of such a nature as to render 'sentiment' a hard word or else a word hard to use in relationship. There is NO sentimentality in his works such as would divide the emotional and intellectual responses to them. Each WORKS, as he did work to make each one an expression of his whole being at the time of making and, thus, no two of his films are in any way alike -- each film being as distinct from every other as any moment of a man's life may be if he lives it fully ... which is to say: to perfection! "And his works are sound films. Here, at last, is a film-maker's ear that creates in contrapuntal accord with his eye in the making. He achieves this, too, thru his sense of the perfect - so much so that if, for instance, ADEBAR is projected even one frame out of sync the whole track becomes exceptional 'background music' but in no sense the experience of his making ... and if the projectioning is perfectly synced (the distance between gate and sound-reader exactly 26 frames) the experience is an indescribably new one for any with eyes and ears to see/hear it." -- Stan Brakhage

Rental: $35.00

Peter Kubelka

The Metric Films (1957) 16mm, black and white, sound, 12.75 min

Genre: Experimental

Contains ADEBAR: a reel of five prints; SCHWECHATER: a reel of five prints; and ARNULF RAINER.

Rental: $65.00

Christopher MacLaine

The Man Who Invented Gold (1957) 16mm, color, sound, 14 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Literature & Theater

"A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection." --Stan Brakhage

Rental: $40.00

Marie Menken

Glimpse of the Garden (1957) 16mm, color, sound, 5 min

Genre: Experimental

Soundtrack: birdsong "A lyric, tender, intensely subjective exploration of a flower garden, with extreme magnification, flashing color harmonies." -- Cinema 16 "She deserves the order of the square halo, first class, with harps in diamonds." -- Dwight Ripley

Rental: $25.00