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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
e-mail: film6000@aol.com
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Film Catalog: Online SearchCaroline Avery Dancer For The Coronation
(1988) 16mm, color, silent, 10 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Dance The Twined Shadow of the Dance. One dancer folding back upon herself. Rental: $30.00 |
Power Boothe Moon
(1988) 16mm, black and white, sound, 6 min Genre: Experimental An abstract dance film that meditates on the nature of the moon, eggs, circular saws, and love. All make sense as a kind of revolving surrealist wheel of fortune.
"It was a strange, compelling collection of familiar images seen in new ways and impossible images seen in familiar ways." -- Juliana Lewis, Dance Magazine, 1989 Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and Art Matters, Inc. Rental: $22.00 |
Stan Brakhage Faust 3: Candida Albacore
(1988) 16mm, color, sound, 25.25 min Genre: Experimental Just as the word Idyll of Faust's Part 2 is rooted in the Greek idein/to see, so is "candida" in candidatus, as used in the white robed army of martyrs' of the Te Deum, as well as Albicare/to be white or Albicore out of the Portuguese (or Arabic origin) designating a kind of tunny (or white man): thus, Faust's 3 is white/white as well as (from sugar's white) candy, and fish: it is the modern Walpurgisnacht to Faust, but the day-dream of his Emily: it exists that a woman has, finally, something of her ritual included in the myth of Faust..... and that muthos/mouth become a vision. Rental: $80.00 |
Stan Brakhage Faust's Other: An Idyll
(1988) 16mm, color, sound, 40.5 min Genre: Experimental Faust Part 2 reveals the modern Faust in a romantic interlude, an idyll (from Greek idein, to see); also, a journey of the id. A sense of story is inferred through the complex interweaving of human gesture, expression, and bodily movement within vibrantly shifting colors and rhythmic development, creating multiple levels of metaphorical meaning. A collaborative work with paintings of Emily Ripley and soundtrack by Joel Haertling. Rental: $120.00 |
Stan Brakhage I... Dreaming
(1988) 16mm, color, sound, 6.5 min Genre: Experimental This is a setting-to-film of a collage of Stephen Foster phrases by compose Joel Haertling. The recurring musical themes and melancholia of Foster refer to loss of love in the popular torch song mode; but the film envisions a re-awakening of such senses-of-love as children know, and it posits (along a line of words scratched over picture) the psychology of waiting. Rental: $20.00 |
Stan Brakhage Marilyn's Window
(1988) 16mm, color, silent, 7.75 min Genre: Experimental This stream-of-visual-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn's window are remembered from inside-out, its view interwoven with all of other windowing and Elements of the known world. Rental: $20.00 |
Stan Brakhage Matins
(1988) 16mm, color, silent, 2.75 min Genre: Experimental This is one of those little films which is pure cine poem in the sense that it is picture, but also given over to what we call abstract-- which is to say it arises as mind's light and exists, as such, as filmic prayer. (Made on occasions of, and inspired by, Jim and Lauren Tenney's marriage.) Rental: $20.00 |
Betzy Bromberg Body Politic (god melts bad meat)
(1988) 16mm, color, sound, 38 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Family, Political / Social Activism, Science & Medicine, Spiritual / Mystical ... travels through a realm of modern moral dilemma, as it examines the relationship between high-technology medicine, religion, politics, and the American family.
"The body, culture and nature are also at stake in BODY POLITIC, a film that goes to a hospital operating room, research laboratories and a family picnic to outline the issues raised by genetic experimentation. With her typical serious humor, Bromberg explores both the claims of science (we can improve human life) and the claims of religion (God made perfect beings) and implicitly asks the question, 'How do we know when we've gone too far?' ... There's no voice-over and the argument is made by an athletic juxtaposition and testimony." -- Helen Knode, LA Rental: $95.00 |
James Broughton Scattered Remains
(1988) 16mm, color, sound, 14 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Biography & Autobiography This is a cinematic performance piece enlivened by its experiments in poetic speech and poetic vision. Joel Singer creates a multi-faceted portrait of poet James Broughton acting out his verses in unlikely situations and surprising camera inventions. In the course of this divertissement the poet probes the puzzlements of mortality, destiny and the magic of language.
"A true wonderpiece and remarkable portrait." -- Michael McClure Rental: $30.00 |
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