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Pub. Date
1951.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 14 minutes; production Farallone Films; with Anna Halprin, Welland Lathrop, John Graham; music by William O. Smith._Game Little Gladys, The Gardner's Son; Princess Printemps_and_The Aging Balletomane_. Delightful and sentimental, the interludes date back to silent cinema full of playful mime and dreamy reverie. As such the vignettes offer a welcome antidote to the high-mindedness of most avant-garde films.
22) 1941
Pub. Date
1941.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4 minutes; music by Igor Stravinsky; preserved by Bruce Posner and Anthology Film Archives at Cineric, Inc. from camera original; courtesy of the filmmaker. The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor motivated painter-filmmaker Francis Lee to produce these abstract images evocative of the horrors of war. Splattered wet paint and broken light bulbs allude to the senseless destruction. The potent visuals are reinforced by the driving...
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
16mm 1.37.1 color sound, 9:27 minutes; acted & recited by Anaïs Nin from Nin's_House of Incest;_ production, photography Ian Hugo; abstract color effects Len Lye, Ian Hugo; electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron. "I remember my first birth in water," reads Anaïs Nin in her husband Ian Hugo's aquatic fantasy formed of "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." The mix of charged language...
24) Evolution
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 8:01 minutes I try to leave the imagination of the spectator as free as possible by using purely invented, abstract forms rather than representational forms. In watching these films it is not necessary to search for hidden meanings or to try to associate these invented forms with familiar objects. The spectator may simply relax and look at the films as one would listen to music in order to fully respond to them. - _Jim Davis_...
Pub. Date
1940.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white intentionally silent 16fps, 8:09 minutes; courtesy of the filmmaker. Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images quickly on the run, a method he inaugurated and that continues to the present day. In film, he added slow and fast motion, split-screens and superimpositions to his repertory.
26) Transport
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:43 minutes; camera Sandy D'Annunzio; music Indiran; with Lee Vogt, Amy Greenfield, Chuck Williams, Steven Holly, Joel Polinsky, Don Young, Tom Vint; preserved by Amy Greenfield at WRS Film Lab from camera originals; courtesy of the filmmaker. _Transport_ came out of many influences in the early 1970s: the dead of Vietnam; the poem by my poetry teacher Anne Sexton, _For God While Sleeping_; the post-modern dance experiments...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
16mm 1.37 black & white sound, 12:39 minutes; dancer Bettie de Jong; music by McNeil Robinson. The sensation of our own movement and the perception of movement in the world around us are very primal experiences from early infancy. It is in this world of movement (the kinesthetic experience) that film and dance make their most exciting and unique contributions. -_Hilary Harris_
29) Castro Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:59 minutes; preserved by Academy Film Archive in 1999 at Triage Motion Picture Services from camera original sand magnetic soundtrack archived at Pacific Film Archives; mastered from the 35mm preservation negative; 1080p digital restoration by Bruce Posner at DuArt Video, FilmVideoDigital, and Gustavo Matamoros; courtesy of the filmmaker.
30) Love It/Leave It
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 14:07 minutes; music by Ray Whilding White; preserved by Chicago Filmmakers at Cineric, Inc. from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack with funding provided by National Film Preservation Foundation; courtesy of the filmmaker. The love of events that bring people together, revealing at once the absurdities and tenderness of the human comedy, plus a sharp eye for Americana, characterize and permeate the Palazzolo films....
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 11:46 minutes; music Bumblebees Sip Honey by Peliatan Gamelan; mastered from a composite print; courtesy of the filmmaker, Chicago Film Archives. DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The film was made by shocking 10-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating...
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is "jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian formula, as sordid family secrets spawn unintentional murder most foul. Winner of the FIRPRESCI Prize at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Nominated...
33) Eaux d'artifice
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white tinted color sound, 12:57 minutes; with Carmilla Salvatorelli; music "Winter" movement of_The Four Seasons_by Antonio Vivaldi; courtesy of the filmmaker. The Villa d'Este sculpture gardens frame the nocturnal exploits of a Baroquely-dressed masked figure darting about a waterworks of gushing fountains in "a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth." Jets of water form a mesmerizing erotic fantasy paying homage to abstract...
34) Hurry, Hurry!
Pub. Date
1957.
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4:27 minutes. Filmmaking was a natural evolution while I was engaged in painting, particularly since I was primarily concerned in capturing light, its effect on textured surfaces, its glowing luminescence in the dark, the enhancements of juxtaposed color, persistence of vision and eye fatigue. -_Marie Menken_
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:14 minutes; preserved by Lawrence Jordan and Michael Hinton from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack; distributor Canyon Cinema; courtesy of the filmmaker. Alchemical images of transformation fill the screen in Lawrence Jordan's magical collage animation where several ambiguous characters - a boy, a deep-sea diver and a Lady with the orbital head - make a surrealistic dream-like journey. Produced from line...
36) Photographs
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
This experimental film, set to music by Bach, illustrates quotations from the works of Karl Marx with PHOTOGRAPHS of proletarian daily life from the mid-1800s to the present. Peter Voigt and photographer Arno Fischer worked on the four double-stelae of Berlin’s Marx-Engels Forum project from 1977 to 1982. For the stelae they were planning, they researched PHOTOGRAPHS in Amsterdam, New York, Washington, London and Moscow. This film is a direct result...
37) Walden
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground. *"...a groundbreaking work of personal cinema." - **Experimental Cinema***
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
39) Ch'an
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
1941 was Francis Lee’s first film; CH'AN his last. In between, he became an expert Sumi-e watercolorist and here combines eloquent ink paintings with masterful animation methods. The film moves through mysterious shapes, taking the viewer on an explosive meditative journey across the imagi- nary landscapes of his creations. Music by Christopher Atwood.
40) Magdalena Viraga
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film about the inner life of a sex worker imprisoned for killing her pimp won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for “Best Independent/Experimental Film of the Year”, and was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial as well as in over 40 other film festivals worldwide. Tinka Menkes brilliantly portrays the emotionally frozen protagonist on a circular inner journey,...
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