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Le Ann Bartok

Skyworks, Wind & Fire (1975) 16mm, color, sound, 8 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists

Film of "Dropped Objects" falling from 8,000 ft. altitudes with skydivers as performers. This film of a conceptual artist's work is a document of Skyworks but also meant to be expressive as an art film. A film of meditation revealing the cosmic breath as Skyworks pieces fall at the rate of 120 to 135 miles per hour. A breathing language of light and knowledge. Performance-controlled flight. Gyres cycling in and out -- the mystic spiral. A perception of light and space as energy lines alter the environment temporarily.

Rental: $20.00

James Benning

9/1/75 (1975) 16mm, color, sound, 22 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature

Twenty-two minute tracking shot through campgrounds in Southern Wisconsin

Rental: $50.00

James Benning

The United States of America (1975) 16mm, color, sound, 27 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Environment & Nature, Landscape & Architecture, Political / Social Activism

... shot from inside a moving car on a trip across the country. The year is 1975. The seemingly relaxed feel of the image is undermined by the intermittent radio broadcasts which announce ( as the car travels toward LA ) news of the approach of the North Vietnamese to Saigon. -- Amy Taubin, Soho News, 1977

Rental: $50.00

Alan Berliner

Patent Pending (1975) 16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Films about Film, Media

A film of a film within a film. A soundtrack of whirling mechanical gears, grinding sprocket wheels and an assortment of intermittent clatter. One reel, one take. I love the circular animation at the end. The title and the end were serendipitous.

Rental: $25.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #1-10 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 37 min

Genre: Experimental

This is a series of ten deliberately untitled films, each separated on the reel by several feet of black leader. As I wish also to make them individually identifiable, I'll provide the following description of beginning and end shots of each: No. 1 begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye; No. 2 begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city; No. 3 begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill; No. 4 begins with green tiled bathroom, ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman; No. 5 begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light; No. 6 begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with candle wick burning and circled by boiling gold flecks; No. 7 begins with raccoon in rose light, ends with fading face of child; No. 8 begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, and ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room; No. 9 begins with rocks, tree trunk and plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene; No. 10 begins with flash of scratched "lightning," ends with moving dot, screen fading out.

Rental: $110.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #10 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 6 min

Genre: Experimental

Begins with flash of scratched 'lighting' ends with moving dot-screen fading out.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #2 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 2.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #3 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 1.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #4 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 1.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Begins with green tiled bathroom ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Short Films 1975 #5 (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 2.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light.

Rental: $20.00