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Masao Adachi

Wan: Rice Bowl (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 24.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Philosophical

"... a film by a director who became notorious for this feature made in 1963, THE HOLELESS VAGINA, a picture recently released by the Japanese authorities and never commercially shown. Born in 1940, Adachi studied at Nippon University's Film School and graduated the year after RICE BOWL was made. It is a near-allegory about shame (if not sin) and death and futility. An exercise in surrealism involving a rice ceremony, black robes, a ceremonial sword, and a white-robed sacrifice." -- Donald Richie

Rental: $50.00

Bruce Baillie

Have You Thought of Talking to the Director (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 15 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Films about Film, Media

Made on the north coast of California in Mendocino... combining spontaneity and preconception in a film that is essentially a short lesson in feature form. On one level, a portrait of Paul Tulley.

Rental: $20.00

Paul Bartel

Progetti (Plans) (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 17 min

Genre: Narrative

Keywords: Films about Film, Media

**in Italian** This film was made in Rome in the Spring of 1962 during my Antonioni period. I was on a Fulbright at the time, studying directing at the famous Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and I wanted to sum up in a film some of my observations as a cinema student in Rome. So I made a film about two aspiring actors studying at the Centro who wanted to come to the Actor's Studio in New York and become movie stars overnight, and who actually believe that this is going to happen to them. The point of the film is that these actors are really incapable of acting in either sense of the word. but they certainly know how to go through the motions and are beautiful to look at and to listen to, if you don't mind Italian(s). One of the actors is dubbed be marce bellocchio, who has since become quite a director in his own right. this film is also notable for the mysterious performance of Astrid Weyman, the star of the Dutch feature, GANGSTER GIRL, by Franz Weiss. When Oscar Werner saw PROGETTI in Paris in the fall of '62 he became very excited and showing for Truffaut and Clouzot, who were also reportedly enthusiastic about the film.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Blue Moses (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 10.5 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Spiritual / Mystical

A meat enigma spoken in eternal language of director, con man, and magician. It's about the sham flesh that men create to dam the streaming of the truth from their muscles and senses... a molecule of revelation in the shape of a drama thrown off by the artist between ANTICIPATION and DOG STAR MAN. -- Michael McClure. A manifesto of film epistemology in the form of an actor n conflict with the camera eye. -- Brussels catalogue. Brussels International Film Festival, 1964.

Rental: $30.00

Stan Brakhage

Dog Star Man: Part I (1962) 16mm, color, silent, 30 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal, Philosophical

In the tradition of Ezra Pound's vorticism, PART I is a Noh drama, the exploration in minute detail of a single action and all its ramifications. The formal construction of the film the interrelationships and significance of the images, has been woven on an extremely subtle level. Each shot appears only as an isolated piece,,, appreciated (as) it is understood within the context of the entire mosaic. -- P Adams Sitney BRAND NEW PRINT.

Rental: $90.00

Robert Breer

Horse Over Tea Kettle (1962) 16mm, color, sound, 8 min

Genre: Animation

Keywords: Art & Artists

... an atom bomb movie, one of his small wonders. The simplicity of his means, the effectiveness of his imagery, his humor (Breer is the James Thurber of the screen) is that of a great artist. -- Jonas Mekas, Village Voice

Rental: $20.00

Robert Breer

Pat's Birthday (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 13 min

Genre: Animation, Documentary

Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography & Autobiography

A day in the country with Claes Oldenburg and the Ray Gunn Theatre Players... includes such classic items as the haunted house, a gas station, ice cream stand, miniature golf, airplane noises, balloons. Things happen after each other in this film only because there isn't room for everything at once. After all, time is not supposed to move in one direction any more than it does in another.

Rental: $30.00

Maryette Charlton

Loren Maciver: Part 1 (1962) 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 24 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography & Autobiography

Pictures the American painter Loren Maciver as she roams purposefully or idly during the four seasons of the year and observes objects, movement, and color that abound in city and country. Shows the artist as she transposes to canvas her various observations. Features many paintings of the artist including Red votive lights, Fishers Island, New York, The city, Manhattan, Venice, Acropolis, the street The Fratellini, and Les baux. "An impressive array of paintings by a foremost American contemporary painter make their appearance on film. The film-maker has captured in depth the vibrancy of the artist, her paintings, and her environment. All three emerge as clearly interwoven patterns and constitute the structure of this two-part film, each self-contained. Thus Loren MacIver is seen during the four seasons of a year roaming purposefully or idly...observing and absorbing objects, movement and color that abound in city and country. The film reveals their transposition on canvas: Crystalizations emitting luminous glows that contain rare delights which gives to each painting the beauty and style that is the very special gift of this artist, as catalyst. Only be being silent can the richness of the visual experience be fully enjoyed and recognized as a distinct entity." -- Rosalind Kossoff.

Rental: $40.00

Maryette Charlton

Loren Maciver: Part 2 (1962) 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 22 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists, Biography & Autobiography

Pictures the American painter Loren Maciver as she roams purposefully or idly during the four seasons of the year and observes objects, movement, and color that abound in city and country. Shows the artist as she transposes to canvas her various observations. Features many paintings of the artist including Red votive lights, Fishers Island, New York, The city, Manhattan, Venice, Acropolis, the street The Fratellini, and Les baux. "An impressive array of paintings by a foremost American contemporary painter make their appearance on film. The film-maker has captured in depth the vibrancy of the artist, her paintings, and her environment. All three emerge as clearly interwoven patterns and constitute the structure of this two-part film, each self-contained. Thus Loren MacIver is seen during the four seasons of a year roaming purposefully or idly...observing and absorbing objects, movement and color that abound in city and country. The film reveals their transposition on canvas: Crystalizations emitting luminous glows that contain rare delights which gives to each painting the beauty and style that is the very special gift of this artist, as catalyst. Only be being silent can the richness of the visual experience be fully enjoyed and recognized as a distinct entity." -- Rosalind Kossoff.

Rental: $40.00

Ray Craig

On The Beach (1962) 16mm, color, sound, 8.5 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Science & Medicine

An experimental science fiction film, loaded with special effects. The story of an insensitive young man who meets an alien from another planet --R. C. "It's the first experimental science fiction picture I've ever seen." Paul Gonski

Rental: $20.00