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The Film-Makers' Cooperative
c/o The Clocktower Gallery
108 Leonard Street, 13 floor
New York, NY 10013
USA
phone: 212-267-5665
fax: 212-267-5666
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Film Catalog: Online SearchRebecca Abbott The Big Waltz
(1978) 16mm, color, sound, 10.5 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Music A film composed in three short movements, and structured in 'extended' 3/4 meter. The imagery, in its arrangement, is meant to suggest circular motion and cyclical patterns either by its immediate representations or its larger connotations. Rental: $20.00 |
Bruce Baillie Roslyn Romance (Is It Really True): Intro 1 & 2
(1978) 16mm, black and white, sound, 17 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal My ROMANCE is intended for something like 'broadcast' form, or like a correspondence... not so much for showing a big batch of it at one sitting. Eventually it should be in both film and video tape form. The Introduction, INTRO.1 & 2 is finished now. I will send rolls from time to time and hope one of these days to put the rest of it in shape for you to see. Meanwhile, I'll be continuing to record the ROMANCE wherever I am. The work seems to be a sort of manual, concerning all the stuff of the cycle of life, from the most detailed mundanery to... God knows.--B. B., June 1 1977 Rental: $30.00 |
Gordon Ball Father Movie
(1978) 16mm, Super 8, color, silent, 9.75 min Keywords: Biography & Autobiography Made spontaneously with the news of my fathers death -- i kept a friends instamatic super-8 in coat pocket as I headed to Winston-Salem and the rest home where my father died of a sudden stroke overnight. I filmed on a highway, in his abandoned rest home room, then drove weeping and filming at the same time, one hand on wheel, one holding camera, past the houses -- my sisters, his own, -- he and my mother had lived after retirement from life's work abroad.
In his two film of the last days and death of his father, and the life and death of his mother, Gordon Ball has accomplished something unique in the autobiographical genre of motion pictures. he has reconciled still ( as the mind would have it remembering) with movie and DOCUMENT (in the form of home movies) with the 'myth' of his voice track.' -- Stan Brakhage
[available on super 8mm or 16 mm] Rental: $20.00 (16mm), $20.00 (Super 8) |
Gordon Ball Prothalamion
(1978) 16mm, Super 8, color, silent, 4 min Genre: Documentary Wedding song: friend Tom Cleveland gave me one roll of film and camera to shoot his wedding ceremony in bride's ancestral Charlotte, N. C. house rainy December's end 1977.
[available on super 8mm or 16mm] Rental: $20.00 (16mm), $20.00 (Super 8) |
Daniel Barnett The Chinese Typewriter
(1978) 16mm, color, sound, 27.75 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Political / Social Activism The Chinese Typewriter is about education and language, and the way a society is shaped by them. Exemplifies the politically committed film that defies the strict rubric of avant-garde. Barnett seems less interested in challenging traditional form than in exploding his own occidental vision. He transforms cyclonic cutting among a character-filled Chinese printing shop, a school, and street life into a visual poem that extracts the country's fierce mechanistic energy while leaving the fragrant residue of humanity. The film is compositionally meticulous and rhythmically arresting, as Barnett goes beyond facile, formalist, dehumanization of post-Mao China imagery. Contrasting a stop action view of a schoolgirl doing a cartwheel with contemplating, pointillist, high-angle shots of sidewalk life. The repeated sloganeering of public-school apologists, spiced with oriental music and street beat forms a soundtrack with the haunting quality of a Davis Byrne/Brian Eno experiment. Red objects, from scarves around necks to newsstands draped with crimson like a shroud-pull the eye to what become found object vanishing points. despite the multitude of images-over 3000 on 28 minutes, the film never seems capricious or ostentatious. -- Gregory Solman ; BOSTON PHOENIX 2/26/85 ... THE CHINESE TYPEWRITER... provoked me to rave for days.... and alarming, funny, gorgeous work. -- Susan Orlean ; BOSTON PHOENIX 5/84 Barnett is a modern Vertov; wiser, reflective, and without the naive trappings of a prophet. Mary Badger ; Bromfeild Gallery Notes Rental: $65.00 |
Les Blank Always For Pleasure
(1978) 16mm, color, sound, 57 min Genre: Documentary Keywords: Ethnic / Multicultural, Music, Spiritual / Mystical "Always for Pleasure" is an intensive insider's look at Mardi Gras and the briad of musical traditions the annual celebration supports in New Orleans. It's a fairly shabby Southern city, with a touristy, almost tacky overlay. But beneath the overlay is something vital, something intimately acquainted with living and dying, that marketing cannot long disguise or distort. New Orleans has a gut-level mythic quality, a resonance unique among American cities. ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE amplifies that resonance. The film takes you to a jazz funeral where a brass band blows dirges on the way to the graveyard, then cuts loose on the way back. It takes you to pre-Mardi Gras practice parades, Mardi Gras celebrations and a St. Patrick's Day parade in the white working class neighborhoods. The second part of the film focuses on Mardi Gras celebrations in the black community, particularly on the annual revival of the black Indian tradition, in which working class blacks try to outdo each other in dancing, talking, and especially in the parading of hand-sewn Indian costumes of their own design. Most of all, there is an underlying sense of community, of an organic link with the past, that is both sobering and exhilarating, providing pleasure and responsibility. This is how I want to go out, says a young man at a funeral parade, with a little band behind me and my friends having a nice time. But I'm living now and I'm not going to wait, 'til I'm in the ground, laid out, to have fun in the streets. . Rental: $90.00 |
Stan Brakhage Bird
(1978) 16mm, color, silent, 2.5 min Genre: Experimental First clear vision of the hot-blooded dinosaur still living among us. Rental: $20.00 |
Stan Brakhage Burial Path
(1978) 16mm, color, silent, 11 min Genre: Experimental Film begins with an image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film, in the tradition of THOT-FAL'N, graphs the process of forgetfulness against all oddities of the remembered bird-shape. Rental: $35.00 |
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