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The Film-Makers' Cooperative
c/o The Clocktower Gallery
108 Leonard Street, 13 floor
New York, NY 10013
USA
phone: 212-267-5665
fax: 212-267-5666
e-mail: film6000@aol.com
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Film Catalog: Online SearchScott Bartlett Serpent
(1971) 16mm, color, sound, 14.25 min Genre: Experimental Financed by Guggenheim Fellowship. The serpent embodies the primal chaotic life force in mythic symbology. SERPENT uses natural and electronic imagery to convey this elusive creative force. An outstanding piece of art. Striking, kinetic. Its form, techniques, and texture patterns should be studied by all aspiring young filmmakers. A beautiful combination of pure visual poetry and ideas about man and the world. -- Jurors, American Film Festival. Rental: $25.00 |
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
(1971) VHS NTSC, black and white, sound, 102 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Literature & Theater A key work in modern theater and acknowledged throughout the world as a classic, Beckett's most famous play is shown here in a definitive film version starring Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith as the two remarkable tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. They wait for the perhaps mythical personage, Godot, and through their suffering, patience and often hilarious wit, transcend themselves to become a portrait of the suffering of mankind itself. This WAITING FOR GODOT is a remarkable performance of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century. Rental: $45.95 |
Les Blank Spend It All
(1971) 16mm, color, sound, 43.45 min Genre: Documentary Keywords: Environment & Nature, Ethnic / Multicultural, Music This is a perceptive, lusty lyrical documentary of some true American originals-- the bayou people in Cajun Country. --Times Picayune, New Orleans. The Cajuns of Southwest Louisiana still retain the language, camaraderie and old world spirit of their French-speaking Acadian ancestors. The film captures the intense bravado and vitality of their lives, in scenes such as quarter horse racing, coffee roasting, accordion building, cooking and having suppers along with the intoxicating music of the Balfa Brothers, Marc Savoy, Nathan Abshire and others. Rental: $50.00 |
Stan Brakhage The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
(1971) 16mm, color, silent, 32 min Genre: Experimental ... S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS. This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance. -- Hollis Frampton Rental: $90.00 |
Stan Brakhage Deus Ex
(1971) 16mm, color, silent, 33.5 min Genre: Experimental I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUX EX in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room of S. F.'s Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May, 1965 issue of Poetry Magazine; and the following lines from Charles Olson's Cole's Island had especially centered the experience, 'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins the poem with the statement, 'I met Death--' and then: 'He didn't bother me, or say anything. Which is/not surprising, a person might not, in the circumstances;/or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they wouldn't,/or you wouldn't think to either,/it was Death. And/He certainly was, the moment I saw him.' The film begins with this sense of such an experience and goes on to envision the whole battle of hospital on these grounds, thru to heart surgery seen as equivalent to Aztec ritual sacrifice... the lengths men go to avoid so simple as straight a relationship with Death as Charles Olson managed on/in 'Cole's Island.' Rental: $90.00 |
Stan Brakhage Door
(1971) 16mm, color, silent, 3.75 min Genre: Experimental This is the only all-inclusive autobiography I've yet managed; and as I'm still alive, it is to be understood as a metaphor which defines the limits of expectations. Rental: $20.00 |
Stan Brakhage Fox Fire Child Watch
(1971) 16mm, color, silent, 3 min Genre: Experimental Ken, Flo, and Nisi Jacobs in the Syracuse Airport: this is what you might call baby-sitting in the swamp. Rental: $20.00 |
Stan Brakhage The Peaceable Kingdom
(1971) 16mm, color, silent, 7.75 min Genre: Experimental This film, one of the most perfect ever given to me to make, was inspired by the series of paintings of the same title by Edward Hicks. Rental: $20.00 |
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