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- Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
- Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
- A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
- Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.
- A mysterious 20-minute short of surreal, dream-like imagery open to many interpretations.
- "Damned If You Don't is a real prize. Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voicovers to create an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme. When the two women finally meet and make love, the woman's careful unwrapping of the nun's complicated prison of clothing is both foreplay and liberating metaphor. The film is as hypnotic as a dream."
- In a rare excursion beyond Andy Warhol's New York base, this home-movie-ish lark features an unlikely Tarzan, wandering around Los Angeles in search of his Jane.
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.
- A 3 minute pan to the left.
- A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
- This film consists of alternating black and white frames.
- A late Beat, proto psychedelic short film in which Baillie captured a woman friend in dance, her shadow as a negative against a shimmering background.
- A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer.
- Lewis Klahr's first film in 16mm, THE PHARAOH'S BELT was given a special citation for experimental film by the National Society of Film Critics in 1994.
- Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of '60s independent cinema. "The Great Blondino" follows an anachronistically attired young fellow as he navigates a beguiling, sometimes troubling world with a curiosity that opens us wide to the filmmakers' inspired, free-form vision. In many ways, the wonder of Blondino may echo the excitement of invention and exploration that Nelson and Wiley experienced in the making of the film. Utterly exuberant and freed from rote cinematic restriction, it embodies an artistic rigor and direction that also prevents it from ever seeming too unhinged. An incredible feat of tightrope walking.
- A camera mounted in the backseat of the car of Benning and Gordon traveling across the US east to west, takes in the passing terrain as framed by the windshield.
- A film literally about film, not just its content but its physical form, as the director shares with us his collection of 35 mm leaders, off-cuts and test footage and tells the story behind each.
- An short film which captures various activities with a watermelon while set to a catchy tune.
- Prometheus engages in repeated scenes of bisexuality in this independent feature from the New York underground.
- A montage of images of film making is followed by a silent western story.
- A history of muscular women from Henry II's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to the present, suggests the passionate intertwining of personal fantasy and history characteristics.
- Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
- An experimental short film in which a copy of an interview is shown on a monitor next to the live interview creating the illusion that the two are talking to each other.
- My ten year correspondence with serial killer Aileen Wuornos leads to an intimate and mesmerizing interview on Florida's death row. Also features Penny Arcade, Lydia Lunch and Nan Goldin. "I had the life as Aileen Wuornos. Why did I end up on the stages of the world, rather than on death row?" : Penny Arcade, ex-Andy Warhol superstar. Aileen was executed in October 2002 at Florida's State Prison.
- Idylls of the beats in the Beat Generation scene of San Francisco's North Beach.
- Bitch-Beauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with now-deceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant, who died of a heroin/cocaine overdose in 1999. Using Hanavan's films, performances, readings, and music as well as footage from Lund's work, Bitch-Beauty is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic self-expression.
- Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are images of a woman and lights in distortion, with tension heightened by the sounds of power saws and a heartbeat."
- Focuses on the body by way of starkly lit portraits to meditate upon the tension between presence and absence, before shifting to zero in on the figure of a pensive bride.
- A young man sets out for an aimless stroll by tram from the center to the outskirts of Prague.
- A short experimental film about the Dakota Sioux directed by Bruce Baillie.
- An experimental film consisting of images of satin, beads, painted faces, and people dancing.
- A German WWII veteran and émigré to the United States depicts the increasingly downward progression of his family and life through the lens of his battlefield camera, including his own death during a stateside military protest.
- The tawdry and tragic life of Mexican-born film star Lupe Velez is chronicled in this quirky "art-house" feature.
- A soundless experimental film which captures two individuals waiting at a table while light flashes on and off the subjects.
- Created at the same time as 'Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania'-and frequently overshadowed by his brother's film-'Going Home' was made by both Adolfas Mekas and his wife Pola Chapelle about the Mekas brothers' return to Lithuania after a twenty-seven-year absence. A moving portrait emerges with feasts, family, friends and "flowers for the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and songs."
- An experimental short film from Joseph Cornell documenting a day in the park with birds and people.
- Performance by artist Yayoi Kusama.
- A masturbating boy gives birth to a plastic bubble.
- A silent work that fuses a baroque painterly style and photographic sensibility with experimental montage. Portraits of Edward Owens' mother adorned in fanciful costumes and striking regal poses are superimposed with other images to create a dreamlike world bridging realities of life with fantasy and desire.
- A short experimental film documenting "Parsifal" set to the score by Richard Wagner.
- The act of making love seen through close-up and magnifying lens.
- Now available on DVD, "END OF THE ART WORLD" explored the most famous 1960's artists in New York City -- Warhol, Rauschenberg, Johns, Lichtenstein and others -- on 16mm film, ending in a "Bang!" as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York "exploded" in a visual montage that included sayings from the Black Panthers' Minister of Culture, angry examples of Nancy Spero's "Artaud" series, a violin case full of mock dynamite planted in Henry Geldzahler's office by a young performance artist, a count-down from Jasper Johns' number series, and Warhol's silk-screens of an atom bomb. Includes the only 16mm film footage shot at Warhol's opening at the Whitney Museum, surrounded by his superstars; Robert Rauschenberg at work in his studio, making cardboard collages; Michael Snow discussing "Wavelength" in the studio where he shot it, while experimenting with some of the elements used in his art; and other art world scenes of 1970-71. The DVD re-release also features the director's commentary and four additional short films, including "Nancy Spero: A Conversation with the Artist"
- Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba.
- "A celebration of elusive relationships" between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves.