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Yuri A

P (1999) 16mm, color, sound, 6 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Body, History, Psychology & Mental Health, Science & Medicine

P (rectum spectrum), a retrospect on shit & its history. Many cultures in many times have used human excreta as components of medicines and magic potions. In our culture today these materials still have great magical power. They are some of the commonest substances around, and yet because of what they represent to us and remind us of, they repel, shock and offend. P has the power to short-circuit trains of thoughts repressed by the viewer, sparking new realizations.

Rental: $25.00

Rudy Albers

Flower Music (1970) 16mm, color, silent, 14 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature, Science & Medicine

Multiple exposed flowers and flower buds. Some close ups of the reproductive parts of flowers. Evocations of biological universe.

Rental: $20.00

Dominic Angerame

Line of Fire (1997) 16mm, VHS NTSC, black and white, sound, 9 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Philosophical, Science & Medicine

In November of 1993 I was diagnosed as having coronary arterial disease. A subsequent angiogram revealed that open heart surgery was necessary - it was almost immediately performed. This angiogram was filmed originally on 35mm motion picture film. In March of 1995 my apartment burned down in the early morning hours and my girlfriend and I escaped with our neighbor down the rear fire escape as lethal smoke was enveloping us. I was able to return to the scene the next day in order to film the aftermath. This film is a blend of footage from these two episodes and explores the temporal nature of the lives we live.

Rental: $40.00 (16mm) Sale: $60 home use; $150 others (VHS NTSC)

Craig Baldwin

Mock Up On Mu (2009) DVD NTSC, Color & B/W, Sound, 110 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Found Footage, Science & Medicine

A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.

Sale: $35.00 (DVD NTSC)

Craig Baldwin

Spectres of the Spectrum (2000) DVD NTSC, color & b/w, Sound

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Found Footage, Science & Medicine

The director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS, returns with his grandest work to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects, and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic.

Sale: $35.00 (DVD NTSC)

Craig Baldwin

Tribulation 99 (1991) color & b/w, Sound, 97 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Found Footage, Science & Medicine

Upon its release in 1991, TRIBULATION 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Baldwin's "pseudo-pseudo-documentary" presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.

Sale: $35.00 (DVD NTSC)

Yann Beauvais

Still Life (1997) 16mm, color, sound, 12.25 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Science & Medicine

This film considers the subject of HIV and AIDS from a variety of different view points. On the one hand using textual material in both English and French which appears on screen at different speeds and rhythms, and on the other, articulated by the appearance of human voice on the sound track. Both the observations and experiences concerning AIDS overlap with one another and emerge in fragmentary form, whereby the policies persued regarding this subject are represented through the application of specific visual modalities. AIDS hasn’t disappear as a new result of tritherapy : AIDS is being trivialized to make it easier to conceal. By employing constant confrontation as a technique, this films manages to build bridges regarding our attitudes toward HIV and AIDS. It is a story of a person confronted with a civilization which promotes deaths as a way of life: and its attempts to confirm that something else exist beyond this wonderful antiseptic-homogenous society in which we live.

Rental: $50.00

Will Bragger

One Way Luck Available (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 23 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Landscape & Architecture, Science & Medicine, Technology

The idea of science and technology causing the extinction of humankind is conveyed through the metaphors of Las Vegas and the top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

Rental: $40.00

Richard Brick

Visits with God (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 24.25 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Science & Medicine, Spiritual / Mystical

Documentary subtitled TWO FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES which explores the possibility of life after death through two cases based on model established by Raymond Moody, M. D. in his book, Life After Life. Two women, speaking directly to camera, recall in riveting detail their own near death experiences during critical medical procedures. Accounts are personal, moving, authentic. Produced under an independent Filmmakers Grant from the American Film Institute.

Rental: $50.00

Betzy Bromberg

Body Politic (god melts bad meat) (1988) 16mm, color, sound, 38 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Family, Political / Social Activism, Science & Medicine, Spiritual / Mystical

... travels through a realm of modern moral dilemma, as it examines the relationship between high-technology medicine, religion, politics, and the American family. "The body, culture and nature are also at stake in BODY POLITIC, a film that goes to a hospital operating room, research laboratories and a family picnic to outline the issues raised by genetic experimentation. With her typical serious humor, Bromberg explores both the claims of science (we can improve human life) and the claims of religion (God made perfect beings) and implicitly asks the question, 'How do we know when we've gone too far?' ... There's no voice-over and the argument is made by an athletic juxtaposition and testimony." -- Helen Knode, LA

Rental: $95.00