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Kore/Kouros Genre: Experimental Keywords: Art & Artists, Body, Erotic A study of the male and female nude; in honor of the painter Harry Koursaros and the classical beauty he loved. Photos and paintings by Koursaros. The first 2.75 minutes are silent. "The most erotic film elegy that I can recall ever seeing." -- Albert Kilchesty Rental: $25.00 |
Philosophy In The Bedroom Genre: Experimental Keywords: Body, Erotic, Philosophical After deSade, the meaning and shape of seduction. |
 Continuum Genre: Experimental Keywords: Technology "In a superb manner, CONTINUUM builds from the bottom up a complex and finely woven picture of a day-in-the-life of labor, or a work, in progress, and without end, microcosmically reflecting a history of any labor and many an art. "Through elegantly overlaid, constructionist windows of geometric form, we see into the turgid furnace of man's multifarious tasks, and, as in a vision, behold the ballet of his tools and accoutrements: steaming tar, turning pulleys, swishing mops, changing lights and sewer-plates, acetyline torches and sandblasting serpents, snorting sting of jackhammers and gleaming jewels amid grime where undinal heat makes the atmosphere buckle. "And in the midst of it all -- the streets, the bridges, the roads, the roofs, the endless river of communication cables and the windowed monoliths of jutting superstructure -- there stands man, that somewhat Sisyphian, but irrepressible beast; not so much brawny as dauntless, to wit, wired for the thing-at-hand, welded to the task made a titan in collective will. "The film is like a dream you can't put your finger on and can't forget, because the very truth of it is so evasive, suggestive, labyrinthine. And then it dawns on you, or rather circumnavigates you: the very fact of life is heroic, makes heroes of each of us, every man, woman, and child, from the carpenter unto the architect, and the whole of it is so thoroughly interdependent, so very closely interwoven." -- Ronald Sauer Rental: $75.00 (16mm) |
Rhythm & Form; Grey Area III Genre: Animation, Experimental Keywords: Art & Artists Photographic animation is used to trace patterns of shapes found in nature from macroscopic to astronomic levels. Abstract images gradually dissolve into geometric forms until images of human life emerge, and finally return to abstract textures. A percussion soundtrack is used to emphasize rhythms inherent in the film. Videotape copies are available directly from the filmmaker. Rental: $25.00 |
Travels And Dreams: Grey Area II Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture, Philosophical, Psychology & Mental Health An experimental film in which the viewer is hurtled through a series of dreamscapes. Optical printing is used to alter the experience of time, giving ordinary images a foreboding quality. Rental: $25.00 |
Dr. Bish Remedies #1 Genre: Experimental Monologue. Ode of the Week Award. Connie Bunyer, glass organ. Linda Lovely. Local reportage and Wife of the Week award. Jazz piece with Roy Eldridge. Dr. Bish's elixir and White Monkey holding Peach Balm (ad). Requiem for the Trees. Rental: $20.00 |
Beside Herself Genre: Experimental A non-verbal dialogue between one woman and herself. The screen is split with the woman in black on one side and herself in white on the other. The film dwells on the threshold of self-awareness and deals with thefrustrations found in the inherent limits of self-awareness. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and Art Matters, Inc. Rental: $20.00 |
Our Man Genre: Experimental Based on a story of a man who goes through a series of frustrations, who seeks help, but then finds escape. The film images follow the story through a series of meditations on the most incidental and marginal visual events. It is the details that surround the action which constitute the main focus. Rental: $20.00 |
The Dante Quartet Genre: Experimental This hand-painted film work 6 years in-the-making (37 in the studying of the Divine Comedy ) demonstrates the earthly conditions of Hell, Purgatory, (to Transition), and Heaven (or existence is song, which is the closest I'd presume upon heaven from my experience) as well as the mainspring of/from Hell (HELL SPIT FLEXION) in four parts which are inspired by the closed-eye or hypnogogic vision created by those emotional states, Originally painted on IMAX and Cinemascope 70mm. and 35mm., these paint-laden rolls have been carefully rephotographed and translated to 35mm. and 16mm. compilations by Dan Yankosky of Western Cine. Rental: $20.00 |
Faustfilm: An Opera Genre: Experimental A collaboration between composer Rick Corrigan and Stan Brakhage, featuring Joel Haertling as Faust, Gretchen LeMaistre as Gretchen, Phillip Hathaway as Faust's friend and Paul Laundahl as Servant. This is the realization of a 30 year old dream (grant applications and fragments of script from the 1950's published in Brakhage's Metaphors on Vision), a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust (quite opposite of traditional Fausts) which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of living experience. Like earlier artists who have treated the Faust legend... he uses it to explore the nature of obsession. But reversing the familiar idea of Faust as an old man yearning to be young, Brakhage makes him a world-weary young man who longs to be old... What makes the film striking is its rich imagery, superbly photographed in dark-hued tones, and its insistent visual rhythms. Brakhage is close to his peak as a bard of the camera and the editing table. -- David Sterritt Rental: $120.00 |
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