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Yvonne Andersen

Spaghetti Trouble (1963) 16mm, black and white, sound, 2 min

Genre: Animation, Narrative

Keywords: Comedy

Spaghetti-house customers and lazy waiters, beware! A mountain of spaghetti may await you! Featuring the comical, fascinatingly simple drawings of Red Groom, this film is sure to intrigue and entertain.

Rental: $20.00

Bruce Baillie

A Hurrah For Soldiers (1963) 16mm, black and white, sound, 4 min

Genre: Narrative

Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katana by U. N. soldiers. Presentiment of the meeting of the irreconcilable historic forces... in which a fool is delighted by an attack from a girl gang (inspired by a writing from a toilet wall) .

Rental: $20.00

Bruce Baillie

To Parsifal (1963) 16mm, color, sound, 16 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: History

Using the European legend as basic structure, as well as the hero: "He who becomes slowly wise." A tribute to summer. "Creating in the moment of viewing, a great sense of perspective." -- Stan Brakhage

Rental: $30.00

Charles Boultenhouse

Dionysius (1963) 16mm, color, sound, 26 min

Genre: Experimental

N.B. The following three films may be ordered as a one- man show, at a special package rental of $100. An experiment to use the devices of the film medium to intensify the expressitivity of the Greek myth of Pentheus: cycling hand-held cameras for intoxication, slow-motion pans for hypnosis, single frame cutting for dismemberment, multiple exposures for metamorphosis, etc. A parody of the embrace from LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is included in the Satyr Play. Charles Boutenhouse's dionysus... (one of the ) ... important occasions for the new cinema. -- Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal: The Rise of a New American Cinema. ... the film begins with the dancer Louis Falco, as Dionysus, in thrusting leaps onto which are superimposed double images of opening fists:... of flowers opening their fists... of the athlete of April... of the green leap. The triple exposure of this first part of the movie have an extraordinary pictorial richness. Frequently throughout DIONYSUS the technique of superimposition of images is used to achieve some of the most startlingly beautiful filmic texture I have ever seen -- Wallace Thurston, Kulchur #16

Rental: $60.00

Stan Brakhage

Dog Star Man: Part II (1963) 16mm, color, silent, 5.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists, Environment & Nature

The third movement of Brakhage's masterwork; the extension of the bardic art into living film... images of life, regeneration... spring and early morning. -- P Adams Sitney BRAND NEW PRINT.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Mothlight (1963) 16mm, color, silent, 4 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature, Hand-processed

8mm reduction only on sale from Stan Brakhage. What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black. Brakhage made MOTHLIGHT without a camera. He just pasted mothwings and flowers on a clear strip of film and ran it through the printing machine. -- Jonas Mekas. MOTHLIGHT is a paradoxical preservation of pieces of dead moths in the eternal medium of light (which is life and draws the moth to death); so it flutters through its very disintegration. This abstract of flight captures matter's struggle to assume its proper form; the death of the moth does not cancel its nature, which on the filmstrip asserts itself. MOTHLIGHT is one level a parable of death and resurrection, but most really concerns the persistence of the essential form, image, and motion of being. -- Ken Kelman. Brussels International; Film Festival, 1964 Spoleto Film Festival, 1966

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Oh Life--A Woe Story--The A Test News (1963) 16mm, black and white, silent, 5 min

Genre: Experimental

Three TV "concretes."

Rental: $20.00

Robert Breer

Breathing (1963) 16mm, black and white, sound, 5 min

Genre: Animation

Breer's unpredictable lkines flow forth naturally with an assurance and a serenity which are the signs of an astonishing felicity of expression. -- A. Labarthe, Cahiers du Cinema

Rental: $20.00

David Brooks

Jerry (1963) 16mm, black and white, silent, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Films about Film, Media, Music

Part 1: music as image... Part 2: movement of the film-maker.

Rental: $20.00

Grover Dale

It's Coming, It's Going, It's Here, It Is Gone (1963) 16mm, color, sound, 9 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists, Ethnic / Multicultural

Incorporates a chance meeting between two boys (one black, one white) at an exhibition of mechanized pop sculpture, a few startling on-the-street interviews, and some stinging "color" songs improvised by five-year olds--G. D.

Rental: $20.00