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Peggy Ahwesh

The Color of Love (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 10 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Erotic, Found Footage, Hand Processed

"The last word in ready-mades, Peggy Ahwesh's THE COLOR OF LOVE ... is a slightly slo-mo, optical reprint of an obviously ill-treated '70s porn movie in which the chemical rot that's already eaten away the edges of the image threaten to censor it entirely. ... An ur-text for Ahwesh's work, THE COLOR OF LOVE is an almost Rose Hobart for the '90s." -- Amy Taubin, The Village Voice

Rental: $40.00

Shawn Atkins

Anastasia and the Queen of Hearts (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 5 min

Genre: Animation, Experimental

Keywords: Queer / Bi / Trans

Shawn Atkins' work in animation spans from making personal narrative films to teaching workshops to at-risk youth and curating programs of experimental animation. An animated love story.

Rental: $30.00

Colin Barton

Broken Footnotes (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 7.30 min

Genre: Documentary

BROKEN FOOTNOTES, like the footnotes at the end of a book, gives further information to the ideas in and out-takes from IMAGES OF BROKEN FACE.

Rental: $30.00

Yann Beauvais

New York Long Distance (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 9 min

Genre: Experimental

Images culled from the director's experiences with New York are presented in an abstract fragmented kaleidoscope. In French without subtitles. Translation available.

Rental: $30.00

Coby Boyd

Demolition of a Typewriter (1994) 16mm, black and white, sound, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Literature & Theater

Part tribute and part formal exercise, I have sought to exploit some of the charecteristics of filmic language in order to dramatically display the cinema's power of communication over the age-old printed word.

Rental: $20.00

Will Bragger

One Way Luck Available (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 23 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Landscape & Architecture, Science & Medicine, Technology

The idea of science and technology causing the extinction of humankind is conveyed through the metaphors of Las Vegas and the top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

Rental: $40.00

Stan Brakhage

Black Ice (1994) 16mm, color, silent, 5 min

Genre: Experimental

I lost sight due a blow on the head from slipping on black ice (leading to eye surgery, eventually); and now (because of artificially thinned blood) most steps I take outdoors all winter are made in frightful awareness of black ice. These "meditations" have finally produced this hand-painted, step-printed film.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Cannot Exist (1994) 16mm, color, silent, 2 min

Genre: Experimental

The hand-painting of this film is interrupted by, and interspersed with, a geometrically structured Mask of Death (one of those frightening human idea-shapes of dying) immediately caught-up in threads of streaming, polarized crystals of Light (elaborately step-printed, with simultaneous frame-to-frame dissolves and printer "pull-backs" creating an effect as if the room in which the film is being viewed was inhaling viscous strands of Life's chemical material). The blurred photo-image of a person appears briefly superimposed on these "streamings": then there is a short visual "exhale" of this "crystallized" light, as the screen appears to re-absorb its imagery and resolve itself into a pale violet scattering of dust, is it? ... a nebulae, perhaps -- i. e., some semblance both earthly and cosmic and (as such) as enigmatic as "the face of God." Collaboration with Sam Bush.

Rental: $20.00

Stan Brakhage

Cannot Not Exist (1994) 16mm, color, silent, 10 min

Genre: Experimental

In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes -- often patches of color against a stark white background -- are interspersed with nearly black intermittent smudges punctuating white. These visual themes develop gradually into a series of multi-colored vertical lines which weave contrapunctally in relation to the flickering (single-frame) paint shapes. Twice, a solid (as if photographed) shape is seen receding from the amalgam of paint. Masses of tiny dots and "curlicue" shapes sometimes interrupt the thematic progression from irregular paint-shape flickerings to fluidity of vertical lines: this theme eventually resolves itself through the intervention of globular shapes (most notably, brilliant orange-yellow "globs") which spread themselves over several frames and prompt the eventual amalgamation of all themes.

Rental: $30.00

Stan Brakhage

Chartres Series (1994) 16mm, color, silent, 9 min

Genre: Experimental

A year and a half ago the filmmaker Nick Dorsky, hearing I was going to France, insisted I must see the Chartres Cathedral. I, who had studied picture books of its great stained-glass windows, sculpture and architecture for years, having also read Henry Adams' great book three times, willingly complied and had an experience of several hours (in the discreet company of French filmmaker Jean-Michele Bouhours) which surely transformed my aesthetics more than any other single experience. Then Marilyn's sister died; and I, who could not attend the funeral, sat down alone and began painting on film one day, this death in mind ... Chartres in mind. Eight months later the painting was completed on four little films which comprise a suite in homage to Chartres and dedicated to Wendy Jull. (My thanks to Sam Bush, of Western Cine, who collaborated with me on this, much as if I were a composer who handed him a painted score, so to speak, and a few instructions -- a medieval manuscript, one might say -- and he were the musician who played it.)

Rental: $30.00