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Gary Adlestein

Optical Lyrics (1981) 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 24 min

Keywords: Philosophical, Psychology & Mental Health

Six short films (WOLF; LINDA; SWAN BOAT; RACE; PIE PLATES; RIPPLE); lyrical flights between stillness and motion, chance and choice, yin and yang; structures based on simple matting and rapid single-frame intercutting of short strips of S-8 optically printed to 16mm. The filmmaker creates a lingering impression of harmony using a minimal amount of footage... The impression we get is one of piercing light and home-spun shadows. -- Linda Gross, Los Angeles TIMES

Rental: $50.00

Basha Alperin

Odabo Odoba (1981) 16mm, color, sound, 12 min

Genre: Animation

Keywords: Ethnic / Multicultural, Philosophical

ODABA ODOBA (Until we meet again odoba trans.) is the psychic adventure of a young child in search of his inner cultural identity. A trilogy of animated characters, representing his three aspects of conscienceness, journey through time -- encountering music, dances, and masks of Africa. The music consist of drums and chants from Cuba (Yoruba) and Senegal, and also an original jazz composition.

Rental: $30.00

Gordon Ball

Clouds of Glory (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 12.30 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Children & Youth, Family, Personal / Diary / Journal

Last three months of Kathleen's pregnancy; first week of Daisy's life. 'the soul that rises with us, our life's star/ hath had elsewhere its setting/ and cometh from afar/ not in entire forgetfulness/ and not in utter nakedness/ but trailing clouds of glory do we come/ from God who is our home.' Wordsworth, Ode: Imitations of Immortality from 'recollections of early childhood' Viewers of some of my last four films have offered suggestions for programming-projecting FATHER MOVIE and ENTHUSIASM as companion films, for instance. Lately, I've been seeing the most recent three as a trilogy offering metaphor of existence -- CLOUDS OF GLORY (birth), MEXICAN JAIL FOOTAGE (prison life-bodily existence), and ENTHUSIASM (death). And, as it happens, current work in progress (Oct. '82) TH'FIRMAMENT, is set in the heavens-not in celebration of wished-for afterlife but of divine emptiness.

Rental: $20.00

Scott Bartlett

Making Offon (1981) 16mm, color, sound, 10 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Art & Artists

In the summer of 1967, Mike MacNamee, Glen Mckay and Scott Barlett met for America's first electrovideographic jam. Barlett's film loop and Mackay's light show liquids were mixed through a video effects bank and the results were filmed by MacNamee directly off the studio monitor with a rented kinescope camera. Barlett edited a portion of this material and then built a sound track with the help of Tom DeWitt, who had also supplied many of the original film loops, and Manny Meyer, electronic sound composer. The finished film was called OFFON. in 1980, Bartlett recreated the event in a video production class at UCLA. With his student' help, he composed a video primer: MAKING OFFON. Wipes, keying, feedback -- all the standard functions of a studio switcher -- are first illustrated and named, then woven into a sound and picture puzzle of the 60's. A MUST for all video students, especially when shown along with the original OFFON. --S.B.

Rental: $25.00

Alan Berliner

Myth in the Electronic Age (1981) 16mm, color, sound, 13 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Films about Film, Media

Themes of earth, air, fire and water amidst the rhythms and confused intense sensations of modern life. With commentary by Marshall McLuhan.

Rental: $45.00

Stan Brakhage

Aftermath (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 7.5 min

Genre: Experimental

(after + math ((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop... this is my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, T. V., etc. --what CAN be done with it? / the idealism of moving-visual-thought-process the very raw meat of brain, trying to absorb and transform the unthinkable': this, then, that 2nd harvest of healthier gain... retrieving patriotism, even, from blasphemous commerce. (Quote: Webster's 7th Coll.)

Rental: $25.00

Stan Brakhage

Arabic 0 + 10 (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 27.25 min

Genre: Experimental

See "Arabic 1" for description.

Rental: $85.00

Stan Brakhage

Arabic 11 (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 8 min

Genre: Experimental

See "Arabic 1" for description.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Arabic 12 (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 22.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Made with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts. See "Arabic 1" for description.

Rental: $39.00

Stan Brakhage

Arabic 13 (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

See "Arabic 1" for description.

Rental: $20.00