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Leslie Alperin

SideTracked (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 22 min

Genre: Experimental, Narrative

Keywords: Art & Artists, Ethnic / Multicultural

My rendition of a feminist quest film sets the story of a woman's personal journey through Western Europe against the larger experience of travel. The mythology of romance, and the woman's journey becomes a catalyst for the reflection on the relationship between personal expectations and cultural myths.

Rental: $50.00

Rebecca M. Alvin

Untitled (No.1) (1992) 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 11.25 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Political / Social Activism

A disturbing experimental film that follows the inner journey of a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality and the gender politics that influence it. This is Rebecca M. Alvin's first 16mm film and perhaps her most personal..

Rental: $35.00

Maria Beatty

The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop or How to be a Goddess in 101 Easy Steps (1992) VHS NTSC, color, sound, 52 min

Genre: Documentary, Experimental

Keywords: Body, Erotic

It is said if you follow the video carefully you will "be happier and healthier, improve your sex life, and even create miracles..." THE SLUTS AND GODDESSES VIDEO WORKSHOP OR HOW TO BE A SEX GODDESS IN 101 EASY STEPS is a humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at SEX. This tape, featuring an all woman cast, is made especially for women to inspire more sensual and sexual pleasure in their lives. THE SLUTS AND GODDESSES VIDEO WORKSHOP OR HOW TO BE A SEX GODDESS IN 101 EASY STEPS utilizes the forbidden and ancient roles of women to achieve personal transformation. Guided through this adventure by eroticist Annie Sprinkle and her team of "Transformation Facilitators" one encounters the more exotic ways to stimulate pleasure such as: flagellation by oak leaves, gender bending, body shaving, sword dancing, ritual body painting, contortions, menstrual blood, female ejaculation, rhythmic deep breathing, primal screaming, group masturbation, passionate safe sex and more in this guided adventure. This dazzling video challenges the boundaries of "femininity," of the "good girl/bad girl" myths and the definitions of sexual "norms." It is meant to unleash women's sexual powers and remind them that sex is sacred. It is blatant and undyingly explicit, an "eye fuck." Annie Sprinkle and Maria Beatty are daring and bold in their approach to a new (or perhaps ancient) freedom of the body.

Rental: $40.00

Stan Brakhage

Boulder Blues and Pearls and ... (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 22 min

Genre: Experimental

Music by Rick Corrigan. Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it -- i. e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought's grip of life.

Rental: $60.00

Stan Brakhage

Crack Glass Eulogy (1992) 16mm, Color, Sound, 6 min

Genre: Experimental

Music by Rick Corrigan. A nostalgic envisionment of city living - the potential shards of memory seen as if always on the verge of cutting the mind to pieces ... "Nostalgia is the most dangerous thought process" - poet Charles Olson, mid '60s

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Untitled (For Marilyn) (1992) 16mm, color, silent, 11 min

Genre: Experimental

An untitled hand-painted film - a hypnagogic four-part thought process interwoven with scratched words in thanks to and praise of God.

Rental: $30.00

Dietmar Brehm

Blicklust (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 18 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Body, Erotic

Sometimes I ask myself what KIND of films I make + I think they are horror films. Do I make horror films? In 1991 I received a non-identifiable and worn out super-8 S/M Porno film, which shows a woman tied up in various manners + I couldn't resist. I knew that I had film material of surgery + I mixed the tied-up woman with the surgery material confrontationally + still a few more + and to 2/3 of a drawer of found footage until Blicklust-end. The "Pumping-screen" films THE MURDER MYSTERY + BLICKLUST are the first two of a planned six-part series which reflects on sexuality + violence. Basically, I show what I always see on TV, my favorite source. I like to watch TV without sound + with other manipulations. I watch restlessly the real + fake dead bodies. They are always there + I have simply gotten used to the fact that TV is a pump of corpses. In fact, I like better the filtered reality than the actual one. I prefer distance rather than closeness.

Rental: $36.00

Dietmar Brehm

The Murder Mystery (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 18 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Psychology & Mental Health

A superlatively crafted film which uses the psychology of sight deprivation to keep the viewer in suspense: you are allowed only the merest glimpses of what is really going on. The cumulative effect as a mental picture starts to grow, is at once titillating and disturbing. Director Brehm knows exactly how to tempt our darkest desires.

Rental: $36.00

Richard Brick

Visits with God (1992) 16mm, color, sound, 24.25 min

Genre: Documentary

Keywords: Science & Medicine, Spiritual / Mystical

Documentary subtitled TWO FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES which explores the possibility of life after death through two cases based on model established by Raymond Moody, M. D. in his book, Life After Life. Two women, speaking directly to camera, recall in riveting detail their own near death experiences during critical medical procedures. Accounts are personal, moving, authentic. Produced under an independent Filmmakers Grant from the American Film Institute.

Rental: $50.00

Matthew Buckingham

The Truth About Abraham Lincoln (1992) 16mm, black and white, sound, 18.5 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: History

"What becomes a legend most? Perhaps an inventive film, with a bit of whimsy, to explore the complexities of history and its many layers of rewriting and mythology. Buckingham uses a variety of wonderful devices to reopen the case of the 16th president, presenting a series of statements in a true/false format. This film proves that the most established "facts" can offer the most fertile ground for new questions." -- D. L., Onion City Film Festival program notes.

Rental: $45.00