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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
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Film Catalog: Online SearchViking/Jan Eggeling/Nordlander Symphonie Diagonale
(1924) 16mm, black and white, silent, 8 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Art & Artists, Films about Film, Media This short film is an experiment to discover the basic principles of the organization of time intervals in the film medium. They are, said the filmmaker, 'analogous to, but in no sense dependent upon, the abstract designs of Malevich and Klee.'" --Museum of Modern Art catalogue. Rental: $20.00 |
Daniel Eisenberg Cooperation of Parts
(1987) 16mm, color, sound, 42 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Ethnic / Multicultural, History, Philosophical The images for COOPERATION OF PARTS were shot in Europe in 1983. The film begins at a train station in Calais, France and ends on a street in Radom, Poland. In between are images of Paris, Munich, Dachau, Berlin, Warsaw and Auschwitz/Birkenau. Unlike most films that deal with the Holocaust, COOPERATION OF PARTS takes place firmly in the present and does not attempt to recapitulate history. Using lists, descriptions of photographs, a catalog of proverbs, images of streets, trains, ruins and riots, the film explores the territory of the recent past with a second generation perspective, distanced through time and reflection. With the visual field as a touchstone for a complex set of narrative associations, the film spins a tight web of memory, history, and experience. It is within this web that the film finds its wider significance: as a model for how daily life, history, first hand and second hand experience bind, through purpose or chance, to form identity itself. Rental: $115.00 |
Daniel Eisenberg Displaced Person
(1981) 16mm, black and white, sound, 10.5 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Found Footage, Music DISPLACED PERSON works with a carefully chosen set of particular elements in order to explore the larger questions within the historical field. Stately and sinuous passages from a Beethoven string quartet create a complex argumentation around images and text. This music, both sympathetic and distanced, establishes rhythm and breadth in relation to a radio interview with Claude Levi-Strauss, and archival footage obtained from rephotographing Marcel Ophul's The Sorrow and the Pity. These elements wheel through many revolutions of repetitions and combinations, forming multiple perspectives. Through recontextualization, meaning blossoms rationally and incongruously like the alleged blossoming of flowers that took place in the dead of winter in wartime Germany, brought on by the intense temperatures of exploding shells. DISPLACED PERSON is a tether that entwines and unravels; by necessity and the nature of its subject it is inconclusive. Rental: $30.00 |
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