|
|
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
|
|
Film Catalog: Online SearchPeggy Ahwesh From Romance to Ritual
(1985) Super 8 to Video, color, sound, 20 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Body, Erotic, Ethnic / Multicultural This film is formed around several scenes of women telling stories to the camera of their sexual history and experience. This material is intercut and juxtaposed with related footage concerning girls and their growing up, memory and the learning process and the received truth of history lessons. This film as a whole makes for an uncomfortable fit between women's personal experience and the official dogma of our culture's history. The filming style is of the ethno-graphic film without the expert observer and of the home movie without the father. Rental: $50.00 |
Paul Arthur The Cliffs The Slick City Detour
(1985) 16mm, black and white, sound, 13.75 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Personal / Diary / Journal Living in suburban New Jersey watching too much film noir on television. The materials thrown together are: a partial inventory of houses in my neighborhood; a fragment of a dream journal; a 1949 pamphlet about Englewood Cliffs by The League Women Voters; outtakes from a fiction film I acted in; lines from famous movies; a passage from Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Rental: $35.00 |
Paul Arthur Theory of The Leisure Class
(1985) 16mm, black and white, silent, 8.25 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Films about Film, Found Footage, History A contemporary golf course is paired with footage taken by the Edison Company in 1897 and buttressed with iconography from the spectrum of leisure class motivations. A montage of material around the idea of film as history. Rental: $20.00 |
Caroline Avery Midweekend
(1985) 16mm, color, silent, 7.75 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Cameraless, Found Footage A painted film with Great Society era social services how to films and other footage from travel, educational. documentaries and unsplit 8mm. Films spliced in with painted film leader in rapid sequences of one to three frames. Rental: $32.00 |
Caroline Avery Pilgrim's Progress
(1985) 16mm, color, silent, 8.75 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Cameraless A discourse on marketing through images. The surface of the film is an abstract potpourri of polyrhythms, named items jumping into recognition here and there. I pulled magazine ink off the page with scotch tape and glued the tape strips onto film leader and rephotographed. It is a tale of coming to terms, or learning to relax and suspend disbelief. Rental: $30.00 |
Gordon Ball Millbrook
(1985) 16mm, color, sound, 9 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Environment & Nature For aeons it's been the human family around a fire constructing and refiguring its basic myths: it's our earliest family or tribal "movie." So MILLBROOK recounts a mythical "true story," a life-changing event told against fire, the emblem of consumption and renewal: In the enormous forested estate once used by Timothy Leary, a young couple lose individual identity, merge with decaying leaves and are consumed by maggots as entire universe undergoes entropy, revive as it regenerates and are saved from death by a mysterious familiar stranger. Rental: $20.00 |
Alan Berliner Everywhere at Once
(1985) 16mm, color, sound, 8.75 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Music ... is a musical montage, a synchronized symphony composed from an infinity of elements at hand: piano chords and cable cars, cocktail jazz and broken glass, looney toones and telephones, elephants and xylophones, violins and vultures, orchestra's and roller coasters... A journey in images at the speed of sound. These collages films are drawn from a vast personal library of sounds and images, steadfastly accumulated over many years. This randomly assembled over and over expanding pool of elements serves as the basis for a form of bricolage-- cultural artifacts and residues, odds and ends accumulated over time and transformed into works attempting to bridge a wide range of poetic horizons: the actual with the possible, pre-history with science fiction, magic with science fact, the medium with the message. Ultimately these film documents my need to put that order to my universe, a place burdened by my need to make the puzzle fit the pieces. Rental: $45.00 |
Stan Brakhage Jane
(1985) 16mm, color, silent, 13 min Genre: Experimental Project at 24 fps Someone said to me, of this film, that it was really about light; but Jane (who takes it as a portrait -- i. e., sees herself in it) said: You gave me the moon and seven stars... and I signed this film, simply, Stan. Rental: $45.00 |
Stan Brakhage Songs 24-26
(1985) 16mm, color, silent, 14.5 min Genre: Experimental Keywords: Body, Environment & Nature SONGS 24 & 25: A naked boy and flute song; a being about nature. SONG 16: a conversation piece--a viz-a-visual, inspired by the(e)motional properties of talk: drone, bird-like twitterings, statement terror, & bombast. Rental: $45.00 |
|