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Jud Yalkut

Aquarian Rushes (1970) 16mm, color, sound, 47 min

Genre: Experimental

Directed and edited by Jud Yalkut. Camera: Jud Yalkut, Jeni Engel, Marty Topp. Video origination: Ira Schneider, Carl Goldberg, David Cort. Sound mix: Ted Wolff. Color by A-One. "Comprises film and videotape from the August (1969) epic freak-out in New York State (White Lake- "Woodstock") with all the groups you can name, and a cast of half a million. Unlike the Rolling Stones films shown on British television, this is full-color and the techniques are more imaginative and acid-based than the Stones film, good as that was." -- Alex Gross, London "International Times." Selected for the Montreal International Festival of Film in 16mm at the Museé des Beaux Arts; the Encounter With The American Cinema at Sorrento, Italy, 1970 (Selection of Martin Scorcese); and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris American Underground Film Weekend. Silent version premiered in 1969, accompanied by video and light show, in the extended opening program of Global Village in New York City.

Rental: $50.00

Jud Yalkut

Beatles Electroniques (1969) 16mm, color, sound, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

Co-maker: Nam June Paik. Original soundtrack: "Four Loops" by Kenneth Werner. "BEATLES ELECTRONIQUES was shot in black-and-white from live broadcasts of the Beatles while Paik electromagnetically improvised distortions on the receiver, and also from videotaped material produced during a series of experiments with filming off the monitor of a Sony videotape recorder. The film is three minutes long and is accompanied by an electronic soundtrack by composer Ken Werner, called 'Four Loops,' derived from four electronically altered loops of Beatles sound material. The result is an eerie portrait of the Beatles not as pop stars but rather as entities that exist solely in the world of electronic media." -- Gene Youngblood, "Expanded Cinema," 1970. Shown at the 3rd Tokyo Art Film Festival, "Vision and Television" at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and around the world.

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Jud Yalkut

China Cat Sunflower (1973) 16mm, color, sound, 4 min

Genre: Experimental

A Bootleg Film Production. With the Grateful Dead. As though one gradually becomes aware of the music of the universe, the Dead break into consciousness as their images merge with the oneness of light, becoming discrete momentarily, then dancing away to the cosmic rhythm that permeates reality. A film composed in the camera in the heat of intuition frame-by-frame, and then recomposed frame-by-frame in the optical printer. "Call Jud Yalkut an experimental filmmaker. He does not deal with story-telling film, but with the invisible-ideas and emotions. Nor does he structure them in a conventional manner. His aim is to disorganize your traditional methods of perception, and then to provide you with some new alternatives... One gets a feeling of vitality, and that the man is indeed into what he is making. He's got a firm grip of what he's doing and where he is heading." -- Syracuse, NY "New Times"

Rental: $20.00

Jud Yalkut

Cinema Metaphysique No. 5 (1967) 16mm, color, silent, 2 min

Genre: Experimental

Co-made with Nam June Paik. The entirety of CINEMA METAPHYSIQUE NO. 5 takes places on the four sides of the 'unsafe' TV cut-off zone. "Safe Action Area: that portion of the image inside the camera aperture within which all significant action should take place for 'safe' reproduction on b&w and color home receivers." -- American Cinematographer Manual Selected for the 1972 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Mike Getz' touring 'Underground Cinema 12' series. Prize Winner, the University of Kansas showing of the Ann Arbor Film Festival tour.

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Jud Yalkut

Cinema Metaphysique Nos. 1-4 (1972) 16mm, black and white, sound, 13 min

Genre: Experimental

Co-made with Nam June Paik. CINEMA METAPHYSIQUE NO. I: Silence and sound. A video-film concerning the questions of 'scale.' On a large film projection screen, the video image is monitor life-size. CINEMA METAPHYSIQUE NO. 2, 3 and 4: Sound 'Manodharma No. 8' by Takehisa Kosugi, and the Zen monks of 'The Way of Eihiji.' Cast: Nam June Paik and Takahisa Kosugi. These films are based on the premise of the 'safe'area of film when transferred to video, with the majority of action taking place in the 'unsafe' area which would disappear on a video screen. Shown at "The Artist As Filmmaker" series at the Jewish Museum, NY. Selected for the 1972 Yale Film Festival, New Haven, CT.

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Jud Yalkut

Clarence (1968) 16mm, color, sound, 10 min

Genre: Experimental

Sound by Mel Lyman, Jim Kweskin, and the Lyman Family; with the voice of Clarence Schmidt, recorded by Bob Dacey. Sound Mix: Gerd Stern and Jud Yalkut. A poetic montage of the 'sculpture garden house' of 67 year old hermit-builder Clarence Schmidt of Woodstock, New York, appraised as 'a really great work of folk art' by curators Lawrence Alloway and Henry Geldzahler. The film includes some of the only footage taken of Clarence living within the seven-story mountain interior of his creation, which was tragically gutted by fire in the winter of 1967-68. A homage to Clarence and his more than forty years of devotion to the transmutation of cast-off objects into an environment or beauty and love. Originally incorporated into the USCO multimedia shows when silent, the sound version was premiered as a selection of the "Personal Cinema" series of the 1968 New York Film Festival. Selected for the "Anthropological Film" program of the Film Forum in New York, and the "Flick Out" broadcast series on educational television in Houston, Texas.

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Jud Yalkut

D. M. T. (1966) 16mm, color, sound, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

Credits: Slides by Jackie Cassen. Choreography by Mary McKay and danced by her. Sound: Bach, The Beatles, and the voice of Ralph Metzner reading a "Psychedelic Prayer" by Timothy Leary. Filmic translation of the first multi-media presentation of Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern, originally premiered at the Bridge Theater in New York in the spring of 1966.

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Jud Yalkut

Diffraction Film (1965) 16mm, color, silent, 10 min

Genre: Experimental

Title poem by Gerd Stern. A light 'trip'; an evocation of the sun as kaleidoscopic father of all vision. Originally premiered as an integral single-screen section of USCO's 'Hubbub' and 'We Are All One' multi-media touring shows. "The hot eye of diffraction, multiplicity of variables moving out toward clarity and back: 'the light force impulse,' a spurt-valve momentum, full of love's natural forms. Consider what street light, subway lights, signs look like as seen through teleidoscopes cut from diamonds. 'The progression of a trip'; shaken out of whatever you were before; how you going to get back, I mean, you won't be in that same place again, ever... wish for and achieve satori, what then? So you come back to the physical, and you're a step further out... up... And shows what it looks like there." -- Carol Bergé, "Ikon Magazine." "This sensuous sea of color, motion, light that seems to surround us completely and we swim in it almost bodily and it is like going through the most fantastic dream." -- Jonas Mekas.

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Jud Yalkut

Electronic Fables (1971) 16mm, color, sound, 9 min

Genre: Experimental

Co-maker: Nam June Paik The intellectual and visualization functions of the human mind have undergone little integration within the majority of contemporary civilized psyches. Yet realizing full humanity necessitates the complete harmonization of all psychical and physical centers. Is it possible that the formal expression of this existing dichotomy can stimulate a new synthesis? Hypothesis: The absence of sound = enhancement of visual imagery, and vice versa. The alternation of auditory and visual stimulation are mutually enhancing. The visual portions of ELECTRONIC FABLES are selected from the color video imagery of Nam June Paik as filmed during the period 1965-71. The soundtrack voices are: Marcel Duchamp, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Buckminster Fuller, Timothy Leary, Brion Gysin, Moondog, and Ken Kesey. "Minimal... handsome and suggestive." -- Roger Greenspun, "The New York Times." Selected for the Whitney museum of American Art's "Videofilm" program in the New American Filmmakers series.

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Jud Yalkut

Electronic Moon No. 2 (1969) 16mm, color, sound, 4 min

Genre: Experimental

Co-maker: Nam June Paik. Music by Debussy. "In ELECTRONIC MOON NO. 2 the combination of music, videotape and film synthesize a new sensation forming a true modern day film-haiku." -- David Bienstock, Late Curator of Film, The Whitney Museum of American Art. "It's a very short, miniature film, but very beautiful." -- Jonas Mekas. "It has one of the best breasts I can recall." -- "Show Business" Magazine. Selected for the Informationsschau of the 1970 Mannheim Film Festival in Germany; the Whitney Museum's "New American Filmmaker Series"; "Vision and Television"; the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Tour; Award for Exceptional Merit, Philadelphia International Festival of Short Films.

Rental: $20.00