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FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR

FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR, AGAIN (2007) DVD NTSC, betaSP NTSC, Color and Black & White, sound, 88 min

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

"In 1967, with the Vietnam War escalating wildly, an invitation was issued to filmmakers to create works running under three minutes in protest against the accumulating carnage. The original organizers chose the rubric For Life, Against the War, and eventually compiled sixty films from the likes of Robert Breer, Shirley Clarke, Storm De Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Larry Jordan, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, and many others. Now, decades later, an invitation to protest yet another war seemed sadly urgent, inspiring the New York Film-makers Cooperative to ring the clarion once ". . . Again." The response was overwhelming, with submissions from several generations of artists unified by a singular disgust for the war in Iraq and the foreign policy that perpetuates it. Compiled with works from the overtly angry to the formally forceful, For Life, Against the War boldly announces that artists can take a stand, again and again." -- Steve Seid, Curator, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum Filmmaker Participants on DVD: Kevin Barry, Bosko Blagojevic, Elle Burchill, Jim Costanzo, Bradley Eros, Jeanne Finley, Martha Gorzycki, Alfred Guzetti, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Douglas Katelus, Lynn Marie Kirby, Ernie Larsen, David Leitner, Les Leveque, Cynthia Madansky, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Sheri Milner, John Muse, Martha Rosler, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jeff Silva, Jeffrey Skoller, Mark Street, Cara Weiner, Lili White, Artemis Willis. For private use only. Public screenings by permission of the Filmmakers Cooperative only. Supported by the New York States Council on the Arts. Copyright Filmmakers' Cooperative 2007. See the Extended description @ http://film-makerscoop.com/forlifeagainst.html

Rental: $100.00 (DVD NTSC), $150.00 (betaSP NTSC) Sale: $200.00 (DVD NTSC)

Katherine Bauer

Psycho Pussy Slaughter (2007) DVD_NTSC, Color, Sound, 10 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Body, Erotic, Mystical

The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet is brought back from her long slumber on the wine of the Nile. She is defeated, shortly after sacrificing several felines and females in her bloody revenant rituals.

Rental: $50.00

Pip Chodorov

Faux Mouvements (Wrong Moves) (2007) 16mm, color, sound, 12 min

Genre: experimental

Having studied cognitive science and film semiotics, Pip Chodorov (b. 1965) recent films and drawings explore the terrain between the two fields. While aiming to confuse the parts of the brain responsible for the perception of motion (areas VI7 and VI8 of the optical cortex), Chodorov maximizes the potential hypnotic power of repetition and irregularity.

Rental: $50.00

Martha Colburn

Don't Kill the Weather Man! (2007) DVD NTSC, miniDV NTSC, Color, sound, 4 min

Genre: Animation, experimental

Keywords: Found Footage, Political

-based on 'The Pilgrimage of the Soul' by Guillaume De Digulleville 1437- in the collection of the Rosenbach Museum and Archive in Philidelphia, PA. A commissioned project by the museum. "'The Pilgrimage of the Soul' is a French medieval illuminated manuscript; a moralizing Christian romance, one in which death is always looming. I selected various characters and narratives from the manuscript and cut them into a modern landscape of enviornmental catastrophe. I thought of how the moralizing in the manuscript mirrors our contemporary culture. The manuscript is always deferring to a future life to come, as does the current push for enviornmental awareness. I took all of these ideas and mixed them into my own narrative. I created the film collage, imagining how the manuscript writers may have created an animation, applying the rules of Medieval Art to my animated technique. - M.C.

Rental: $45.00 (DVD NTSC), $45.00 (miniDV NTSC)

Martha Colburn

Meet Me in Wichita (2007) DVD NTSC, miniDV_NTSC, Color, sound, 8 min

Genre: animation, experimental

Keywords: Found Footage, Political

This work throws Osama Bin Laden into the fairytale Land of Oz. A combination of watercolors, collage and paint on glass animation, this film is a play between fact, fiction, politics , fantasy, terror and morality.

Rental: $45.00 (DVD NTSC), $45.00 (miniDV NTSC)

Anne Hanavan

Medication (2007) DVD NTSC, Color, Sound, 3 min

Fifth in a series of self portraits in which the artist aggressively confronts her past. Medication is a short film where Hanavan is coming to terms with her present day obstacles as they relate to those in her past, namely residual health issues from her former life as a homeless heroin addicted prostitute. The artist enlisted the help of her best friend and lover Paul Korzinski to help film this personal exploration.

Rental: DVD NTSC

Larry Jordan

Candy Colors: An Interview with Stan Brakhage (2007) DVD NTSC, Color, Sound, 40 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography, Films about Film, Media, Personal / Diary / Journal

An interview with Stan Brakhage.

Sale: $500.00 (DVD NTSC)

Marie Losier

Manuelle Labor (2007) DVD NTSC, b / w, silent, 10 min

Genre: experimental, narrative

Keywords: children & youth

Collaboration film Marie Losier and Guy Maddin. Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands..but whose hands..."Marie, that shot of the hands coming out o' your womb is a dilly!!! What an honour to be born of you! your son, Guy" (Guy Maddin)

Rental: $50.00

Jennifer MacMillan

KITTYPIE (2007) DVD NTSC, Color, 4 min

Genre: experimental

Keywords: hand processed

A super 8 film to video, including footage that has been painted, bleached, and then composited in Final Cut Pro, this is a cinema-poem of and for my cat, Camille. Is this the animal merging with the divine? Sound by Alex Zhort... turn up the volume!

Rental: $25.00

Seth Mitter

Beard St (2007) 16mm, color, silent, 3 min

Genre: documentary

Keywords: history, landscape

Rental: $25.00