Father Movie

super 8mm, color, silent, 9.75 min
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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. ...
Rental formats: 16mm, super8

About

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]

Films

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    Georgia
    Experimental

    Georgia
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, sound on separate reel(s), 3.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
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    Films By Gordon Ball
    Experimental

    Films By Gordon Ball
    Gordon Ball

    color, sound, 68 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Biography / Autobiography
    • Family
    • History
    • Political / Social Activism
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    Farm Diary
    Documentary
    Experimental

    Farm Diary
    Gordon Ball

    standard 8mm, color, silent, 64 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file, regular 8mm
    • Environment / Nature
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    About My House
    Experimental

    About My House
    Gordon Ball

    Super 8mm, color and b/w, silent, 38.5 min
    Rental format: regular 8mm
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Sitting
    Experimental

    Sitting
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, silent, 1.75 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Biography / Autobiography
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    Prothalamion
    Documentary

    Prothalamion
    Gordon Ball

    super 8mm, color, silent, 4 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, super8
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    Birds Nest Soup
    Narrative

    Birds Nest Soup
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, silent, 4 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Ethnographic
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    Enthusiasm
    Experimental

    Enthusiasm
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color and b/w, sound, 13 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Mexican Jail Footage
    Documentary
    Experimental

    Mexican Jail Footage
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, sound, 17.3 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • History
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    Clouds of Glory
    Experimental

    Clouds of Glory
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, silent, 12.3 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Children / Youth
    • Family
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Millbrook
    Experimental

    Millbrook
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, sound, 9 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Environment / Nature
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    Do Poznania Conversations in Poland
    Documentary

    Do Poznania Conversations in Poland
    Gordon Ball

    16mm, color, sound, 17 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Landscape / Architecture