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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

Mark Abramson

Shoot The Actor (1967) 16mm, black and white, sound, 18 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Films about Film, Media, Psychology & Mental Health

The film begins in the cluttered apartment of an unemployed actor, We become familiar with his way of life and routine. As he carries out his daily tasks, he becomes aware of an unknown threat. We watch as a stranger follows him and makes his presence known in increasingly disturbing ways. The more the actor tries to elude the danger, the more persistent the stranger becomes. As the film progresses, we become involved in the horror-fantasy that is his constant companion. The stranger silently confronts him in the subway and in the streets; becomes a terrifying opponent in a fencing match and eventually traps him in this apartment. In desperation, he flees to the roof where his attacker confronts him. Suddenly the actor realizes that he is in front of a movie camera and is being encouraged to perfom. His actor's instincts take over and he begins to sing and dance for the camera. The intensity of his performance increases. He is loved. He has found approval. As the camera pans closer and closer to the edge of the roof, the actor, in the glory of his performance, falls to his death.

Rental: $25.00

Dan Agnew

Pursuit of Knowledge (1967) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 13 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture, Personal / Diary / Journal

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE began in June of 1966 and was completed one year later. The first footage (in B&W) was shot at Foothill Junior College in Los Altos Hills as a course project. After graduation (and during!), I continued shooting until leaving for my three-month trek through the High Sierras. My mountain footage is a complete other trip, a microcosm of which is incorporated into PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE. I came to Philadelphia in Fall of 1966, continued school at Drexel Institute and Temple University, completed my film, and dropped out of school by Spring of 1968. The campuses which appear in the film are: Foothill, Stanford, Drexel Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Purdue University in Indiana. Also appearing in the film are: The Sierras, my California apartment, Pine Hill state park in Indiana, several unnamed public disasters, and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Rental: $20.00

Rudy Albers

Silent Music (1967) 16mm, color, silent, 14 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Spiritual / Mystical

A film experimenting with the use of multiple exposed colored lights evoking the mystery of creation, stars and planets, atoms and electrons, souls and spirits

Rental: $20.00

Nestor Almendros

Gente En La Playa, The Mount of Luna, Fifty-Eight/Fifty-Nine, La Tumba Francesa (1967) 16mm, black and white, sound, 10 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature

A poetic evocation of the beaches of Havana. One of Almendros' first films, GENTE EN LA PLAYA was made in New York while he studied filmmaking at City College under Hans Richter.

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

Eric Andersen

Opus 49 (1967) 16mm, color, silent, 12.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Also see Eric Andersen OPUS 74, VERSION 2 included in FLUXFILM PROGRAM.

Rental: $20.00

Thom Andersen

--- ------- (1967) 16mm, color, sound, 11 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Music

A documentary about rock'n'roll. Making, buying, selling. Radio, jukebox, scoptione, pinball, poolhall. Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes. Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl. Seeburg, Wurlitzer. Standing, walking, jumping, singing, dancing, gesturing, surfing. LAPD, LA Country Sheriffs Dept., The Trip, The Lynch Bldg.. Top's, Pandora's Box, Maverick's Flat, someone's backyard. California Music Co. Riot in cell block number nine, riot on sunset strip. Hot rod, coin slot, go cart, bomp club. Hound Dog Man, King Creole. Kim Watson, The Rainbows, The Shangri-Las, The Supremes, Earl-Jean. Stupid Girl, 19th nervous breakdown. Bill Haley and the Comets: you can get no further back than that. Wolfman Jack, Ernie Bushmiller, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, The Who, The Coasters. Great balls of fire. Standing at the crossroads of love. Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, John Cale, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Howlin Wolf, James Brown -The King. You cant catch me. Frankie Avalon, The Beatles, The Yardbirds. Wax reclamation, an early clue to the new direction. Mick Jagger/Earth Angel. Documentary material organized by a predetermined structure. A sequence of picture-sound equations with randomly chosen terms. Vertically. --- ------- is completely structured; horizontally it is completely random. A pastiche of cinematography, a parody of montage. 1:2. 3:7. Right, left. Right to left--left to right. Up-down. Stasis, motion. Orange, magenta. Yellow, blue. Red, green. Magenta, orange. Blue, yellow. Green, red. 1:2, 1.5:3, 2:4, 3:6, 5:10, 8:16...

Rental: $30.00