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Film Catalog: Online SearchNestor Almendros La Gare
(1965) VHS NTSC, black and white, sound on separate reel(s), 20 min Genre: Documentary Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture A slow-waking, beautifully shot portrait of the trains in Beauvais, France. Beginning with the men who operate the train yards, the silence of the train yards is slowly interrupted by more passengers as we travel farther along the tracks. A gentle musical crescendo accompanies more human hustle and bustle, illustrating the similarities of those whose paths cross those of the train. Only in the end does the camera board the train itself, allowing for a moment of pause for powerful, visual reflection.
The stark black and white serves to reinforce the sense of awakening and refresh that follows throughout the film.
Shot in Beauvais, France - 1967. Rental: $20.00 |
Thom Andersen Melting
(1965) 16mm, color, sound, 6 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Philosophical MELTING shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The spoon resting on the plate refers to the human presence, which lurks behind the screen, declining to interfere with what transpires. Rental: $20.00 |
John R. Armstrong The Hunted
(1965) 16mm, black and white, sound, 8.5 min Genre: Narrative Keywords: History ... is the short drama of a dream, and a young man's blindness to his fate. The setting is 1863 during the civil war, and the young man, a confederate army regular, finds himself alone and running from death in the form of two union soldiers. The tempo and emotional tensions of the film build rapidly only to come to an end as abruptly as a gun shot, then change form and begin again. The excellent music score, written and conducted by one of the film's actors, Joseph Lonon, does much to heighten the drama of the film. Rental: $20.00 |
Bruce Baillie Quixote
(1965) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 45 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: History Climaxing the film makers first period of work, QUIXOTE is a kind of summary and conclusion of a number of themes, etc., especially that of the hero... depicting Western orientation as essentially one of conquest. The film is conceived in a number of different styles and on a number of simultaneous levels. In four parts, one reel.
"More relevant than ever, Bruce Baillie's 'American Symphony' ... released in 1990 via an S-VHS master." -- Frankfurter Zettung
"American as conquistador ...." -- P. Adams Sitney
"-- quixotic filmmaker become the hero of his own film." -- S. Frey
One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival. Rental: $100.00 |
David Bienstock Nothing Happened This Morning
(1965) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 21 min Genre: Documentary, Experimental Keywords: Body Nothing happens and everything happens-- in the simplest of experiences there is a complexity and a vitality unknown and unfelt until the moment when we begin to let its wonder filter into us and flow through our bodies, our minds and our souls. When that happens the ordinary world becomes extraordinary-- the magic of the universe is within each moment and act perceived in as many levels as we can contain. NOTHING HAPPENED THIS MORNING attempts to capture this state of unconsciousness in the first twenty minutes of an ordinary--extraordinary morning. Rental: $25.00 |
Stan Brakhage 3 Films: Blue White/Bloodstone/Vein
(1965) 16mm, color, silent, 8 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Children & Youth, History Includes three short films: BLUE WHITE, "an intonation of child birth"; BLOOD'S TONE, "a golden nursing film"; VEIN, "a film of baby Buddha masturbation." Rental: $25.00 |
Stan Brakhage The Art of Vision
(1965) 16mm, color, silent, 250 min Genre: Experimental Includes the complete DOG STAR MAN and is a full extension of the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which the word symphonia was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the visual symphony that DOG STAR MAN can be seen as and also all the suites of which it is composed. But as it is a film, and a work of music, the above suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as cinematographer. at source, means writer of movement, certain poetic analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of arts which have inspired DOG STAR MAN, its growth of form by the physiology and experiences ( including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally it must be seen for what it is. An art of vision possible in a medium which has dominated our century, and which herewith frees itself from dependence on all other art forms. Film has tended, even in the most experimental of intention, culture, pretense, and imitation. Now Brakhage's ART OF VISION exists so utterly free of all that. It is a totality of making so intense it becomes a systemic exploration of the forms and terms of the medium itself. To explore the form without exhausting the form: a definitive making in any art is the health of the whole art, of the arts. Art in its oldest sense is skill, skill of making; THE ART OF VISION is the skill of making seeing. THE ART OF VISION, The Art of Fugue, a presumptuous comparison only so long as we accord film only evidential value. This film makes immediate the integrity of the medium. Climax of the edited film, a new continent of the eye's sway. Mind at the mercy of the eye at last. -- Robert Kelly Rental: $500.00 |
Stan Brakhage Fire of Waters
(1965) 16mm, black and white, sound, 6.5 min Genre: Experimental Inspired by a statement in a letter from poet Robert Kelly: The truth of the matter is this: that man lives in a fire of water and will live eternally in the first taste -- this film is a play of light and sounds upon that theme. Rental: $20.00 |
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