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- A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
- A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
- The 92nd Academy Awards for film achievements in 2019 are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- French Artist Sophie Calle and American Photographer Greg Shephard's autobiographical account of their road trip across America. It can be seen as an experimental setup of two people and a camera on a cross-country drive, with hot twists.
- Football like you've never seen it before! This hilarious and insightful documentary featuring Christopher Guest and Bill Murray takes you behind the scenes of the 1976 Super Bowl X between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys.
- A "home movie" by Chris Marker of his visit to Tokyo with his girlfriend, actress Arielle Dombaste, beginning with a chat with a live mannequin in a store window, then through the subway and to the market.
- Skippy is encouraged by his parents to leave his "poisonous family" and find a new home. Along the way he is hit by a car and then filmed by a documentary filmmaker. Music from a chaotic youth party awakens him as he searches for something beautiful to hold onto.
- The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large part filmed in Venice in 1990, when many of the original Fluxus artists met to hold a large exhibition almost 30 years after the first highly untraditional Fluxus' performances. Features Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, and many others.
- Electronic Arts Intermix describes Ed Emshwiller's pioneering experimental concept video as a digital sculpture: "Sunstone is a landmark tape. Symbolic and poetic, it is a pivotal work in the development of an electronic language to articulate three-dimensional space. The opening image is an iconic face, which appears to be electronically 'carved' from stone. A mystical third eye, brilliantly crafted from a digital palette, radiates with vibrant transformations of color and texture. Sculpting electronically, Emshwiller then transforms perspectival representation: the archetypal 'sunstone' is revealed to be one facet of an open, revolving cube, each side of which holds a simultaneously visible, moving video image. Created with complex technology over an eight-month period, this emblematic spinning cube metaphorically describes a three-dimensional, temporal space, both hyperreal and simulated. Emshwiller's humanistic approach to technology ushered in the 1980s with a new electronic vocabulary for conceptualizing and visualizing images in space and time. Reflecting an image-saturated world. SUNSTONE marked a new stage in electronic art."
- Martha Rosler takes us through an A-Z of the kitchen in this parodic feminist art film.
- Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri's family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past - especially a past that exists outside traditional historic accounts - Tajiri blends interviews, memorabilia, a pilgrimage to the camp where her mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted pre-Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family's house removed from its site. Throughout, she surveys the impact of images (real images, desired images made real, and unrealized dream images). The film draws from a variety of sources: Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead, as well as Tajiri's own intuitions of a place she has never visited, but of which she has a memory. More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history - questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.
- Seating in an armchair against a stark background, the artist stares at the camera, his silence punctuated by screams. The camera pulls back to show he's at the end of a long hallway, and rapidly zooms again into the inside of his mouth .
- "I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- Danish performance artist Eric Andersen, associated since the early 1960s with the Fluxus art movement, describes his film as a montage of "single frame exposures, color, different image each frame, various items in the room, etc."
- An extraordinary video sketchbook, a highly original, visually dramatic and frequently humorous collection of one hundred abbreviated "episodes" produced for television. Unfolding as a series of thirty-second vignettes, this enigmatic essay in style is characterized by a deadpan theatricality, symbolist imagery, surrealist juxtapositions and repetition of key visual motifs.
- On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen, in NYC, hosted a concert of reconstructed historical Fluxus performances. Over forty short pieces by thirty artists and composers were performed during the event and edited into this compilation film.
- A thirteen-part serial, in which a child joins with a modern day wizard to create a new world out of the life of his family.
- This doc by video pioneers TVTV examines Guru Maharaj Ji, 16-year-old leader of a cult-like new age group, known to his followers as Lord of the Universe. The 1974 gathering at Houston's Astrodome features Rennie Davis and Abbie Hoffman.
- "Junkyard Levitation" is a visual pun on the concept of "mind over matter," as a man attempts to levitate while lying prone in a junkyard.
- A comprehensive compilation of American artist Chris Burden's four famous television commercials/interventions produced between 1973 and 1977: "Through the Night Softly", "Poem for L.A.", "Chris Burden Promo", and "Full Financial Disclosure" with intertitles in the form of explanatory texts written by the artist in order to give precise details about the original airing of each piece.
- This witty and startlingly candid look at the 1972 Republican National Convention is a classic work of guerrilla television, and an alternative time capsule of an era of dramatic change in American politics, media, and culture.
- A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super Highway', which premiered at The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with recent installations, historical background and interviews.
- In this episode of the ongoing Whispering Pines series, Moulton's hapless protagonist Cynthia seeks a cure for an ailment via "Healing Hands," a natural New Age therapy. Donning conch-shell-and-pine-cone-adorned headphones and an Avon reflexology glove, she listens to "sound medicine" and undergoes a treatment with Lady Nova, a hand healer. This is a portal for an out-of-the-body experience, as Cynthia finds physical and spiritual release, dancing ecstatically in a psychedelically animated California landscape.
- Explores notions of the cinematic in relation to recent global history, with particular focus on the role of the media in conveying information and events into the home via the medium of the television.
- Moves from the design patterns of the 18th century to the 20th century in the space of 5 minutes. From "fleurs de lis" to modernist geometry, each "scene" of this rhythmic display of decorative patterning is constructed from museum crafts.
- One of Peter Callas' most personally confronting works. It is made up of six parts, and utilizes the image of a knife slicing horizontally through the pictorial screen as its central and linking motif. Its starting point is an installation by Callas which incorporated a photograph from the 1920s of two severed heads belonging to a male and female of the Takasago tribe in Formosa (Taiwan). At once horrific and enigmatic, this image forms a potent metaphor for Japan's pre-Second World War imperial past. In its focus upon colonial history and collective memory, the significance of the work is not confined to Japan alone but offers a kind of mirror with which to face atrocities committed in colonial Australia.
- An exercise in technological reflexivity, conceived as an early investigation of the material presence of the electronic medium, where a videotape recorder tries to record itself following a technical miscalculation.
- Various situations and image transformations are organized around the central theme of the phototropic vision of the moth and its relation to the ecstasy of self-annihilation.
- American video artist Bill Viola describes this short video work as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother."
- A loop of images recorded at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is extended in progressively slower cycles, changing the form, feeling and ultimately the meaning of the original images as they move further into the subjective and pictorial.
- Peter Callas employs his signature computer animation to create a dynamic pictorial landscape with the alphabet as its theme.
- This work deals with time as revealed in sound and image, and with natural and subjective time. It follows the structural orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's ideas on counterpoint.
- A mandala-like form, divided into four quadrants, unifies four events by four individuals in four separate spaces, exploring "the notion of the parallel nature of reality, that is, simultaneous events separated in space."
- The film's title makes a veiled reference to the New World and what America has made of it. Many American territories were originally called "purchases", bought as they were from other Western colonial powers (France, Spain, Russia, etc.).
- In Visions, Peter Callas depicts an imaginary, architectonic, revolving electronic "space" as viewed from the interior of an eyelid. Music by Ra.
- This vibrant, densely textured short film is a video translation of the traditional technique of framing Japanese ink drawings on heavily patterned backgrounds, as schematic pictograms are framed against wildly patterned fields. Music: Ra.
- The following "abstract synopsis" is the best way to describe this unique effort to communicate.] WHAT LIES, OUR SCREENS We keep talking about what we don't know. Words are cliches are frozen life: our common currency. Yes, eyes look at eyes. Is that communication? Once I almost died, next time I will fully die.
- Covers the first hours and days of life through a series of portraits of newborn babies in a hospital nursery; young souls, who through their keen vulnerability, gestures and expressions, suggest a primal linking of birth and death.
- This work derives from an interest in the particular qualities of sodium vapor street lighting - its characteristic color temperature, the shadows it casts, and the eerie quality it seems to impart to the objects it illuminates.
- The film attempts to syncretically avaunt the borders of identity in an anti-historical reconstruction of Brazil. Peter Callas used several 2D and 3D animation processes in creating the imagery of Lost in Translation (Part 1: Plus Ultra).