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The Story of the Western World Genre: Experimental Keywords: History A very subjective view of western history, leading to a culmination in a view of contemporary western art. If history can be seen as a series of collisions of opposing forces giving rise to unpredictable syntheses that are more than simply the sums of the parts, then this film was made in a manner analogous to the process of history. Rental: $35.00 |
Italian Opticals & Italian Places Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature ITALIAN OPTICALS includes ST. THERESA and SERENISSIMA (1980, silent, 7m): Venice, floating bauble. Rental: $20.00 |
Art Institutionalized (Sfai 1980) Genre: Experimental Keywords: Art & Artists, Comedy, Films about Film, Media A humorous parody about the condition of creative film studies in Art Schools and Colleges in general. The soundtrack is a composition combining the musical score from the film Ballet Mecanique and the voices of the film students testing various pieces of film recording equipment and complaining about grades and procedures. The visuals reveal a modern day mechanical ballet performed by the instructor (myself) on the dada chessboard of absolute reality to the automatic beat of an intervolometer clicking time away one frame per second, as he attempts to relay technical data to his students. Rental: $20.00 |
 Freedom's Skyway Genre: Experimental, Narrative Keywords: Films about Film, Media July 5, 1980. Summertime. San Francisco's Chinatown. A gang of Chinese Fireworks dealers dispose their unsold goods to the glory of emulsified film to enhance grain and image deterioration. Rental: $20.00 |
Frame of Mind Genre: Experimental Keywords: Landscape & Architecture, Political / Social Activism Ode to the machine, to man, to the Third World War. "Examines the evolution of intelligent thought, using expressionistic landscapes, with manipulations, camera malfunction, and a sense of humor." -- Jim Dina Rental: $20.00 |
Mexican Jail Footage Genre: Documentary, Experimental Keywords: History Images from 1968 events combined with 1980 voice recollections. Paranoid surreptitious camera records daily events and posturing of 25 gringos jailed without charge-and fellow Mexican prisoners-prior to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Was there collusion behind this? We were never told but this was at a height of national polarization, when American tourists in Mexico were shocked to find more of the youths they thought they'd left behind -- and when Mexican Government was administering national preening in its own paranoiac anticipation of the international Olympics exposure six months later. The soundtrack narration's culled from a much longer account I wrote of the event: it is told as directly as I could tell it. MEXICAN JAIL FOOTAGE reminds me of standing by the tracks and watching a train go by -- it is so strong, it lasts so long, and it is over so quickly. -- Tom Whiteside NORTH CAROLINA ANVIL Rental: $27.00 |
Making Serpent Genre: Documentary Keywords: Films about Film, Media Barlett narrates MAKING SERPENT and describes the creative process behind SERPENT, his award winning short of 1971. MAKING SERPENT is a step-by-step teaching device that explores film techniques such as: how to structure a non- verbal narrative; how to shoot film for special editing techniques; how to isolate universal images in nature; how to make exciting visuals inexpensively. Shown together with SERPENT, this film becomes an important educational aid for film and art students alike. An entire film course in cinemagraphics. -- Gail Silva, Film Arts Foundation, California I consider it a reasonable antidote to some of the loose pretensions of structural film. -- Stan Brakage, Filmmaker Colorado Eisenstein Film Form Continued on Film. -- Bruce Baillie, Filmmaker, Washington. Rental: $50.00 |
 City Edition Genre: Experimental Keywords: Films about Film, Media "The newspaper page ... you have very loud and noisy headlines ... you have a mosaic space made up of unconnected items from every part of the world at once ... the total discontinuity, the total lack of storyline in (telegraphed) news ... is as sophisticated as Picasso ...." -- Marshall McLuhan Rental: $45.00 |
Intercut Genre: Experimental Keywords: Films about Film, Media The Ticket that Exploded and Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man A stroboscopic film poem. An experiment in perception/ comprehension through the rhythmic pulse of intercut text. Rental: $20.00 |
Chicken Real Genre: Documentary An industrial short made for the world's second largest poultry producer, CHICKEN REAL incorporates subversive bits of satire in its promotion of the assembly-line approach to mass-manufacturing food. Music recorded in North Carolina, of a group playing all the chicken songs they knew. Blank shot this documentary for an automated chicken growing operation that produces 156 million chicken a year! He brought all his skill to bear on the project, and added a narration that's only barely tongue-in cheek. It's his funniest film, one that works on its own terms as a fascinating documentary on the chicken biz and also a humorous comment on itself. Surreal images abound -- hundreds of chickens clicking toward a feeding belt, thousands of chicks huddling together is a giant breeding room, dead chickens flying across a table, passing through hellish flames on a conveyer, receiving giblet transplants. But the most interesting thing is that Blank evades the issue of chicken death completely -- skipping in an instant from live chickens to dead ones with absolutely no mention that birds are dying. It's the only Blank film in which death is never acknowledged -- and as a result death pervades the picture as it does no other. Chickens of incomparable succulence. -- Micheal Goodwin, Pacific Film Archive Rental: $40.00 |
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