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Nevermind (Part 1 of 3) (1999) VHS NTSC, color, sound, 18 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

This non-narrative post-punk aria is part one of a three part series and was significantly inspired by Steina Vasulka's let it be (video 1971). This project is about the manifestation of gender and rebellion in media culture.

Rental: $50.00

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)

Week Of The Angry Arts

For Life Against the War (the complete version) (1967) 16mm, color and b/w, sound and silent

Genre: experimental

Keywords: political_social activism

Includes 49 of the sixty-plus films of the original version. Among the film-makers whose work appears in thsi film but not in the reduced version described below are Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas and USCO. Was first screened in NYC on January 30th, 1967. This was part of the Week of the Angry Arts in opposition to the Vietnam War.

Rental: $250.00

Week Of The Angry Arts

For Life, Against The War (Selections) (1967) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 38 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

This film is composed of seventeen short films, made in response to an invitation from the Week of the Angry Arts. More than sixty film-makers responded to that invitation, with films from one to three minutes in length. The first compilation ran for three hours. The present film is composed of selections from the original version. Featuring Storm de Hirsch, John Hawkins, Stan Vanderbeek, Robert Breer, Dick Preston, Lee Savage, Nina Feinberg, Ron Finne, Hannah Weiner, Manfred Kirschheimer & Peter Eliscu, Robert Fiore, Fred Wellington, Lionel Martinez, Larry Jordan, Lloyd Williams, Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson & Tom Hurwitz, Hilary Harris.

Rental: $75.00

Jerry Abrams

Be-In: 1967 (1967) 16mm, color, sound, 7 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: History, Music, Political / Social Activism

Music by Blue Cheer. Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. BE-IN contains Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Lenore Kandel and Buddha.

Rental: $20.00

Jerry Abrams

Lotus Wing (1968) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 16.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Erotic, Political / Social Activism

The world is recommitting sexual-political suicide by daily insertion of missile-cocks into self-orifices. Complete with ejaculatory delusions, military erections, and the animated virility of Krazy Kat. LOTUS WING spends USA over us all as our lives are spent wiping up the remains of our self-destruct. Probably my last film in this genre.

Rental: $30.00

Norman R. Abrams

Sideissue (1973) 16mm, color, sound, 10 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Environment & Nature, Political / Social Activism

The nature and extent of human destruction is expressed by this impressionistic documentation of dead animals found along the United States highways.

Rental: $20.00

Albert Alotta

Peacemeal (1967) 16mm, color, sound, 7.5 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: History, Political / Social Activism

Hippies, peace-niks, students, beautiful girls, civil righters, old ladies and more, protest the war. Who dares to say that they don't influence the mainstream? Beautiful color and exciting montage capture the feeling and motion of the march on the United Nations.

Rental: $25.00

Rebecca M. Alvin

Untitled (No.1) (1992) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 11.25 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

A disturbing experimental film that follows the inner journey of a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality and the gender politics that influence it. This is Rebecca M. Alvin's first 16mm film and perhaps her most personal..

Rental: $35.00

Dominic Angerame

Anaconda Target (2004) DVD_NTSC, black and white, sound, 12 min

Genre: documentary, experimental

Keywords: political

Anaconda Targets , a documentation tape of aerial bombings by the American military in Afghanistan, depicts the devastating effect of smart bombs. Not often featured in media reports, the soldiers' voices form the soundtrack that accompanies these chilling images. The document has been appropriated by filmmaker Dominic Angerame as a critique of his government's military aggression." - Susan Oxtoby

Rental: $50.00