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Focus Pocus Scholastic Teaser Reel (Lester Et All) Genre: Documentary, Experimental Keywords: Films about Film, Media "Three amusing tidbits: (a) A documentary on Film-making by Magic. (b) A lesson on using mix-room sound dummies. (c) A documentary on a hot-dog/falafel stand. Of particular interest (and possibly required viewing) for film students and lovers of falafel."--H.L. Rental: $20.00 |
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski Genre: Narrative Keywords: Comedy, Erotic, Music, Queer / Bi / Trans This film is a musical comedy, or maybe a fairy tale... Everything reduced to the surface as in the paintings of the Primitive School, as in dreams, as in musical comedies... A story as a pretext for a series of portraits, and a series of portraits as a pretext for an invented story in an invented city (Paris), a city of transvestites trying to relive the Belle Epoque of festivities and art... "I saw Arrieta's film last June, in Toulon. It was made in Paris so I thought it was French and I was surprised to see a French film recording the world of the transvestite because this subject has been a tabu in modern (new) French cinema. Later I found out that Arrieta was Spanish, from Madrid, and that Paris was only one of his stations. "French or Spanish -- I found Arrieta's film compelling, informative, entertaining, and beautiful. As I said, its subject is the Paris transvestite scene and it's depicted with the flair of Jack Smith, the directness of Andy Warhol, and the special tenderness of Arrieta. I salute the Poet." -- Jonas Mekas, February, 1975. Rental: $250.00 |
1970 Genre: Documentary Keywords: Biography & Autobiography, History Financed by the American Film Institute. A dramatic absorbing autobiographical film in the form of an interior documentary, 1970 is a multiplexed portrait of a moment in time: the San Francisco sub- culture of the 1960s. A lasting testament to a time we will never forget. --FILMEX. Rental: $50.00 |
Medina Genre: Documentary Keywords: Environment & Nature An extraordinary, lucid and lyrical documentary of Morocco, unique in that it conveys both the exterior and interior values of the country. ... the richest, boldest and most subtly disciplined evocation of a place that I have ever seen on film. It is as if all the impulse toward lyrical pattern had found an objective correlative in the walls, the steps, the tiles, the dense calligraphic decoration, the shaded windows and veiled eyes of the city. -- Roger Greespun, New York Times. Rental: $25.00 |
Time and a Half Genre: Documentary, Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature Twenty-four hours in the life of a factory worker. Rental: $25.00 |
Minority By Choice Genre: Documentary Keywords: Political / Social Activism A Cinema Arts production. MINORITY BY CHOICE is not a sociological comment on our times. The Bowery people have existed since civilized man... in one society or another. From the camera's point of view MINORITY BY CHOICE gives us one of the few moments of face to face contact with our derelict society. In commentary there is little to be said for or against these souls... once respectable, able-bodied men and women, who were a part of every man who strove for his place in the sun. The "minority" have found theirs... not at the top of society's ladder but at the bottom. It is after all the same sun that shines on us all... the same ladder, except they choose to stand on the bottom rung... where ultimate oblivion strikes first. Rental: $50.00 |
Eye Myth Educational Print Genre: Experimental The source of this film is almost 8 seconds long. I've printed the original film, then signed it (denoting completion) and then added 4 more 'runs' of it (for study purposes), the 1st 'run thru' printing every frame 4 times, the second three, then two, then one again. Each of these repetitions of the film has a frame or two (within it) held slightly longer than the others (to sharpen the wits and keep the rhythm from dulling sensibilities); but otherwise they are exactly the same order of frames as in the original EYE MYTH. I sign the whole of it at the end again. Children tend to like this film very much; I thought this study version would be particularly appropriate for classroom purposes because the techniques involved are available to children for making their own hand-drawn and painted films. All any teacher would have to do would be to provide the children with strips of clear or black leader (often available free from local film labs) and/or discarded film which can be painted-over or otherwise transformed. Rental: $20.00 |
The Presence Genre: Experimental ... reflects some sight of Insect as Being. The Imagined aura and environment of a beetle creates a 'world' wherein this solitary insect may simply be seen. Rental: $20.00 |
The Process Genre: Experimental LIGHT was primary in my consideration. All senses of 'process' are (to me) based primarily on 'thought-process'; and 'thought-process' is basedprimarily on 'memory re-call'; and that, as any memory process (all process finally) is electrical (firing of nerve connection) and expresses itself most clearly as a 'back-firing' of nerve endings in the eye which DO become visible to us (usually eyes closed) as 'brain movies'--as Michael McClure calls them. When we are not reconstructing 'a scene' (re-calling something once seen), then we are watching (on the 'screen' of closed eye-lids) the very PROCESS itself... Rental: $24.00 |
 The Riddle of Lumen Genre: Experimental The classical riddle was meant to be heard, of course. Its answers are contained within its questions; and on the smallest piece of itself this possibility depends upon SOUND -- 'utterly,' like they say... the pun is its pivot. Therefore, my RIDDLE OF LUMEN depends upon qualities of LIGHT. All films do, of course. But with THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN, 'the hero' of the film is light/itself. It is a film I'd long wanted to make -- inspired by the sense, and specific formal possibilities, of the classical English language riddle... only one appropriate to film and, thus, as distinct from language as I could make it. Rental: $35.00 |
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