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21) 1941
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4 minutes; music by Igor Stravinsky; preserved by Bruce Posner and Anthology Film Archives at Cineric, Inc. from camera original; courtesy of the filmmaker. The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor motivated painter-filmmaker Francis Lee to produce these abstract images evocative of the horrors of war. Splattered wet paint and broken light bulbs allude to the senseless destruction. The potent visuals are reinforced by the driving...
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16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 14 minutes; production Farallone Films; with Anna Halprin, Welland Lathrop, John Graham; music by William O. Smith._Game Little Gladys, The Gardner's Son; Princess Printemps_and_The Aging Balletomane_. Delightful and sentimental, the interludes date back to silent cinema full of playful mime and dreamy reverie. As such the vignettes offer a welcome antidote to the high-mindedness of most avant-garde films.
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16mm 1.37.1 color sound, 9:27 minutes; acted & recited by Anaïs Nin from Nin's_House of Incest;_ production, photography Ian Hugo; abstract color effects Len Lye, Ian Hugo; electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron. "I remember my first birth in water," reads Anaïs Nin in her husband Ian Hugo's aquatic fantasy formed of "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." The mix of charged language...
24) An Optical Poem
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35mm 1.33:1 color sound, 7:02 minutes; production assistance John Cage; music_Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2_by Franz Liszt; courtesy Warner Bros.,Turner Entertainment Co. A milestone in object animation, Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cutouts hung on invisible wires and shot a frame-at-a-time in close synchronization to Liszt's rhapsody. The dance of shapes resembles a voyage through an imaginary space where "the keen sensation of depth becomes...
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35mm enlarged from 16mm with 2K digital insert from 16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 12:27 minutes; production assistance Miriam Arsham, Alexander Hammid; with Chao-li Chi; music a mix of Chinese classical flute and drums recorded in Haiti by Maya Deren; preserved by Bruce Posner and Anthology Film Archives at Cineric, Inc. and Trackwise from camera original, optical negative and composite prints with funding provided by the Women's Film Preservation...
26) Hurry, Hurry!
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4:27 minutes. Filmmaking was a natural evolution while I was engaged in painting, particularly since I was primarily concerned in capturing light, its effect on textured surfaces, its glowing luminescence in the dark, the enhancements of juxtaposed color, persistence of vision and eye fatigue. -_Marie Menken_
27) Eaux d'artifice
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16mm 1.37:1 black & white tinted color sound, 12:57 minutes; with Carmilla Salvatorelli; music "Winter" movement of_The Four Seasons_by Antonio Vivaldi; courtesy of the filmmaker. The Villa d'Este sculpture gardens frame the nocturnal exploits of a Baroquely-dressed masked figure darting about a waterworks of gushing fountains in "a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth." Jets of water form a mesmerizing erotic fantasy paying homage to abstract...
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35mm from 16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:14 minutes; preserved by Lawrence Jordan and Michael Hinton from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack; distributor Canyon Cinema; courtesy of the filmmaker. Alchemical images of transformation fill the screen in Lawrence Jordan's magical collage animation where several ambiguous characters - a boy, a deep-sea diver and a Lady with the orbital head - make a surrealistic dream-like journey. Produced from line...
29) Gyromorphosis
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 6:40 minutes; music _Django_ by John Lewis, played by the Modern Jass Quartet; courtesy of Angeline Pike, Creative Film Society. _Gyromorphosis_ strives to bring into actuality the inherent kinetic qualities seen in the construction-sculpture of Constant Nieuwenhuys of Amsterdam. To realize [sic] this aim I have put into motion, one by one, pieces of this sculpture and, with colored lighting, filmed them in various detail,...
30) Love It/Leave It
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 14:07 minutes; music by Ray Whilding White; preserved by Chicago Filmmakers at Cineric, Inc. from camera originals and magnetic soundtrack with funding provided by National Film Preservation Foundation; courtesy of the filmmaker. The love of events that bring people together, revealing at once the absurdities and tenderness of the human comedy, plus a sharp eye for Americana, characterize and permeate the Palazzolo films....
31) Transport
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 5:43 minutes; camera Sandy D'Annunzio; music Indiran; with Lee Vogt, Amy Greenfield, Chuck Williams, Steven Holly, Joel Polinsky, Don Young, Tom Vint; preserved by Amy Greenfield at WRS Film Lab from camera originals; courtesy of the filmmaker. _Transport_ came out of many influences in the early 1970s: the dead of Vietnam; the poem by my poetry teacher Anne Sexton, _For God While Sleeping_; the post-modern dance experiments...
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 11:46 minutes; music Bumblebees Sip Honey by Peliatan Gamelan; mastered from a composite print; courtesy of the filmmaker, Chicago Film Archives. DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The film was made by shocking 10-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating...
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16mm 1.37 black & white sound, 12:39 minutes; dancer Bettie de Jong; music by McNeil Robinson. The sensation of our own movement and the perception of movement in the world around us are very primal experiences from early infancy. It is in this world of movement (the kinesthetic experience) that film and dance make their most exciting and unique contributions. -_Hilary Harris_
35) Castro Street
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16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 9:59 minutes; preserved by Academy Film Archive in 1999 at Triage Motion Picture Services from camera original sand magnetic soundtrack archived at Pacific Film Archives; mastered from the 35mm preservation negative; 1080p digital restoration by Bruce Posner at DuArt Video, FilmVideoDigital, and Gustavo Matamoros; courtesy of the filmmaker.
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Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is "jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian formula, as sordid family secrets spawn unintentional murder most foul. Winner of the FIRPRESCI Prize at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** Nominated...
37) Photographs
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This experimental film, set to music by Bach, illustrates quotations from the works of Karl Marx with PHOTOGRAPHS of proletarian daily life from the mid-1800s to the present. Peter Voigt and photographer Arno Fischer worked on the four double-stelae of Berlin’s Marx-Engels Forum project from 1977 to 1982. For the stelae they were planning, they researched PHOTOGRAPHS in Amsterdam, New York, Washington, London and Moscow. This film is a direct result...
38) Walden
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Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground. *"...a groundbreaking work of personal cinema." - **Experimental Cinema***
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When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
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