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| VA-01 | LIVE COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE | VATSKY, Daniel | DVD | unknown | |||
| AR-01 | Radio Station | ARFORD, Scott | CD | 2003-04 | Music | experimental sound art | digitalized noise |
| AR-02 | 7HZ | ARFORD, Scott & YAU, Randy H.Y. & NINE, Michael | CD | 2002 | Music | experimental sound art | Operating in the legendary Cyclone warehouse space near Hunter's Point in San Francisco, 7hz has functioned as one of the few SF venues that is exclusively dedicated to experimental sound art, and also has served as the live / work spaces (in the truest sense of the term) for Scott Arford (aka Radiosonde), Randy Yau (23five), and Michael Nine (aka Death Squad). During the fall of 2002, 7hz took their show on the road, as Arford, Yau, and Nine embarked on a European tour. This disc is essentially the tour support album, offering an exclusive sampling of each artist's work. Arford's sonic reconstitutions of video static have made for stunning audio / visual performances (almost unheard of in the visually sterile realm of laptop composition). Here, his contributions spit forth digitally corrosive bits of static and noise (which resemble remote control / shortwave detritus) along mechanized grids. Altogether, Arford's tracks resemble the pained electric noise of those collaborations between Zbigniew Karkowski and Pita Rehberg. Yau defines his work as an "action concrete," in which recordings of impromptu vocal outbursts have been dissected and reanimated through a number of electro-acoustic techniques, often sounding like a mutation of Robert Ashley's classic "Automatic Writing" with far more jarring and confrontational results. Michael Nine's work comes out of the Whitehouse / Con-Dom approach of primitive noise assaults as transgressive theater. All in all, an excellent introduction to these San Francisco artists. |
| AR-03 | EDIT FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS | ARFORD, Scott , YAU, Randy H.Y. | CD | 2000-01 | Music | experimental sound art | experimental noise music |
| AR-04 c.1 | SOLID STATE FLESH - SOLID STATE SEX | ARFORD, Scott & LOPEZ, Francisco | CD | 2004-05 | Music | experimental sound art | 2 copies |
| APS-01 | EXTREMELY Shorts VI (6) | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 2003 | Shorts | Includes Graffiti Test, Composition in Red and Yellow, A Brief Report on Federal Arts Funding, Death is O er My Shoulder, The Magical Number Five, Stupefaction-wonder- imitation-rejection-experience, Possession, The Basic Ingredients, House, States of the Union Bill Clinton, Venus, What Will I Do?, Suspended, Sluice/Ants/Spin/Frog Christmas 1990, Blender Rotation Test 1-3, 3 Seconds 12 Rings, Deraqitox Infomercial, Westward Ho, Play to Win, Zijkfijergijok, Document # 568, Three Silent Tributes to Tchaikovsky, >From Seed To Planting, 36, La Llorna, Magic Mountain, L air du Temps, States of the Union George W. Bush, Dirty Socks | |
| GI-01 | THE BIRDPEOPLE | GITLIN, Michael | DVD 16mm |
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| FO-01 | THE NEST | FOTOPOULOS, James | DVD | 2003 | |||
| MA-01 | NO TITLE | MARTIN, Darrin BURNS, Torsten Zenas |
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| LO-01 c.1 | Collective Eye DVD #3 | HINK, Tali & LAPIDUS, Kyle (LoVid) | DVD | 2003 | Experimental | i was recorded during a residency at The Experimental Television Center in Owego NY in 2003. LoVid recorded 3 hours of live video using equipment of their own along with the center's unique audio and video synthesizers and processors. 13 dynamic tracks were extracted to make this DVD. The videos are synesthetic compositions in which image and sound are created as one entity, where image is audible and sound is visible. http://www.ignivomous.org/projects/lovid/ The works included are : 1.Decay Hatching 2.Cyclops 3.Buildings 4.OsciPosse 5.Breaking and Entering the Lost Timeframe 6.Hurricane 7.Alien Landscape 8.Meteorology 9.Red Eye 10.Color Bars 11.Quilt 12.Susquehanna 13.Ones and Zeros 3 copies |
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| SU-01 | ADOLESCENT BOYS & LIVING ROOMS | SUPARAK, Astria | DVD | 2002 | 4/2008 | 1. 5 min, excerpt by Harrell Fletcher Candy, feathers, hair, flowers, and discarded paper and plastic. Succession of 5 second shots of a hand opening to reveal different objects inside. 2. Miranda July Bruce Lee (audio only) 2002 1:35 3. Alex Villar Upward Mobility Man climbing walls 2002 silent 6:35 4.Harrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin with Anthony Powers. ANTHONY. 1997-2002. 5:49 min. hands thumphing on tables 5.Messieurs Delmotte. CE QUI EST FAIT LE MAL EST FAIT. 1998. 4 min. 6. esse Sugarmann and Mike Long. 10 BEERS IN 10 MINUTES. 1997. 14:19 min. 7.Jennifer Reeder. SMALL SLEEPY DRIVER AND THE FOUNTAIN OF BLOOD. 2002. 14 min. 8. Jon Leone. RECEIVER. 2001. 20 min. trt- 68 mins |
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| MI-01 | SELECTED WORKS - 2003 | MIDDELTON, Tricia | DVD | 2003 | Includes: Midnight Studio Rambles #1 (shots and cuts) Midnight Studio Rambles #2 (one location, one cut) "FRIENDS" Studio Set #1 (burnt house) Midnight Studio Rambles #4 (Cold Mountain props and crafts services) |
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| CA-01 | THE SEEDLING | CAMPBELL, Thomas | DVD | 1999 | |||
| IN-01 | SIX SHORTS | INGERSOLL, Chris | DVD | ||||
| SC-01 | ?ADONDE FUE JUAN JOSE? | SCHNEIDER, Kenny | DVD | 2003 | a story of dreams destroyed - hopes crushed. It is compelling tale of an all too typical immigration from Mexico to the US. The film artfully chronicles the plight of desperatly poor Mexicans seeking a better life in the North. Two brothers, Juan Jose and Marcos leave their family in Mexico to come to the US to find work. Their second attempt succeeds, but only after a near-death trek through the vast Sonoran desert. They finally arrive at the house of their Aunt Silvia who finds jobs for them with her friend Manuel, the Jefe of a large ranch. They are happy, working hard and sending money home to Mexico when tragedy strikes. ?ADONDE FUE JUAN JOSE? depicts the lives of Mexican Immigrants. It is not a fill you'll soon forget. | ||
| BA-01 | SELECTED WORKS 1998-2003 | DUKE, Emily Vey BATTERSBY, Cooper |
DVD | Includes: Curious about existence I am a conjuror Bad idas for paradise The fine arts Being fucked up Rapt and happy |
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| AU-01 | THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE | AUGUSTA | DVD | Documentary | dance | An up-beat documentary about the history and recent revival of burlesque. | |
| FI-01 | NO TITLE | FINN, Jim | DVD | Uebermax (1min) The golden horde (5 min) |
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| TV-01 c.1 | TV SHERIFF AND THE TRAILBUDDIES | TV SHERIFF AND THE TRAILBUDDIES | DVD | 3 copies | |||
| WE-01 | SELECTED WORKS 1970-78 DOG BASEBALL 1986 |
WEGMAN, William | DVD | checked out (Beth Secor) 11/07-5/08 6/18/2008 |
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| FO-02 | FAMILIES | FOTOPOULOS, James | DVD | ||||
| MAT-01 | FOOD | MATTA-CLARK, Gordon | DVD b&w sound |
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| WE-02 | SELECTED WORKS 1998-2002 | WEGMAN, William | DVD | ||||
| CO-01 | APHOPHENIA | COLUNGA, Jason PATEL, Vinay |
DVD | 2005 | An interest in experimental cinema led Jason Colunga and Vinay Patel to create a unique film. Borrowing from the ideas and research of Carl Jung, Jason and Vinay, express this psychological occurance using the Audio/Visual medium in a kaleidoscopic fashion. | ||
| ST-01 | CIRCLES SHORT CIRCUIT | STRACKE, Caspar | DVD | 1998-2004 | |||
| VA-02 | VIDEO CLIPS | VATSKY, Daniel | DVD | ||||
| SAC-01 c.1 | CUL DE SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY | SUBDIVIDSION PRODUCTIONS | DVD | 2 copies |
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| ST-02 c.1 | ZUSE STRIP | STRACKE, Caspar | DVD | 2 copies | |||
| GR-01 | TEXAS STYLE | GREG | DVD | ||||
| KE-01 c.1 | 2 EXCERPTS (one clip) Live Performance - December 2004 |
KENDALL, Adam VORTEX (TAKEISHI, Satoshi and NAGAI, Shoko) |
DVD | 2004 | We have 2 copies Data DVD recorded live at {R}ake |
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| JE-01 | SHOWREEL | JEFFERY, Ryan | DVD | Includes: Ceiling songs Window Small parts Continuum The crown episodes 1&2 |
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| GO-01 | HOT AND BOTHERED: feminist pornography | GOLDBERG, Becky | DVD | ||||
| MI-02 | SELECTED WORKS, Volume 1 | MIDDLETON, Tricia TAYLOR, Joel |
DVD | Includes: Lost in space (11 min.) Theme Song II (4 min.) Attachments (14 min.) |
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| VAR-01 | ALTERNATIVE Your view about film at DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL 18 |
Various Artist | DVD | 2005 | 4/2008 | Includes: Video Association of Dallas Intro "Better living through video" (SMITH, Scooter) The 18th annual Dallas Video Festival Intro (SELVARAJAN, Sai) Candle (FAUNDEZ, Aldo) Yellow bird (HOANG, DangMinh) White Bunny (STRAUB, Katja) 38.000.000 Words (JOHNSON, James W.) Hope's War (YA'KE) Weird-O-Torium (GIBBONS, Nick) One Shot (CANALES, Oliver) My Life as the American West (PERKINS, Douglas C.) Ana's House (SALDIVAR, Olivia) Test Day (FABELO, David) Cat Food and Bean Dip (HYLAND, Eric & CULBERTSON, Dusty) Mondo Ford (CALONICO, Scott) |
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| A/V-01 | FILM A COMMIE FOR MOMMIE | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Politics, Found Footage | Includes: Communism Russian Life Today Leisure Time USSR CRISIS IN CUBA RED SELL These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolet and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration - just like you remember! |
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| A/V-02 | BEST OF A/V GEEKS IV | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Are You Listening? Plastics Toothache of A Clown Sally at 13 Morality For Youth VD is for everybody |
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| BAK-01 | FROM THE DESK OF PAUL BAKER | BAKER, Paul | DVD | 1994-2004 | M.I.A. | Includes: Cosmosis (2004) Celestial - Sub Oslo (2004) Science Dub - Sub Oslo (2002) Sub Oslo live in Tokyo (Dubalicious) (2002) Neverending Neardeath Video (segment) (1995-2003) 11/16/90 (Dancing Cowboy) (1994) Lords of Ether (2002) |
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| AN-01 c.1 | ANT FARM VIDEO | ANT FARM | DVD | 1970-2003 | Art | 11/07 | Includes: Cadillac Ranch (1974/1994) Media Burn Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes Inflatables Illustrated World' Longest Bridge Time Capsule 1972-1984 OFF-AIR Australia 2 copies |
| GN-01 | AFTER MATH UNASWERED QUESTIONS FROM 9/11 |
GNN (Guerrilla News Network) | DVD | AfterMath features the most pressing questions surrounding 9/11 that continue to overshadow and critically challenge the government's official story. | |||
| EL-01 | SEX & DRUGS | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 2001 | Learn all about the dangers of marijuana, the perils of heavy petting, the difference between boys and girls, and the joys of menstruation. Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks, a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Now, just as you remember them, Fantoma presents this collection of sex education and drug prevention film, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Some historical, some hysterical, and all filled with more important misinformation than you can digest in just one viewing. Films include: LSD: Insight or Insanity? It's wonderful being a girl Narcotics: Pit of Despair, LSD: Case Study Marijuana (with Sonny Bono) |
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| COM-01 | LAND MARKED/MARQUETTE SERIES | COMERFORD, Thomas | DVD 16mm sound b&w |
2005 | Series of four landscape films, each examining a specific place in Chicago. The film's subjects are monuments to 17th century French Jesuit missionary, Jacques Marquette; complicating, but inciting contemplation of, monumental representations of Chicagoland and the dynamics of time's passage in these landscapes. 1. The Chicago Portage, 1673 2. Marquette's Winter Cabin, 1674-5 3. The Marquette Building, 1895 4. Chicago River Canoe Expedition, 2004 b&w 23 mins |
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| FI-02 | MIXTAPE | FINN, Jim JONES, Arthur |
DVD | 2005 | Videos by FINN, Jim: el valiente la calavera el moro el corayon wuestenspringmaus Decision 80 el payaso la rosa la ardilla Videos by JONES, Arthur Monster Team Diary of Bad Days Beach |
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| VAR-02 c.1 | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL 17 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2004 | 4/2008 | Includes: Video Association of Dallas Intro "Better Living Through Video" (SMITH, Scooter) The 17th Annual Dallas Video Festival Intro (JENKINS, Ben) Texas is an Adjective (LAFAYETTE, Carol) Spared: A Butler's Tale (WILLIAMS, Randy) Half Cocked, Fire Lock: Time Served in Santa Anna's Army (REYES, David N.) This is America (MICHALSKI, Dan) Sing for Me (TREVINO, Frederick) States of the Union (VALDEZ, Aron) Econtext (MEREDITH, Hudson) Site in Fishkill Creek (MAGARY, John) Horrorshow (TUBBS, Alan) Space Oddusea (HRABAL, Michael) A Boy named Dilgo (BRADFORD, Everett) Creamistress 6: "The Centered Polenta" (SORTOR, Carolyn) The Meat Market (OLHSON, Chris) 2 copies |
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| VAR-03 | RESFEST SHORTS Vol. 2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2003 | Contents: Bad Animals (BIRDSELL, David) Bike Ride (SCHROEDER, Tom) Copy Shop (WIDRICH, Virgil) Counterfeit Film (SIMON, Brett) Delusions in Modern Primitivism (LOFLIN, Daniel) Dog (TEMPELTON, Suzie) Headcleaner (BAVARI, Alessandro) Helicopter (GOLD, Ari) More (OSBORNE, Mark) Sweet (COUVILLION, Elyse) Telling Lies (ELLIS, Simon) Yen and the Art of Landscaping (KARTCH, David) |
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| A/V-03 | A/V GEEKS RIDE AGAIN! (Best of 2) | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: The Story Cas Study - LSD Pride on Parade VD Attack Plan Orange and Blue Telezonia ABC of Sex Education for Trainables |
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| A/V-04 | BEST OF A/V GEEKS Vol.3 | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: More Dates for Kay (1952) Teeth (1970) The Lunatic (1972) Parent to Child about Sex (1967) The Huntsman (1972) |
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| A/V-05 | ANATOMY OF A BRAT | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Me, too? Parents: Who needs Them? If Mirrors Could speak Magic House First Friends Just Joking |
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| SK-01 | ALLES IN ORDNUNG | SKADDEN, Elizabeth | DVD | ||||
| GA-01 | SURPLUS Terrorized into being consumers |
GANDINI, Erik | DVD | 2003 | Documentary | consumerism | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is a 2003 Swedish documentary film about consumerism and anti-consumerism, directed by Erik Gandini and edited by Johan Söderberg. It opens with footage of the protests at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa, and revolves around the words of anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan, who claims that destroying property - as opposed to attacking people - is necessary and is not violence. A lot of other people, apart from Zerzan, appear in the documentary, including the person who may be his diametrical opposite, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The documentary relies heavy on the of fast-paced audiovisual collage-techniques and music, resembling the MTV style of video- and television marketing, the result of this is that the documentary is more impressionistic than purely reporting or fully studying the argument or set of arguments. Another characteristic is its arch use of lip-synching, for example George Bush speaking for Adbusters, or Fidel Castro screaming Steve Ballmer's words "I love this company. Yeah!". |
| WE-03a c.1 | VIDEO WORKS 1970-1999 | WEGMAN, William | DVD | 2006 | 3 hrs 56 mins From 1970 to 1977 William Wegman created some of the most innovative and important works in the history of video. These early pioneering tapes were created using minimal technology and just a few studio props, includeing Wegman's canine co/star, the inimitable Man Ray. Consisting of almost 130 works, some no longer than a television commerical, these videos blurred the boundaries between high and low art as well as art and commerce, and have become a major chapter in the histories of both contemporary art and film. This exhaustive 2-DVD comppilation has been assembled by the artist with restored material and contains all of the orignial nie reels as well as two later reels anthologizing works from 1997-1999. Included with the DVDs is an essay, Wegman's Video: Funny instead of Formal, by art historian Kim Levin as well as a definitive chronology of the complete videos. |
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| SA-01 | FRONTERA | SALINAS, Luis | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | 3/20/08 | La Frontera accurately illustrates the plight of immigrants everywhere as they adjust to the changes in life and culture. Salinas gives us the faces and the words of the individuals reflecting the complex emotional struggles that they and their families face daily as they dicover they have more than one border to cross. |
| A/V-06 | BLACKBOARD BUNGLE | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Lunchroom Manners Courtesy at School How Quiet helps at school Our Obligation ...And then it happened |
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| A/V-07 | THE COZ | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Bill Cosby on Prejudice A Day with Bill Cosby |
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| QU-01 | LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! | QUERY, Julia FUNARI, Vicky |
DVD | A stripper at a club called the Lusty Lady, Julia Query is no stranger to hard work. Along with felow exotic dancer with names like Decadence, Lolita, Amnesia and Octopussy, Query puts in long, hard hours on stage and in the peep booth. But when faced with no sick leave, unfair demotions, safety and privacy concerns, and racial discrimination, Querz and her co-workers decide to do something about it. They set out to organize and unionize the exotic dancers of the Lady Lust. Live Nude Gils unite! follows heir quest to form the first ever Exotic Dancers Union. On stage and behind the scenes, Query and co-director Vicky Funari uncover the struggles, the stories and the lives of the women who toil in the Lusty Lady. |
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| MA-03 | LEARNING STALLS:LESSON PLANS | MARTIN, Darrin BURNS, Torsten Zenas |
DVD | Learning Stalls: Lesson Plans utilizes video as a trans-disciplinary curriculum exploring dverse speculative fictions and reimagined educational practices. Psychic surgery meets physical therapy as matter and anti-matter merge under the choreographed supervision of other worldly beings. In the search for new mind/body experiences, Burns, Martin and other workshop participants enact paranormal interactions, intersexual dynamics, pseudo-testing methods, and staged quasi-therapy sessions. | |||
| SM-01 | HEAVEN & EARTH | SMITH, Harry |
DVD | 1957-62 | Avant-Garde | Music, animation | This is a recreation of Harry Smith's proto-psychadelic, multi-projected, live performance put together by his long time protege, Henry Jones. Jones assembled a black and white version of Smith's Heaven & Earth Magic, but Smith always said the original was in color. Could this be a reproduction of that original? He uses colored gels, an antiquated form of color similar to that used in silent films, that together with slide overlays creates a vivid presentation and gives "the strong feel of a magic lantern show with an animated shadow play at its center." 66min |
| SP-01 | CHLORINE A pool skating documentary |
SPASIC, Milan ANGEL, Julie |
DVD | 2003 | Documentary | "They'll bury the pool, we'll dig it out. They fill it with water, we'll empty it. They bulldoze it, we'll rebuild it. We cannot be stopped..." - Dave Reul | |
| MA-04 | RECALLATHON | MARTIN, Darrin BURNS, Torsten Zenas |
DVD | Includes: Recall (14min) Currents (19min) I am Today's Lesson Plan (10,20min) The Man-Probe Examples (6min) Vocanica (9min) |
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| APS-02 | IT'S A TREND NOT A FAD | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | Shorts | 4/2008 | A collection of short films by University of Houston students. Includes: I Love A Computer, Bobby XP1, Spam Letter, The Practical Theory, Corazon, Farrah, Grand Opening, Thomas Jeffffferrrsssooonnn, Stills, Protected Witness Abominable Snowman, The Plot, Stuck Hammerhead, Selective Service, June 23, 1975 , 2005-2006 Includes: MAXSON, Eileen, CHAUVIN, Claire, PHIPPS, Patrick, HOPSON, Vinod WRANGLE, Anderson BREAUX, Camille BONCY, Sebastien DERRINGTON, Jessica THOMAS, Drea CHADDOCK, Brent LARK, Laura IVES, Joe LIBERTO, AJ MITTAG, Seth Pearce, Eric SANDERSON, John |
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| A/V-08 | THOSE NAUGHTY DRUGS | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Cas Study - Amphetamines Drug Attack Drugs are like that Marijuanna: Great Escape Drugs and the Nervous System Behavioral Effects of Drugs |
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| A/V-09 | KIDDIE MINDWARP | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Parents - Who needs Them? Health: Dirt-Witch Cleans up The Puppet's Dream Safe Play - Danger Places Ciher in the Snow |
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| BR-01 | THE NEXT BEST PLACE | BROWN, Bill | DVD | 2004 | Short Films |
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| LA-01 | THE RED BALLOON | LAMORISSE, Albert | DVD | 2002 | Children & Family | The story of Pascal, a lonely French boy who befriends a wonderous red balloon which fallows him everywhere. Lovely, finely done parable of childhood, imagination and friendship. | |
| FU-01 | IN SEARCH OF PARAGUAYAN FROGS AND TOADS | FURMAN, Joe | DVD | 2003 | Documentary | The Paraguayan night belongs to the frogs. After the rains, huge populations of frogs can be heard calling in bizarre and beautiful choruses. From the chamber frog that builds an elaborate mud nest for protection of its eggs and larva, to the leaf folding frog that endures harsh direct sunlight by protecting itself with its waxy coating, Paraguayan frogs represent all manner of strange and exotic adaptations in their struggle for survival. | |
| PA-01 | THE SUBJECT IS SEX | PARR, Stephen | DVD | 2004 | Compilation | sex | Stephen Parr of Oddball Film&Video presents an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. Drawn from his extensive 16mm film archieves, this polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly born, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peepshow loops and ooying oodles more! 109 mins |
| AH-01 | FEAR OF FICTION | AHEARN, Charlie | DVD | 1999 | Two twin brothers on a spiritual journey and an aspiring writer that lives in her father s shadow take a road trip to Canada. | ||
| WET-01 | THE PSYCHIC FLOCK | WET GATE | DVD | 2003 | performance | projection, music | 26 mins + 28 mins extra audio A compilation of performances created entirely from sounds and images generated from nothing but 16mm films and projectors. Synchronizing sound and image, they use often use the physical film reel as a madium, its damage spots and discolorations as rhythm and form. Included is footage of their revolutionary rear screen projection system, the Skinnimascope. |
| MAD-01 | PLAYGROUND | MADOW, Lauren | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | Playground is a film about three NYC teenagers and how they use the urban environment for their own purposes. Rio, a skateboarder, Ashley, a basketball player, and Alex, a breakdancer, are part of a longstanding NYC tradition that often gets overlooked (or condemned): ordinary kids with limited resources who spend everu spare moment playing in ways inspired by the city. As Rio says "I can see how people think it's dumb because they might think you're just riding a piece of wood with some skates on it... but it would be hard to explain to someone that would never ride a board." Interviews and footage of the kids reveal how much more there is to playing that what meets the eye. | |
| A/V-10 | SOUND OF CENTRON | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Office Safety - Thrill Seekers Caught in a Rip-off The Lunatic Shake Hands with Danger |
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| JU-01 | BAAD ASSSSSS CINEMA A bold look at 70's blaxploitation films |
JULIEN, Isaac | DVD | 2002 | Documentary | In this groundbreaking documentary from the Independent Film Channel, filmaker Isaac Julien takes us back to the early 70s and the explosion of blaxploitation films, today one of American cinema's most beloved cult genres. The original guilty pleasure, these fun and energetic films had all the action, comedy, sex and groovy music you could want in two hours worth of entertainment. | |
| CR-01 | BREATH CONTROL The history of the human beat box |
CRAYCROFT, Jacob GARFIELD, Joe |
DVD | 2002 | 3/21/08 | ||
| MAN-01 | CITY TAPES WATER TAPES |
MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-02 | WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK 23 JUNE 1975 | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-03 | NEW YORK CENTRAL PARK | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-04 | ANDY AT 30 (CD1 of 2) | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-05 | ANDY AT 30 (CD 2 of 2) | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-06 | 1 DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE - 11 - 13 | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-07 | UNCLE STEVE DISCOUNT HOUR | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-08 | FRANK - ANDY EDITINY - MARCO | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-09 | MANN FAMILY FATHERS DAY | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-10 | TOTS IN TUBE LAND | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| MAN-11 | PHIL OCHS 1975 | MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| ME-01 | UEBER GOOBER a film about gamers |
METZE, Steve | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | Ueber Goober focuses on the often misunderstood, sometimes controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers. Not the computer kind of gamer, the in-person-dice-rolling-and-sometimes-dress-up-in-costume kind. Metze examines sveral different groups including historical miniatures gamers, role-players, and those known simply as "LARPers". The film also explores opposition from religious groups, negative media portrayals ranging from post-Columbine news coverage to sit-coms and some of the meanest 'man-on-the-street' interviews ever committed to video. | |
| HO-01 | TEXAS - FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE 2004 | HOUSTON FILM COMMISSION | DVD | 2004 | Includes: Comfort Doki-Doki Milton is a Shitbag Night Dawn Day Perils in Nude Modeling Something's Brewin' in Shiner Subsidized Fate Toward the Near The 72 oz. Steak |
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| MA-05 | HOH SERIES | MARTIN, Darrin | DVD | 2002 | Includes: Monograph in Stereo Mono i ere Summer of Tympanoplasty 1/2 right |
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| EL-02 | PATRIOTISM | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | ||||
| EL-03 | RELIGION | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 2003 | |||
| PO-01 | REVEREND BILLY & The Church of Stop Shopping | POST, Dietmar | DVD | Documentary | |||
| HA-01 | STILLS | HANNAH, Adad | DVD | Real time video projected tableaux vivants | |||
| MA-06 | THE ABOMINABLE FREEDOM | MARTIN, Darrin BURNS, Torsten Zenas |
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| APS-03 c.1 | BEST OF AURORA PICTURE SHOW Vol. 3 | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 2006 | Art- contemporary | 3/21/08, 5/5/08 | I Love A Computer Jona Bechtolt Bobby XP1 Tommy Becker Spam Letter Andre Silva The Practical Theory of Mr. Clay Gerald Straub (audio only) El Corazon Jim Finn Farrah found video submitted by Skip Elsheimer Grand Opening Eileen Maxson Thomas Jeffffferrrrrssson found video submitted by Jefffff Buttttterrrworth Stills (Dinner in Florida) Adad Hannah A Protected Witness Eileen Maxson Abominable Snowman Arthur Jones The Plot Matt Hulse Stuck on a Hammerhead Enid Baxter Blader Selective Service System Story Bill Daniel June 23, 1975 Andy Mann 12-02-04 - 12-02-05 Jona Bechtolt plus three extra copies in closet |
| APS-04 | BEST OF EXTREMELY SHORTS VOLUME I: 1998-2004 |
Aurora Picture Show | DVD | Shorts | 4/25/2008 | Includes Beginning, Here s a Song, Michigan, 1971, Three Minutes Out, Magical No.5, Stuck on a Hammerhead, my Drama, Ballad, National Sofa, Chatroom, Composition, States of the Union, States of the Union 2, Stitch, Stills, Burt the Turtle, Blender, Avis of Evil, Sock Laundry, Big Screen Version. | |
| APS-05 c.1 | BEST OF AURORA PICTURE SHOW Vol. 2 | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 2005 | Art- contemporary | 4/2008 | Includes Ten, Water Rerouting Initiatives, Radio Nowhere, The Stairway to St. Paul s, Bloodhag, Possible Redemption, Amy Goodrow, Magic Mountain, Satan Clause, The Oral Thing |
| SH-01 | CHARM | SHAW, Sadie REED, Sarah |
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| MEL-01 | GOOD MORNING NEW WORLD | MELHUS, Bjoern | DVD | 2000 | |||
| BE-01 | UNTITLED | BELLO, Christina | VHS | 2002 | Short |
Untitled Short: Draws comparison between Irish Dancing and the behavior of pack animals, | |
| LAM-01 | VIDEOS BY KENT LAMBERT | LAMBERT, Kent | VHS | Includes: 5 Video Hits Security Anthem Condensed Movie #1 Ken Burns Give You Something Whack Gaijin |
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| TA-01 | HUGE - A COLLECTION | TAN, Justin McDONALD, Byrd |
VHS | ||||
| BU-01 | TORSTEN Z. BURNS and ANTHONY DISCENZA VS. HALFLIFERS | BURNS, Torsten Z. DISCENZA, Anthony |
VHS | ||||
| VAR-04 | 12 SHORT FILMS | THE 1st YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE DOCUMENTARY FILM & VIDEO PROGRAM (VARIOUS ARTISTS) | VHS | 1993 | Short |
Includes: Planet of the Cars (Kemala Karmen) On the Job (Karen Brown Davison) Rosy (Samuel Ball) Release (Anne Flatte) Green Wood (Laura Harrison) This Petty Faintheartedness (Peter B. Smith) Downsized (Sarah Feltes) Naked to the World (Jon Shenk) More Joy in Their Lives (Tamsin Orion Seidler) an illegal back alley do good type thing (Jacquie Jones) Little Hands of Stone (Adam Ballachey) American Gothic (Banks Tarver) |
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| FI-03 | MEN & ANIMALS TOUR Preview | FINN, Jim RANK, Dean |
VHS | ||||
| SO-01 | TEXAS BULLSH!T | SOTILE, Renee GODGES, Mary Jo |
VHS color |
2004 | Short |
4/2008 | |
| MC-01 | SO FAR SO GOOD | McCALL, Gerrie | DVD | Short | |||
| HAU-01 | BULLFIGHT | HAUG, Kate | VHS 16mm color optical |
2003 | |||
| McE-01 | LUXOR TRANSFINITE LOOPS RADIO ISLAND |
MCELWEE, Van | DVD | ||||
| RO-01 | UNDERGROUND ZERO |
ROSENBLATT, Jay YAHEDI, Caveh |
VHS | 2002 | |||
| VE-01 | SELECTED VIDEO WORKS 1999-2001 | VELLIQUETTE, Michael | VHS | Short |
Includes: I Swallowed the Sea and the Sea Swallowed Me The Grey Water Shorts BLIPS Born to Broadcast - documentation for performance |
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| VAL-01 | HALLWAY | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS 3 min |
1999 | Short | ||
| COH-01 | INTIMATE INTERVIEWS: Sex in less than 2 minutes |
COHEN, Maxi | VHS | ||||
| AC-01 | BLIND | ACOSTA, Israel GALVAN, Horacio TREVINO, Eduardo COREAS, Jermias |
VHS | Short | Politics | A short film about the lies told by the George W. Bush administration and the American Military. | |
| MAC-01 | HOW WILL I KNOW I'M HERE | MACLENNAN, Toby | VHS | ||||
| MAN-12 | AUNTIE | MANN, Andy | VHS | 1976 | |||
| FR-01 | HIDE & SEEK | FRIEDRICH, Su | VHS | ||||
| WEL-01 | THE MILLENNIUM | WELSH, M. | VHS | 1998 | |||
| VAL-02 | REAL ESTATE FOUND VIDEO | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS | ||||
| IL-01 | GOOD BAD ART COLLECTIVE | ILES, Martin | DVD | ||||
| DA-01 | THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN IN THE MOON | DANIEL, Bill | CD |
CD-Soundtrack | |||
| BER-01 | LADIES ROOM | BERNSTEIN, Kate | VHS | Different females experiences in ladies' rooms | |||
| GRA-01 | SUPER 8 FILMS 1999-2003 | GRAY, Stephanie | VHS | ||||
| GRA-02 | CLOSE YOUR HEARING FOR THE CAPSHMS | GRAY, Stephanie | VHS | 2000 | |||
| HAG-01 | ERIC'S CLAYMATIONS | HAGEMANN, Eric | VHS | ||||
| PR-01 | NO TITLE | PRICE, Gary | VHS | Includes: Batteryoperated Dr. Bonzai Grata |
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| TH-01 | NO TITLE | THOMASON, Kate | VHS | Includes: Longing Being, Not Doing Following Larry |
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| TH-02 | NO TITLE | THOMASON, Kate | VHS | Includes: Insidious Missing Doc |
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| TO-01 | EPICIER VARIETE DE BENOIT PILON | TOUPIN, Roger | VHS | 2003 | |||
| VAR-05 | HIGH ABOVE THIS WALL | CINEMATEXAS TOUR 2004 (Various Artists) | VHS | 2004 | Includes: A Room with a View in the Financial District (DERTNIG, Carola) Fields (SPEECHLEY, Julie) Viva la Guerra (HANLEY, Paul) Seven Days (BARKER, David) Right Road Lost (GAMBURG, Victoria) Forbidden to Wander (YOUSSEF, Susan) |
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| ARN-01 | NO TITLE | ARNOLD, Martin | VHS | Art- Experimental | Found Footage, film | Includes: Piece Touchee (1989) Passage a l'acte (1993) Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) |
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| DE-01 | CONVULSE | DELEON, Cara Marisa | DVD | Short | |||
| BI-01 | APPLE | BIERMANN, Gregg | VHS stereo |
Short |
does not work | ||
| STR-01 | KINGS OF THE SKY | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 2004 | |||
| HAR-01 | VOTING IN AMERICA (Trailer) | HARRISON, Laura LAGARDE, C. |
VHS | 2004 | |||
| APS-07 | BEST OF AURORA PICTURE SHOW Vol. 1 | AuroRa Picture Show | DVD | 2002 | Art- contemporary | Includes: Your Civic Duty, One-Eyed Bum, Piano Piece #13, Fax Attack, Suggested Photo Spots, Cinderella, Web Dreamer, Snack and Drink, La Tombola, Safe Keeping, The Morphology of Desire, Over Above. Wüstenspringmaus | |
| FA-01 | A SLIGHT DISCOMFORT Echoes from the clinic |
FAWN MOUNTAIN Creative Media |
VHS | 2001 | |||
| AAC-01 | MANNERS, COURTESY & ETIQUETTE | ATOMIC AGE CLASSICS (AAC) | DVD | 2005 | Shorts | Nostalgia | This collection of short films were produced around the mid-20th century, and were an adult reaction to the burgeoning youth culture movement that, they felt, posed a very real threat to civilization! Includes: Are Manners Important? (1954) Good Table Manners (1951) We Play and Share Together (1951) Everyday Courtesy (1948) Exchanging Greetings and Introductions (1960) Social Courtesy (1951) Helping Johnny Remember (1956) By Jupiter (1941) |
| AAC-02 | HYGIENE, DATING & DELINQUENCY | ATOMIC AGE CLASSICS (AAC) | DVD | 2005 | Shorts | nostalgia | Includes: Going Steady (1951) Getting Along with Parents (1953) Body Care and Grooming (1946) Unto Thyself Be True (1949) Any Boy - USA (1953) |
| AAC-03 | A-BOMBS, FALLOUT & NUCLEAR WAR | ATOMIC AGE CLASSICS (AAC) | DVD | 2005 | Shorts | Nostalgia | Includes: Living with the Atom (1957) Radioactive Fallout and Shelter (1965) The Atom Strikes! (1945) Fallout: When and How to Protect Yourself (1959) The Atom goes to Sea (1954) |
| A/V-11 | THOSE NAUGHTY GIRLS | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Science Lab Safty 2 That's Stealing Fur Coat Club All my Tomorrows Never a Bride |
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| A/V-12 | TROUBLE WITH WOMAN | A/V-GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Are you Popular Mare Dates for Kay Story of Menstruation Psychological Differences Between the Sexes Never a Bride Trouble with Woman |
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| A/V-13 | AS THE OFFICE TURNS | A/V-GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | ||
| A/V-14 | O, NURSE! | A/V-GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | ||
| A/V-15 | THE BEST OF HUH? | A/V-GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | ||
| A/V-16 | DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS! | A/V-GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | ||
| A/V-17 | BEST OF A/V GEEKS (SO FAR) | A/V GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Pamela Wong's Birthday for Grandma, Louis James Hates School, Santa Claus - Punch and Judy, The Lottery, Check the Neck, Shake Hands with Danger, ABC of Sex |
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| BIL-01 | FAIRY BALLET from "THE WHITE CAT" & THREE EXAMPLES OF MYSELF AS QUEEN |
BILLER, Anna | DVD | Short |
Anna Biller wrote, directed, starred, composed the songs, created the sets, and sewed all the wild costumes for this collection of colorful vignettes... "Sheer enjoyment, this movie is like a big, pink frosted birthday cake" -- Seattle Asian American Film Festival | ||
| McD-01 | EYEOPENERS Places that Make you Stop, And Look, And Look Again! |
McDONALD, Laurie | VHS | 2000 | A house covered with beer cans? A tribute to the orange? EYEOPENERS features seven Houston,TX folk art enviroments, eye-opening creations that are monuments to the wonders of ingenuity and imagination. Sometimes a kitschy meld of other peoples's garbage, recycled and reinvented, always an expression of prfound instincts and urges, the EYEOPENERS sites remind us of the unself-conscious heights of expression that self-taught artists can attain. c | ||
| COU-01 | LOS TRABAJADORES / THE WORKERS | COURTNEY, Heather | VHS | Documentary | Spanish & English w/ English subtitles www.daylabormovie.com |
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| BRO-01 | TEAPARTY (Festival Cut) | BRONCO, Chuck My Little Margie |
VHS | 4/2008 | |||
| SCHL-01 | REPRESENTATIVE WORKS 17 SHORT EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ |
SCHLEMOWITZ, Joel | VHS | 1999 | Includes: Eye Music (1997) Uebel (1992) Poem for the Past (1993) Weeping Film (1991) Jungian Conflicts (1992) When He Leaves (1993) Unmeasured Prelude for Kerry Laitala (1992) Doris' Garden (1995) Filmpoem for Wanda Phipps (1995) Morris Engel Time Sculpture (1994) Tombeau for Arnold Eagle (1994) Invitation to a Voyage (1997) Abrasion (1990) Purple Candle Poem (1994) Pillowbook (1995) Channeled Energies (1993) Bacchanale (1998) |
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| McC-01 | HYBRID | McCOLLUM, Monteith | VHS | "A tricky and tremendous film that examines what work means to the soul: a topic that is particulary American" - New York Times |
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| FRA-01 | ME AND MY BROTHER | FRANK, Robert | VHS | 1965-68 | Robert FRANK's first feature length film, places documentary footage of poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Peter's brother Julius within a fictional framework. Constantly delineating real and imaginary situations, the film describes the inner and outer worlds of Julius, a catatonic, who silently observes the world around him. When Julius remains withdrawn, he is replaced by actor Joseph Chaikin. Julius is later able to talk directly to the camera, delineating some of his feelings about the film and the levels of "truth" in it. | ||
| A/V-18 | SOCIAL ENGINEERING 101 | A/V GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Found Footage | Includes: Gettin Along with Others, Are you Popular? Mirror Mirror, Shy Guy, Psychological Differences Between the Sexes, Social Acceptability |
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| A/V-19 | CARTOON PROPAGANDA | A/V GEEKS | VHS | Children & Family | Animated Found Footage | Includes: Cautious twins, My Government: USA, Two Hundred, How Animators See Us: Foibles, Three Faces of Stanley, Winged Scourge, Story of Menstruation, About Conception and Contraception |
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| RE-01 | ELIAN | REED, David | VHS | ||||
| COK-01 | PORTRAIT OF A GIRL AS A YOUNG CAT | COKINOS, Katie | VHS 16mm b&w |
2000 | 12/2007 | ||
| STO-01 | SUGGESTED PHOTO SPOTS | STONE, Melinda VAMOS, Igor |
VHS | This breathtaking flotilla of lumber streches to the horizon, as far as the eye can see. Occasionally, logs break free and wash up on adjacent Wreck Beach, where local nudists plant them upright like giant phallic totems. | |||
| SCHN-01 | FIRST DATE | SCHNIBBE, Margie | VHS | Short | |||
| MEL-02 | LIMBOLAND | MELHUS, Bjoern | DVD | 1998 | Includes: 1. Toast (1986) 2. Cornflakes (1987) 3. America Sells (1990) 4. Jetzt (1993) 5. Ich weiss nicht wer das ist (1991) 6. Das Zauberglas (1991) 7. Weit weit weg (1995) 8. No Sunshine (1997) |
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| REN-01 | THE LAUGHING GARBAGE DISPOSAL A Satirical Smorgasbord of Films |
RENWICK, Vanessa | VHS | 2002 | 12/2007 | Includes: Richart (23 min.) The Ugly Movie (11 min.) Worse (5 min.) Olympia (11 min.) Westward Ho (2 min.) |
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| REN-02 | NATURE'S ASSISTANT | RENWICK, Vanessa | VHS | 2000 | Includes: Warning, Crowdog, Toxic Shock, The Yodeling Lesson, Food is a Weapon, Mine, Stretcher |
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| BO-01 | DANGEROUS WHEN WET STICK FIGURES PAROLE |
BONDER, Diane | VHS | 1992-93 | |||
| BO-02 | DEAR MOM | BONDER, Diane | VHS 16mm. |
1996 | |||
| TAN-01 | I LOVE YOU | TANAKA, Haruko | DVD | 12/2007 | |||
| SOR-01 | BEYOND THE SCREAMS: A US Latino Hardcore Punk Documentary |
SORRONDEGUY, Martin | VHS | 1999 | |||
| BROO-01 | FIRE IN THE EAST A Portrait of Robert Frank |
BROOKMAN, Philip & Amy | VHS | Documentary | The Swiss-born artist Robert Frank has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography, dating back to the publication of his landmark book, The Americans (1958). FIRE IN THE EAST: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK presents an intimate view of four decades of Frank's life, films, and photographs. |
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| RA-01 | DIAGRAM | RANK, Dean | VHS | 1998 | |||
| VAL-03 | DISSOLVE | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS b&w 16mm |
2003 | |||
| MA-07 | CORP SERIES 1997 RECALL 1998 |
MARTIN, Darrin BURNS, Torsten Z. |
VHS | Corp Series 1997 Gesturecorp - 10min, 1997 Communicorp - 11min, 1997 Mobilecorp - 4min, 1997 Recall - 14:30min, 1998 |
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| QUI-01 | A DAY IN THE HYPE OF AMERICA | QUIST, Brian MARTIN, T.J. |
VHS | ||||
| POV-01 | FOUR FILMS 1989 - 1998 | POVEY, Thad | VHS | Includes: Thine Inward-Looking Eyes The Sweetest Sandwich Stange Thing A Different Kind of Green |
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| SCA-01 | SRL IN AUSTIN | SCARDINA, Dave | VHS | Documentary | Documentation of SRL's largest event ever: "The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts : A Misguided Adventure in Risk Eradication, Happening Without Known cause, in Connection With Events That are Not Necessarily Related". SRL adds 5000 spectators, 60 tons of machines, 50srl members working tirelessly on site for 3 weeks, at an Austion,TX racetrack to equal major mayhem. Artfully condensed on video to 18min. | ||
| TAR-01 c.1 | SIX ON SUPER 8 | TARRAGO, Paul | VHS | 1995 - 2000 | Shorts | Including: Why the Canary Sings No More (14.5min.) Stay in A Freindly Country (14 min.) Last Night Meant Nothing (20.5 min) The Empty Film (4 min.) Human Error in the Mechanical Age (11.5 min.) Intro Film a.k.a. The Swinging Twirling camera Film (5 mins.) |
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| PRI-01 | DESERTOPIA Heaven on Earth |
PRITCHETT, Meri | DVD | 2000 | Documentary | It's in the middle of nowhere, a dramatic landscape not unlike a vision of post-apocolypse. Once known as "The American Riviera", it's the biggest thing on the map in California... THE SALTON SEA. Here, in the ghost of one of California's premier resort destinations, a motley group of eccentrics, hell-raisers, and visionaries have found home, a little piece of heaven. |
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| APS-06 | ID PACKETS-VARIOUS | Aurora Picture Show | VHS | 1999 | Short | Pre-movie Etiquette | |
| CH-01 | BEATEOUS | CHESLER, Giovanna | VHS | 2002 | Comedy | A Long Island beauty queen humorously relizes that she is more than just a pretty face. In the days leading up to her senior prom, where she has been nominated for prom queen, Donatella begins to explore her sexuality and intellect. We follow Donatella through her search for herself in confusing and claustrophobic spaces: a Born Again Virgin meeting ,her delinquent boyfriend's hot rod, the dysfunctional dinner table, a Long Island mall, and finally, to the prom. Throughout her journey, Donatella finds refuge from these plastic surroundings in a poetic natural space of her own imagination where she freely expresses herself and her desires for Mina, a girl in her English class. This film is the third film in the BEAUTEOUS trilogy, three portraits of three sisters and their relationships with beauty. It is the fictinalization of the experiences of Michele, the middle siser. |
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| HAR-02 | GREENWOOD | HARRISON, Laura | VHS | Short | |||
| VAN-01 | FRUMP moms just got to make noise |
VANDERBURG, Brad | VHS | 2002 | Documentary | music | Hilarious and poignant documentary about five really nice moms and their dedication to family, friendship, and really killer guitar licks. FRUMP is an all-mom punk band from Dallas, TX. Its members range in age from 39 to 49 and all have children., husbands, and the other accouterments of middle-class, American suburban living. But the women in FRUMP also have a need to rock and, in their own distinct way, are challenging the stereotype of middle-aged "soccer moms" as well as the definition of "PUNK". 19:55 mins |
| FL-01 | THE ART OF THE LOOP | FLETCHER, Jeff SPRINKLE, Annie HARLOT, Scarlot |
VHS | 2001 | Two sexology students at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality discoverd thousands of old 8-mm sex films in the school basement. The films, populary called "loops," belong to the Exodus Trust Archives of Erotology, and it is likely the largest collecction of it's kind in the world. Annie Sprinkle and Jeff letcher decided to share their enthusiasm for these increasingly rare, under-appreciated, and disintegrating treasures with fellow academics, film buffs, and art connoisseurs everywhere - before it's too late. | ||
| DAV-01 | ALL THE VIDEO Vol. 1 | DAVENPORT, Bill | VHS | ||||
| MO-01 | DEMOCRACY NOW! | MOORE, Michael | VHS | 2003 | |||
| ART-01 | VITO ACCONCI | ART CLUB 2000 | VHS | Historical | interview, conceptual | ||
| ART-02 | SIMON CERIGO | ART CLUB 2000 | VHS | Historical | interview | ||
| HAL-01 | RESCUE SERIES | HALFLIFERS | VHS | Including: RESCUE PARABLES, RETURN TO RESCUE WORLD, FEAR OF RESCUE AQUATICS |
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| ART-03 | HENRY FLINT | ART CLUB 2000 | VHS | Historical | interview, conceptual | ||
| SPR-01 | SPIN | SPRINGER, Brian | VHS | 1995 | Pirated satellite TV feeds revealing U.S. media personalities' contemptuous plans for their viewers come full circle in SPIN. TV out-takes appropriate from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly spun fabric of television which silences public debate and furthers intolerance of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. SPIN mmoves through the L.A. rebellion and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election with important lessons for 1996 and beyond. | ||
| ART-04 | LES LEVINE | ART CLUB 2000 | VHS | Historical | interview | ||
| ART-05 | OLIVER MOSSET | ART CLUB 2000 | VHS | Historical | interview | ||
| REN-03 | LUCKY BUM FILM TOUR | RENWICK, Vanessa DANIEL, Bill |
VHS | 2002 | Including: The Girl on the Train to the Moon (DANIEL, Bill) Richart (RENWICK, Vanessa) Crowdog (RENWICK, Vanessa) Mine (RENWICK, Vanessa) Food is a Weapon (RENWICK, Vanessa) The Yodeling Lesson (RENWICK, Vanessa) Westward Ho (RENWICK, Vanessa) |
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| VAR-06 | OVEREXPOSED Best of Cinemaker 2001 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 2001 | Including: Shimmy Cam1 (BEDOLLA, John) Graceland Christmas, William Blake's Super 8 Proverb (THALHUBER, Donald) Personal Advertisments for Lonely Transport Mediums, Mathporn (WELLER, Travis) Florafilia, Tunes for A Small Fire Hydrant (SILVA, Andre) Battery Operated Larry (PRICE, Gary) The Nipple Movie (JOHNSON, Seth) Heron (SIMS, Jeff) Syrup Dish, Color Coded, Peaceful Light (OWENS, Shannon) Gulag (CARLSON, Alexa) Our Jihad will be a good jihad, Snowstorm in Iowa, Pigeon II (HENNARD, Justin) Wheelchair (BUSTI, Andrew) Blind kids Playing Goal Ball (NGUYEN, Hung) Decompostions (VALDEZ, Aaron) Oil & Water (SIMPSON, Randy) Liquid Space (COLOMBO, Jay) Equatorial (IMMEL, Chris) Pigeon (delCASTILLO, Sebastian) |
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| ROD-01 | LONE STAR JUSTICE | RODDY, Bernie | VHS | 2005 | Documentary | A documentary about the practice of capital punishment in Texas. Includes accounts of the cases of Anthony Fuentes, Thomas Miller-El, Darlie Routier, Tony Ford, and Frances Newton. In the course of the video, the videomaker finds himself becoming deeply committed to the defense of a pen pal on Texas' death row, and to the abolition of the death penalty in the U.S. The story is continued in the web log created by the videomaker to pursue the defense of Richard Vasquez, sentenced to die by the state of Texas in 1999. Visit the blog, Hearing from Richard Vasquez, at: http://hearingforrichardvasquez.blogspot.com. |
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| ROS-01 | RIGHT AND WRONG | ROSS, Joel | VHS | 2000 | |||
| ROS-02 | I WITED (BUT NOTHING HAPPENED) | ROSS, Joel | VHS | 1999 | |||
| SAK-01 | LIVING THEATRE VIDEOS | SAKS, Eric | VHS | ||||
| STI-01 | ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE | STICKLER, Helen | VHS | Documentary | |||
| GRO-01 | RUBBERNECKING | GROVER, Andrea WALSH, Patrick |
VHS | 1996 | |||
| BEC-01 | SWITCH CENTER | BECKMAN, Ericka | VHS 16 mm color sound |
2002 | Short | An Artfilm made with quick cuts and loops of a factory. This film follows a young factory worked that is visited by three Pokémon. | |
| STE-01 | NO TITLE | STEEN, Brent | VHS | Shorts |
Including: Bike Ride (2:45 min.) Underwear (1:20 min.) Slide (25 sec.) Cap (25 sec.) Fall (3:30 min.) |
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| VAR-07 | SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS INSTALLATIONS (Preview) 2004-I | VARIOUS ARTISTS Netherlands Media Art Institute |
VHS | 2004 | Including: Cook (STERLING, Ruby) Forward (VELDHOEN, Martijn) Papillon d'Amour (PROVOST, Nicolas) Black September (DRAEGER, Christoph) seciron_RA (reMI) Bataille (PROVOST, Nicolas) Tunnel Vision (van den BRINK, Jasper) Das naechste Mal (SCHNITT, Corinna) Living a beautiful life (SCHNITT, Corinna) WS.3 (CHO, Seoungho) Rosecolored Flower (KANO, Shiho) Lessons in Lightness (de MOL, Lin) Passengers II (HULSCHER, Caitlin) Transient (STERLING, Ruby) |
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| VAR-08 | SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS INSTALLATIONS (Preview) 2003-II | VARIOUS ARTISTS Netherlands Media Art Institute |
VHS | 2003 | Including: The Juggler (KALLINEN, Sami) Petit Palais (de CLERCQ, Anouk) SET-4 (van NUENEN, Jan) Trigger (CRANDALL, Jordan) Travelocity (eddie d) When Adar enters (BARTAN, Yael) Time to Bone Remixxx (COENEN, Arno) Building (de CLERCQ, Anouk) Tagged (RUDELIUS, Julika) |
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| HAW-01 | RADIATION | HAWLEY, Suki GALINSKY, Michael |
VHS | ||||
| MAN-13 | BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDENS | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-14 | NO TITLE | MANN, Andy | VHS | Including: Andy in College Downtown Earthbreaker Florida girl |
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| ANK-01 | GUERRILLA PUBLIC SERVICE | ANKROM, Richard | VHS | 2002 | M.I.A. | ||
| MAN-15 | ROOF DANCE | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| BEE-01 | OKIE NOODLIG (no hooks, no bait, no fear) |
BEESLEY, Bradley | VHS | 2001 | Documentary | A documentary about the lost art of fishing using your arms and hands. | |
| HAM-01 | THE LETTER : An American Town and the "Somali Invasion" |
HAMZEH, Ziad H. | VHS | 2003 | |||
| REC-01 | BALLAD OF... | RECORDER, Luis A. | VHS 16 mm color sound |
1997 | |||
| PAK-01 | All Amateur Ecstasy | PAK, Greg | DVD | ||||
| STR-02 | THE BLVD | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 1999 | |||
| STR-03 | ENERGY COUNTRY | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 2003 | |||
| HE-01 | HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT | HEYN, John KRULIK, Jeff |
DVD | 2001 | |||
| BIA-01 | BORN IN BRAZIL (Nascendo no Brasil) |
BIASUCCI, Cara | VHS | Documentary | 52 mins with english subtitles |
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| BUC-01 | HOUSE FLY | BUCHANON, Nancy | VHS | 1999 | Short Film | ||
| POY-01 | PLEASURELAND | POYSER, Bryan | VHS | missing end credits | |||
| VAL-04 | STATES OF THE UNION (GEORGE W. BUSH) | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS color appropri-ated |
2003 | Short film |
6/18/2008 | |
| VAL-05 | STATES OF THE UNION (BILL CLINTON) | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS | 1998 | Short film |
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| RAT-01 | PEACE, PROPAGANDA AUND THE PROMISED LAND | RATZKOFF, Bathsheba | VHS | 2004 | |||
| PE-01 | THE SLOW ESCAPE | PETERSON, Sativa | VHS | ||||
| KR-01 | HOUSE | KREIDER, Wago | VHS | 2001 | Short film |
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| GAL-01 | VENUS | GALIANO, August | DVD | ||||
| MAR-01 | NO TITLE | MARTINICO, Dan | VHS | Short |
Including: infomercial aesthetics kiss me 24 second psycho (remake) portrait of fred astaire in water fightloop |
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| PF-01 | BOY NEXT DOOR | PFIRMAN, Carl | VHS | 6/18/2008 | . | ||
| AND-01 | LIFE ON A STRING COLLECTED VIDEOS |
ANDERSON, Laurie | VHS | Art- Experimental | Experimental visual effects | ||
| REC-02 | POETICS OF INTERFERENCE | RECORDER, Luis | VHS | Includes: Trigger Film Bare Strip Moebius Strip Magenta |
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| APS-08 | AURORA 2ND ANNIVERSARY | Aurora Picture Show | VHS | Footage from Aurora s 2nd Anniversary Celebration Show | |||
| APS-09 | THROUGH HER EYES (SEPT 19, 1999) | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 1999 | |||
| APS-10 | AURORA BOREALIS LOOP Tape No.1 Aurora Wedding Tape |
Aurora Picture Show | VHS | A collection of footage of the aurora borealis (The Northern Lights). | |||
| PAT-01 | ABLUTION | PATRICK, Eric | DVD | ||||
| CHA-01 | AURORA PICTURE SHOW INTRO | CHAUVIN, Claire PHIPPS, Patrick |
VHS | ||||
| BROCK-01 | RICK & STEVE THE HAPPIEST GAY COUPLE |
BROCKA, Q. Allan | VHS | 2000 | |||
| REC-03 | LIMINAL LUMEN | RECORDER, Luis | VHS | 2003 | |||
| COL-01 | PUPPY LOVE | COLTON, Michael | VHS | ||||
| SE-01 | BOXER REBELLION |
SEARS, John | VHS | ||||
| BO-03 | THE PHYSICS OF LOVE | BONDER, Diane | VHS | 1998 | |||
| PAT-02 | STARK FILM | PATRICK, Eric | DVD | 1997 | |||
| HAR-03 | ANT FARM TIME CAPSULE | HARRISON, Laura FEDERICI, Beth |
VHS | 2001 | Short film | ||
| HAR-04 | FUTURE MAN AT CADILLAC RANCH | HARRISON, Laura | VHS | 2002 | |||
| SOLA-01 | COME ONS ARMAGEDDON RENTAL |
SOLA, Joe | VHS | 2000-01 | Short film | ||
| GRE-01 | FRANCIS | GREEN, Brent | VHS | ||||
| HEN-01 | AMERICAN COWBOY - PREVIEW | HENRY, Kyle | VHS | 1997 | |||
| REN-04 | RICHART | RENWICK, Vanessa SMALLMAN, Dawn |
VHS | 2001 | |||
| MIC-01 | NATIONAL SOFA | MICHAELS, Doug | VHS | ||||
| STR-04 | ON THE VARIOUS NATURE OF THINGS | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 1995 | 12/2007 | ||
| STR-05 | FROM HETTY TO NANCY | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 1997 | |||
| NE-01 | HUFFIN (Newton) LOSING (Phipps) |
NEWTON, D. PHIPPS, P. |
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| RH-01 | AUGUST IN THE EMPIRE STATE | RHOPDES, Gabriel MURREN, Keefe |
DVD | 2006 | Documentary | a film about division and defiance at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Following three outspoken individuals, the film captures the climate of conflict, confusion and confrontation that gripped NYC in the days leading up to the GOP Convention. | |
| HAW-02 | HALF-COCKED RADIATION |
HAWLEY, Suki GALINSKY, Michael |
DVD | 1999 | Half Cocked follows a group of kids who steal a van full of misic equipment and pretend to be a band in order to stay out on the road. Radiation follows a Spanish rock promoter who takes American bands on tour. He screws everything up, and the band takes off forcing him to improvise to save his business. |
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| BI-02 | MILLENIUM'06 PROGRAM | BIERMANN, Gregg | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | Including: Happy again (5:00) Spherical Coordinates (8:30) The Hills are alive (7:30) The Waters of Casablanca (6:00) Cinema Study (7:30) Paradiso (23:00) Hackensack Motet (5:00) |
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| JO-01 | NO TITLE | JONES, Art | VHS | 1989-95 | Media Assassin (17:00) Know your Enemy (27:00) Knowledge reigns supreme... (3:00) Honky, Honky Burnin' love (excerpt) (8:00) AKA that subnormal kid (11:00) Taste (6:00) |
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| ES-01 | NO TITLE | ESCHLEMAN, Johnne McCORMICK, Matt |
DVD | Including: The Subconscious art of graffiti removal (McCORMICK, Matt) Sincerley (McCORMICK, Matt) The Vanishing point (BEAR, Joe P. and ESCHLEMAN, Johnee) The read letter (BEAR, Joe P. and ESCHLEMAN, Johnee) |
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| LAG-01 | SONY STYLE | LAGERMAN, Brent | VHS | 1998 | |||
| GIB-01 | ELEGY (#2) MULTIPLE BARBIE (#1) |
GIBBONS, Joe | DVD | ||||
| SHE-01 | OFFICE KILLER | SHERMAN, Cindy | VHS | ||||
| POT-01 | RECENT WORK 2004-06 | POTTER-BELMAR LABS | DVD | 2006 | Including: Single Channel: Pandora's Bike (12:30) A Beautiful Brocade (4:30) Amelita Destruction (4:45) Performance: Pandora's Unicycle (12:00) Showdown Show-off (3:50) Improvised Cinema, Salon Mijangos (18:00) |
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| KO-01 | THIRD WARD BLUES | KORB, Heather | VHS | 1998 | Documentary | More "docu-tainment" than documentary, THIRD WARD BLUES is a film which examines the lives and distinctive sounds of acclaimed blues musicians Albert Collins, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Clyde Copeland, and Joe "Guitar" Hughes. | |
| AG-01 | KIT AND CABOODLE | THE ART GUYS | VHS | checked out (Beth Secor) 11/07-5/08 | |||
| BBB-01 | THE PIE'S THE LIMIT | BIOTIC BAKING BRIGADE (BBB) | VHS | 1999 | Documentary | Politics | A video celebration of the Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB) and the Global Pastry Uprising. Featuring a cornucopia of political pie-throwings in San Francisco and beyond, including a brief history of consumable comedy and behind the scenes interviews with underground pie tossers... PLUS! Corporate media analysis and in-your-face politics. |
| VAN-02 | BLOODHAG THE FASTER YOU GO DEAF THE MORE TIME YO U HAVE TO READ |
VANDERBURG, Brad | VHS | 2000 | Documentary | Watch as the sci-fi-loving deathrock band, BloodHag, brings their message of literacy-through-Metal back to its roots: the silent halls of the venerable Public Library. Join the band as they tour Seattle-area libraries on their mission to encourage kids to read (because "rock fans need to be smarter," as one band member puts it). They play songs called "Isaac Asimov" and "Marion Zimmer Bradley" and famously pelt their audiences with paperbacks during their shows. Even small towns that may have never hosted brutally heavy music before, warily embrace the BloodHag credo: "The faster you go deaf, the more time you have to read." 8:7 mins edu-core |
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| ANDE-01 | THE NORTON PROJECT | ANDERSON, Lucy | VHS | 2002 | not working | ||
| KI-01 | TOP 40 LOVE | KILLACKY, John R. | DVD | 2002 | Short film | ||
| MOO-01 | WAKE UP | MOONEY, Karen | VHS silent |
2003 | Short film | ||
| OS-01 | AURORA COLOR TELEVISON PROJECT | BROWN, Neal HALLINAN, Tom OSBORNE, Daniel |
VHS | 1985 | Documentary | Captured Alive: THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. Much of the beauty and much of the information into the aurora comes from the rich colors of the rapidly moving lights. Unlike still photographs, the colors and motions will amaze you. Thanks to a supersensitive color television camera, scientists at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska fairbanks are gathering spectecular video data of the aurora borealis to advance their continuing research into this powerful and mysterious phenomenon. | |
| OS-02 | THE AURORA COLOR TELEVISION PROJECT THE AURORA EXPLAINED |
BROWN, Neal HALLINAN, Tom OSBORNE, Daniel |
VHS | 1992 | Documentary | If you already know and love the northern lights, or if you're simply curious about these eerie but exquisite dancing curtains in the sky, then this is the videotape you want. The Aurora Explained tells what northern lights are, how they work, and why and when they appear where they do. Though accurate and based on current knowledge, the narration is nontechnical, suitable for anyone from sith-graders to science graduates. And the aurora provides its own illustrations, in brilliant scene after scene of stunning arcs and colorful curtains, vivid folds and ghostly flickers. This is aurora as it usually can be seen only under the best viewing conditions, in the frigid chill of subartctic night--but now available for viewing in the warmth and comfort of homes everywhere. | |
| HOL-01 | SOME RECENT THINGS | HOLLANDER, Catherine | DVD | ||||
| McI-01 | MANTIS | McINTYRE, Trey | VHS | ||||
| DAVI-01 | BOLEXBROTHERS: HOW DO YOU FEEL |
DAVIES, Paul B. | VHS | ||||
| VAR-09 | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL The 14th annual TEXAS SHOW 2001 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 2001 | Including: Better Living through Video (SMITH, Scooter) The 14th Annual Dallas Video Festival Intro The Art Piece (GIBBONS, Nick) Sunday Dinner (AMBROSAVAGE, Joseph) Firedancer (GREENE, Mark) $5200 MSTA (HOPPE, Joe) Our Story:Abortion Providers Speak Out (THOMPSON, Kathleen and COOK, Charles) so i go into this bar... (PRIBYL, Tom) God's Country (CLOWER, Randy) CounterNet Spots 1&2 (GREENE, Mark) Delusions in Modern Primitivism (LOFLIN, Daniel) A Nostalgic Xmas 2225AD (SMITH, Scooter) Tai Chi Masters (GEORGE, Devadas and CHOI, Ilram) The Catcher (SMITH, Xandy) Box Stick Hole (HANNANT, Robert) Feminity (WALKER, Kathleen) Love that Pussy (ALCORN, Keith) |
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| VAR-10 | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL The 13th annual TEXAS SHOW 2000 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 2000 | Including: Better Living through Video (SMITH, Scooter) The 13th Annual Dallas Video Festival Intro Cookie Cutter Master (MATA, Jose Lauro) Gatewood for Governor! (BIRNBAUM, Mark) Hair Piece (PRIBYL, Tom) I Am Scorpio (NELSON, David) The Doo Files (GIBBONS, Nick) deleriouspink (CASTILLO, Sebastian and BUSTI, Andrew) Sempiternal (CHOI, Ilram) Looking Glasses (BRITT, Ben and SORTOR, Carolyn) Springs Symphony (KOCHER, Karen) The Night the Bread Came (GEORGE, Devadas) Me, I Cry (LACY, Mary Ellen) Poked With a Stick (MARTIN, Curtis) Are You Homeless? (DAVIES, Christopher) Nanna's Fun Chest (ALCORN, Keith) |
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| VAR-11 | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL The 12th annual TEXAS SHOW 1999 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 1999 | Including: Better Living through Video (SMITH, Scooter) The 12th Annual Dallas Video Festival Intro |
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| FOR-01 | JULIE IN THE BOX | FORTIER, Julie-C | VHS | 2002 | Various attempts are made to animate Julie's face. |
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| BO-04 | IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW | BONDER, Diane A. | VHS 16mm |
2001 | a film about the divisiveness over land and the concept of home in a small town. Landscape stills shot in a variety photographic traditions lay the foundation for stories "ripped from the headlines" of a small-town newspaper. | ||
| OJ-01 | TRUCK | JORGE, Adrianne OJALA, Tamy |
VHS | 2002 | Documentary | In 1995 two young women ventured out onto the open road, across the US, to document a subculture they knew very little about: the lifestyle of the American truckdriver. Living with them in their trucks and seeing the country through their point of view Adrianne JORGE and Tamy OJALA videotaped the everyday lives of these men and women as they drove from state to state, day and night, delivering and picking up the everyday products of our consumer society. A no-budget veritedocumentary, Truck attempts to capture a way of life in which work and survival take on a whole new meaning. | |
| POV-02 | ST. LOUIS (Soul Coughing Stage version) |
POVEY, THAD | VHS 16mm |
1999 | The Scratch Film Junkies congregate once a week in a dank hole in San Francisco's Mission District to manipulate film one-frame-at-a-time and inhale solvents and paint fumes. We are driven to scribble, inclined to dribble and we'll rub on whatever sticks. Depending on the weather, members include Thad Povey, Vivian Dwyer, Kitty Hutton and Kathleen Fernand. | ||
| JUH-01 | FIVE SHORT VIDEOS ABOUT WOMEN & PRISON | JUHASZ, Alexandra (Producer) | VHS | 2001 | Short films | ||
| INF-01 | NO TITLE | RUIZ DE INFANTE, Francisco | VHS | 1991-93 | Short films |
Including: The Judgement (1991, 11 min) I am from the great Europe (1992, 17 min) The Simple Things (1993, 17 min) |
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| DI-01 | SUPER-8 MONSTER MOVIE: MINOTAUR |
DICK, Brian | DVD | Short film | |||
| DA-02 | SEADRIFT TX | DANIEL, Bill | VHS | 1990 | Short film | ||
| STR-06 | UNTIED | STRATMAN, Deborah | VHS | 2000 | Short film | ||
| PE-02 | THE HANDBOOK OF WHAT TO DO (Or, how to survive a small town, a filmic manual for teenage girls and young women) |
PETERSON, Sativa | VHS | 2000 | Short film | . | |
| WA-01 | REAL SEX | WASSER, Deborah | VHS | Including) Miss Nude World The Penis Factory An Art Gallery Exchibition (1st) Fun 4 Two: Holland's Premier Couples Club Anne Sprinkle: Come Again |
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| SZ-01 | CHIAPAS TO CANTERBURY | DE COTIIS SZYPULA, Meredith | VHS | ||||
| YU-01 | THE LIVING MUSEUM | YU, Jessica | DVD | 1998 | The Living Museum in Queens County, New York City, USA, is an art studio dedicated to presenting the art produced by patients at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, the largest state psychiatric care institution in New York City. | ||
| HU-01 | SELECTED WORKS: 2001-2002 | HUERTA, Tania | VHS | 2002 | Short films | Including: Mothra Stroke (1min, 2001) 22 floors in 4:12 minutes (4:12min, 2001) Snow (no audio) (2min, 2002) Walking in Chinatown (6:03min, 2002) |
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| APS-11 | EXHIBIT SUPPORT/FILM COLLECTING | Aurora Picture Show | VHS | Including: The Curious Habits of Man (excerpt) Why doesn't Kathy eat Her (excerpt) Promotion By-Pass only works on computer |
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| SV-01 | IN THE SHOES OF THE DRAGON | SVEINSDOTTIR, Hroenn SVEINSSON, Arni |
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| JA-01 | INTRODUCTION TO FILM NOIR | JACOB, Jim | VHS | ||||
| JA-02 | GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING | JACOB, Jim | VHS | ||||
| WES-01 | A FAMILY UNDERTAKING | WESTRATE, Elisabeth | VHS | 2003 | Documentary | Home funerals | 56:46 mins How do we bury our dead? Switching from funeral homes to home funerals, this documentary follows different families and one "death midwife" as they reclaim the healing effect of personal contribution in a loved one's funeral. Not as grim as Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, the film comments on the sanitization of death and birth and seeks not only to inform people about more natural ways to deal with our dead, but to encourage people to talk about death and how they wish to be buried. Also includes behind the scenes footage of the American funeral industry. |
| TU-01 | FIVE TO SEVEN | TUTTLE, Maggie | VHS | ||||
| PAY-01 | CONFLICTED | MENDEZ, Isabel PAYTON, Sandyia |
VHS | Short film | |||
| UM-01 | PRIVATE MOVIE | UMAN, Naomi | VHS b&w |
2000 | Short film | ||
| TT-01 | STILL LIFE:HUMANITY OF ANATOMY | TTWEAK | VHS | ||||
| STA-01 | THE FIRST DAY | STARK, Jenny | VHS | 1998 | |||
| STA-02 | FREEPORT TO ROSWELL | STARK, Jenny | VHS | ||||
| STA-03 | FLOODS GHOSTS CONTAMINATION | STARK, Jenny | VHS | ||||
| GRA-03 | SUPER 8 FILMS 2000 - 2002 THE METALLICA & HEAVY METAL SERIES |
GRAY, Stephanie | VHS b&w |
2000-2002 | Short films | Including: Who Do You Think You Are to Blast Metallica on X-Mas Morning, Miss Individuality? (b/w, 3min,2000) Teacher's Pet (b/w, 7min, 2001) Universe-City (b/w, sound, 6min, 2002) |
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| BRI-01 | IT DIT IT | BRINSON, Peter | VHS | ||||
| ARTE-01 | STITCH | ARTES, Meghann | VHS | Short | A stop-motion of patterned embroidery | ||
| VE-02 | 3 SELECTED WORKS 2000 - 2001 | VELLIQUETTE, Michael | VHS | ||||
| APS-12 | EXTREMELY SHORTS I (1) | Aurora Picture Show | VHS | 1998 | Shorts | Includes: Please Sing Along With Me, Untitled Short about Pregnancy, White Christmas, So Far So Good, Sony Style, The Booby Trap, Untitled short about cologne, Losing, Untitled Short: A collection of looped and edited old commercials by Matthew Konicek, Fractal Madness, Untitled Short: Co-workers discussing sex, Untitled Short: Lamps and household items, Untitled Short: This is the Winter of our Disco Tent, Untitled Short: Image of a mountain, The Space Between the Place they Meet, and the Patterns they Make, | |
| APS-13 | EXTREMELY SHORTS IV (4) | Aurora Picture Show | VHS | 2001 | Shorts | Includes: Monkey vs. Robot, Feline State of Mind, Queen of the Beach, The Swimmer, 1969 In a Flash, A Year of the Southcost Group in Three Minutes, Ant Farm: Time Capsule, Green Means Go: Strip Mall Trilogy Part 1, A Liberty of Films, It Hurt!, My Favorite Things, What They Found, Hollywood Zoo: Theme Park of the 80 s, Circus #2 1 24 ,Untitled Short: Digitally enhanced funny faces., Lone Stars, How Does Electricity Work?, Visit, Mexican Suitcase, Keanu Reeves: Symphony of a great Actor, Here s What I m Comin From, The Blunt Place, Boxer Rebellion, A Voice Within, Line, Praise You, Prozac and Zantak Invade the Aurora Picture Show | |
| MAN-16 | DIUNITRON STARMAN | MANN, Andy | VHS | 1998 | |||
| BO-05 | IF | BONDER, Diane | VHS 16mm |
2000 | Short film |
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| BR-02 | BUFFALO COMMONS | BROWN, Bill | VHS | ||||
| SI-01 | A SPY FREEBIRD |
SILVER, Suzie | VHS | 1992 - 1993 | A Spy (4:15) Freebird (11:00) |
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| BR-03 | CONFEDERATION PARK | BROWN, Bill | VHS | ||||
| MEL-03 | PREVIEW | MELHUS, Bjoern | VHS | ||||
| BRU-01 | PIE FIGHT '69 | BRUNO, Christian GREEN, Sam |
VHS 16mm color |
2000 | Documentary | In 1969, filmmakers Peter Adair, Stephen Schmidt, Jak Newman and David Himmelstein formed Grand Central Station, an independent film production company. But with no money and no exposure, passion would only go so far unless they made a name for themselves. The spirit of the 60's demanded a direct action, and the San Francisco International Film Festival was just the high society, high profile event they need as a target. Two dozen costumed radicals descended on the black ties, fox furs and red carpet with one fully loaded pie truck and six cameras to record their outrageous action. Combining long lost footage with original TV news broadcasts, interviews, newspaper articles and behind the scenes stills, PIE FIGHT '69 documents the hilarity of 300 pies across the face of shocked socialites and irate cops. Featuring Peter Adair, PDQ Bach and carloads of hippies, PIE FIGHT '69 restores this collision of guerrilla filmmaking and spirited protest to it's rightful palce in underground film history. |
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| VAR-12 | AUTO-CINEMATIC VIDEO MIX TAPE PERIPHERAL PRODUCE NO.1 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 1998 | Including: Animal Charm Negativland ARFORD, Scott JULY, Miranda FORSTER, Russ KONEFSKY, Brian McCORMICK, Matt Olympia Film Ranch RENWICK, Vanessa OSTROWSKI, Eric RAYMOND, Jon LAWRENCE, Julian |
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| VAR-13 | SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS INSTALLATIONS (Preview) 2003-I | VARIOUS ARTISTS Netherlands Media Art Institute |
VHS | 2003 | Including: Idiot's Brew (De BEMELS, Antonin) Momentum (VELDHOEN, Martijn) Kings of the Hill (BARTANA, Yael) Horizontal Silence (CHO, Seoungho) Zeno's Paradox (ARNOLD, Robert) Equestrian (Van BAKEL, Michiel) Starship (GIGOUNON, Bernard) A Useful Day (KUEPFER, Janneke) Crossing the Rainbow Bridge (BROERSEN, Persijn & LUKACS, Margit) BLOWUP (De VISSER, Bea) Shared Moments (BOGERS, Peter) The Secret Place of the Most High (BOGERS, Peter) Stills (HANNAH, Adad) |
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| GIBS-01 | SOUNDINGS | GIBSON, Sandra | DVD | ||||
| GIBS-02 | THE MAGICAL NUMBER FIVE | GIBSON, Sandra | DVD | ||||
| LAR-01 | DEMO-FEST | LARSEN, Lars C. | VHS | ||||
| SPI-01 | ROAM SWEET HOME | SPIRO, Ellen | DVD | 1996 | Documentary | Roamers and Loners | With her dog Sam (the narrator of the fiilm) and her 1964 Airstream trailer, Spiro joins an adventurous community of roamers and loners an wheels who live on the road full time. By economic necessity, pleasure or both. Behind the camera and behind the wheel, Spiro documents a unique world of vintage trailers, vintage dogs, and vintage people, where the spirit of the moment collides with stories from the past. TRT: 57mins Director/Producer: Ellen Spiro Executive Producer: Sam Blumenthal Writer: Allan Gurganus Cinematographer: Ellen Spiro Editor: Suzanne Rostock |
| HAW-03 | HALF-COCKED | HAWLEY, Suki GALINSKY, Michael |
VHS | 1996 | follows a group of kids who steal a van full of misic equipment and pretend to be a band in order to stay out on the road. | ||
| HAN-01 | TWO BY TWELVE | HANSSEN, Sarah | VHS color sound |
2003 | Short film | ||
| HARR-01 | BEAVER TRIOLOGY | HARRIS, Trent | VHS | Including: Beaver Kid - 30 minutes Beaver Kid #2 - 20 minutes Orkly Kid - 34 minutes |
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| VE-03 | EXILE FROM FLATLAND | VELLIQUETTE, Michael | VHS | 2002 | excerpt from 2h tape | ||
| EN-01 | CIRCUS | ENRIQUEZ, Enrique | VHS | 2000 | |||
| JON-01 | FLUFF | JONES, William E. | DVD | 1999 | |||
| GRI-01 | DELI VERY | GRIFFIN, Thomas A. | VHS | Short film |
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| STA-04 | SLOW DAY | STARK, Jenny | VHS | 1983 | |||
| BEEB-01 | THE STRIP MALL TRIOLOGY | BEEBE, Roger | VHS | 2001 | Short |
A collection of footage of everyday things edited to fit a common motif | |
| MEL-04 | BLUE MOON | MELHUS, Bjoern | VHS | 1998 | NTSC-Version, Start at 1:00 | ||
| HAU-02 | THE BOOBY TRAP | HAUG, Kate | VHS 16mm color sound |
1997 | Short film |
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| JOH-01 | MOVING PICTURES | JOHNSON, James W. | VHS | 2003 | |||
| KOL-01 | BURNING MAN | KOLFLAT, Eric | VHS | 2002 | |||
| FLO-01 | TV AZTECA | FLORES, Beatriz RODDY, Bernie |
VHS | 2003 | |||
| SMY-01 | SHE'S A LADY | SMYTHE, Mark | VHS | 2004 | 4/2008 | ||
| PA-02 | CHALLENGE OF TOMORROW (EXCERPT) | PARR, Stephen | DVD | 2003 | |||
| FO-03 | MIGRATING FORMS | FOTOPOULOS, James | VHS | ||||
| FI-04 | GRANADA | FINN, Jim | VHS | 1999 | Short film | ||
| HER-01 | A FEW GOOD DYKES | HERRUP, Mocha Jean | VHS | Documentary | An unconventional documentary about the Dyke Uniform Corps. What's behind the desire to make it into the Dyke Uniform Corps? Is it the masculinity? The control? The performance? The muscles and the shiny buttons? This documentary goes behind-the-scenes to show the surprising, endearing, uniquely revealing and sometimes troubling reasons why the women of the Corps want to wear the uniform and belong to this cult of masculinity | ||
| YA-01 | FINDING HER-PASTORAL-SELF CRAZY |
YANG, So Young | VHS | 2003/2004 | Short films | ||
| TUC-01 | DREAMING OF...(2:55) PAINT IT BLACK (1:08) |
TUCKER, Nancy Jean | DVD | Short films | 12/2007 | ||
| AL-01 | FOR ALL MY FRIENDS DOWN ON THE FARM |
ALVAREZ, Alfonso | VHS | 2002-2003 | Shorts | Experimental visual effects and visuals of farm life. | |
| BL-01 | STUCK ON A HAMMER HEAD (3min.) LUCILLE (3min.) |
BLADER, Enid Baxter | VHS | 2004 | Shorts | ||
| GOS-01 | SELECTED WORKS 1998 - 2004 | GOSS, Jaquelin | VHS | ||||
| GRO-02 | PROPELLER | GROVER, Andrea WALSH, Patrick |
VHS | 1995 | Work in Progress | ||
| PRO-01 | MARGO (Proctor & Greenlaw), 1:00 SURFACING (Proctor), 2:30 |
PROCTOR, Jennifer GREENLAW, Margo |
VHS | 2003 | Short films | ||
| TR-01 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE! | TRAVIS, Jeffrey | VHS | 2003 | Short film | , NTSC | |
| JON-02 | FINISHED | JONES, William E. | DVD | 1997 | |||
| BAT-01 | RECENT WORKS by Christina BATTLE | BATTLE, Christina | VHS 16 mm b&w opt sound |
2003 | Shorts | Cooper/Bridges Fight (16mm, b/w, opt sound, 3 min.) oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street (16mm, col/bw, opt sound, 3 min.) Graffiti Test #1 (16mm, b/w, opt sound, 2 min.) |
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| NA-01 | FINE ... WHATEVER | NATHAN, Aditya | VHS | 2004 | |||
| AL-02 | FLIP FILM | ALVAREZ, Alfonso EUGELSTAD, Ellen |
VHS b&w |
1999 | Short | Stories told through photographic flip books. | |
| HENR-01 | MY HERO | HENRY, Elizabeth | VHS 16mm |
Short film |
16mm, 1:30 | ||
| BEEB-02 | COMPOSTITION IN RED & YELLOW | BEEBE, Roger | VHS Super 8 |
2002 | Short | Modern Life | Short film about McDonald's restaurants accross the country. |
| VAL-06 | BIG SCREEN VERSION | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS | 2004 | Short film | Split-screen talking heads and flying graphics collide in a musical homage to the self-righteous rhetoric of Fox News. appropriated cable television, 3min |
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| BAL-01 | HOW WE DO ART NOW & OTHER SACRED TALES | BALDESSARI, John | VHS b&w sound |
1973 | Historical | Includes: Insincerely Promising A Cat A Carrot, A Sentence With Hidden Meaning, It is Cruel To Put A Dog on a Mirror, What is the meaning of this image?, The Way We Do Art Now (the Birth of Abstract Art) | |
| HAL-02 | RESCUE WORLD | HALFLIFERS | VHS mono |
1995 | |||
| ELL-01 | MY DRAMA IS YOUR DRAMA | ELLIOTT, Colin HAMBLIN, Andrew |
VHS | 2003 | Short Film | ||
| BALD-01 | SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM | BALDWIN, Craig | DVD color b&w |
2003 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | L. Ron Hubbard (with assistance from Aleister Crowely builds a Starchild, The Starchild s duty is to warn the people of Earth about the dangers of privatization as the media monopolies gather together to form the New Electromagnetic Order and seek to destroy the sku. In the post apocalyptic works the Starchild sends his telepathic daughter back in time to decode the secret message of her recently deceased grandmother. | |
| HAU-03 | PASS | HAUG, Kate | VHS 16mm color |
play loud, sound starts before titles | |||
| MATH-01 | STUPEFACTON-WONDER-IMITATION-REJECTION-EXPERIENCE-POSSESSION | MATHERLY, Justin | DVD | 2003 | Short film | ||
| BL-03 | RADIO NOWHERE TRUE CRIME #1 THEY WILL CURE WHAT AILS |
BLADER, Enid Baxter | VHS | 2002 | Art | ||
| FRE-01 | WATER REROUTING INITIATIVES | FRELIN, Adam | VHS | 2001 | Short film | ||
| STO-02 | THE CALIFORNIA TOUR | STONE, Melinda | DVD | 2005 | What happens when experimental films, bingo, screen tests and a sing-a-long are brought to small town drive-ins throughout California? The California Tour found out in 2003 when it visited drive-ins from Crescent City to Barstow with its electric mix of films, audience participatory fare and live ambient sound mixes. | ||
| STO-03 | A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET 1905/2005 |
STONE, Melinda | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | On September 24, 2005 over 1,000 people joined together in the newly created Organ Pavilion Park across the street from the Ferry Building to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the film A TRIP DOWN MARKET 1905. This is a document of that evening | |
| VAR-14 | WHOLPHIN No.1 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2005 | Shorts | AL GORE DOCUMENTARY 13:00mins (JONZE, Spike) SOLDIERS'S PAY 11:18mins (RUSSELL, David O.) DEATH OF A HEN 15:54mins (DEWAN, Brian) ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYBODY? 4:11mins (ARTETA, Miguel) THE WRITER 3:10mins (MELL, Carson) THE BIG EMPTY 21:04mins (CHANG, J. Lisa) THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE 6:00mins (National Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Bureau) THE DELICIOUS 15:54mins (PRENDERGAST, Scott) MALEK KHORSHID 16:00mins (SADEGHI, Ali Akbar) TATLI HAYAT 25:00mins (Turkish sitcom) STAIRWAY AT ST. PAUL 8:30mins (OFFERMAN, Jeroen) THE GREAT ESCAPE 10:11mins (OFFERMAN, Jeroen) TRT: 150mins |
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| VAR-15 | WHOLPHIN No.2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2006 | 6/18/2008 | THE MOVIE MOVIE 3:58mins (MORRIS, Errol) BUILDING NO. 7 3:52mins (SODERBERGH, Steven) THE PITY CARD 12:29mins (ODENKIRK, Bob) AMERICAN STORAGE 13:10mins (COHEN, Andrew Jay) HOME, JAMES, AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES 31:33mins (DOLAN, John) MORE 6:19mins (OSBORNE, Mark) SOUR DEATH BALLS 4:36mins (YU, Jessica) THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO 26:07mins (LUCAS, Anthony) THE MESMERIST 15:48mins (MORRISON, Bill) OKUSAMA WA MAJO 27:00mins (Japanese sitcom) HOW TO: POKE POLE A MONKEY-FACED EEL 3:43mins (Instructional video) TRT: 149mins |
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| JON-03 | MASSILLON | JONES, William E. | DVD | 1991 | Documentary | Filmmaker William E. Jones returns to his hometown to construct an unconventional and moving autobiography. Challenging some of the most firmly entrenched notions of filmmaking, MASSILLON tells its story without a single human actor, by combining beautiful images with a seductive voice-over narration. |
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| KER-01 | HARDCORE PLUS Vol. 1 | KERN, Richard | VHS | 1999 | This exclusive video collection is jam-packed with the gritty best from noted New York filmmaker, Richard KERN. His sexually-charged work has been alternately dismissed as "violent" and "offensive" by the mainstream press, but embraced by the underground as the perverse standard. Says Kern, "I've tried it all: crime thrills, drug thrills, sex thrills. Nowadays, I get most of my thrills by offending people with my films. I don't even have to be there. I can sit far away and think, 'someone's watching my video right now and thinking Yeeeeughh!" Featuring punk rock diva, Lydia Lunch, funnyman Henry Rollins, the exotic genitalia of Kimbra Pfahler and the churning music of both Sonic Youth and Foetus, this urban jungel excursion is guaranteed to satisfy your dark carvings for the unusual. |
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| STEK-01 | LOUISIANA BOYS: Raised on Politics |
STEKLER, Paul ALVAREZ, Louis KOLKER, Andrew |
VHS | 1992 | In this age of electronic town meetings, overnight tracking polls and blow dried, sound-biting, market-tested candidate, there are some places where politics are still practiced as art... though some might call Louisiana's obscene. LOUISIANA BOYS:Raised on Politics hilariously exposes the Bayou State's favorite pastime as part sport, part entertainment and wholly outrageous. The documentary captures the zaniness of Louisiana's free-spending, high rolling elections, where spicy food and music combine with unforgettable characters to create a carnival atmosphere more like Mardi Gras than modern-day government. The filmmakers take you on a behind-the-scenes joy ride, from French-speaking rallies to the taping of commericals to the canvassing operations of New Orleans' unique neighborhood organizations, which are like political street gangs. Louisiana's historic mix of populism, corruption and demagoguery are traced through vintage clips of past grand masters, like Huey Long, the Kingfish; his wilder brother Earl, who dated strippers and bounced in and out of mental hospitals as governor; the singing governor Jimmie Davis; and Edwin Edwards, the most-investigated, most-elected governor ever. Call it high comedy or low political science, but you'll find LOUISISAN BOYS to be America's Funniest Politics... especially if you don't live there. |
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| JOA-01 | SOME KIND OF LOVING | JOANIE 4 JACKIE | VHS | You turn me on. You are my bed spread, my white leg warmers, my diaper. You make me hot. You are my new diet, my amputee. You are Cyndi Lauper, Cindy Sherman. You are Cindy Bradly and I'm coming of age, all down my legs. This is some kind of loving, baby. I never knew it could be this way. Including: No Place like Home # 1&2 (YASINSKY, Karen) Fine Lines (GANG, Jane) Lullaby (REEDER, Jennifer) pornfilm (BARBER, Stephanie) Martina's playhouse (AHWESH, Peggy) |
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| DO-01 | THE SHILD AROUND THE K | DOMINIC, Heather Rose | VHS | 1999 | features performances by Calvin Johnson's legendary Beat Happening, possibly the least pretentious band in the history of rock. A band that has influenced countless musicians all over the world simply by being themselves. Powered by Super 8 music videos directed by Patrick Maley and Lois and rare International Pop Underground Festival footage featuring Fugazi, Beat Happening, Mecca Normal and others, THE SHILD AROUND THE K is an inspiring portrayal of an independent record label whose lo-fi credibility has never been compromised. |
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| RA-02 | TEAM | RANK, Dean | VHS full color stereo |
2003 | "Dean RANK examines the socialization of men and woman through tough-guy portraiture and action film style performance" - Andrea Grover | ||
| MEL-05 | INSTALLATIONS OUT OF THE BLUE |
MELHUS, Bjoern | VHS | Including: INSTALLATIONS: Exhibitions (selection) 1998 - 2000 (Documentation, 13min) OUT OF THE BLUE (A Voice from Inside, 1998, 5 min.) |
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| WOL-01 | COUNTRY ROAD 18 TRANSITIONAL LANDSCAPE |
WOLDORSKY, Rochelle | VHS | 1996 | Short films |
5 min, 15 min Film about land development, loss of landscape and our connection to the land. By exploring the past and the present of an expanding country road- she talks about interpreting the present world we see through our memories of the past and references past artists who also investigate the bond between time and nature as a subject. |
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| STA-05 | COUNTY ROAD | STARK, Jenny | VHS | ||||
| STA-06 | VALENCIA | STARK, Jenny | VHS | 2000 | Short film | ||
| STA-07 | HERE IS A SON TO REMIND YOU OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT THERE | STARK, Jenny | VHS | 2000 | Short film |
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| JOA-02 | 4EVER | Joanie 4 Jackie | VHS | 1998 | |||
| PEO-01 | RECYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Selected Works 1992 - 2002 |
PEOPLE LIKE US | CD | Music & Concert | Including: 1. Another Kind of Humor (Intro) 2. OB & Cha Cha 3. Guide to Broadcasting (excerpt) 4. Smash & Grab 5. The Sacred Erm 6. Sing With Melodious Inarticulate Sound... 7. A Crossed Line (excerpt) 8. Clippety Cart Horse 9. In the Panto 10. Ursula Fahrt Ski 11. T424PLU 12. More Plunderblunders (excerpt) 13. Ski Heil (excerpt) 14. We Believe (excerpt) 15. T424PLU (excerpt) 16. Sound Escape (excerpt) 17. Sound Escape (excerpt) 18. Handjob 19. If Someone Touches You* 20. Music of your Own 21. Millenium Dome 22. My Son Jim 23. More Plunderblunders (excerpt) 24. Oompah Pumpah 25. I'm 89 26. Take a Walk 27. Morning Pedro 28. We Believe (excerpt) 29. Bran Mash & Crushed Beans (excerpt) 30. We're Gonna Be Around |
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| PEO-02 | WIDE OPEN SPACES | PEOPLE LIKE US | CD | 2002 | Music & Concert | Recorded live, October 5th, 2002, at the San Francisco Art Including: 1. Morning 2. Dolly Pardon 3. Clawing Your Eyes Out down To Your Throat 4. Shenandoah 5. Holler 6. Tremble Valley Peady 7. Chicken Legs 8. Cattle Call 9. Unshackled 10. Arkansas Explorer 11. Calling 12. Must Die 13. Wide Open Spaces |
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| PEO-03 c.1 | ABRIDGED TOO FAR | PEOPLE LIKE US | CD | 2004 | Music & Concert | Including: 1. Nothing 2. The Doody Waltz 3. I've Got You 4. Gesundheit! 5. Who Cares 6. Ja Ich 7. Dolly Pardon 8. Ach Du 9. Listen To The 10. Tiny Labyrinth of Distraction 11. Cattle Call 12. Abridged Too Far 13. Bier Bier Bier Downtown 14. Sedimental Journey 15. Swinglargo 16. Close To You 17. Retreat To Fade 18. Happy Wonderer 19. Donwntown Once 20. DO or DIY 21. Nobody Does |
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| WH-01 c.1 | BAUHAUS The Face of the 20th Century |
WHITFORD, Frank | DVD color |
2004 | Documentary | 50 min This stunning program looks at the development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it including the founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, László Moholy-Nagy, and Josef Albers. The program also sets the history of the Bauhaus in the context of the political unrest and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic in Germany. The program features numerous experts including Christopher Frayling of the Royal College of Art, architectural historian Charles Jencks, and Dr. Peter Hahn, Director of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. Former students discuss their time at the Bauhaus, and the eminent architect Philip Johnson tells how it influenced his work. The program contains rare archival footage of the Bauhaus at Dessau and looks at the architecture of Chicago, much influenced by Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated there after the Bauhaus was shut by the Nazis in 1933. The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of this revlutionary school of art and design. have copy in closet |
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| VAR-16 | WHOLPHIN No.3 | Various Artists | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | Including: The Russian Suicide Car 5:25mins (HOPPER, Dennis) The Passion of Martin 49:00mins (PANE, Alexander) A Stranger in Her Own City 29:45mins (AL-SALAMI, Khadija) A Bee and a Cigarette 12:15mins (ODENKIRK, Bob) Funky Forest the first Contact 15:42mins (NO MORI, Naisu) Never like the first Time! 14:30mins (ODELL, Jonas) Kitchen 14:31mins (WINOCOUR, Alice) Ballistic Jaw Propulsion of Trap-Jaw Ants 3:39mins Yeah Yeah, We Speak Englsih. Just Serve 3:28mins Flotsam/Jetsam 5:16mins (ZELLNER, David and Nathan) Tactical Advantage 3:30mins (RABINOVITCH, Daren) Bobby Bird 7:18mins (MELL, Carson) TRT: 165mins |
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| GAU-01 | PAUL KLEE The silence of the Angel |
GAUMNITZ, Michaël | DVD b&w color |
2005 | Documentary | ||
| AB-01 | The Production of Meaning | Adbusters | DVD | Short | Modern Life | A short film about the average American s over consumption and the effects of consumerism. 14 mins |
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| A/V-20 | AN A/V GEEKS CHRISTMAS | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Night Before Christmas Christmas Dream Santa Claus Suit Santa Claus Story Santa Claus' Punch and Judy Sandat Claus and the Snow Fairy |
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| A/V-21 | Dag, That's Cold! | A/V GEEKS | Children & Family | Found Footage | Play In The Snow How To Drive In Ice and Snow Surviving the Cold Lemmings Cipher in the Snow How To Build An Igloo |
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| A/V-22 | A/V Geeks Greatest Hits | A/V Geeks | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage | Fun With Lines Crash Bang Boom Malakapaladoo Skip Two Drugs Are Like Tha Shake Hands with Danger Telezonia VD is for Everybody |
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| PM-01 | Pancake Mountain Episodes 1&2 |
PANCAKE MOUNTAIN | DVD | 2004 | with Anti-Flag, Thievery Corporation, Steel Pulse, Vic Chesnutt, The Evens, UnCalled4 |
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| PM-02 | Pancake Mountain Episodes 3 & 4 |
PANCAKE MOUNTAIN | DVD | 2005 | with Fiery Furnaces, The Candy Band, Eyeballskeleton, Niki Barr, Henry Rollins, Arcade Fire |
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| PM-03 | Pancake Mountain Episodes 5 & 6 |
PANCAKE MOUNTAIN | DVD | 2005 | with Ted Leo, Liz Durrett, Shonen Knife, Weird War |
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| PM-04 | Pancake Mountain Episodes 7 & 8 |
PANCAKE MOUNTAIN | DVD | 2006 | with Metrics, The Subways, deerhoof, Bright Eyes, M.I.A., Juliette Lewis, Graig Wedren, Kaiser Chiefs |
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| JE-02 c.1 | THE FILM WORK OF RYAN JEFFERY | JEFFERY, Ryan | DVD | window- 3 mins, music by Ethan Rose continuum- 7 mins, music by Scanner small Parts- 3 mins, music by Ethan Rose entrance- 6 mins, music by adelaide bombadires- 6 mins, music by adelaide |
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| PEO-04 | People like us films | PEOPLE LIKE US | DVD | 2003 | We edit life (2002) The remote Controller (2003) Abridged Too Far (2003) THIS IS A PAL DVD |
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| EL-04 | SOCIAL ENGINEERING 101 | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | Children & Family | Educational Films | Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical sountracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. For extra creditm take home this second volume of 16mm behavior modification, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. Some historical, some hysterical and all filled with more important misinformation than you can digest in just one viewing. Because you can never be too polite to too popular, Fantoma is proud to present this collection of conformist culture and sanitized living. Learn how to make the right choices with such films as: Gettin Along with Others Are you Popular? Mirror Mirror Shy Guy Psychological Differences Between the Sexes Social Acceptability |
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| SIN-01 | Here's Where I'm Comin From | SINGLETON, Jerusalem | VHS | 2001 | |||
| PE-03 | 5 Nights, 5 Steaks | PETERSON, Sativa | DVD | 2001 | |||
| KI-02 | DREAMING AWAKE | KILLACKY, John R. | DVD | 2003 | |||
| PRE-01 | PANORAMA EPHEMERA | PRELINGER, Rick | DVD | 2004 | |||
| VAL-07 | THROWING STONES AT THE SUN AND OTHER LONESOME STORIES | VALDEZ, Aaron | VHS | 2002 | Includes: prints windowfilm 2001, 12min, 16mm) The final product of a film performance piece where a single 10-second film loop was edited and added to as it ran through the projector. hallway (2001, 16mm, 3min) An ascension into a sanitized heaven. still moving (1998, silent, bw, 3min) Stop motion zoom into the minute details of the city. In-camera edited on a single roll of film. decompositions variations on a canonball (1999, sound, bw, 3min) A study of repetition and variation in an apartment swimming pool. Filmed with a Eumig Underwater camera. In-camera edited on a single roll of film. tv election (2000, silent, color, 3min) 8 hours of election coverage reduced to 3 minutes. In-camera edited on a single roll of film. life and times of robert f. kennedy starring gary cooper throwing stones at the sun (2002, 16mm, 19 min) 27 documentary vignettes form a portrait of the U.S. between 1999-2001. Part traveler, part geographical surveyor, Valdez records moments of quiet resonance that provide insight into how politics, religion, and consumerism form a triumvirate of influence that constructs the American identity. bonus film valdezatron industries management training film 65 mins |
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| OD-01 | THE PITY CARD | ODENKIRK, Bob | DVD | ||||
| ROSE-01 | GRAND STREET | ROSENBERG, Ian | DVD | ||||
| LI-01 | DISCONNECTED | LIND, Karl | DVD | ||||
| GL-01 | DESK SCENE and other titles |
GLASSENBERG, Sam | DVD | ||||
| BAS-01 | THE SHORT FILMS OF | BASS, John | DVD | Shorts | |||
| VN-01 | FOR LUCIEN | VAN NATTA, Erika | DVD | 2003 | |||
| MU-01 | UNTITLED (SILVER) |
MURATA, Takeshi | DVD | 2006 | |||
| LOT-01 c.1 | A REEL MAN | LOTHERY, Todd | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | Docoumentary on Skip Elsheimer 2 copies |
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| CU-02 c.1 | THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES PART II "The Phantom Victory" |
CURTIS, Adam | DVD | 4/2008 | 3 copies | ||
| CU-01 c.1 | THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES PART I "Baby, It's Cold Outside" |
CURTIS, Adam | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | 4/2008 | Part 1 in a three part series, this BBC Documentary explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure... |
| JULY-01 c.1 | ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW | JULY, Miranda | DVD | 2005 | Independent | Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW is a poetic and penetrating look at how everyday people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating modern world. Christine Jesperson (writer/director Miranda July) is a struggling artist and cab driver who uses her talents and imagination to draw her dreams and objects of desire nearer. One such object is Richard Swersey (John Hawkes, TVs "Deadwood"), a newly-single father of two boys who is hoping for amazing things, yet panics upon meeting the captivating Christine. But in a world where the mundane is transcendent and people seek meaningful connections despite the risk, anything magical can - and will - happen. Approx. 92 mins *Adult Content |
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| JON-04 | V.O. | JONES, William E. | DVD | ||||
| GE-01 | THE FOURTH WATCH | GEISER, Janie | DVD | 2000 | |||
| STEN-01 | LAUNDRY | STENGER, Luke | DVD | ||||
| FRAT-01 | THE KING OF POONTANG | FRATICELLI, Chris | DVD | Short Movie |
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| AH-02 | WILD STYLE | AHEARN, Charlie | DVD | 1982 | A tagger by the name of Zoro gains anonymous fame in his local community. | ||
| SEK-01 | UNPRECEDENTED: The 2000 Presidential Election |
HAUGSE, William PEREZ, Richard SEKLER, Joan |
DVD | 2004 | |||
| GREE-01 c.1 | UNCOVERED: The whole truth about the Iraq war |
GREENWALD, Robert | DVD | 2004 | 2 copies | ||
| FRA-02 | THIS SONG FOR JACK | FRANK, Robert | VHS | checked out (Beth Secor) 11/07-5/08 | |||
| BECK-01 | BOBBY XP1 | BECKER, Thomas | DVD | 2006 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | A young robot explores the world around him through a happy man and a sad lady. | |
| JULY-02 c.1 | SERIES 2500 (DEMO REEL) | JULY, Miranda | DVD | Shorts | "Me and You and Everyone We Know" Trailer (2:36) "Love Diamond" (1:18) "Swan Tool" (1:10) "Nest of Tens" (2:10) "The Amateurist" (1:20) "Atlanta" (1:47) "Haysha Roykol" (1:47) TRT: 11mins |
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| EV-01 | SPICEBUSH | EVERSON, Kevin | DVD | 2005 | |||
| HUL-01 | THERE IS ONLY LIGHT | HULSE, Matt | DVD | 2004 | |||
| BL-04 | THE SECRET APOCALYPTIC LOVE DIARIES Episodes 1 -4 |
BLADER, Enid Baxter | DVD | ||||
| REE-01 | BRINGING HOME THE GIRLFRIEND | REEVES, Jane | DVD | 2006 | 11/07 | ||
| BL-05 | SECRET APOCALYPTIC LOVE DIARIES Episode 4 |
BLADER, Enid Baxter | DVD | ||||
| RU-01 | FREEDOM FIRES | RUTH, Steve | DVD | ||||
| HANB-01 | 10 STAGES OF USING HAIR TO FORGET THE FIRST LOVE | HAN, Bang-Geul | DVD | ||||
| COO-01 | SHAOLIN REDNECK | COOK, Joel | DVD | ||||
| BI-03 | THIS HILLS ARE ALIVE | BIERMANN, Gregg | DVD stereo |
2005 | Art- sound | Bits of the song "The Hills are Alive" from the Sound of Music cut and looped. | |
| DA-03 | SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM STORY | DANIEL, Bill | DVD | ||||
| DAL-01 | DOLLAR DISOBEDIENCE | VAN DALL, Bill | DVD | ||||
| STAB-01 | JONES VII | STABLES, Frasier | DVD | ||||
| FI-05 | EL CORAZON | FINN, Jim | DVD | ||||
| PS-01 | NO TITLE | THE PSYCHASTHENIA SOCIETY | DVD | ||||
| STA-08 | No Title | STARK, Jenny | DVD | Roseville 2:40min Central Valley Floor 3min |
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| PS-02 | Promo Trailer | THE PSYCHASTHENIA SOCIETY | DVD | ||||
| MAL-01 c.1 | GIMME THE MERMAID | MALONEY, Tim NEGATIVLAND |
DVD | 2000 | NTSC DVD-R 2 copies also on Negativland NO BUSINESS album |
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| EL-06 | FOUND VIDEOS | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 1 Farrzh 2 Thomas Jeffeeerrrsssooonnn 3 Ohio Power Company Vet Prety - 1950 |
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| EL-05 | Driver's ED | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | ||||
| SCHA-01 | CATALOG of WORKS | SCHATZ, Lincoln | DVD | 2005 | |||
| BUCK-01 | LOST INTERVIEWS | FULLER, Buckminster R. | VHS | ||||
| DA-04 | SOULS HARBOR | DANIEL, Bill | VHS | documentation clip of installation | |||
| EV-02 | CINNAMON | EVERSON, Kevin | DVD | 2006 | |||
| HUL-02 | FILMS | HULSE, Matt | DVD | ||||
| MEI-01 | JUMP | MEIKLEJOHN, David | MiniDV |
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| FI-06 c.1 | INTERKOSMOS | FINN, Jim | DVD color |
2006 | . In this "endlessly inventive minimalist mockumentary" Jim Finn "uses a few established facts to invent a wild narrative about an international communist project to establish colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn." --Jonathan Rosenblum. 2 copies |
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| STAB-02 | TERMINAL PORTRAIT | STABLES, Frasier | DVD | ||||
| BECH-01 | YACHT VIDEOS | BECHTOLT, Jona | DVD | Art- contemporary | Includes: Untitled: 6,000 pictures in 3 minutes, I Love a Computer, Untitled: dueling with Cardboard Medieval weaponry Ultimate Blogger Episodes 6, 7, and 8. | ||
| ANI-01 | ANIMAL CHARM VIDEOS | ANIMAL CHARM | DVD | Music | 4/2008 | ||
| WET-02 | LIVE @ AURORA'S MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY FEST | WET GATE | MiniDV | 2005 | |||
| SID-01 | SOMEBODY GOOFED | RODNEY & SID | MiniDV | ||||
| BEU-01 | EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST (Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler) |
BEUYS, Joseph | MiniDV |
Documentary | 11/07 | Documentary of German Artist Josef Beuys | |
| TV-02 | TV SHERIFF & THE TRAILERBUDDIES live at MEDIA ARCH 2005 | TV SHERIFF & THE TRAILERBUDDIES | MiniDV |
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| CUE-01 | LA TOMBOLA | CUEVAS, Ximena | MiniDV | 2002 | 7:50 mins | ||
| PAP-01 | LIVE AT MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY 2005 | PAPER RAD & EXTREME ANIMALS | MiniDV |
2005 | |||
| ADE-01 | LIVE AT AURORA | ADELAID | MiniDV |
2005 | Music Performance | Footage of the ambient electronic band Adelaide (now Small Sails) performing at Aurora accompanied with video made by band member Ryan Jeffrey | |
| APS-14 | EXTREMELY SHORTS V (5) | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | MiniDV |
2002 | Shorts | Includes: Techno Dominator IV: Fear of a Green Planet, Intimate InterviewsL Sex in less that two minutes, Untitled Short: Draws comparison between Irish Dancing and the behavior of pack animals, Untitled Short: A man puts a phallic strap-on on his waste and performs non-penetrating sexual acts with it, Shakey, War, Untitled Short: A dog tried to jump over a fence, Papa Smurf, i10 West, Wise Blood, Artifact, Lick, Hallway, Untitled: A delayed time lapse of a woman performing sexual acts so that they seem to be done to herself, Lady s Choice, Larry in Relation to the Ground, The Ballad of Courtney and James, Top 40 Love, Michigan, 1971 , Untitled: A sexual church service, George in Hollywood, Remembered Faces, Forgotten Dreams: Ruminating Bali, Three Munites Out. | |
| ANI-02 | LIVE AT MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY 2005 | ANIMAL CHARM | MiniDV |
2005 | Music Performance | Animal Charm remixes instructional and educational videos live at Aurora | |
| MAN-17 | ONE-EYED BUM | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-18 | 7/26/71 N.Y.C. | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-19 | THERE IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER WAR | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-20 | MISS BEAUTIFUL NEW YORK | MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-21 | 10th NEW YORK AVANT GARDE FESTIVAL Tape 1 |
MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| MAN-22 | 10th NEW YORK AVANT GARDE FESTIVAL Tape 2 |
MANN, Andy | DVD b&w mono |
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| BROOM-01 | SOLDIER GIRLS | BROOMFIELD, Nick | DVD | 1981 | Documentary | army | co-directed with Joan Churchill documentary film by Nick Broomfield about several women training in the US army. Under the aggressive Sergeant Abing are several young women, some dedicated to defending their country, others who seem to have been forced into joining by circumstance. Several of these recruits become harder and colder through the course of their basic training; Abing himself the perfect example of what the military can turn people into. 87 mins |
| McD-02 | VIDEO: 1970s | McDONALD, Laurie | DVD | 2004 | |||
| McD-03 | VIDEO: 1980s | McDONALD, Laurie | DVD | 2004 | |||
| McD-04 | DANCE VIDEO OF THE 70s & 80s | McDONALD, Laurie | DVD | 2004 | |||
| McD-05 | THE WORLD'S LARGEST: A TAPE ABOUT TEXAS | McDONALD, Laurie | DVD | 1979 | |||
| NEW-01 | GONE TO TEXAS The live of Forrest Carter |
NEWMAN, Douglas | DVD | Work in Progress Sample | |||
| JO-02 | POPULAR MUSIC Videos #1 |
JONES, Art | DVD | ||||
| EX-01 | DARE I SAY TROLL |
EXTREME ANIMALS | CD |
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| BOG-01 | 2005 THIRD COAST FESTIVAL BROADCAST Hour 1 of 2 |
BOGAEV, Barbara (Host) | CD | 2005 | |||
| BOG-02 | 2005 THIRD COAST FESTIVAL BROADCAST Hour 2 of 2 |
BOGAEV, Barbara (Host) | CD | ||||
| HEI-01 | DVD | HEISS, Wes | DVD | ||||
| JONE-01 | ABOMINABLE SNOW MAN | JONES, Arthur | DVD | 2005 | PowerPoint Presentation | animation | The North Pole's most mysterious citizen experiences a mid life crisis and fantasizes about the destruction of earth. 6 mins |
| MAN-23 | CHRIS BURDEN 1975 Tape #1 |
MANN, Andy | DVD | ||||
| APS-19 | EXTREMELY SHORTS IX (9) | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | MiniDV | 2006 | Shorts | 5/5/2008 | The Sea Calls us Home by Annie Simpson & Seth Kirby Science's 10 Most Beautiful by Jeanne Liotta The Hills are Alive by Gregg Bierman Possibilities by Fabiola Valencia Dancing on Air by Derek J. Smith & Van G. Garrett Waiting for Adnan by Beth Federici Radio Bravo Pitch by Robert Ziebell Fashion Island by Brady Hammes Periphery Murder Mystery by Larissa Banks My Beautiful Violetta by Gabriella Trzebinski The Concrete Man by Rob Smith Science's 10 Most Beautiful: #10 by Jeanne Liotta Love Poem by Jane Reeves Can I Have 2 Minutes of your Time by Brigitta Bodenauer Bessie Cohen by Hope Tucker Eggs by Dane Boedigheimer Polka by Manon Bovenkerk More by Bunny Watts Svankmajer by Jerry King Musser Radio_Int. 37/07 from lia, Austria XXX Amsterdam by Martha Colburn Bringing Home the Girlfriend by Jane Reeves Washington by Brad Neely we have copy of Dane BOEDIGHEIMER Eggs in closet. |
| MAN-24 | VIDEO DIARY #1 | MANN, Andy | DVD b&W mono |
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| SON-01 | PIANO PIECE #13 | SONIC YOUTH | MiniDV | ||||
| OC-01 c.1 | INDIRECT RECORD | OCAMPO, Pablo de (Curator) | DVD | 11/07; 4/08 | extra copy in closet | ||
| JUN-01 | SLOMO VIDEO | JUNELL, Ryan | DVD | 2006 | Short Films, compilation | time | 100 ONE MINUTE SLOW MOTION VIDEOS SLOMO VIDEO is 100 one minute slow motion videos by 85 filmmakers and video artists from around the world. The video festival swerves into cinemas around the world, transubstantiates time into taffy, and turns the usual expectations of a video show on its side and inside out. This unique compilation of cinematic slowness pulls the audience through a molasses-tinged warp of catastrophic visual and audio beauty! about slowing everything down 100 m |
| KIN-01 | DUTCH HARBOR Where The Sea Breaks Its Back |
KING, Braden MOYA, Laura |
DVD | 1998 | Documentary | 82 m, b&w A lyric examination the life and landscape of an Aleutian Island community off of the west coast of Alaska, the film toured internationally with live soundtrack accompaniment by the critically-acclaimed Boxhead Ensemble. This post-modern frontier tale is the story of a village in transition, from remote outpost, to boomtown, and back. |
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| AR-05 | Solid State Flesh - Solid State Sex | ARFORD, Scott LOPEZ, Francisco |
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| HI-01 | UNCOVERING THE CARTOON SELF | HIDDEN MICKEYS | DVD | ||||
| BALL-01 | MY GREAT TIME AT THE AURORA | BALLHEIMER, Anna-Christin | DVD | 2007 | |||
| OA-01 | FLY | OArt | DVD | 2004 | Fly was inspired from the artist's childhood experiences, while being driven across Europe in a second hand BMW by his parents on summer holidays. Between fights with his brother on the back seats the child would be fascinated by the carnage on the windscreen of his father's car. Bugs and flies met their untimely deaths at high speed, only to be uncermoniously wiped away by the windscreen wiper. |
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| OA-02 | SOPHIE | ILIC, Milivoj (Oart) | DVD | 2000 | |||
| OA-03 | BRANCHES | OArt | DVD | 2002 | |||
| LOW-01 | CINEMA DIFFERENT DIFFERENT CINEMA Volume1 |
LOWAVE | DVD color stereo |
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| LOW-02 | RESISTANCE(S) | LOWAVE | DVD stereo color |
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| WAL-01 | ONEDOTZERO_Select DVD4 |
WALTER, Shane RJ | DVD color |
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| SW-01 | SWISS FASHION DESIGN | Fashionshow.ch | DVD | 2004 | |||
| GIL-01 | CITYSCAPES | GILJE, HC | DVD stereo color |
2005 | Including: h.k.mark - 1:30min crossings - 4min shiva - 8min night for day - 30min |
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| PP-01 | ALL TIME GREATEST HITS: a collection of experimental films and videos |
Peripheral Produce | DVD | 2003 | Including: Getting stronger everyday - JULY, Miranda Wustenspringmaus - FINN, Jim The subconscious Art of Graffiti removal - McCORMICK, Matt Stuffing - ANIMAL CHARM Removed - UMAN, Naomi Election Collectibles, BOYCE, Bryan N Judah 5:30 - GREEN, Sam Oona's Veil - FRYE, Brian Crowdog - RENWICK, Vanessa Buffalo Common- BROWN, Bill 90 mins |
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| RAU-01 c.1 | Open Score | Rauschenberg, Robert | DVD | 1966, 2007 | Performance, series | In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering. Archival material from the event has been assembled into ten films, each of which recontructs the artist's original work and uses interviews with the artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. Open Score is the first in this series. | |
| JON-05 | All Male Mash Up | JONES, William E. | DVD | 2006 | William E. Jones s new body of work was inspired by his parallel career in the gay adult video industry. In the course of viewing hundreds of hours of porn, he has developed a fascination with its marginalia: establishing shots revealing urban landscapes of the recent past, charmingly inept dialogue scenes, and close-ups of performers, many now dead. This material, while of no particular commercial use, can be seen as an invaluable document of a lost world of eroticism and sociability. All Male Mash Up was the main video in Jones s solo exhibition, There should be a new word for happiness at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; it has also been shown at Mix New York, Flanders International Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. |
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| FMC-01 | For Life Against the War... Again | The Film-Maker's Collective | 2007 | 25 Filmakers create a cinema for peace. In 1967, with the Vietnam War escalating wildly, an invitation was issued to filmmakers to create works running under three minutes in protest against the accumulating carnage. The original organizers chose the rubric For Life, Against the War, and eventually compiled sixty films from the likes of Robert Breer, Shirley Clarke, Storm De Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Larry Jordan, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, and many others. Now, decades later, an invitation to protest yet another war seemed sadly urgent, inspiring the New York Film-makers Cooperative to ring the clarion once . . . Again. The response was overwhelming, with submissions from several generations of artists unified by a singular disgust for the war in Iraq and the foreign policy that perpetuates it. Compiled with works from the overtly angry to the formally forceful, For Life, Against the War boldly announces that artists can take a stand, again and again. -- Steve Seid, Curator, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum Filmmaker Participants on DVD: Kevin Barry, Bosko Blagojevic, Elle Burchill, Jim Costanzo, Bradley Eros, Jeanne Finley, Martha Gorzycki, Alfred Guzetti, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Douglas Katelus, Lynn Marie Kirby, Ernie Larsen, David Leitner, Les Leveque, Cynthia Madansky, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Sheri Milner, John Muse, Martha Rosler, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jeff Silva, Jeffrey Skoller, Mark Street, Cara Weiner, Lili White, Artemis Willis. |
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| PT-01a | Both | Ptak, Carly | DVD | 2007 | Carly Ptak's next full length release after prepare your self. the cd is composed entirely of vocals, some of which are run through effects and triggers. the dvd is 4 art videos. also comes with a 10 x 11 screenprint. videos: 1. foci coincide (20:08) 2. secret mist (12:47) 3. Dark Fare (with chiara giovando) (6:26) 4. pronoia (7:55) |
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| PT-01b | Both | Ptak, Carly | CD |
2007 | carly ptak's next full length release after prepare your self. the cd is composed entirely of vocals, some of which are run through effects and triggers. the dvd is 4 art videos. also comes with a 10 x 11 screenprint. musics: 1. pester, petition, postulate 2. caper, caracole, carry on 3. pronoia pt. I 4. decide, design, determine 5. pronoia pt. II 6. thrill, throb, thump 7. articulate, enunciate, express 8. search, study, survey 9. pronoia pt. III 10. reflect, reproduce, resonate 11. pronoia pt. IV 12. the pledge of allegiance |
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| BIR-01 | Stellbar | Biren, Jordan | DVD Color Stereo |
2004 | Art | Through the domain of the hyper-personal plumbed from vaporous sensations of a paradisiac past That ochre, balmy land where light shimmers endlessly through an amaranthine haze through breaches of subcutaneous horror that rise inarticulate and ghost-like within a disturbing eloquence of images, sound, and text, Stellbar remains as that indefinite moment of sublimity, clothed in a serene surround of lightless days, and soft luminous evenings, where, bejeweled and rapturous, to all things and everything, the end then drifts back over the beginning. My intent in Stellbar is to purposely tread that gossamer line between the vulnerable and the arrantly sentimental. Hyperbolic melodrama envelops material culled from the treachery of personal narrative, brooding landscape, and mundane occurrences. An impenetrably interior text hangs in delicate balance with shadowy gloom. And a soundtrack eliciting the gratuitously dramatic and vaguely disturbing underscores the entire piece. Yet, with no transcendent moment to its temporal unfolding, narrative enunciation evaporates. Like all my work, Stellbar seeks that space in the chasms of contextual breach through which the more ineffable pushes through. |
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| BIR-02 | My Mother's House | Biren, Jordan | DVD | 2006 | Art | . My Mother s House tracks a home emptied of its reassuring order, but not the phantom memories. It s like a Thomas Kinkade painting with a chill factor. Steve Seid BAM/PFA The fear comes from knowing that the slightest mistake in the re-telling threatens to crack the façade and make the memories crumble into a dust finer than the one on the furniture. The loneliness and corrosive melancholy come from the trickle-down simulacra of parlor sets and Reader s Digest Thanksgivings. The insolence of others is in not getting it right; in not realizing how fucking important getting it right is to the scattered, desperate and solitary foot soldiers for an empire of passed-down tea cozies and empty nests. Ivan Lozano Cinematexas 11 |
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| BIR-03 | From Here Home | Biren, Jordan | DVD | 1999 | Art | ||
| BIR-04 | My Mother's Family | Biren, Jordan | DVD | 1993 | Art | . My Mother s Family is a whimsical fairy tale of stasis. Still images simulating a family album contain an impenetrable secret, revealed only by the text that follows. Steve Seid BAM/PEA |
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| HA-02 c.1 | Free to Be... You and Me Invitational | Hallett, Nick | DVD | 2006 | Recognized as an important cultural document of the shift in values our country experienced during the 1970s, Free To Be...You and Me (originally a book and concept album) stirred conversation among people of all ages on hitherto unspoken issues like divorce, media awareness, and, perhaps most cohesively, the identity politics of gender and race. More than twenty film and video artist were invited to rework, restage, respond to, satirize, criticize, or in their own way create short works inspired by the original and all-too-memorable segments, including It s All Right to Cry, William Wants a Doll, Ladies First, and Parents Are People. Contents: Free To Be... You and Me - Darrin Martin Boy Meets Girl - Joshua Thorson When We Grow Up - Laura Parnes Parents Are People - Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin Housework - Seth Kirby Helping - Spencer Parsons Don t Dress Your Cat in an Apron - Jennifer Matotek Dudley Pippin - Kent Lambert It s All Right to Cry - Mighty Robot My Dog is a Plumber - Stephanie Gray & Kelly Spivey William s Doll - Peggy Ahwesh Atalanta - Lynne Sachs I d Rather Be the Sun - Michael Gitlin & Jacqueline Goss Sisters and Brothers - Nao Bustamante & Ben Coonley Three Wishes - Big Noise Films Girl Land - Bradley Eros Circle of Friends - Tyler Coburn Free To Be... You and Me (Reprise) - Ray Sweeten 2 copies |
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| ALZ-01 | Parizade and the Singing Tree: a folk tale for narrator and mixed ensemble |
AL-ZAND, Karim | CD | 1999-2001 | Music Performance | With background narrative based on one of the, often overlooked, episodes of A Recorded at Portland Chamber Music Festival: Bruce Hangen-conductor Jennifer Finley Boylan- narrator Laura Gilbert- flute Hana Kim- clarinet Jennifer ELowitch- violin Susannah Chapman- vc. John Ferrari- percussion Dena Levine-piano Part I. In which Parizade seeks the Singing Tree and hears the Dervish's warning. Part II. In which Parizade climbs the mountain and endures the travails of the ascent. Part III. In which Parizade hears the wondrous song of the Singing Tree. Part IV. In which the music of the Singing Tree proves to be magical. |
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| DR-01 | A SOCIAL EVENT ARCHIVE | DRUECKE, Paul | CD-R | 2007 | Documentary | 3/20/08 | A Social Event Archive began in 1997 when Paul Druecke went door-to-door in Milwaukee neighborhoods inviting people to contribute one photo from their personal collection to his new project. The photos were archived in the order received and presented back to the public in exhibitions, books, and a website: ASOCIALEVENT.COM |
| EV-03 | 13 Short Films | EVERSON, Kevin | DVD | ||||
| HU-03b | SLANT 5: Program 2 |
HUNG, Melissa | DVD | TOP WOMAN SHOOTER / Bryant Wang Texas premiere 2004 miniDV 22 mins PILOTS ARE BADASS / Cheryl Park 2002 16 mm 10 mins YELLOW BROTHERHOOD / Tadashi Nakamura Houston premiere, 2004 miniDV 18 mins HOW TO MAKE KIMCHI ACCORDING TO MY KUN-UMMA / Samuel Kiehoon Lee Texas premiere, 2002 Video 18 mins |
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| HU-02a | SLANT 4: Program 1 |
HUNG, Melissa | DVD | Cultural | Asian American Imagery | Bampinay / Matthew Abaya Bad Thoughts / Dino Ignacio Prix Fixe / Nobu Adilman Dragon of Love / Doan La |
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| HU-03a | SLANT 5: Program 1 |
HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2005 | Film Festival | Homegrown short films of every genre that tackle their subject matters with wit, humor, and depth. For the fifth year, Slant: Bold, Asian American Images will showcase an eclectic mix of the best in Asian American cinema. This year includes: Amyn Kaderali s Call Center, a customer service outsourcing spoof; Betty M. Park s Hairwolf, featuring Asian werewolves in an unjust world; Bryant Wang s Top Woman Shooter, a documentary about Vera Koo, a mom-cum-champion handgun shooter. Featuring: American Seoul / Jason Moore 2003 DV 9 mins Perfections / David Rowe 2004 hi-def 3 mins Hairwolf / Yulsoo Park & Betty M. Park 2004 DV 4 mins The Hairs / Yohei Kawamata 2004 miniDV 4 mins Funetics / Lynn Okimura 2003 miniDV 2 mins Convulse / Cara Marisa Deleon 2003 16 mm 3:30 mins Sex & Coffee / Lee Isaac Chang 2004 DV 13 mins I'll Have an Espresso and Just Water for... / Ernest Woo 2003 miniDV 2 mins Balikbayan (Homebound) / Larilyn Sanchez & Riza Manalo 2003 miniDV 5 mins Stranded / Willard Motomura 2003 miniDV 5 mins Call Center / Amyn Kaderali 2004 Super 16 on DVD 13 mins Sour Death Balls / Jessica Yu 1992 16 mm on DVD 4 mins |
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| HU-04a | SLANT 7: Program 1 |
HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | Kata Practice | Siu Ta Dear Lemon Lima | Suzi Yoonessi The Last Vacation | Jae-Ho Chang Lead Role: Father | PJ Raval Windowbreaker | Tze Chun The Summer of the Serpent | Kimi Takesue |
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| HU-04b | SLANT 7: Program 2 |
HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | Russian Hill Roulette | Frank Yeean Chan I Pie (A Love Story)| Nobu Adilman Officer Tsukamoto | Ling Liu Profiles in Science | Wes Kim Maritess V.S. The Superfriends | Dino Ignacio Dragon of Love | Doan La The Police Box | Josh Kim |
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| HU-06 | Best of SLANT | HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | Includes some greatest hits from past years of the festival. Wes Kim s Profiles in Science takes a quirky look at one man s pursuit of scientific knowledge. A pie maker tries to explain himself in Nobu Ailman s faux documentary I Pie (A Love Story) . Maritess V.S. the Superfriends, an animation by Dino Ignacio, tells the plight of the Superfriends Filipina maid. And Doan La s comedy Dragon of Love chronicles one man s dating disaster when he meets the woman of his dreams. But there s more! This collection also features Josh Kim s The Police Box, a charming story of romantic crushes told in four minutes; Frank Yeean Chan s cycling adventure Russian Hill Roulette ; and Ling Liu s Officer Tsukamoto, a documentary about the unsolved 1970 murder of a police officer. |
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| REN-05 | Portrait #2: Trojan | RENWICK, Vanessa | DVD | 2006 | Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon's powerful iconic landmark, goes adios. With score by Sam Coomes of Quasi. Shot by Eric Edwards in 35MM film and transferred to video. Part of Portrait Series, a series of filmed places and histories of Cascadia with scores by musicians from the Pacific Northwest. | ||
| HUL-03 | The Plot | HULSE, Matt | DVD | 2002 | Black and white film that uses the camera as protagonist who searches through an empty house. | ||
| DAN-01 | 100 Second Film Festival | DANIELS, Jason | DVD | 2005-2006 | Film Festival | A collaborative remixable motion media festival bringing people together around making, sharing and watching videos that are one hundred seconds or less in duration. | |
| HANN-02 | Burghers of Seoul | HANNAH, Adad | DVD | 2006 | 3/20/2008 | The first in a series of Recast and Reshoot, The Burghers of Calais, Hannah restages Rodin's famous sculpture. He will visit diiferent cities that have casts of the sculpture to explore ideas of citizenry and how cities and groups of people interact with the sculpture. Like the sculpture, in-the-round, he uses a camera on a circular track in this exploration of the ranges of human emotion. | |
| WOJ-01 | Selected Works 2003-2007 | WOJTASIK, Pawel | DVD | 2003-2007 | Documentary- Environmental | DARK SUN SQUEEZE 10 min, color, 2003 Filmed at a sewage treatment plant. A darkly meditative look at thte steady churning of the machinery devided to process the end product of all human economies. FIREHOLE 7 min, color, 2005-2007 A car junkyard. The violence of car crashing, cutting of rusted steel with a blow torch, of forklifts piercing cars' sides. LANDFILL 7 min, High-Def video, color, 2006 An investigation into the formation of a landfill, a potent symbol of consumer society, which unintentionally becomes a great earthwork. PIGS 14 mins, color, 2006 Pigs reveling in their 'pig nature' - from quiet, tender moments to the wildness of a feeding frenzy. Re-evaluation of the commonly held views regarding these animals. NAKED 11 mins, color, 2005-2007 A colony of naked mole rats studied at a major American university. The drama of overcrowding within a network of plastic tunes sometimes leads to violence, sometimes results in a show of tenderness. THE AQUARIUM 22 min, color, 2006 Filmed in Alaska, Mystic, Conneticut, and New York City, the piece contrasts footage of the primeval Arctic landscape with the claustrophobia of sea mammals living in aquariums. Questions are raised regarding the alluring spectacle of the aquarium vs. the reality of the destruction of ocean life. |
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| HANN-03 c.1 | STILLS | HANNAH, Adad | DVD | 2002-2004 | Documentary | Both a reference to photography's beginnings and an attempt to mimic painting, these real time tableux vivants are what remained after Hannah removed sound, motion, and trickery from video. | |
| YO-01 | Dear Lemon Lima | YOONESSI, Suzi | DVD | 2006 | Drama | Trapped in Fairbanks, Alaska, Vanessa Lemor, a lonely 13-year old Yu'pik (Western Eskimo) with a vivid imagination, is dumped by her true love, uber intellectual Philip Gregory, 14. Vanessa spends the summer obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy, while preparing for her first year at Marlett Academy- a private school where the Gregory family is a legacy. After an unexpected tragedy threatens to put the kibosh on her romantic enthusiasms, Vanessa joins a team of "angel-headed dorks" and overcomes her heartbreak by competing in Snowstorm Survivor - the private school's misguided adaptation of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics. | |
| PS-03 | 3 Pieces | The Psychasthenia Society: BRUNELLE, Jon Keith VATSKY, Daniel |
DVD | Video collage | Included: Lost in the Unisphere, Jobless from Mars, and Mike's Fate Storytelling meets the sampling culture. Live video, sharp narration, and a stream of vintage movie stills interweave to create a universe of runaway nanobots, psychic anarchists, and frustrated cyborgs. An immersive evening of strange tales and startling imagery from The Psychasthenia Society, bringing you the finest in satire, beats, and visuals. |
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| DEK-01 | REQOIL DISPLACED PEACEOFF | DEKAM, Johnny VOTAVA, Peter |
DVD | 2003 | Sound and Image Meeting | Sound and Image Meeting 2003, sponsored by Rennes College of Art, was a joint training action where DJ PURE (Peter Votava) and Johnny Dekam were invited to supervise a workshop of 9 young local artists, and then give a public performance. Reqoil-15:38 (DJ Pure) Displaced- 10:24 (Dekam) Peaceoff- 9:38 |
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| SAV-01 | First Night | SAVISKY, Luke | DVD | 2006-2007 | Savisky is the first to say his work is best viewed live. Included are two work samples of his abstractions created by live feed of an actual participants eye projected onto a watertower. | ||
| MATE-01 | Putting the Balls Away | MATEIK, Tara | DVD | 2006 | Assemblage | In his words, Tara Mateik's work "stategizes to overthrow institutions of compulsory gender through performance, video, and intervention." In "Putting the Balls Away," he will reenact a legendary "Battle of the Sexes," Billie Jean King's 1973 defeat of the former Wimbledon men's champion, Bobby Riggs. By playing both roles in a video version of the match, and reviving remarks by sports commentators Howard Cosell and Rosie Casals, Mateik recalls the controversy sparked by the most watched televised sporting event of the era. |
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| FI-07 | LOTERIA | FINN, Jim | DVD | 2005 | Music Videos | This series of shorts is a group of experimental music videos loosely based on Mexican "Loteria" cards. | |
| FI-08 c.1 | LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO | FINN, Jim | DVD | 2007 | La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 80 s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women s prison cellblock in Peru. After capture, the Gang-of-Four Maoist revolutionaries basically ran their cellblocks as if they were training camps. Heavily researched, the film draws from many sources including video footage from the prisons and interviews with Shining Path militants and their leader Chairman Gonzalo, the former philosophy professor Abimael Guzmaån. It follows the inmates organizing classes, marches, criticism sessions, a dance party, and playing scenes from a Navajo-language Macbeth. | ||
| CHANG-01 | THE LAST VACATION | CHANG, Jae-Ho | DVD | 2006 | Amidst wintry winds and crashing waterfalls, a son accompanies his mother on a journey that was always intended but only now can be done. Deliberately paced and gorgeously shot, Chang s stunning film quietly makes peace with life s unexpected directions. |
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| CU-01 c.2 | THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES PART 1 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" |
CURTIS, Adam | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure... |
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| CHAN-01 | RUSSIAN HILL ROULETTE | CHAN, Frank Yeean | DVD | 2006 | Sports | s An urban bicycle warrior scales San Francisco's steepest grades at breakneck speed until... |
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| PL-01 c. 1 | LUNCH FILMS | PLANTE, Mike | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. I bought a filmmaker lunch because he was broke. I asked for a short film in return for the cost of the lunch and wrote rules on a napkin to follow. Since then, 30 lunch films have been commissioned. While each film has its own rules and ideas, the overall metaphor is a basic one: it is very easy to help a filmmaker. Be a part of your community. Buy one lunch today. Mike Plante Lunch Films includes films from Cam Archer, Roger Beebe, James Benning, James Clauer, Jem Cohen, Ben Coonley, Bill Daniel, Kevin Everson, James Fotopoulos, Sharon Lockhart, Eileen Maxson, Carson Mell, Nina Menkes, Chris Peters, Elizabeth Skadden, Sebastian Wolf and the Zellner Brothers. The total cost of the program (plus tip) was $622.71. 4 copies |
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| TA-02 | KATA PRACTICE | TA, Siu | DVD b&w |
2004 | Drama | A little boy seeks meaning through the discipline of karate to understand why his family is breaking up. | |
| LIS-01a | THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM Program 1 |
Listening Room SHAPIRO, Julie |
DVD | 2007 | Music & Concert | Short artistic works, sound-rich narratives from around the world, award-winning public radio programs and highlights from the TCF's "99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story" Experiment are included in this collection of unforgettable documentary films for your ears curated by Julie Shapiro. |
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| LIS-01b | THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM Program 2 |
Listening Room SHAPIRO, Julie |
DVD | 2007 | Music & Concert | Short artistic works, sound-rich narratives from around the world, award-winning public radio programs and highlights from the TCF's "99 Ways to Tell a Radio Story" Experiment are included in this collection of unforgettable documentary films for your ears curated by Julie Shapiro. Story" experiment. |
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| UNI-01 c.1 | NOVELTY FILMS | UNIVERSAL Motoring History | DVD | 1960-80 | Shorts | Collection of anachronistic futuristic shorts of automobile innovations. Hi-lights include portable personal helicopters, swimming cars. car aerobics for the 1980s commuter and a li-mouse-ine, Mickey Mouse's customized limousine. | |
| UNI-01 c.2 | NOVELTY FILMS | UNIVERSAL Motoring History | DVD | 1960-80 | Shorts | PAL | |
| HANN-03 c.2 | STILLS | HANNAH, Adad | DVD | 2002-2004 | Documentary | ||
| JE-02 c.2 | THE FILM WORK OF RYAN JEFFERY | JEFFERY, Ryan | DVD | ||||
| FI-08 c.2 | LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO | FINN, Jim | DVD | 2007 | |||
| TT-02 c.1 | TAPPING MAPLE RIDGE | TTWEAK | DVD | 2006 | Documentary | a meditation on the unexpected parallels between wind energy and maple syrup production. Shot on High-Definition video, the film illustrates the visual and conceptual correspondences between the sugar bush (a stand of maple trees tapped for syrup) and the wind farm. Interviews with maple syrup producers, Tug Hill landowners, Lewis County residents, and wind energy developers reinforce and elaborate on those relationships. see www.TappingMapleRidge.com for more information. 2 copies |
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| QUI-01 | ELECTRIC SWAMP | QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT | DVD | 2005 | An alligator from New Orleans named Cinnamon finds herself cursed with Formosan termites after they visit her sno-ball stand. Then Cinnamon and her friend Lolly Crawfish go on an adventure.... aboard a ship with Captain Dreamweaver, visiting the mother-in-law lounge to see Ernie and Antoinette K-Doe, and even sneaking into the secret world of termite raves. |
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| APS-16 c.1 | EXTREMELY SHORTS X (10) | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | Tenth Annual Extremely Shorts Festival presents juried submissions of films and videos of three minutes or less from all around the globe. The competition brings to the forfront the latest in artist-made experimental, narrative, and avant-garde film. We have individual copies of No Direction No.1 by Katherine Kunze, The Stepping Up & Going Under Method by Magan & Murray McMillan, Aurora by the Sea by Charlotte Taylor, Parrental Guidance Suggested by Dane Boedigheimer. |
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| QUI-02 | SWAMP TECH | QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT | DVD | 2005 | Music & Concert | Recorded Live, this album features Quintron on the 3-manual synthesizer/organ (the car) through a home made bass cabinet and a Leslie 144 rotating speaker and drum machine (+ accessories). Accompanied by Miss Pussycat on vocals and maracas. Includes the songs: Shoplifter; Fly like a Rat; Swamp Buggy Badass; Squirrel Gardens; Witch in the Club; Tea Time; French Quarter Faggot; God of Thunder; Chatterbox; Dream Captains; Love is Like a Blob |
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| VAS-01 | VASULKAS COMPILATION | VASULKA, Steina and Woody | DVD | 2007 | Electronic Art | excerpts from the following works:. The Commission 1983, Woody Vasulka An ambitious narrative in operatic form that blends video effects and electronically manipulated sound with stylized docu-drama. Based on the real-life drama of Niccolo Pagnini, the 19th century violinist and composer (Ernest Gusella), and his contemporary, Hector Berlioz (Robert Ashley); the work addresses the exploitation of genius, the artist as tragic hero, and the historical exploration of inspiration in the Romantic tradition.--Bob Riley, FOCUS: Steina and Woody Vasulka (Boston: ICA, 1986) Lilith 1987, Steina in collaboration with Doris Cross. In Lilith -- a name that evokes biblical and mystical references -- Steina alters and manipulates the face of a woman (painter Doris Cross) so that it is submerged within a natural and technological landscape. Employing the imaging techniques of focal plane shift (altering the depth of field) and frame grabbing (a succession of frozen images), she creates a constantly shifting visual field in which an image appears to exist in a constant flux of temporal and spatial planes. The woman s electronically distorted speech adds a further haunting dimension to this almost sculptural fusion of human figure and landscape.--Marita Sturken Art of Memory 1987, Woody Vasulka Art of Memory is a major work, an original and mature articulation of Vasulka s inquiry into the meaning of recorded images. Constructing a haunted theater of memory from a spectacle of filmic and electronic images, Vasulka collapses and transforms collective memory and history in an enigmatic space and time. The monumental landscape of the American Southwest is the mythic site onto which he inscribes newsreel footage of war -- ghostly images that become malleable, sculptural forms through constant electronic transmutations.--Electronic Arts Intermix In the Land of the Elevator Girls 1989, Steina and Woody Vasulka In the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider s gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The continual opening and closing of elevator doors serves as a succinct formal device, as the viewer is offered brief glimpses of a series of landscapes -- natural, urban, cultural and domestic. Doors open onto doors to reveal layers of public and private vision, transporting the viewer from theatrical performances and street scenes to an elevator surveillance camera s recording of everyday life.--Electronic Arts Intermix Warp 2000, Steina Steina s long-running investigations into video-effects technology and performance come together in this recent tape, in which she slowly approaches the camera, her body warping this way and that.--Electronic Arts Intermix |
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| VAS-01 c.2 | VASULKAS COMPILATION | VASULKA, Steina and Woody | DVD | 2007 | Electronic Art | excerpts from the following works:. The Commission 1983, Woody Vasulka An ambitious narrative in operatic form that blends video effects and electronically manipulated sound with stylized docu-drama. Based on the real-life drama of Niccolo Pagnini, the 19th century violinist and composer (Ernest Gusella), and his contemporary, Hector Berlioz (Robert Ashley); the work addresses the exploitation of genius, the artist as tragic hero, and the historical exploration of inspiration in the Romantic tradition.--Bob Riley, FOCUS: Steina and Woody Vasulka (Boston: ICA, 1986) Lilith 1987, Steina in collaboration with Doris Cross. In Lilith -- a name that evokes biblical and mystical references -- Steina alters and manipulates the face of a woman (painter Doris Cross) so that it is submerged within a natural and technological landscape. Employing the imaging techniques of focal plane shift (altering the depth of field) and frame grabbing (a succession of frozen images), she creates a constantly shifting visual field in which an image appears to exist in a constant flux of temporal and spatial planes. The woman s electronically distorted speech adds a further haunting dimension to this almost sculptural fusion of human figure and landscape.--Marita Sturken Art of Memory 1987, Woody Vasulka Art of Memory is a major work, an original and mature articulation of Vasulka s inquiry into the meaning of recorded images. Constructing a haunted theater of memory from a spectacle of filmic and electronic images, Vasulka collapses and transforms collective memory and history in an enigmatic space and time. The monumental landscape of the American Southwest is the mythic site onto which he inscribes newsreel footage of war -- ghostly images that become malleable, sculptural forms through constant electronic transmutations.--Electronic Arts Intermix In the Land of the Elevator Girls 1989, Steina and Woody Vasulka In the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider s gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The continual opening and closing of elevator doors serves as a succinct formal device, as the viewer is offered brief glimpses of a series of landscapes -- natural, urban, cultural and domestic. Doors open onto doors to reveal layers of public and private vision, transporting the viewer from theatrical performances and street scenes to an elevator surveillance camera s recording of everyday life.--Electronic Arts Intermix Warp 2000, Steina Steina s long-running investigations into video-effects technology and performance come together in this recent tape, in which she slowly approaches the camera, her body warping this way and that.--Electronic Arts Intermix |
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| APS-03 c.2 | BEST OF AURORA PICTURE SHOW Vol. 3 | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2006 | Art- contemporary | A sampling of some of the recent titles that rocked the house. Included: I Love a Computer Jona Bechtolt One man's love proves to be too much too soon for OS 10. (made for Rhizome's Craptops vs. Laptops) Bobby XP1 Tommy Becker A Manbot practices his empathy program. Spam Letter Andre Silva A Nigerian Bank has funds for you. (we have individual copy of this) The Practical Theory of Mr. Clay Gerald Straub (audio only) Mr. Clay explains his theory for making a tourist attraction out of a massive lump of clay. (courtesy of audible picture show) El Corazon Jim Finn From Jim Finn's La Loteria series. Is it the gaze of a lover or a sports fan? Farrah found video submitted by Skip Elsheimer Our guess is that this was made at a shopping mall in a make your own video booth. (also courtesy of Found magazine) Grand Opening Eileen Maxson Looking for hope on sale. Thomas Jeffersson found video submitted by Jeff Butterrworth A Raleigh community taping for the blind has trouble with its broadcast. Stills (Dinner in Florida) Adad Hannah From his ongoing series of Stills, this portrays Adad's family at dinner. A Protected Witness Eileen Maxson Clarkson vs. Maxson Abominable Snowman Arthur Jones Told through Post-it drawings, the North Pole's most mysterious citizen experiences a mid-life crisis. The Plot Matt Hulse Stunning secure location is not the only thing that makes this real estate a special investment. Stuck on a Hammerhead Enid Baxter Blader An uncomfortable encounter between three people is documented with an early home video camera. Selective Service System Story Bill Daniel An interview with the filmmakers of an infamous 1960s antiwar film. June 23, 1975 The video pioneer Andy Mann takes his camera to the streets of SoHo on a fine summer day 31 years ago. 12-02-04-12-02-05 Jona Bechtolt A revival of the slideshow tradition and a year in the life of Jona. Funded in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. |
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| APS-16 c.2 | EXTREMELY SHORTS X (10) | Aurora Picture Show | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | Tenth Annual Extremely Shorts Festival presents juried submissions of films and videos of three minutes or less from all around the globe. The competition brings to the forfront the latest in artist-made experimental, narrative, and avant-garde film. |
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| VAS-02 | MINDFRAMES | VASULKA, Steina & Woody, WEIBEL, Peter, THIEL, Thomas |
DVD | 2007 | Electronic Art/museum exhibition | Introduction 3mins Woody Vasulka Guided Tour 32 mins Peter Weibel Fuhrung 19 min Tony Conrad 11 min Gerald O'Grady 10 min Steina 10 min Woody Vasulka 12 min |
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| LOW-03 | DIFFERENT CINEMA: VOL. 2 | LOWAVE | DVD | 2006 | Assembles 8 films and videos by artists presented during the 6th Different Cinema Festival of Paris. This extraordinary compilation is a mix of digital video and celluloid film that tackles the subjects of femininity, investigation, and the search for identity. These films are created by artists whose inspiration stems from the tradition of cinema as well as cutting-edge contemporary art. Included: Artemis Valerie Morignat 2001 13 min Flamenc'co Olivier Fouchard 2002-2003 7 min Lily in the Glass Shiho Kano 2003 6 min Da Qui, Sopra Il Mare Mauro Santini 2003 10 min Deperdition Lointaine Dominik Lange 1999-2004 11 min Perhaps/We Solomon Nagler 2003 11 min K (Desert) Frederique Devaux 2004 4 min F.I.R.T. 119 Ruben Guzman 2002 10 min |
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| COON-01 | WHISPERS FROM SPACE | COON, Ralph | DVD b&w |
1995 | Documentary | A documentary noir about flying saucers, west virginia and a man caught in the middle. by the last prom from the original 16 mm print |
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| POT-02 | NO TITLE (July 4, 2007) | POTTER-BELMAR LABS |
DVD | 2007 | Electronic art/assemblage | Two sets a recording of a live cinema performance in which the artists improvise in digital video and audio, projecting image and sound before a live audience in San Antonio, Texas. |
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| VAR-17 | UNSEEN CINEMA: Picturing a Metropolis | Various Artists: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 (Anthology Film Archives) |
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2005 | Avant-garde | One of a seven-DVD series exploring American avant-garde cinema from 1894-1941. 26 Films including The Blizzard (1899) creators unknown Lower Broadway (1902) Robert K. Bonine Beginning of a Skyscraper (1902) Robert K. Bonine Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905) Wallace McCutcheon Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903) J.B. Smith Panorama from Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903) G.W. "Billy" Bitzer Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre (1902) Frederick Armitage Coney Island at Night (1905) Edwin S. Porter Interior New York Subway 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905) G.W. "Billy" Bitzer Seeing New York by Yacht (1902) Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed 2 Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers (1924) and Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924) Al Brick 4 Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24) creators unknown Manhatta (1921) Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand Twentyfour-Dollar Island (c. 1926) Robert Flaherty Skyscraper Symphony (1929) Robert Florey Manhattan Medley (1931) Bonney Powell A Bronx Morning (1931) Jay Leyda Footnote to Fact (1933) Lewis Jacobs Seeing the World (1937) Rudy Burckhardt Pursuit of Hapiness (1940) Rudy Burckhardt Gold Diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) Busby Berkeley (excerpt) Autumn Fire (1930-33) Herman Weinberg Curated by Bruce Posner |
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| ARTP-01a c.1 | TRISHA BROWN: EARLY WORKS 1966-1979 | ARTPIX NOTEBOOKS | DVD | 2004 | Historical | Dance | Trisha Brown, one of the most acclaimed choreographers of contemporary dance, first came to notice in New York in the 1960s. Along with like-minded artists, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton and Simone Forti, she pushed the limits of what was then considered appropriate movement for choreography and changed modern dance forever. Founding her own company in 1970, Brown developed her own choreography and style with her unique ideas of movement. The first DVD of this set of two presents film and video footage by filmmakers, including Babette Mangolte, Carlotta Schoolman and Jonathan Demme, of eighteen of Brown's major performances from 1966 to 1979. Homemade, 1966 (4:42) * Man Walking Down the Side of a Building, 1970 (2:47) * Floor of the Forest, 1970 (6:04) * Leaning Duets, 1970 (2:00) * Walking on the Wall, 1971 (4:49) * Accumulation, 1971 (5:34) * Primary Accumulation, 1972 (6:21) * Group Primary Accumulation, 1973 (8:29) * Roof and Fire Piece, 1973 (31:38) * Structured Pieces II, 1974 (7:37- exercpt) * Spiral, 1974 (2:29) * Locus, 1975 (14:04) * Structured Pieces III, 1975 (8:17) * Sololos, 1976 (2:33) * Line Up, 1976 (41:17) * Spanish Dance, 1976 (4:26) * Watermotor, 1978 (7:55) * Accumulation with Talking Plus Watermotor, 1979 (11:42) 2 copies |
| ARTP-01b c.1 | A CONVERSATION WITH TRISHA BROWN AND KLAUS KERTESS | ARTPIX NOTEBOOKS | DVD | 2004 | Historical | interview, dance | Companion DVD to Trisha Brown: Early Works 1966-1979 is a conversation between art historian, Klaus Kertess, in which Brown talks about her dance education, early years in New York, work with Judson Dance Theater and her fellow choreographers, as well as commenting on the creation of her own innovative dances. 2 copies |
| ARTP-02a | BILLY SULLIVAN: PHOTOGRAPHS | ARTPIX NOTEBOOKS | DVD | 2002 & 2006 | Historical | photography | Billy Sullivan was born in Brooklyn and attended New York's High School of Art and Design and then the School of Visual Arts, during which time he began photographing his fellow artists, family and friends from the art, club and fashion worlds. Now, thirty years later, Sullivan has accumulated thousands of images that he views as a visual diary of his life, capturing the people and scenes around him. Animage archive is accompanied by an audio interview with the artist by Mark Magill, founder of Bomb. |
| ARTP-02b | BILLY SULLIVAN: PHOTOGRAPHS | ARTPIX NOTEBOOKS | CD-ROM | 2002 & 2006 | Historical | photography | CD-ROM documenting a selection of Billy Sullivan's photography, with an essay, Fame Theory: Billy Sullivan's Photography, by critic Peter Schjedahl. |
| LA-02 | DRAGON OF LOVE | LA, Doan | DVD | 2003 | Romance | a hilarious comedy about a man who finally meets the woman of his dreams. Joel (Randall Park) is the ladies man, or that's what he would like to believe. He fantasizes about meeting a beautiful Black woman...and one evening, Sally (Angela Wiggins) appears. Their eyes connect and love, or rather lust, ensues. But Sally has some interesting plans for her new boy toy... |
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| SPRE-01 | BEST OF THE 29TH NORTHWEST FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL | SPRECHER, Jill | DVD | 2002 | Includes: BLUE SKIES/ Ann Marie Fleming MUSEUMS OF FORESTS/ Leif Peterson HUNTER DAWSON/ Andrew Dickson PROFILES IN SCIENCE/ Wes Kim ICARUS OF PITTSBURGH/ Kirk Hostetter, Evan Mather THE ARTIST/ Tanis WIng, Charlea Mitchell, Kett Turton, Calum Smith TAKEN/ Kristen Carthew ONE/ Nick Peterson DAY JOB/ Britta Gordon DONOR/ Adele Wilson, Eve Whitaker Out of this year's auriferous batch of almost 400 manifestations of moving image making, our Festival Judge signed on to help in the brutal expedition of distilling the many to the few. Her generosity of spirit and heroic gift of taste, time, and cheer throughout the should-be tedious judging process finds the Film Center sincerely indebted. Even toward the end of the grueling judging process, her portrayal of the "intrepid-martyr-convinced-you're-doing-her-the-favor," was wholly convincing. In fact, it was a flawless performance. She claimed to love these Northwest-made marvels, and we have no reason to doubt it. Thanks Jill. The Northwest Film & Video Festival has, for 29 years now, existed to nourish Northwest filmmakers. Our success in this venture has the positively Darwinian side effect of nourishing film watchers too. Inspiration is both the Festival's goal and gift and these filmmakers have the creative capital to give in overwhelming portions. Sample the bounty. You'll get your fill and go away hungry. |
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| SE-02 | THE DRIFT | SEARS, Kelly | DVD | 2007 | found footage collaged & animated | A journey into space goes awry and the fallout of this mission becomes intimately linked with the counter-culture revolution at the end of the 1960s. Obsessively collected images found at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales are snimated and collaged to create an alternate American aeronautical and cultural history. |
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| SE-03 | DEVIL'S CANYON | SEARS, Kelly | DVD | 2005 | western montage | Devil's Canyon is a speculative narrative created with abandoned images of the American West. Mechanical horses, a doomed automobile town, and tragic cowboys mark the telling of this tale. A fable of a rejected cowboy grows out of a landscape destined for tragedy that is compiled from discarded magazines and encyclopedias from thrift stores and garage sales. Based on the depressed landscapes of desert towns in southern California, Devil's Canyon inhabits the space between film and photography, fiction and history. |
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| LIU-01 | OFFICER TSUKAMOTO | LIU, Ling | DVD | 2006 | Documentary | In 1970, Ron Tsukamoto, one of the first Asian-American police officers in the country, was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. More than 30 years later, the police re-open the cold case and arrest suspects who they believe were members of the Black Panther Party. | |
| A/V-23 | SCHOOL-A-DELIC! | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Found Footage 5/5/2008 |
These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration-- just like you remember! 200 (Bi Centennial) The Eyes Have it... Or Do They? Synchromy Toes Tell Toothache of a Clown Fantasy of Feet Malakapalakadoo Skip Two Replay |
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| ARTP-03 | ROBERT WHITMAN: PERFORMANCES FROM THE 1960S | ARTPIX Notebooks | DVD | 2003 | Historical | Performance art | In the 1960s a group of New York painters and sculptors propelled their art into three-dimensional space and moved it through time, creating radical new forms of artists' theater. Working with each other in downtown lofts and found spaces, these artists injeted new sources of energy and innovation into the theatrical experience. Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often surprising interaction of film, lights, sound, live performers, props, and objects that take on a life of their own create a dense visual, non-narrative dramatic structure. Included is original footage of The American Moon (1960) and Flower (1963), both filmed by Whitman as notes to himself, and short documentaries about the works- featuring interviews with Trisha Brown, Jim Dine, Simone Forti, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, and the artist. A recent performance of Prune Flat (1965) is accompanied by an interview with Whitman on the piece. A bonus video presents Ghost, Whitman's latest theater work, first performed in September 2002, with notes by Lynne Cooke and Arne Glimcher. |
| ZO-01 | FULLY AWAKE: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | ZOMMER, Cathryn Davis; HOUSE, Neeley |
DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Tucked in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933-1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped 20th century American Art. Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive approach to education and its long-term impact on thelives of those who experienced the school. Highly democratic and faculty owned, BMC promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equally important components to intellectual development. During WWII, BMC was a safe haven for Josef and Anni Albers, a refuge for the American Avant-Garde (Franz Kline, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and M. C. Richards, and the site of Buckminster Fuller's first geodesic dome and John Cage's first 'happening.' | |
| CHU-01 | WINDOWBREAKER | CHUN, Tze | DVD | 2006 | shorts | 12/2007 | A string of break-ins creates a wave of paranoia in small town suburbia. |
| AHT-01 | THE CINEMATIC WORKS | AHTILA, Eija-Liisa | DVD-PAL, and book | 2003 | Art- Experimental | Includes all of the Finnish artist's films to date (and accompanying book with synopses, original scripts and final subtitles in Finnish and English): Me / We, Okay, Gray 1993 3:90 mins Jos 6 Olis 9 / If 6 Was 9 1995 10 min Tanaan / Today 1996/97 10 min Lohdustusseremonia / Consolation Service 1999 23:40 min Rakkus on Aarre / Love is a Treasure 2002 55 min A man materializes out of nothing in a dimly lit room; a young woman's anger rages through her apartment in the form of a hurricane; a group of friends falls through the ice on a winter lake and sinks into the frozen world of the drowned. Using the moving image as medium, these films and cinematic installations explore and experiment with narrative storytelling. The films deal with separations, teenage girls sexuality, relationships among family members, mental disintegration and death. They investigate the processes of perception and the attribution of meaning, while the installations break down the story and divide it across the installation space . The stories are based on interviews and research, but are generated by the imagination- incorporating realistic settings with fantastic events. |
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| TRA-01 | FOOD PARTY: Episodes 1 & 2 | TRAN, Thu | DVD | 2006-2007 | Children & Family | Food Party is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hop/sports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner. created by, Thu Tran; cinematography Steven Probert; !st episode directed by Zachariah Durr, head puppeteer David Krofta; written by Zachariah Durr, Thu Tran, David Krofta; puppetmasters Daniel Baxter, Thu Tran, David Krofta; other puppeteers Matt Fitzpatrick, Mike Dotson, Thu Tran, Paul Sobota; music Matt Fitzpatrick, various cellphones, presets on concertmate-380 Keyboard. |
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| SFN-01 | EXPOSURE 1.01: Short Stories on Film | SHORT FILM NETWORK | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | Included: Laud Weiner by Philip Euling Nada que Perder by Rafa Russo Dysenchanted by Terri Edda Miller 7:35 De La Manana by Nacho Vigalondo Racing Post by Daniel Outram Learn Self Defense by Chris Harding House Hunting by Amy Lippman Anatomy of a Breakup by Judy Minor |
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| LO-01 c.2 | Collective Eye DVD #3 | HINK, Tali & LAPIDUS, Kyle (LoVid) | DVD | 2003 | Experimental | i was recorded during a residency at The Experimental Television Center in Owego NY in 2003. LoVid recorded 3 hours of live video using equipment of their own along with the center's unique audio and video synthesizers and processors. 13 dynamic tracks were extracted to make this DVD. The videos are synesthetic compositions in which image and sound are created as one entity, where image is audible and sound is visible. http://www.ignivomous.org/projects/lovid/ The works included are : 1.Decay Hatching 2.Cyclops 3.Buildings 4.OsciPosse 5.Breaking and Entering the Lost Timeframe 6.Hurricane 7.Alien Landscape 8.Meteorology 9.Red Eye 10.Color Bars 11.Quilt 12.Susquehanna 13.Ones and Zeros |
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| MAG-01 | MEANTIME | MAGOCSI, Deborah | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | On April 3rd, 2004 at 1700 Greenwich Mean Time,135 people around the world turned on their cameras for ten minutes to caputre their lives and surroundings. Meantime documents this moment- a showcase of the beauty, humor, ideas and cultures of the human race and planet earth. Everything you see and hear in this film is drawn from their contributions. |
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| ARTP-04 | DIVERSE DIALOGUES | ARTPIX | DVD | 2003 | Texas Focus | Performance and Exhibitions | From 1994 to 1998, DiverseWorks, an alternative art space in Houston, Texas, presented DiverseDialogues, a performance and exhibition program that brought nationally recognized artists to Houston for extended residencies. Interacting with varied social and cultural communities in Houston in addition to more than thirty organizations around the country, DiverseDialogues resulted in seventeen performances and exhibitions which are documented in this publication, both on DVD as well as in a printed catalog detailing the events and the artists. Many of these artists created new works with strong political and social statements at a time when publicly funded arts in the United States were under siege. This DVD is a reminder of the importance of the voice of the artist and the record of the innovative creative process which supports that voice. Artists included are Elia Arce, Jaime Bailleres, Waldo Bien, Gabriel Cardona, Julián Cardona, Joe Chvala and The Flying Foot Forum, Jim Clarage, Dave Darraugh, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Pat Graney Company, Robert Henry Johnson Dance Company, Philip Mallory Jones, Rhodessa Jones, Brian Jucha and Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen, James Luna, Tierney Malone, Robbie McCauley, David McGee, Tere O Connor Dance, Joyce Pensato, Queer Artist Collective, Lázaro Saavedra, Manuel Sáenz, Roberto Sifuentes, Carl Stone, Mary Ellen Strom, Aurelio Suárez Nuñez, and Victoria Vesna. |
| ZI-01 | LAS POZAS: Steps & Falls | ZIEBELL, Robert; SHUMATE, Anthony Thompson ARTPIX |
interactive DVD-ROM | 2006 | interactive virtual tour | An interactive virtual tour of the fantastical surrealist garden created by the iconoclastic British aristocrat and poet Edward James (1907-1984). A visionary patron and friend of the European surrealist artists, James supported projects by Salvador Dáli and sat for portraits by René Magritte and Man Ray while also amassing a major collection of surrealist art. In the late 1940s James moved to Mexico where, over a twenty-year period, aided by his friend and collaborator Plutarco Gastélum, as well as a score of local craftsmen, he built architectural follies next to a cascading waterfall and several pools in a forty acre tropical rain forest site. This interactive DVD-ROM (for Mac or PC) by Robert Ziebell and Anthony Thompson Shumate contains over twenty 360º virtual tour Panoramas with links to video clips that allow the exploration of this mysterious and fascinating Garden of Eden. LAS POZAS is located in the Sierra Madre mountain village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. | |
| ZA-01 | IN THE BATHTUB OF THE WORLD | ZAHEDI, Caveh | VHS | 2001 | Documentary | Video diary of one minute from each day in one year of the filmmaker's life. |
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| OT-01 | XPERIMENTAL EROS | LAWRENCE, Noel OTHER CINEMA |
DVD | 2007 | Experimental Erotic | Exploring realms both sacred and profane, XPERIMENTAL EROS invokes a shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our largest sex organ the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage from the world s oldest genre, our program of ardent auteurs spin grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache. Be it tales of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr. Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo... nor above deconstruction. X-EROS strips bare the spectacle of sex in cinema, poeticizing the cinematic language of the body. Featuring: Jeff Krulik - Kng of Por n *Mark Street - Blue Movie * Tom Palazzolo - Sneakin and Peekin * Naomi Uman - Removed * Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs - The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and Animal * Lewis Klahr - Downs are Feminine * Peggy Ahwesh - The Color of Love * Julia Ostertag - SexJunkie * Oscar Perez - Pacifier Extras: Two vintage stags with a special score by PornOrchestra, Essay ooklet by Linda Williams (Professor of Film Studies, UC Berkeley) Curated by Noel Lawrence (with assistance from Craig Baldwin) |
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| OT-02 | ANXIOUS ANIMATION | OTHER CINEMA Various Artists |
DVD | 2006 | Animation | This ain t no Pixar. This is ain t no Disney. This ain t no foolin around. Six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia The reigning proponent of cut-and-paste, LEWIS KLAHR (Lulu, Altair,Pony Glass) nourishes intensely private visions on the compost heap of collective unconscious through old magazines, comic books, and cocktail iconography. Complex, poetic, and pervaded by themes of loss, JANIE GEISER (Immer Zu, Lost Motion) simultaneously creates and deconstructs fantasies through doll-like figurines, cut-outs, and found objects in her cryptic narratives. JIM TRAINOR s handmade animations (The Bats, Moschops) explore the inner lives of animals that appear strangely self-aware even as they instinctually copulate, feed, fight, kill and die. The Bay Area collective of RODNEY ASCHER, SYD GARON, and ERIC HENRY conjure diabolical visions with digital savvy, accompanied by the manic music of Buckethead and DJ Q-Bert (Wheel of Torment, Sneak Attack, Somebody Goofed) |
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| GRE-02 | THE RAINBOW MAN / JOHN 3:16 | GREEN, Sam | DVD | 1997 | Documentary | the breakthrough documentary by Academy Award Nominee Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND). Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. "Rainbow Man", who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later - after he became a born-again Christian - he added a sign reading "John 3:16". Over the years, grabbing the attention of the media became an obsession for Stewart. He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised... with tragic consequences. Also Includes: Pie Fight '69 (w/ Christian Bruno) The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie (w/ Sarah Jacobson) n judah 5:30 |
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| BALD-02 | TRIBULATION 99: Alien Anomalies Under America | BALDWIN, Craig | DVD | 1991 | pseudo-pseudo-documentary | Politics | Upon its release in 1991, TRIBULATION 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Baldwin s pseudo-pseudo-documentary presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac. A delirious vortex of hard truths, deadpan irony, and archival mash-ups industrials, graphs, cartoons, movies from Hollywood B to Mexican Z TRIBULATION 99 constructs a truly perverse vision of American imperialism. Also! Two early rarities from Baldwin: ROCKETKITKONGOKIT: This kaleidoscopic collage-essay traces an alternative history of post-colonial Congo, the CIA, and military adventurism. WILD GUNMAN: A dense montage of cowboy iconography, advertising campaigns and pop culture imagery within an interactive penny-arcade game. |
| KU-01 | SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS | KUCHAR, Mike | DVD | 1965 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Along with Anger's SCORPIO RISING and Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the '60s American Underground. Mike and his brother George (who co-wrote FLESHAPOIDS), were the godfathers of bargain basement cinema, pioneering a hilariously campy, lurid style between Ed Wood exploitation and Douglas Sirk melodrama. Set a million years in the future, after The Great War has scourged the planet, mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence in all the carnal pleasures afforded by art, food, and lust. Work is left to a race of enslaved androids. One rebellious male robot (Bob Cowan) tires of pampering his lazy masters, and joins the humans in sin. The future never seemed so ridiculous As a bonus, we present two classic featurettes from the Kuchar catalog. THE SECRET OF WENDEL SAMSON stars Pop artist Red Grooms in a dark, surreal psychodrama of sexual desire and the entanglements of intimacy. THE CRAVEN SLUCK tells a torrid tale of adultery and flying saucers. |
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| ZI-02 | THIS STATE I'M IN | ZIEBELL, Robert | VHS B&W |
1990 | Drama | A Texas Wizard of Oz- the "true" story of Truey Kemah Shivers, a Texas teenage girl full of adolescent wonderlust and curiousity who rows up the Gulf of Mexico to the mythical city of Houston. Also included: SMILE & RELAX, short film by Ziebell, 10 min |
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| McC-02 | FROM POLAR BEARS TO TUGBOATS | McCORMICK, Matt | DVD | 1999-2004 | experimental ecological | 4/2008 | Includes: Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (4 mins / 1999) appropriated news clips from the 1960s tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (16 mins / 2001) "it is no coincidnece that funding for anti-graffiti campaigns often outweighs funding for the arts." narrated by Miranda July Grounded (5 mins / 2004) heavy industry and urban wildlife. Towlines (22 mins / 2004) an experimental documentary about tugboats (or perhaps a children's movie made for adults). original music by James Mercer of The Shins The Vyrotonin Decision (7 mins / 1999) a postmodern disaster epic featuring appropiated segments of 36 television commercials from 1971. Going to the Ocean (8 mins / 2001) night vision video and found kodachrome-improvised soundtrack: trains/ static/ melodeon American Nutria (11 mins / 2003) nutria are large, odd looking rodents from Argentina that appear to be on track to eating the entire North American continent. narrated by Calvin Johnson, original music by The Postal Service. Past and Pending (5 mins / 2003) a music video for The Shins (co-directed by Greg Br)own |
| MAGS-01 | SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEOS | MAGSAMEN, Mary; HILLERBRAND, Stephan |
DVD | 2002-2007 | Shorts | Eight Experimental shorts exploring vision, relationships and communication, often through the use of food or technology. Bottom Feeder, 1:40 mins, 2007 contrasts playful images of gummy worms dropping into water, people diving in to retrieve them and an audio sampling from a video that was downloaded from youtube.com of Brittany Spears philosophically discussing her frustration with her life. Dragon Style, 2:15 mins, 2007 A new lens in the form of a balloon filled with our own air is placed both in front of the camera lens and the video projector lens. This physical lens functions as a metaphor for our personal lenses of memory and perceptions. The audio is of a small child telling a fantastical story. Cheese Puff, 2:05 mins, 2006 an experimental video about our relationship within the context of the ultimate junk food, cheese puffs. IN this work we plunge through water and cheese puffs, while never touching. The cheese power and oils eventually fall from the puffs making the water cloudy and thick. Through the use of irony we explore our relationship with each other and our culture. Knot Tied, 4 mins, 2006 When a couple gets married they "tie the knot" but in this video the couple has no knot as the yarn unravels from the center of nowhere. The knots are being untied from their huge maess at the beginning and end of the video. An exploration of the idea of gender roles and relationships that are attached and unraveling at the same time. Coffee & Milk, 2:45 mins, 2005 an experimental video that explores communication and sexuality through the metaphor of everyday items- coffee, milk, and children's music. Our lives are transformed into something cinematic and larger than life. Images of blowing milk into coffee and blowing coffee into milk are given an unexpected point of view because the camera is placed underneath us. air-hunger (ceiling), 3 mins, 2003 aie-hunger comes from a medical condition, Kussmaul Breathing, which is the rapid, deep, and labored breathing of people who are in a diabetic coma. The project explores issues of communication, sexuality and trust in relationships through the metaphor of what is traditionally seen as a children's activity- chewing bubble gum. Lick,1:40 mins, 2002 consists of 3 elements: a video image of a male mouth licking a female hand, generic sound effects of creatures screaming taken from internet web sites that advertise "free sound effects," and the identifying title of the sound effect which is being heard. This parody on horror films examines technology and how it influences our relationships with each other. |
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| KE-02 | FIVE VIDEO PIECES | KENDALL, Adam | DVD | 2005 | It contains 5 full-length a/v pieces from 2004 and 2005. It includes music by Vortex, NOMAH, and myself. 1.Cerro Tower and the Jericho Drum (1:29) (Music by Adam Kendall) The Cerro water tower (video) was an icon from my childhood. It was part of an industrial site on Robbins Lane, the dividing line between Jericho and Syosset on Long Island, NY, and was razed late in the summer of 2004. The Jericho Drum (music) refers to a mummified body hidden in a chemical drum for three or four decades. It was discovered around 2000 in a crawlspace in a house down the street from my childhood home in Jericho. I must have passed it thousands of times. (Presented at the Synaesthesiologists' Global Audio Visuals Now segment of the 2004 New York Video Festival.) 2. Geese (Music by Vortex) (10:15) A video about geese. 3. Birds (7:17) (Video by Al Griffin and Adam Kendall; Music by Adam Kendall) A live video-mix of Al's found-footage and my livingroom wall, retroactively set to my music piece "Move". 4. Kennedy Airport (7:58) (Music by NOMAH) Kennedy Airport as shot from the Airtrain. 5. False, Cold Light (6:14) (Music by Adam Kendall) Ruben in Grace Park, Great Neck, NY. 33:14 m |
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| KRU-01 | KRULIK COMPILATION | KRULIK, Jeff | DVD | Includes: King of Porn / Meet Fanboy Ernest Borgnine on the Bus Mr. Blassie Goes to Washington I Created Lancelot Link |
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| ZI-03 | PECKING ORDER | ZIEBELL, Robert | DVD | ||||
| FRI-01 | JANDEK ON CORWOOD | FREIDRICHS, Chad; FEHLER, Paul |
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2003 | Documentary | Documentary about reclusive Texas musician Jandek Corwood created from interviews from fans. Includes interview with John Trulee (SPIN Magazine) from 1985 |
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| JE-03 | FALLEN | JEFFERY, Ryan | DVD | ||||
| SAV-02 | N/X | SAVISKY, Luke | DVD | 2003 | video collage | In this installation, Savisky employs the archaic context of "phantasmagoria" to draw attention to the inundation of the senses and the home by modern stimuli. Through found paintings and film clips projected onto the house's architectural elements, the resulting video collage shows us what one reviewer calls a process of "zombification." | |
| TRZ-01 | THE BURNING OF HIDES | TRZEBINSKI, Gabriela | DVD | 1989 | Documentary | 3 mins, color, shot in Super 8 In 1989 the Kenyan governement burnt over 2000 elephants as part of an anti-poaching initiative. with music by Sarah Sarhandi 2 copies (one PAL) |
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| TRZ-02 | MY BEAUTIFUL VIOLETTA | TRZEBINSKI, Gabriela | DVD | 2003 | Shorts | ||
| TRZ-03 | FLIES | TRZEBINSKI, Gabriela | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | 2 copies (one in PAL) | |
| ZI-04 | RADIO BRAVO | ZIEBELL, Robert | DVD | 2007 | tv series | A "neo-telenovela" set along the border between Texas and Mexico during the advent of border redio. | |
| CIN-01 | CINEMAKER VOL.1 : Best of 1997 Cinemaker Films. TEXAS SUPER 8 MASSACRE | CINEMAKER | DVD | 1997 | 1. Warning 2. Opening Credits 3. Sweet Sweetrolls Baad Assss Spin Bob Ray 4. Six-Pack of Whup Ass Bob Ray 5. Equipment Barna Kantor 6. Safe-D-Man Ruhi Zandra 7. Invasion! Todd Cobb 8. Queen for a Day Kris Deforest, E. Sikes 9. Stolen Victor Soares 10. Long Pig Yuri Cmpbell 11. Murder in Bright Red Kris Deforest, E. Sikes 12. Evacuation Route Mark Jones 13. S & M Kitchen Gabe Proctore 14. Scratch Barna Kantor 15. Architecture of my Grief Kerthy Fix 16. Attack on Kung Fu Island James Bills 17. Hells Bells Kris Deforest, E. Sikes 18. Boozy and the Banana Jeff SIms 19. A Burnt Ship Storm Lee Daniel 20. Night of the Kung-Fu Zombie Bastards Bob Ray 21. Mr. and Mrs. F Come Home Luke Savisky 22. SBM Credits |
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| CIN-02 | CINEMAKER VOL. 2 : Collaboration with Graham Reynolds (Golden Arm Trio), GOLDEN ARM FILM PROJECT | CINEMAKER | DVD | 1. GAP credits 2. The Doomsday Clock Gonzo 3. Bigwig Bob Ray 4. Three Inch Golden Lilies Luke Savisky 5. ///// Barna Kantor 6. Silverware Richard McIntosh 7. Rorshach Steve Akers 8. The Rack Barna Kantor 9. Vision Fugitive #10 Jeff Britt 10. Rat's Dream Gonzo 11. Albatross Doriean Ramirez 12. Nacogdoches Russ Smith 13. Prelude #2 Mireille Fomengo 14. Leonard Marta Banda 15. Robot Aaron Valdez 16. Rhode Island Red Mireille Fomengo 17. Bigwig Jr. Jen Proctor 18. Moses Supposes Jeff Sims 19. Pearls Dixon Coulborn 20. More Sad People Tiana Hux 21. War Tales Yuri Campbell 22. Eldonukia Barna Kantor 23. Fort Phantom Hill Mireille Fomengo 24. Slide Gonzo 25. The General Bill Daniel 26. Down the Pit Russ Smith 27. Little Bigwig Kerthy Fix 28. End Credits |
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| CIN-03 | CINEMAKER VOL. 3: Best of 1998/1999 Cinemaker films FAST, CHEAP PROPHESIES | CINEMAKER FILMS | DVD | 1998/1999 | 1. FCP Title 2. FCP Trailer 3. Fool for Love Tiana Hux 4. Falling through Space Gonazalo Gonzalez 5. Kid Stuff Mireille Fomengo 6. Shadow Life Aaron Valdez 7. Albatross Barna Kantor 8. The Bluesman and the Coyote Jeff Sims 9. Bad Boys Mark Spacek 10. Matches Harrell Williams 11. Good by Cruel World John Keen 12. Coming Clean Barna Kantor 13. When Bleach gets in your Eyes Aaron Valdez 14. Shitbag Richard Mcintosh 15. Still Moving Aaron Valdez 16. Akiko for a While Justin Hennard 17. Insignificance John Belolla 18. 3 Studies of the Human Body Justin Hennard 19. Lark Jeff Sims 20. The Noise of Angry Candy Justin Hennard 21. Dirty Bunny Shawn O, El Chado 22. Triangle - Circle - Square Jen Proctor 23. OK Great Ron Berry 24. Recharge Chad A, Mark Miller 25. FCP Credits |
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| CIN-04 | CINEMAKER VOL. 4: Best of 2000 Cinemaker films SPLICE OF LIFE | CINEMAKER | DVD | 2000 | 1. Introduction 2. Cinemaker Trailer 3. My Summer Vacation Andre Silva 4. Bread + Chocolate = Cake Donald Thalhuber 5. Pendulum Jen Proctor 6. Art Car Geoff Marslett 7. This Place We Now Call Home Brian Rawlin 8. I Let Go Shannon Owens 9. Jejune Andrew Busti 10. Missives from Mars Mars 11. Last Heartbreaks of the Mechanical Age Barna Kantor 12. Bread Alone Andre SIlva 13. Variations on Cannonball Aaron Valdez 14. Georgia Andrew Busti 15. Iris Chris Immel 16. Double Study in Wonder Woman Donald Thalhuber 17. Strangling Myself Like Vincent Adrian Archuletta 18. There's No Such Thing the Thought Police Sebatian Castillo 19. Neither John Bedolla 20. Abiqulu 25 Jeff Britt 21. The Interlude Will Lead to Something Pretty Justin Hennard 22. Sick as a Dog Sebastien Castillo |
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| CIN-06 | CINEMAKER VOL. 6 : Collaboration with Katie Cokinos-Austin Film Society 2003 DEE MONGOMERY AWARD | CINEMAKER | DVD | 2003 | 1. In te, domine, speravi Aaron Valdez, music composed by Josquin des Pres 2. In te, domine, speravi Aaron Valdez, live performance by David Echelard 3. Par Maintes Foy Luke Savisky, music by Jean Valliant 4. Par Maintes Foy Luke Savisky, live performance by David Echelard 5. Stark Film Eric Patrick 6. Canto 11 Mireille Formengo, music by Jeffrey Brooks 7. Canto 11 Mireille Formengo, live performance by David Echelard 8. Ablution Eric Patrick 9. Bird on Briar Katie Cokinos, music by David Echelard 10. Bird on Briar Katie Cokinos, live performance by David Echelard 11. DJ Bronzai Gary Price, music by Anthony Gatt 12. Dance you Monster to my Soft Song Justin Hennard, music by Anthony Gatt 13. Roothold Eric Patrick, music by David Echelard 14. Roothold Eric Patrick, live performance by David Echelard |
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| APS-17 | EXTREMELY SHORTS VII (7) | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2004 | shorts | 4/2008 | Juried by Craig Baldwin For All My Friends / Alfonso Alvarez The Body of Satan / Greg Biermann Cookie / Greg Biermann One Or Two Motions / Paul Druecke Rowing / Ana Abrahams and JF Groot Stitch / Meghann Artes 5AM / Michael van Bakel A Life / Han-II Cho Misstep / Rob Smith Epilogue / Tim (TES) Sanders Buildings and Houses/ Aylon Ben-Ami Billy Learns About the Birds and the Bees/ Aylon Ben-Ami Margo / Margo Greenlaw and Jen Proctor Surfacing/ Margo Greenlaw and Jen Proctor Wake Up / KJ Mooney Newspaper Only / Carola Dertnig Slow Day / Jenny Stark Axis ofEvil: Cowboys or Indians / Steven Wong Stuck on HammerHead / Enid Baxter Blader My Drama is Your Drama / Colin Elliot and Andrew Hamblin The Biggest Night in Music / Kent Lambert Big Screen Version / Aaron Valdez Stills / Adad Hannah The Lord Has Chosen / Michael Paulus Here and There / Jacob Mason and Shane Kennedy Horror Story / Sharad Patel |
| BL-02 | THE REVIVAL OF LEE MACKEY | BLADER, Enid Baxter | DVD | 2000 | |||
| 641 | NO TITLE | FINN, Jim | DVD | Uebermax (1min) The golden horde (5 min) |
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| HS-01 | ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE 1980-1981: Time Piece | HSIEH, Tehching | DVD | 2006 | Experimental | Temporality | 6:08 hours, no sound How do you experience purely the passage of time? Hsieh punched a time clock, every hour on the hour, twenty-four hours a day, for an entire year. Every time he punched the clock, a movie camera shot a single frame. The resulting film compresses each day into a second, and the whole year into about six minutes. |
| APS-18 | AURORA/MENIL BOOKSTORE DECK SCREENING | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Texas Focus | Amelita Destruction, 2004 4:30 mins Potter-Belmar Labs Pandora's Bike, 2006 12:30 mins (excerpt) Potter-Belmar Labs Suppositions, 2003 1 min Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand air-hunger (ceiling), 2003 3 mins two channel installation Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand knot-tied, 2006 4 mins Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand Aqueous, 2005 3 mins Laura Harrison with Music by John Edward Tapping Maple Ridge, 2006 32 mins (excerpt) ttweak |
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| WI-01 | ANALYSING WHILE WAITING (FOR TIME TO PASS): Contemporary Art in Tehran. TREIBSAND VOLUME ONE | WINTSCH, Susann (TRIEBSAND); FOROUHAR, Parastou |
DVD | 2007 | Compilation | Culture | DVD-9, 143 min, PAL, 4:3 This DVD magazine sheds light on contemporary and emerging art in Tehran, concentrating predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting. Waiting for the future may be expressed as yearning or depression, or it may appear as a long, protracted period in which past and present are analysed in depth from a personal and post-colonialist viewpoint. Includes: A Few Centimeters Above Sea-Level by Neda Razavipour / Shahab Fotouhi A Generation Which Cannot Speak by Soghra Zare Anaghezi Aboureyhan Selfportrait: Day and Night by Jinoos Taghizadeh Bodiless I by Mehraneh Atashi Clothes for Gabriel by Behnam Kamrani Coffee Shop Ladies by Amirali Ghasemi Cultural Shift: To Be Continued by Alireza Sami Azar Depression by Rozita Sharaf Jahan Have a Good Night by Shahrzad Darafsheh Ideologically Homeless by Haleh Anvari In Quest of Identity by Ruyin Pakbaz Living Room by Nazgol Ansarinia Mahmoud's Driving School by Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar Monologue Under White Light by Samira Eskandarfar Orientalist, Terrorist, Occidentalist by Khosrow Hassanzadeh Port by Khosro Khorsavi / Farid Jafari Sacrifice by Sadegh Tirafkan Spring Collection by Nina Ghaffari TehranAvenue And Popular Culture by Sohrab Mahdavi Terrorist by Arash Hanaei The Room by Hamed Sahihi The Upper Edge of the Well by Simin Keramati This is the Story of Our Past and Present by Iman Afsarian Undisturbed Packages by Mehran Mohajer Untitled by Iman Afsarian Untitled by Ghazaleh Hedayat Untitled by Elahe Heidari Untitled by Ahmad Morshediou What Film? by Samira Eskandarfar What Has Befallen Us, Barbad? by Barbad Golshiri Waiting for Godot by Farhad Fozouni Booklet in closet |
| TE-01 | PARKING PUBLIC: A Tour Into the Storage of Utopia | TEMPORARY TRAVEL OFFICE | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Parking | 12:53 mins A video tour of parking lots made by this quasi-fictional tourist agency dedicated to the production of a critical tourism. It documents specific histories of public parking development as it relates to the more general ideology of utopian capitalism and seeks to understand how parking fits into our desires and frustrations for livable spaces. |
| BA-02 | SONGS OF PRAISE FOR THE HEART BEYOND CURE | DUKE, Emily Vey BATTERSBY, Cooper |
DVD | 2006 | 14 mins Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby return to the episodic structure of their earlier works Rapt and Happy, Being Fucked Up and Bad Ideas for Paradise. As with earlier works, Songs of Praise takes on difficult, often painful subject matter. Themes of addiction, violence, the destruction of the natural world and the agonies of adolescence are woven through the work, but as Sarah Milroy writes for the Globe and Mail, the work is "anything but depressing... [it is founded in] a sense of wonder at the endearing weirdness of life and all the vulnerable, furry little creatures immersed in it (especially us)." Experience of contemporary life in the face of moral, physical and environmental degradation. abundance & redemption SONGS OF PRAISE FOR THE HEART BEYOND CURE:HUMANITY:COOPER WIZARD:PETRA:THE BIRDS COME BACK:EMILY WIZARD:VERY SMALL MAGIC BABY:NOT DEAD YET: |
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| A/V-24 | SILENT NIGHT | A/V GEEKS | DVD | 2008 | Children & Family | silent Found Footage | Films from the A/V Geeks Collection that have no soundtracks and no titles. Includes: [Graduation Gown Manufacturing] [Kid's Bible Story] [Ohio Power Vet Party] [Moon Landing] [Sperm] [Armour and Company] [Super Sounds 8-Track] [Dorm Fire- excerpt] |
| PBS-01 | ART:21 Art in the 21st Century, Season 4 |
PBS HOME VIDEO | DVD | 2007 | Documentary / Educational | contemporary artists | |
| LANE-01 | THE ABORTION DIARIES | LANE, Penny | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | Women's Issues | Documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their experiences with abortion. Their stories weave together with the filmmaker's diary entries to present a compelling, moving and at times surprisingly funny "dinner party" where the audience is invited to hear what women say behind closed doors about motherhood, medical technology, sex, spirituality, love, work and their own bodies. |
| NEG-01 | THE ABC'S OF ANARCHISM | NEGATIVLAND | CD | 1999 | Sonic Collage | political | sonic collage of found sounds, in collaboration with chumbawamba and with host, the Weatherman 1. The ABC's of anarchism (12:50) 2. Smelly Water (5:35) 3. [copyright symbol] is for stupid [ABC's re-mix by DJ Dr. J Land] (2:46) 22 mins |
| NEG-02 | ESCAPE FROM NOISE | NEGATIVLAND | CD | 1987,1999 | Sonic Collage | Social | Side One (21:07) 1. Announcement (1:51) 2.Quiet Please (2:17) 3. Michael Jackson (2:08) 4. Escape from Noise (2:36) 5. The Playboy Channel (1:32) 6. Stress in Marriage (1:35) 7. Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song ( 3:08) 8. Over the Hiccups (1:28) 9. Sycamore (2:29) 10. Car Bomb (2:03) Side Two (21:16) 11. Methods of Torture (1:23) 12. Yellow Black and Rectungular (2:14) 13. Backstage Pass (1:15) 14. Christianity is Stupid (3:55) 15. Time Zones (5:28) 16. You Don't Even Live Here (2:30) 17. The Way of It (1:12) 18. Endscape (:37) Mark Hosler, Don Joyce, Chris Grigg, David Wills, Richard Lyons The new version features that artwork full size as the front cover, with the remainder of the artwork reformatted throughout the package by ace designer Dan Lynch (http://www.sp3d.com). |
| NEG-03a | NEGATIVLAND: A BIG 10-8 PLACE | NEGATIVLAND | CD | 1983/1989 | Sonic Collage | New Reissue This difficult-listening conceptual suburban epic, Negativland's third-ever release, was their first-ever concept album, taking the listener on a surreal journey through the high and low points of their home turf in Northern California's Contra Costa County. It's not just a record anymore, it's an early '80s testament to keeping your ears open in suburbia. And on headphones, it's Superbia! |
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| NEG-O3b | NO OTHER POSSIBILITY | NEGATIVLAND | DVD | 1983/1989 | Video Collage | suburbia | 60-minute bonus DVD of Negativland's first foray into video, NO OTHER POSSIBILITY, featuring material shot before, during, and a few years after A BIG 10-8 PLACE" was released. This early long-form video, made in the early-to-late 80s, is designed as a stream-of-consciousness TV channel nightmare, constantly switching from one curious tableau to another. You'll see live concert footage, animation, cable access (from Negativland's short-lived weekly TV show), evangelists, an automotive giveaway contest, children dressed as toast, giant cigarettes, and a kid who's thinking about girls playing drums. |
| NEG-04a | OUR FAVORITE THINGS | NEGATIVLAND | DVD | 2007 | Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA, the film takes Negativland's sound explorations into the world of film and video. What emerges is a darkly cracked look at 21st century America, juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power, guns, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon characters, cleaning products and Jesus. Included: Time Zones * THe Mashin' of the Christ (Christianity is Stupid) * Gimme the Mermaid * The Bottom Line * Greatest Taste Around * Drink it Up * U2 * Guns * Favorite Things * Yellow, Black and Rectangular * Freedom's Waiting * Truth in Advertising * Humanitarian Effort * Over the Hiccups * Taste in Mind * Why is This Commercial * Aluminum or Glass * No Business . . . and more! + 90 mins of special bonus features- At Home with the Weatherman, Visit Howland Island, Anomalies of the Unconscious, + even more |
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| NEG-04b | 180 D'GS TO THE FUTURE | NEGATIVLAND | CD | 2007 | Music | acapella | Michigan doo-wop band, the 180 Gs', acapella covers of Negativland classics such as Christianity is Stupid and I am God. Complete Titles include: 1. Intro (Everything's Going Fine) 3:41 2. Christianity is Stupid 3:55 3. Helter Stupid 4:25 4. Greatest Taste Around 3:54 5. I Still Haven't FOund What I'm Looking For 6:11 6. Car Bomb 1:24 7. A Nice PLace to Live 3:39 8. Seat Bee Sate 2:17 9. The Playboy Channel 1:49 10. I am God 5:10 11. Roy Storey Sports Line 4:01 12. Oven Noises 5:08 13. Theme from a Big 10'8 Place 4:35 |
| GAR-01a | THE FUTURE OF FOOD | GARCIA, Deborah Koons | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | Food, Environmental Studies 3/20/08 |
An in depth look into the controversy over genetically modified foods. Ultimately, the film is a call to action -- for people to think more about the consequences of their food choices and to use their consumer power to push for labeling and regulation. |
| IMC-01 | Ralph Nader & Patti Smith: AWAKE FROM YOUR SLUMBER | HUDSON MOHAWK INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Political, war 3/22/2008 |
"Awake From Your Slumber" brings together two visionaries: citizen-activist Ralph Nader and punk poet Patti Smith, in a powerful dialogue of war and peace. Touring together as the Democracy Rising Peace Tour, Ralph and Patti make the case against the Iraq war and the corporate takeover of our democracy. Produced by the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, AWAKE mixes image, music and spoken word to strip away the facade of political lies and reveal the annihilation of civilization, war profiteering, the unseen dead, and the unheard cries of motherhood. "Awake From Your Slumber" is history lesson, poetry reading and rock concert. Above all, it is an inspiring, mesmerizing, and deeply moving call to action, showing the power of the people to make change. Special features include three additional songs by Patti Smith, an interview with Ralph Nader by Amy Goodman, and additional information about Ralph, Patti, Democracy Rising and the Hudson-Mohawk Indy Media Center. |
| IMC-02 | WAR & PEACE TRILOGY | HUDSON MOHAWK INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER; DEMOCRACY NOW! |
DVD | 2003-2004 | Documentary | Political, war 3/22/2008 |
Includes three documentaries, "Independent Media in a Time of War", "Voices Against War: F15 NYC," and "Women's Fast for Peace." Part scathing critique, part call to action, "Independent Media In A Time Of War" makes a compelling argument that the news media has failed to represent "the true face of war." Narrator Amy Goodman criticizes the refusal to report civilian war casualties during the 2003 Iraq invasion and the new phenomenon of "embedded reporters," as examples of a pro-military bias in the corporate media. (29:00 mins) "Voices Against War: F15 NYC" Chronicles the experience of "ordinary" people on the streets of Manhattan as they joined millions around the globe in "The World Says No to War" protests. (21:43 mins) "Women's Fast for Peace" with the invasion of Iraq looming,, more than 125 women in upstate New York fasted to create a culture of peace rather than of war. (29:00) 129:43 mins |
| GAR-01b | THE FUTURE OF FOOD: Special Features | GARCIA, Deborah Koons | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | Genetically Modified Food | FARMERS' PORTRAITS My Father's Garden, Troublesome Creek, Ripe for Change, Fields of Plenty COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE FARMERS' MARKETS SEED SAVING How to Save Seeds from Vegetables KIDS AND FRESH FOOD School Farm Programs and Bringing Healthy Food into Schools MICHAEL POLLAN ON THE COST OF FOOD GE FREE RECIPES From a Stellar Cast of Chefs, Authors and Food Activists TAKE ACTION TOOLKIT and Web Resources |
| MAN-25 c.1 | MARK LOMBARDI: FEBRUARY 28, 1997 | MANN, Andy | DVD | 1997 | Political, Conspiracy | 56 mins Lombardi is most well-known for his "narrative structures," or flow charts, depicting networks of criminal conspiracies, both political and financial. He worked as curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston from 1974-1976, and then as a reference librarian. His addiction to information led him to create these charts in order to organize and visualize the connections hidden within the plethora of information he absorbed. In the year 2000, at the peak of his professional success as an artist, he purportedly committed suicide, but the cause of his death still remains controversial. |
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| MAN-25 c.2 | MARK LOMBARDI: FEBRUARY 28, 1997 | MANN, Andy | DVD | 1997 | Political, conspiracies | 56 mins Lombardi is most well-known for his "narrative structures," or flow charts, depicting networks of criminal conspiracies, both political and financial. He worked as curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston from 1974-1976, and then as a reference librarian. His addiction to information led him to create these charts in order to organize and visualize the connections hidden within the plethora of information he absorbed. In the year 2000, at the peak of his professional success as an artist, he purportedly committed suicide, but the cause of his death still remains controversial. |
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| SL-01 | FIGHTING GOLIATH: Texas Coal Wars | SLEDGE, George; HAMES, Mat |
DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Environmental, coal | The United States consumes one rail car of coal every 3 seconds. Human relationship with energy sources becomes more operatic everyday, and in this Sundance production, narrated by Robert Redford, the proposal of 80 new "clean" coal plants is fought tooth and nail by Texans. The goal of the film is to mobilize worldwide opposition to new coal plants. "David had only a slingshot. Texans fighting big coal have Robert Redford." -Ralph Blumenthal The New York Times 34 mins |
| CAG-01 c.1 | VARIATIONS VII | CAGE, John | DVD | 1966,2008 | Performance | Sound, technology | The second in the 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering series that documents the 1966 collaboration of ten New York artists and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories, including Billy Klüver. This is the only complete documentation of Cage's Variations VII Performance and also includes a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance. Variations VII was an experiment in making audible the inaudible and transforming the results via live electronic sound processing. By the inaudible was meant sounds from the world beyond the Armory space (for example, a restaurant kitchen, the zoo), sounds available in the space itself but generally inaccessible (sounds of the body), and sounds produced by the transformation of non-aural data (particularly via a Geiger counter). The team of composers working with Cage and Klüver used the metaphor of fishing to create a rich and dense soundscape, originating entirely with real-time sources unintended for performance. |
| CAG-01 c.2 | VARIATIONS VII | CAGE, John | DVD | 1966,2008 | Performance | Sound, technology | |
| GOL-01 | EVERYTHING'S COOL | GOLD, Daniel B.; HELFAND, Judith |
DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Environment | The ultimate challenge is to show how urgent this situation really is - and still leave people optimistic and willing to do something. That perhaps is the ultimate challenge to all global warming messengers. Hold on... this is bigger than changing your light bulbs. A REAL-LIFE DISASTER MOVIE EVERYTHING'S COOL is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move the United States from its reliance on fossil fuels to the new clean energy economy - AND FAST. Messengers interviewed include: Bish Neuhouser, Rick Piltz, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Dr. Heidi Cullen, Ross Gelbspan, Bill McKibben |
| NEG-05 | NO BUSINESS | NEGATIVLAND | VCD | 2005 | Music | social commentary | 8 Tracks if Audio on a round CD, one short video for your square computer, one long essay in a rectangular book. Includes: 1. Old is New 1:19 2. No Business 4:12 3. Downloading 4:51 4. Favorite Things 1:58 5. God Bull 4:59 6. Keep Rollin' 3:12 7. New is Old 1:32 ****GIMME THE MERMAID [video] (collectible) + whoopee cushion |
| NEG-06 | DEATHSENTENCES OF THE POLISHED AND STRUCTURALLY WEAK | NEGATIVLAND | CD | 2002 | Music | sonic colllage | 64-page Owner's Manual and Full-length audio soundtrack disc. Includes: 1. Only You Can Rock Me (2:37) 2. Pack it Up (3:07) 3. Arbory Hill (3:26) 4. Ain't no Baby (5:29) 5. Lookin' Out for #1 (2:51) 6. Hot & Ready (1:39) 7. Cherry (5:43) 8. Don't Fool Me (5:50) 9. #1 Rep (2:57) 10. One More for the Rodeo (4:47) 11. Born to Loose (2:08) 12. When they Ring the Golden Bells (4:09) collectible |
| HU-05a | SLANT 8: Program 1 | HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | Asian American | Synesthesia Larilyn Sanchez 2006 | 2 mins Senses come alive, creating impressions, when a woman goes dancing in the dark. Drive Ahree Lee 2007 | 4 mins An experimental take on driving turns multiple trips on the same road into a transcendent experience. Cookies for Sale Wes Kim 2007 | 4 mins A little girl selling cookies door-to-door engages in a battle of wills with a very grumpy neighbor. Souvenirs from Asia Joyce Wong 2007 | 12.5 mins Hanjoo feels like an alien in her suburban neighborhood. It doesn t help that her adoptive mother is clueless about race and history. Manoj Zia Mohajerjasbi 2007 | 12 mins Written by comedian Hari Kondabolu, Manoj is a mockumentary about in-your-face comedian Manoj, who is more than happy to use stereotypes for a laugh. than happy to use stereotypes for a laugh. Suicide Piece Yu Araki 2007 | 3.5 mins It is mid-day in a major city when this performance piece begins. How will passersby react to a man and a banana? Released Soham mehta 2007 | 8.5 mins Three years ago, a brutal hate crime sent Kaustabh to the hospital. Today his assailant will be released from prison and Kaustabh wants revenge. The Nothing Pill Yu Gu 2007 | 6 mins In the year 2110, on an Earth nearly depleted of resources, a scientist struggles to find a cure for loneliness. Dan Carter Alison Kobayashi 2006 | 15 mins Dan Carter donated his answering machine to a second-hand store. Dan Carter didn t remove the tape. This story of a love affair, re-imagined and performed by the filmmaker, is based on those messages. A Thousand Words Ted Chung 2007 | 5 mins A train passenger forgets her camera, or did she leave it on purpose? A stranger finds the camera and takes a chance to connect. Embarcadero Blues Dino Ignacio 2007 | 3 mins In this music video, songwriter Goh Nakamura sings a love song for San Francisco and anyone who has worked in the service industry. |
| CI-01 | doxita: "The Hours of our Lives" | CIRILLO, Karen | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Great non-fiction films that people don't often get the chance to see. "The Hours of Our Lives" Vangelo Monzon Andreas Lennartsson Argentina/Sweden 8 min A visit with Vangelo Monzon who's been making bricks in Argentina since he was a boy. El Cerco Ricardo Iscar & Nacho Martin Spain 16 min A breathtaking look at tuna fishing in the Mediterranean Sea where the fight is a ritual of blood and death. Cross your Eyes, Keep them Wide Ben Wu USA 23 min An invitation into the San Francisco "Creativity Explored," a work space for artists with development disabilties. The Guarantee Jesse Epstein USA 10 min Through animated drawings. a man tells how he considered plastic surgery for his ballet career. Martin Thomas Dylan Wyn Thomas UK/Wales 31 min The sometimes painful yet ultimately joyous journey of one man's quest to stop his stammer. |
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| HU-05b | SLANT 8: Program 2 | HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Asian American | Kuna Ni Nanang (My Mother Said) Jessica Sison 2007 | 5 mins Meet Elena Bautista, 99 years young. Pierre-Pierrot Nith Lacroix 2006 | 27 mins Pierre and Pierrot are Laotian twins who were separated during the Vietnam War. The brothers have not seen each other since their tragic escape across the Mekong River. Kept apart by circumstance, they find reconciliation through the lens of a camera. Of Love and Race Tim Tsai 2007 | 14 mins Forty years after Loving v. Virginia, four interracial couples talk about love and race. A Son S Sacrifice Yoni BrooK 2006 | 27 mins Imran, a 27-year-old New Yorker of mixed heritage, struggles to take over his father s halal slaughterhouse in Queens. On Qurbani, one of Islam s holiest days, Imran lead a sacrifice that will define him as a Muslim, as an American, and as a son. 73 mins |
| WG-01 | THE MEDIUM IS THE MEDIUM | WGBH | DVD | 1969 | video art | Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture. 27:50 min, color Includes: Aldo Tambellini Black - features images from slides, films, and television monitors and the responses of children to racial identity, b&w Thomas Tadlock Architron - uses his own invention, an "electronic optic machine," which creates kaleidoscope-like patterns of color and light. Allan Kaprow telehappening "Hello" - uses multiple monitors to help people in various locations throughout Boston make contact with one another. James Seawright Capriccio -two dancers depicted in negative and positive images overlap in an array of colors. Otto Piene Electronic Light Ballet a young woman is levitated with hot-air balloons against a backdrop of feedback and colorful designs. Nam June Paik Electronic Opera #1 images of strippers, hippies and Richard Nixon are distorted and contorted as voiceovers implore the viewer "Turn off you TV set." |
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| VAS-03 | PARTICIPATION | VASULKA, Steina & Woody | DVD | 1969-71 | free form documentary | Participation represents the Vasulkas' experience of the New York downtown scene in the late 1960s and early '70s. Using the early Sony Portapak video system, Woody learned the craft of camerawork as documentarian of these celebratory, counterculutral scenes of the "sexual avant-garde." Included in this fascinating portrait of wildly creative people, places and times,are Don Cherry performing in Washington Square, Warhol Superstars on stage, and Jimi Hendrix in concert, among others. This pioneering video document is a free-form time capsule of an era. 62:30 min, b&w, sound |
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| PAI-01 | RARE PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS: Volume 1 | PAIK, Nam June | DVD | 2000 | performance | Newly restored, rare performance material from Nam June Paik's personal archives is featured in this remarkable volume. These documents trace the evolution of Paik's eclectic performance work over three decades. Volume 1 includes documentation of his emblematic collaborative pieces with Charlotte Moorman, including TV Bed, TV Cello, and TV Bra. These works are performed at venues that include the Howard Wise Gallery, the Everson Museum (where David Ross joins Moorman on the TV Bed), and the WGBH television studio. 24 min, color and b&w, sound |
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| AS-01 | ENCYCLOPEDIA ASTHMATICA: Volume 1 | Asthmatic Kitty Records | DVD | 2008 | Music Performance | Produced by Michael Kaufmann This is a collection of Asthmatic Kitty Records visuals; the odd, the sublime, and the delectable. It also includes stop-animation menus meticulously captured from the artistic imagination of Gala and Zack Bent, set to characteristic music arrangements by jingle-virtuoso Rafter Roberts. BUNKY Live @ SXSW '05 Baba Space Alien CASTANETS A Song is not the Song of the World Smallest Bones Live @ SXSW '07 HALF-HANDED CLOUD You Wouldn't Embarass Me Would You? Tongues Possess the Earth Instead Think/Dance Collective performance LIZ JANES Jesus is a Dying Bed Maker All the Pretty Horses MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND Freak Out! Live @ Northsix Dragonfly Gone Away Magic Rabbit RAFTER Adventurers ZZZPenchant Gentlemen Hope Monsters Encouragement SHAPES AND SIZES Teller/Seller Jinker/That Fat Hand Can't Stop that (Sinking) Feeling SUFJAN STEVENS Live @ Calvin College '07 Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake The Undivided Self (for Eppie & Popo) The Vivian Girls... Put the Lights on the Tree THE CURTAINS Go Lucky Spinning Top |
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| VAR-18a | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL BEST OF 20: Disc 1 | VARIOUS ARTISTS; WEISS, Bart |
DVD | 2008 | compilation | Curated by Bart Weiss, "the key American video festival" in its 20 years has showcased diverse films, featuring dramatic shorts, animation, experimental video, interactive performance art, short and long-form documentaries, and retrospectives. Included: Susanville: The Epic Part 1 Susan Teagardin Blood & Oil Sai Selvarajan The Single Gun Theory The Church of the Subgenius Carl & Phil Monkey Ninjas Devadas George Guidelines for Public Speaking Jim Jacob Jimmy Neutron Pilot John A. Davis & Keith Alcom Road Head Tommy Pallotta The Iraq Campaign Phil Patiris Tryptych Daniel DeLoach One Minute to Midnight Steve French Delusions in Modern Primitivism Daniel Loflin Nest of Tens Miranda July Pony Glass Lewis Klar Still Life with Animated Dogs Paul Friedlander Ten Year Old Dog Linda Stogner Afraid So Jay Rosenblatt |
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| VAR-18b | DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL BEST OF 20: Disc 2 | Various Artists; WEISS, Bart |
DVD | 2008 | compilation | Separate Vacations Anne S. Lewis Smells Like Teen Spirit Jem Cohen Freaks of Dallas Randy Clower Joe Bob's God Stuff Harry Guetzlaffv Rewinding into the Future Video Association of Dallas Wanting for Bridge Joan Stavely Glass Jaw Michael O'Reilly The Subconscious Art of Grafitti Removal Matt McCormick *BONUS* Conspiracy Theory Rock |
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| NEWS-01 | THE COST OF LIVING | NEWSON, Lloyd | DVD | 2004 | Dance | Award-winning short film from London's DV8 Physical Theater. The comic narrative takes us to a faded seaside town where disillusioned street performers David and Eddie struggle to find work and romance. Eddie is tough, confrontational and not afraid to defend his belief in justice, respect and honesty. David is a dancer who has no legs (as he is in real life), watching him makes you reconsider accepted notions of grace and perfection. 35 mins |
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| AD-01 | C'MOM WID YOUR C'MON | ADILMAN, Nobu; mister nobu |
CD | 2001 | Music | Thirteen songs about overpopulation, grapefruits, and break-ups. population won rocks manhandle the great fruit c'mon wid your c'mon machine machine tera tera bozu gaylene says see you again freak out without a scratch all the good ones caffe brasiliano extra: in the next few minutes (20 minutes) |
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| AD-02 | 3 SHORT FILMS: PRIX FIXE; YOGA, MAN; I PIE | ADILMAN, Nobu | DVD | 2001-2003 | Shorts | Prix Fixe 2003 Super 8mm, color, 8 min The Bonnie and Clyde of dine and dashers take a city's restaurants by storm. Yoga, Man 2002 Super 8mm, b&w, 5 min Yogi Larry has an unconventional approach to the ancient art. He wants you to join his team. I Pie (a love story) 2001 super 8mm, b&w, 5 min A faux documentary chronicling the fanaticism of a pie man. |
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| GOS-02 | STRANGER COMES TO TOWN | GOSS, Jacqueline | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | immigration | 28 minutes Six people are interviewed anonymously about their experiences coming into the US. Each then designs a video game avatar who tells their story by proxy. Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one's own sense of self and view of the world. "Stranger Comes to Town" re-works animations from the Department of Homeland Security --combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the on-line game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. Support from Creative Capital, DAAD Foundation, and Bard Faculty Research Fund. "...a rich ambiguous contemplation of identity and the arbitrariness of geopolitical borders. . " Mark Holcomb Time Out magazine |
| GOS-03 | HOW TO FIX THE WORLD: THERE THERE SQUARE; THE 100TH UNDONE |
GOSS, Jaqueline | DVD | 2001-2004 | Media art | globalization/modernization | How to Fix the World Adapted from psychologist A.R. Luria s research in Uzbekistan in the 1930s, How to Fix the World brings to life Luria's conversations with Central Asian farmers learning how to read and write under the unfamiliar principles of Socialism. Colorful digital animations play against a backdrop of images shot in Andijian, illustrating an attempt by one culture to transform another in the name of education and modernization. 2004, 28 min There There Square The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from a distance color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking in the New World. 2002, 14 min, silent The 100th Undone A love letter of sorts to the individual in the age of biotechnical reproduction. The 100th Undone takes on the textures of analog media to create a personalized pre-history for future human clones. 2001, 9 min, b&w, silent |
| GRO-03 | AT YOUR SERVICE: ESCAPING THE PROGRESS TRAP | GROVER, Andrea | DVD | 2008 | Informational | Technology | Curated for ARTLies 2/14/2008, a selection of informational videos by artists who use recent technological tools for purposes other than what they were designed to do and, in some cases, in direct opposition to their intended use. 1. Contestational Robotics Institute for Applied Autonomy 2005, 3:37 min Illustrates concepts first explored in "Contestational Robotics," an essay co-published in 1998 by the IAA and the Critical Art Ensemble, which sets up a context for the use of robotics as a viable option for political resistance. 2. iSee - Now More than Ever Institute for Applied Autonomy 2005, 2:42 min A web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV), surveillancce cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can choose to navigate routes that avoid these cameras ("paths of least surveillance"). 3.Map Aram Bartholl 2006, 2:47 min Questions the validity of markers generated by Google Maps. 4. Parking Public: A Journey into the Storage of Utopia 2006, 12:53 min Attempts to contextualize changes in cities brought on by public parking facilities and how they've played a role in shaping the urban landscape. 5. The Floating Clinic, Good Magazine on Natalie Jeremijenko 2007, 4:01 min Short documentary depicts Dr. Jeremijenko at work in her Environmental Health Clinic, a floating desk and research station built from recycled soda bottles on the Hudson River. 6. Flight Patterns Aaron Koblin 2005, 1:41 min Several interpretations manifest intangible aircraft flight patterns over the US. 7. Primary and Other Remote Locations Brett Stalbaum and Paula Poole 2006, 3:00 min An algorithm becomes a painter. 8. Panorama Ephemera Rick Prelinger 2004, 84:00 min A journey throught the American landscape via a collage of ephemeral films and the often skewed visions that construct a history. The film unreels in alternating yet equally familiar and unexpected ways. |
| FLOW-01 | COLLECTED WORKS:2003-2007 | FLOWERS, Robert Daniel | DVD | 2007 | Animation | 3D | Includes 5 works that experiment with the medium of film: 110303 2003, 18 min animated, anamorphic 16x9, 5.1 Dolby Digital, DVD SkyClimber 2005, 9.5 min live-action, anamorphic 16x9, stereo, DVD Light-Bearer 2005, 9.5 min animated, anamorphic 16x9, stereo, DVD GridCode 2006, 2 min animated, anamorphic 16x9, stereo, DVD U.F.O.s (Unidentified Foreign Objects) 2006, 6.5 min animated, anamorphic 16x9, stereo, DVD Stereoscopic Experiment for Audience No. 2 2007, 9.5 min non-anaglyphic, animated, anamorphic 16x9, stereo, DVD |
| GIBS-03 c.1 | UNTITLED: GIBSON + RECODER | GIBSON, Sandra; RECODER, Luis |
DVD | 2008 | Art- Experimental | Light | with composer Oliva Block Ambient sounds evoke meditative thoughts in this performance created solely by light. Its like an Albers painting on film. |
| GIBS-03 c.2 | UNTITLED: GIBSON + RECODER | GIBSON, Sandra; RECODER, Luis |
DVD | 2008 | Experimental | Light | with composer Oliva Block collectible |
| CHI-01 | 911-911 | CHIN, Mel | DVD | 2007 | Animated Short | Politics & Love | "A Tale of Two Cities ... A Tragedy of Two Times" Chin connects the 2002 September 11th attacks in the United States to Chile's 1973 coup d'etat, also on Septmeber 11 (when Pinochet overthrew social democrat Salvador Allende and began his 17 year dictatorship), weaving together a story of love and hope wrecked by overt and covert manipulations of power. Winner of Best Animated Short Film by the Chilean Council of Culture and the Arts. Hand drawn by Chilean animators, Plano Visual Estudio de Animacion, written and directed by Mel Chin, produced and edited by Chip Schneider. English and Spanish with English subtitles. |
| SZU-01 | UP THE RIDGE | SZUBERLA, Nick; KIRBY, Amelia |
DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Prison | Through the lens of Wallens Ridge State Prison, the documentary offers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts. The film explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict with tragic consequences. Connections exist, in both practice and ideology, between human rights violations in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and physical and psychological abuse recorded in U.S. prisons. color, 60 min |
| SIL-01 | DRONE | SILVA, Michelle | DVD | 2005 | Experimental | color, light, & sound | With sound by Otomo Yoshihide A reaction to the performance of Japan's world-renowned sound sculptor Otomo Yoshihide. Composed of re-photographed, re-projected and saturated images captured during several different performances during 80 different sets using various objects and instruments. The meditative and anxious quality of the sound drives the motion, color, and light. miniDV, color/sound 3:30 min |
| SIL-02 | CHINA GIRLS | SILVA, Michelle | DVD | 2006 | Culture | A short composition of women posing for skin tone and color slates used in film leaders, surrounded in their natural habitat of countdowns and end tones. WIth only a few frames of screen time, they reveal some skin and the aesthetics of their day through film stocks and fashions. Dating back to the 1940s, Asian women were primarily used to pose for slates raising racial bias, hence earning the name "China Girls," only later integrating Caucasian women in the 1960s. 16mm, color/sound, 3:55 min |
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| CIN-05 | CINEMAKER VOL. 5: Best of 2001 Cinemaker Films, OVEREXPOSED | CINEMAKER | DVD | 2001 | 1. Introduction 2. Shimmycam 1 John Bedolla 3. Graceland Christmas Donald Thalhuber 4. Personal Advertisements Travis Weller 5. Florophilia Andre Silva 6. Battery Operated Lady Gary Price 7. The Nipple Movie Seth Johnson 8. Math Porn Travis Weller 9. Heron Jeff Sims 10. Syrup Dish SHannon Owens 11. Tunes for a Small Fire Hydrant Andre Silva 12. Gulag Alexa Carlson 13. William Blake's Super 8 Proverb Donald Thalhuber 14. Our Jihad will be a Good Jihad Justin Hennard 15. Wheelchair Andrew Busti 16. Color Coded Shannon Owens 17. Snowstorm in Iowa Justin Hennard 18. Six Blind Kids Playing Goal Ball Hung Nguyen 19. Decomposition Aaron Valdez 20. Pigeon II Justin Hennard 21. Peaceful Light Shannon Owens 22. Oil and Water Randy Simpson 23. Liquid Space Jay Colombo 24. Equatorial Chris Immel 25. Pigeon Sebastian Castillo |
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| McM-01 c.1 | HOT TOWN: COOL CITY | MCNAMARA; Maureen | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Houston | |
| McM-01 c.2 | HOT TOWN: COOL CITY | MCNAMARA; Maureen | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Houston | |
| DUR-01 | IN THE CROSS HAIRS | DURHAM, Jonathan | DVD | 2006 | Special Interest | Shot in the First Presbyterian Church (with reservations). Jonathan Durham is the camera operator in the video receiving instructions from their in-house director. When first shown the video was played on a TV, as the director thought it to be the same way DVDs are produced for church memebers who are not physically able to attend. However, since then Durham has thought the video better shown on a projector, since it's so much about large "belief laden" spaces. Director: Jonathan Durham Voice Over: Karl VanKyle Organ: Rhonda Furr Editor: Kelly Pike Camera: Jonathan Durham |
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| KEN-01 | THE ACROBAT | KENNEDY, Chris | DVD | 2007 | Independent | polictics | Inspired in part by a poem by Toronto poet Ryan Kamastra, The Acrobat is a consideration of the relationship of gravity and politics- the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also, perhaps, the significance of allowing oneself to fall. If the force of gravity is in relation to both mass and proximity, how does the force of politics resonate across space and time? 16mm, b&w 6:00 min, |
| KEN-02 | MEMO TO PIC DESK | KENNEDY, Chris; VAN DER MEULEN, Anna | DVD | 2006 | Experimental | News and Media | An idiosyncratic look at staging in news photography, using materials from the archives of a Toronto daily. Moral codes, delinquency and autonomy are pulled into an altered coherance, as vintage photos are examined to their type-written paper trail. Winner: Best Experimental Short Film, Lausanne Underground Film Festival. 16mm, b&w, 6:30 min. |
| KEN-03 | SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST | KENNEDY, Chris | DVD | 2008 | Experimental | San Francisco | The striped pattern of the municipal bus shelters in San Francisco becomes a fixed foreground behind which the city passes. Spatial oscillations provide a constantly permutating play of figure, ground and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once. 16mm, 5:30 min. silent |
| WALL-01 | NATURAL SENSE | WALLEY, Mark; GUERRA, Angela | DVD | 2006 | Stop-Motion | Disabilities | A deaf man is given a heightened sense of visualizing keenly, the detailed aspects of life around him. Throughout the course of a single day he uses his imagination to alter his environment, animating it to bring about his own happiness. 8:19 mins. |
| WALL-02 | PICTURESQUE JOEL | WALLEY, Mark; GUERRA, Angela | DVD | 2007 | Comedy | Blind Dates | Picturesque Joel is a static-posed, visual representation of a day in a young man's life as he plans a romantic evening with a blind date. 5:13 mins. |
| VAR-19 | 39TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR - 2001: SELECTION OF FILMS ON TOUR |
VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 2001 | Shorts | Running Time: 145 minutes FUR & FEATHERS / Maria Vasilkovsky THE WALNUT TREE / Elida Schogt WORM / Jay Rosenblatt & Caveh Zahedi THE INTERNATIONALE / Peter Miller BIKE RIDE / Tom Schroeder SCURRY / Kathleen Lolley HEDWIG PAGE, SEASIDE LIBRARIAN / Nancy Andrews SOUNDINGS / Sandra Gibson THE HAPLESS ANTIQUARIAN / Anthony Reed MEMORIA MORTALIS / Rose Bond NINE LIVES (THE ETERNAL MOMENT OF NOW) / Jay Rosenblatt WHY I DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES / Paul Karlin STANLEY / Suzie Templeton THE ANGEL IN HIS HEAD / Teshun Tseng OLD JOE'S HITTIN' THE JUG / Luke Jaeger |
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| PBS-02 | ART:21 Art in the 21st Century |
PBS Home Video | VHS | 2001 | Documentary | Art | Who are some of today's most fascinating artists? How do they work and why? Meet twenty-one diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes- into artistss studios, homes and communities- to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes. A groundbreaking series, Art:21- Art in the Twenty-First Century is divided into four general themes- Place, Spirituality, Identity, and Consumption- which are introduced by celebrity hosts including Steve Martin, Laurie Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, and John McEnroe. Powerful and engaging, Art:21- Art in the Twenty-First Century offers new definitions of what art is today, and demonstrates the profound relevance of contemporary art to everyday life. Artists Include: Laurie Anderson, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Michawl Ray Charles, Mel Chin, John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton, Margaret Kilgallen, Beryl Korot, Barbara Kruger, Maya Lin, Sally Mann, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Bruce Naumam, Pepon Osorio, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell, William Wegman, and Adrea Zittel. Executive Producer and Curator SUSAN SOLLINS Executive Producer SUSAN DOWLING Director (Place/Identity) CATHERINE TATGE Director (Spirituality/Consumption) DEBORAH SHAFFER 120 mins, color |
| EURO-01 | KLEE | The European Video Library: ART SERIES | VHS | 1992 | Documentary | Paul Klee | Paul Klee is considered a unique example of XX century art. With a great experimental sensibility, he went through the most different techniques, styles, and subjects. His body of work goes from geometrical compositions to surreal lanscapes, from being abstract to being figurative, with a never ending range of different possibilities. Perhaps for this attitude, Klee was always considered an isolated artist, but this isolation put his art in a kind of non-historical perspective and made him one of the most contemporary artists of the generation between the Wars. A close friend of Kadinsky and a member of his "Blue Rider" group between 1911 and 1914, Klee found in the "strange pictures without objects" of his Russian colleague something close enough to his idea of changing life through art. Architect Walter Gropius, also found Paul Klee so close to his idea of interdisciplinary thought that he invited him to teach at the Bauhaus School in Weimer four years later. This assignment led Klee to open another chapter in his research about colors and patterns. This video presents the most relevant aspects of Paul Klee's work by analyzing some of his masterpieces and it shows, throught the variety of styles and media Klee used, the kind of influence he has had on western arts both during his time and generations to come. |
| STO-04 | VISIONARY ENVIRONMENTS AND AMATEUR ADVENTURES | STONE, Melinda | VHS | 2000 | Documentary | From Leonard Knight's painted mountain of hand crafted adobe to Grandma Prisbry's architectural marvel of "recycled" bottles, this rollicking travelogue celebrates the boundless creativity of those resourceful, perhaps obsessive characters, who have transformed their environments into utterly unique works of art. In between revelatory visits to four of the Southwest's most ingenious roadside attractions, whimsical, thoughtful and downright invaluable travel tips are dispensed, with the hope that awestruck audiences will not resist the urge to realize their own inspired visions and future adventures. Director: MELINDA STONE Editor: KATE HAUG Original Music: BETH CUSTER 30 mins, color |
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| RTM-01 | UNTITLED #29.95: A VIDEO ABOUT VIDEO | RTMark | VHS | 2000 | Documentary | video art | "Why should only wealthy people have access to the important ideas in art?" Untitled #29.95 is a video about video. It is a story about the 60s when video was first used by artists and activists. It is a story about reproduction. It is a story about money and about public vs. private. And it is about who controls art. It is also a call to action. Untitled #29.95 tells the history of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn video into an object like sculpture or painting in order to increase its value in the marketplace. Then in an act of cultural charity worthy of Robin-Hood, Untitled #29.95 calls for high-priced limited edition videos to be "liberated" from commercial art galleries and given to the internet (www.rtmark.com). Share the ware. |
| DEL-01 | THE DRUM BUDDY SHOW | DELAUP, Rick | VHS | 2001 | Comedy | dancing | Mr. Quintron, the dance club organist and inventor from New Orleans, introduces you to his latest patented invention, The Drum Buddy! This amazing new instrument is a five-oscillator, light-activated, mechanically-rotating drum machine that took five years to develop and design. The multitude of sounds it produces are a result of a direct link between the human hand and sheer electronic voltage! Taped live in front of a studio audience at the Spellcaster Lodge in the 9th Ward, this classic TV infomercial takes you from the classroom of a local high school to the stage of a late-night rave. The Drum Buddy Show includes performances by Quintron, Miss Pussycat and her puppets, MC Trachiotomy, and the Drum Buddy Dancers, and legendary R&B recording artist, Ernie K-Doe. Running Time: 50 mins |
| DEL-02 | MISS PUSSYCAT'S NORTH POLE NUTRIAS | DELAUP, Rick | VHS | 2002 | Comedy | puppets | Welcome to the colorful and offbeat world of Miss Pussycat and her far-out puppets. Join Dusty and Treasure, two adventure-bound nutrias as they travel from the swampy lagoons of City Park to the snowy North Pole. Puppets and humans co-exist in this technicolor landscape where we meet our heroes; Dusty, the toothy TV addict, and Treasure, the furry fashion plate. When a telemarketer offers them a vacation package to the North Pole, Dusty and Treasure head off to a fun-filled weekend, hoping for a chance encounter with Santa Claus. The North Pole, traditionally off-limits to tourists, is now built up like a Vegas-style village, providing free entertainment for our orange-toothed tourists. They even enjoy a complimentary suite in the famed Ice Cave Hotel. Is this free dream vacation package too good to be true? Dusty and Treasure discover the real reason they were called out to Santa s winter wonderland. A nasty, but musically inclined, Virus Monster has been destroying all the toys in Santa s workshop. Could Dusty and Treasure hold the antidote to destroy the virus and keep Santa s annual Christmas Eve trip out of peril? Entitled NORTH POLE NUTRIAS, this soon-to-be holiday classic includes live performances by Glitter N Gold and 9th Ward organist Mr. Quintron with Miss Pussycat. Cameo appearance by Seafood King, Al Scramuzza as Santa. Featuring the voices of Bunny Matthews, Sheriff Harry Lee, Chris Rose, Panacea Theriac, and Rio Hackford. NORTH POLE NUTRIAS was written by Panacea Theriac (Miss Pussycat). It was directed by Rick Delaup (director of "Ruthie the Duck Girl," "The Drum Buddy Show") Running Time: 27 mins. |
| VAR-20 | CATALOGUE 2000 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | VHS | 1999 | Compilation | Shorts | BDV Bureau Des Videos presents Catalogue 2000 Contemporary Art Video Artists Include: John Baldessari Bless Joel Bartolomeo Laetitia Benat Sadie Benning Claude Closky Michael Curran Sylvie Fleury Marie-Ange Guilleminot Thomas Hirschhorn Elke Krystufek Florence Paradeis Pipilotti Rist Jozef Robakovski George Tony Stoll |
| COOL-01 | INTERPRETING ANTHROPOGEOMORPHOLOGY: Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation | COOLIDGE, Matthew | VHS | 2007 | Special Interest | Anthropology | SP 2007 Fabrications March 20, 2007 Running Time: 100 mins. |
| ADD-01 | AUDIOVISUALIZE | ADDICTIVE TV | DVD | 2004 | Music & Concert | Compilation | Fusing electronic music with visuals created using both traditional techniques and digital technologies, audiovisualisers work in a genre that sits somewhere between film-making, digital art, and music videos. Audiovisualize is a feature length mix of innovative AV tracks produced exclusively for Addictive TV by many of the top artists working in the field today. Total Running Time: 87 mins, 38 sec. SNAKE WORSHIP ISLAND / Ecelctic Method 10 mins, 06 sec. CORP, INC. / Bauhouse 9mis, 50 sec. OLD SCHOOL FUTURES / Vitascope & Hannas Barber 9 mins, 21 sec. THESE MELODIES / Kane & Fodel 9 mins, 35 sec. ROBOT WAR / Red-Ochre 8 mins, 25 sec. DYNAMO / Glimpse & Fructose 9 mins, 49 sec. SKITZOPHONIC / The Mellowtrons 9 mins, 49 sec. FIVE STUDIES / Cinderbud 9 mins, 43 sec. THREE THIRTY / Addictive TV 10 mins. |
| CLA-01 | A NOUS LA LIBERTE | CLAIR, Rene | DVD | 1931 | Comedy | Modern Society | The film follows the paths of Louis and Émile. At the outset, they are convicts in prison, forced to work on an assembly line. They are separated when Louis manages to escape and eventually becomes the owner of a vast phonograph factory. Through a series of mishaps, Émile finds himself working at the factory (initially not realizing who owns it). The friends reunite; while Émile tries to pursue a love interest (never realized), Louis is threatened by former convicts from the prison, now gangsters. The film climaxes at the dedication of Louis's new phonograph factory, where everyone chases after money which one of the gangsters had stolen from Louis. The film ends with Louis and Émile as tramps, extolling the virtues of freedom. Cast * Henri Marchand as Émile * Raymond Cordy as Louis * Rolla France as Jeanne * Paul Ollivier as Jeanne's Uncle * Jacques Shelly as Paul, Jeanne's boyfriend * André Michaud as The foreman * Germaine Aussey as Maud, Louis's wife * Léon Lorin as a fussy official * William Burke I as the leader of the gangsters * Vincent Hyspa The Speaker (at the factory inauguration) |
| ROH-01a | AVANT-GARDE: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s Disc 1 |
ROHAUER, Raymond | DVD | 1920s and 1930s | Avant-Garde | Experimental | Synopsis In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his personal archive available for commercial distribution, he helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema. This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles. Contents: Disc 1 * Le Retour à la raison (Man Ray, France, 1923, 2 min.) * Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, France, 1926, 16 min.) * L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray, France, 1928, 15.5 min.) * Les Mystères du château du Dé (Man Ray, France, 1929, 20 min.) * The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich, Robert Florey, U.S., 1928, 13 min.) * Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1926, 37 min.) * Brumes d'automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1928, 12 min.) * Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, U.S., 1933, 27 min.) * Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, Germany, 1921, 3 min.) * Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast) (Hans Richter, Germany, 1928, 9 min.) * Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, France, 1926, 6.5 min.) * Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger, France, 1924, 11 min.) * Symphonie diagonale (Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, 7 min.) * Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé, France, 1939, 8.5 min.) * The Hearts of Age (Orson Welles, William Vance, U.S., 1934, 8 min.) |
| ROH-01b | AVANT-GARDE: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s Disc 2 |
ROHAUER, Raymond | DVD | 1920s and 1930s | Avant-Garde | Experimental | In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his personal archive available for commercial distribution, he helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema. This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles. Contents: Disc 2 * Überfall (Ernö Metzner, Germany, 1928, 22 min.) * La glace à trois faces (Jean Epstein, France, 1927, 33 min.) * Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein, France, 1947, 22.5 min.) * Romance sentimentale (Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori V. Alexandrov, France, 1930, 20 min.) * Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg, U.S., 1931, 15 min.) * Manhatta (Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, U.S., 1921, 10 min.) * La Coquille et le clergyman (Germaine Dulac, France, 1926, 31.5 min.) * Regen (Rain) (Joris Ivens, the Netherlands, 1929, 14 min.) * H2O (Ralph Steiner, U.S., 1929, 12 min.) * Even -- As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins, U.S., 1937, 12 min.) |
| APS-20 c.1 | SPACE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CINEMA | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | Space in Cinema | In collaboration with The Menil Collection, Aurora presents a selection of early 20th-century short films. Join Peter Mowris, University of Texas Research Fellow-in-Residence at The Menil Collection, for films directed by artists like Fernand Léger, Rene Clair and Hans Richter. The series will feature films that experiment with the abstract depiction of space in cinema from that period. The screening is in association with the exhibition Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection from August 22 through March 1. Titles Included Are: BALLET NECARIQUE / 11 min 21 sec ENTRACTE / 20 min 13 sec SYMPHONIC DIAGONALE / 7 min 23 sec VORMITTAGSSPUK (Ghosts Before Breakfast) / 9 min 58 sec |
| APS-20 c.2 | SPACE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CINEMA | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | Space in Cinema | In collaboration with The Menil Collection, Aurora presents a selection of early 20th-century short films. Join Peter Mowris, University of Texas Research Fellow-in-Residence at The Menil Collection, for films directed by artists like Fernand Léger, Rene Clair and Hans Richter. The series will feature films that experiment with the abstract depiction of space in cinema from that period. The screening is in association with the exhibition Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection from August 22 through March 1. Titles Included Are: BALLET NECARIQUE / 11 min 21 sec ENTRACTE / 20 min 13 sec SYMPHONIC DIAGONALE / 7 min 23 sec VORMITTAGSSPUK (Ghosts Before Breakfast) / 9 min 58 sec |
| A/V-25 c.1 | THOSE NAUGHTY BOYS | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Education Films | These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration -- just like you remember! TRT: 80 mins Those Naughty Boys includes these 16mm films from the A/V Geeks Library: Me Too? (3 mins, 25 sec) Other People's Property (9 mins, 07 sec) Respect for Property (11 mins, 10 sec) Trick or Treat (14 mins, 25 sec) The Bike (12 mins, 17 sec) The Game (27 mins, 57 sec) |
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| A/V-25c.2 | THOSE NAUGHTY BOYS | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Educational Films | These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration -- just like you remember! TRT: 80 mins Those Naughty Boys includes these 16mm films from the A/V Geeks Library: Me Too? (3 mins, 25 sec) Other People's Property (9 mins, 07 sec) Respect for Property (11 mins, 10 sec) Trick or Treat (14 mins, 25 sec) The Bike (12 mins, 17 sec) The Game (27 mins, 57 sec) |
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| A/V-26 | BIKES BIKES BIKES | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Educational Films - Bicycles | These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration -- just like you remember! TRT: 74 mins Bikes Bikes Bikes includes these 16mm films from the A/V Geeks Library: Bicycle Safety (9 mins, 46 sec) Bicycle Clown (9 mins, 15 sec) The Day the Bicycles Disappeared (14 mins, 39 sec) African Odyssey: The Red Bicycle (12 mins, 37 sec) The Bike (12 mins, 17 sec) One Got Fat (15 mins, 16 sec) |
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| A/V-27 | IT'S WONDERFUL BEING A GIRL | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Educational Films | These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration -- just like you remember! TRT:104 mins It's Wonderful Being a Girl includes these 16mm films from the A/V Geeks Library: Naturally a Girl (1973) 13 mins, 17 sec Story of Menstruation (1946) 10 mins, 14 sec Growing Girls (1949) 12 mins, 26 sec Personal Health for Girls (1972) 11 mins, 49 sec Maturing Female (1970) 12 mins, 43 sec Girl Stuff (1982) 21 mins, 53 sec It's Wonderful Being a Girl (1968) 21 mins, 25 sec |
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| EL-07 | SOCIAL ENGINEERING 201 | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 2003 | Children & Family | Educational Films | Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. For extra credit, take home this second volume of 16mm behavior modification, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. Some historical, some hysterical and all filled with more important misinformation than you can digest in just one viewing. Because you can never be too polite to too popular, Fantoma is proud to present this collection of conformist culture and sanitized living. TRT: 137 mins Learn how to make the right choices with such films as: Skipper Learns a Lesson (1952) 10 mins What to do on a Date (1951) 10 mins The Self Image (1976) 10 mins Social Acceptability (1958) 18 mins Good Health Practices (1953) 10 mins Understanding Others (1958) 12 mins Kitty Cleans Up (1949) 10 mins The Cautious Twins (1960) 6 mins Your Junior High Days (1963) 12 mins Buying Food (1950) 11 mins Each Child is Different (1954) 15 mins It Must be the Neighbors (1966) 13 mins |
| EL-08 | MORE SEX AND DRUGS | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 2003 | Children & Family | Educational Films | Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical soundtracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. In case you haven't learned your lesson, get another dose of drug hysteria and the birds & bees with this collection of sex education and drug prevention films, ranging in date from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Some historical, some hysterical and all filled with more important misinformation than you can digest in just one viewing. Discover what effects different drugs have on cartoon cavemen and what exactly is causing that burning sensation "down there". TRT: 182 mins Films Include: Drugs are Like That (1979) 16 mins The Innocent Party (1959) 17 mins Keep off the Grass (1969) 20 mins Red Light, Green Light (1969) 20 mins Alcohol is Dynomite (1958) 10 mins Parent to Child about Sex (1966) 30 mins Drug Effects (1969) 3 mins Sally (1979) 18 mins Focus on LSD (1971) 14 mins Girls Beware (1980) 12 mins Sudden Birth (1966) 22 mins |
| EL-09 | ON THE JOB | ELSHEIMER, Skip | DVD | 2002 | Children & Family | Educational Films | Generations of American children sat in dark classrooms and absorbed wisdom in the form of 16mm educational and social guidance films. Through the flicker of dim projector bulbs and the warble of optical sountracks a blueprint for better living in the Atomic Age was spelled out in no uncertain terms. Now, just as you remember them, Fantoma presents this collection of job training and safety films, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Some historical, some hysterical and all filled with more important mis-information that you can digest in just one viewing. Learn about workplace safety, the insidious nature of office gossip, and how to fire someone without being shot. TRT: 156 mins Films include: Promotion By-Pass (1958) 8 mins Down & Out (1971) 9 mins Barbers & Beauticians (1960) 13 mins You and Your Work (1948) 10 mins The Trouble with Women (1959) 6 mins When You Grow Up (1973) 11 mins The Grapevine (1958) 7 mins Shake Hands with Danger (1980) 23 mins How to Keep a Job (1949) 12 mins Purely Coincidental (1970) 19 mins Hidden Grievance (1959) 7 mins All Together (1970) 21 mins All films are presented complete and uncut. |
| AAC-03 C.2 | ATOMIC AGE CLASSICS: VOLUME 3 - A-BOMBS, FALLOUT & NUCLEAR WAR |
ATOMIC AGE CLASSICS (AAC) | DVD | 2005 | Children & Family | Educational Films | By dropping the atomic bombs to hasten the end of the Second World War, the United States publicly demonstrated the awesome power of atomic energy and ushered in the fearsome Atomic Age. The films in this DVD collection were early attempts to address the public's anxieties concerning this mysterious and frightening new force. They explain the basic concepts of nuclear energy to a science-wary public, expose the hidden dangers of radiation and tout the great potentials of a newly-discovered power source. As the new century renews atomic anxieties, it is interesting and also somewhat disturbing to look back on how earlier generations expressed both the optimistic and pessimistic views of their impending nuclear future. TRT: 111 mins Titles Include: Living with the Atom, 26 mins (1957) Moody Institute of Science The Moody Institute of Science was a film company whose aim was to attract scientific-minded youths to Christianity. This film covers the basics of atomic theory while addressing the moral issues inherent in wielding such godlike power. Radioactive Fallout and Shelter, 28 mins (1965) U.S. Office of Civil Defense Purporting that fallout is nothing more than a minor nuisance, this dry, matter-of-fact film attempts to soothe the viewer into a comforting sense that "the govenment knows what to do and here's how to beat that nagging fallout problem." While they covered topics like appropriate shelter wall material or how to prepare a fallout-free meal, what such films never really addressed was what it would truly be like to live in a post-nuclear attack world. The Atom Strikes!, 31 mins (1945) U.S. Army Signal Corps Released soon after the atomic attacks on Japan, this film serves as a public documentation of the historic event. It offers official explanations of the reasons that the United States resorted to atomic warfare, and provides a grim visual catalog of the A-bombs' horrific effects on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (if not the victims themselves). Fallout: When and How to Protect Yourself, 15 mins (1959) U.S. Office of Civil Defense This stylized 1950s cartoon addresses one nasty side effect of an atomic blast: radioactive fallout. Civil defense filmse like this one tried to reassure the public that this new threat could be surmounted with proper shelter and supplies, but instead they probably did more to instill the fear of all things atomic. The Atom Goes to Sea, 11 mins (1954) John Sutherland Prod./ General Electric General Electric was one of the first commercial entities to exploit the potentials og atomic energy. This company created serveral films to praise the benefits of atomic energy while trying to distance themselves from the well-publicized, devastating power of the A-bomb. |
| VAR-21 | WHOLPHIN No.4 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2007 | Shorts | TRT: 170mins Two Cars, One Night 12 mins, short film, New Zealand Directed by Taika Waiyiti High Falls 33 mins, Short Film, USA Directed by Andrew Zuckerman Screenplay by Alex Vlack Strange Culture 13 mins 30 sec, Excerpt from the Feature Film, USA Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson Heavy Metal Jr. 24 mins, Documentary, UK Directed by Chris Waitt Schastlvy Vmeste (Happy Together) 20 mins, Re-Scripted Russian Sitcom Heavy Metal Drummer 6 mins, Short Film, UK Directed by Toby MacDonald and Luke Morris La Chatte Andalouse 48 mins, Short Film, France Directed by Gerald Hustache-Mathieu Tom's War on Terror 2 mins, Short Film, USA Directed by Cameron Fay Cheeta 4 mins, Original Wholphin Short, USA site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 6 mins 45 sec, Excerpt, Italy Directed by Olivo Barbieri |
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| BAR-01 | MAP | BARTHOLL, Aram | DVD | 2006 | Short | google maps | The project Map questions the red markers of the location based search engine Google Maps. TRT: 2 mins The web interface of Google Maps uses small graphical icons to show location related search results on a map in an alphabetical order. On each new search ten red markers (A - J) known from the analogue world find their new position automatically within milliseconds. Interestingly each marker and even the speech bubbles with further information do cast a shadow on the map and satellite image. While zooming in the map the pixel size of the markers on the screen always stay at the same size. But if their size is seen in relation to their environment they shrink while the user does zoom in the map. This effect corresponds exactly to the phenomenon of Mr. Turtur, the illusionary giant of the children fantasy novel Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver written by Michael Ende. The size of the rebuilt red Marker in reality corresponds to the size of a marker in the web interface in max zoom factor of the map. |
| SPI-02 | BODY OF WAR | SPIRO, Ellen DONAHUE, Phil |
DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Iraq War Veteran | Body of War is an intimate and transformational feature documentary about the true face of war today. Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine - wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week. Body of War is Tomas' coming home story as he evolves into a new person, coming to terms with his disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. The film is produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, and features two original songs by Eddie Vedder. Body of War is a naked and honest portrayal of what it's like inside the body, heart and soul of this extraordinary and heroic young man. www.bodyofwar.com TRT: 87 mins |
| SPI-03 | ATOMIC ED & THE BLACK HOLE | SPIRO, Ellen | DVD | 2000 | Documentary | Nuclear Waste | "Atomic Ed" Grothus quits his job building bombs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory over 30 years ago. He obsessively collects nuclear waste (non-radioactive gizmos from the lab) which are auctioned off dirt-cheap in giant government yard sales. In his unofficial museum, the Black Hole, Atomic Ed exposes a history of government waste that was literally thrown in a trash heap. TRT: 39mins, 40sec Director: Ellen Spiro Producer: Karen Bernstein Editors: Karen Skloss & Roger Bourdeau Cinematographer: Ellen Spiro Supervising Producer: Lisa Heller Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins |
| SPI-04 | TROOP 1500 | SPIRO, Ellen | DVD | 2005 | Documentary | Women in Prison | At Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, a unique Girl Scout troop unites daughters with mothers who are serving time for serious crimes. TRT: 68mins Director: Ellen Spiro Producer: Karen Bernstein Editors: Jenn Garrison, Kyle Henry, and Lillian Benson |
| SPI-01 c.2 | ROAM SWEET HOME | SPIRO, Ellen | DVD | 1996 | Documentary | Roamers and Loners | With her dog Sam (the narrator of the fiilm) and her 1964 Airstream trailer, Spiro joins an adventurous community of roamers and loners an wheels who live on the road full time. By economic necessity, pleasure or both. Behind the camera and behind the wheel, Spiro documents a unique world of vintage trailers, vintage dogs, and vintage people, where the spirit of the moment collides with stories from the past. TRT: 57mins Director/Producer: Ellen Spiro Executive Producer: Sam Blumenthal Writer: Allan Gurganus Cinematographer: Ellen Spiro Editor: Suzanne Rostock |
| A/V-26 c.2 | BIKES, BIKES, BIKES | A/V GEEKS | DVD | Children & Family | Educational Films - Bicycles | These films come straight from school archives that have been abandoned as obsolete and may have faded colors, bad splices, missing titles, scratches or dumb narration -- just like you remember! TRT: 74 mins Bikes Bikes Bikes includes these 16mm films from the A/V Geeks Library: Bicycle Safety (9 mins, 46 sec) Bicycle Clown (9 mins, 15 sec) The Day the Bicycles Disappeared (14 mins, 39 sec) African Odyssey: The Red Bicycle (12 mins, 37 sec) The Bike (12 mins, 17 sec) One Got Fat (15 mins, 16 sec) |
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| JULY-01 c.2 | ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW | JULY, Miranda | DVD | 2005 | Independent | Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW is a poetic and penetrating look at how everyday people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating modern world. Christine Jesperson (writer/director Miranda July) is a struggling artist and cab driver who uses her talents and imagination to draw her dreams and objects of desire nearer. One such object is Richard Swersey (John Hawkes, TVs "Deadwood"), a newly-single father of two boys who is hoping for amazing things, yet panics upon meeting the captivating Christine. But in a world where the mundane is transcendent and people seek meaningful connections despite the risk, anything magical can - and will - happen. Approx. 92 mins |
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| JULY-02 c.2 | SERIES 2500 (DEMO REEL) | JULY, Miranda | DVD | Shorts | "Me and You and Everyone We Know" Trailer (2:36) "Love Diamond" (1:18) "Swan Tool" (1:10) "Nest of Tens" (2:10) "The Amateurist" (1:20) "Atlanta" (1:47) "Haysha Roykol" (1:47) TRT: 11mins |
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| HAC-01 | BELIEVE (Painting and Video) |
HACKWORTH, Ashley | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | Experimental | "Ride the Pride" (11:09) "Magic Mountain" (2:13) "Gymnasty" (3:29) "Demonhutch" (4:13) |
| TAR-01 c.2 | SIX ON SUPER 8 | TARRAGO, Paul | DVD | 1995-2000 | Shorts | Including: "Why the Canary Sings No More" (14:30) "Stay in A Freindly Country" (14:00) "Last Night Meant Nothing" (20:30) "The Empty Film" (4:00) "Human Error in the Mechanical Age" (11:30) "Intro Film" a.k.a. The Swinging Twirling camera Film (5:00) |
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| VAR-22 | NINE ELEVEN | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | Documentary | September 11th | Footage from personal hand-held cameras the day of and the days following the attack on the world trade center on September 11, 2001. | |
| PEO-03 c.2 | ABRIDGED TOO FAR | PEOPLE LIKE US | CD | 2004 | Music & Concert | Including: 1. Nothing 2. The Doody Waltz 3. I've Got You 4. Gesundheit! 5. Who Cares 6. Ja Ich 7. Dolly Pardon 8. Ach Du 9. Listen To The 10. Tiny Labyrinth of Distraction 11. Cattle Call 12. Abridged Too Far 13. Bier Bier Bier Downtown 14. Sedimental Journey 15. Swinglargo 16. Close To You 17. Retreat To Fade 18. Happy Wonderer 19. Donwntown Once 20. DO or DIY 21. Nobody Does |
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| FOU-01 | THE BOOTY DON'T STOP | FOUND MAGAZINE | CD | Music & Concert | Found Mix-Tape | An instant classic! A few years back Nigel Morgan found a mysterious, unmarked cassette-tape on the streets of Ypsilanti, Michigan. What he heard was a demo tape with a deep voice rapping over Casio drum beats ? and every song was a booty-rap anthem! With a musical aesthetic somewhere between Jay-Z and Wesley Willis, this rapper unwittingly created an album of booty-bliss. After the tape circulated around Southeast Michigan for a couple of years, Morgan brought the tape to Found Magazine, who just had to share it with everyone. Tracklist: 1. Wave Yo' Booty in the Air 2. Girl, Yo' Ass Is So Fine 3. Ass Thwomp 4. Damn! Yo' Shit Be Up in My Face 5. Wiggle on the Floor 6. Booty Time 7. Booty Flava 8. Booty Shake 9. Booty Don't Stop 10. Big Booty 11. Tim Schreiber Interview w/ Jonathan Menjivar (MPR) 12. Booty Time (cover by The Sweatpants) 13. Wiggle on the Floor (cover by The Sweatpants) 14. Taste That Booty Flava (cover by The Sweatpants) 15. Booty Girl 16. Wide Ass Whumpin' 17. Botty Bitch Bullshit 18. Ass Bump 19. Booty Coniption 20. Oh My God! (Iss a Booty in Ma Face) 21. Booty Bent Ova 22. Boot Ass Delight 23. Booty Sensation 24. Crooked Ass Booty 25. Special Booty Remix 26. Found (Lost in Time) All songs by Tim Schreiber except for 11 by Jonathan Menjivar (11/16/2001) and 12, 13 & 14 by the Sweatpants live in Chicago, 25 by Ben Mullins and 26 by The Found. |
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| YAC-01 | MEGA | YACHT | DVD | 2004 | Music & Concert | DVD: 1. Let's Play Boys Chase Girls (1:26) -Blow video by Justin Lowe & Chris Hutchinson 2. Yeah! Show (18:23) -YACHT performing 3. Mega Watchers (25:07) -Druidism 4. The Great Crane-Off 2004 (11:23) -J. John Afryl 5. Deleted Scenes (5:19) 6. Stone Phillips with Jona in a Store (12:01) -Jona Becholt TRT: 74mins |
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| DY-01 | FOO FOO YIK YIK | DYNASTY HANDBAG | CD | 2006 | Music & Concert | Includes: 1. In My Dreams 2. Break Up Day 3. I Can't Wait 4. Fading Away 5. What's Going to Happen? 6. I'm Afraid! 7. Life Would be Easier if We Didn't Have Feelings 8. Chinese Imigrant 9. Oh Baby 10. Open Up and Bleed 11. Your Smile 12. Memories |
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| THE-01 | UNMONUMENTAL AUDIO | THE SOUND OF THINGS | CD | 2007 | Music & Concert | 1. STEFAN TCHEREPNIN / Sweeping Noises (2007 / 3:08) 2. ULRIKE MULLER / New York Times (February 16-22, 2003) (2003 / 3:42) 3. ANTHONY BURDIN / Prodigious Manipulator (Undated / 4:04) 4. LANGUAGE REMOVAL SERVICES / Static Language Portrait of Marilyn Monroe (from the "Diva" Series) (2000 / 0:53) 5. NAUTICAL ALMANAC / Tape Collage #3 (2005 / 3:39) 6. PAULINE OLIVEROS / Pea(ce Soup (2005 / 3:00 - exerpt of a 15:26 work) 7. PAUL ELLIMAN / The Foghorn (2007 / 2:25) 8. VITO ACCONCI (W/ SARINA BASTA AND DANIEL PERLIN) / Virafon (2005 / 4:08) 9. SUSAN PHILIPSZ / After Eno (2004 / 2:04) 10. ANDY GRAYDON / Untitled (Weathering Steel) (2007 / 4:22) 11. KEITH OBADIKE / Sexmachines for Nam June Paik and James Brown (2000 / 2:27) 12. TRISHA DONNELLY / h.c. (2006 / 0:38 - exerpt of a 15:00 loop) 13. SETH PRICE / Title Variable (2001 / Duration Indefinite) Curated by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Giono, and Laura Hoptman |
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| WAR-01 | KISS | WARHOL, Andy | DVD | 1964 | Experimental | the kiss | In Kiss, shots of different kissing couples, both straight and gay, were filmed over a number of months and eventually assembled into a larger 'serial' work. Directed by Andy Warhol, 1964 Cast: Naomi Levine, Gerard Malanga, Rufus Collins, Marisol. Black and White, Silent TRT: 48 minutes |
| VDB-01a | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 1: Explorations of Presence, Performance, and Audience TRT: 1:57:25 Performer/Audience/Mirror, Dan Graham, 1975 22:45 Selected Works (Dog Duet, Used Car Salesman, Dog Biscuit in Glass Jar), William Wegman, 1972, 08:44 Baldessari Sings LeWitt, John Baldessari,1972, 03:38 (excerpted from 12:50) Undertone, Vito Acconci, 1972, 09:15 (excerpted from 37:20) Vertical Roll, Joan Jonas, 1972, 19:37 My Father, Shigeko Kubota, 1975, 14:46 Exchange, Robert Morris, 1973, 36:02 |
| VDB-01b | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 2: Investigations of the Phenomenal World Space, Sound, and Light TRT: 1:55:45 Black and White Tapes, Paul McCarthy, 1970-75, 06:30 (excerpted from 33:00) Stamping In The Studio, Bruce Nauman, 1968, 05:00, (excerpted from 1:01:35) Double Vision, Peter Campus, 1971, 14:22 Boomerang, Richard Serra with Nancy Holt, 1974, 10:27 Island Song, Charlemagne Palestine, 1976, 16:02 Cycles of 3s and 7s, Tony Conrad, 1976, 02:51 (excerpted from 30:54) The Children's Tapes, Terry Fox, 1974, 29:36 Soundings, Gary Hill, 1979, 17:41 Lightning, Paul and Marlene Kos, 1976, 01:17 Sweet Light, Bill Viola, 1977, 09:07 |
| VDB-01c | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 3: Approaching Narrative "There are Problems to be Solved" TRT: 1:57:30 The Red Tapes Part II, Vito Acconci, 1976, 57:55 Out of the Body Travel, Richard Foreman, 1976, 23:50 (excerpted from 42:00) The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd, Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America, 1972-75, 33:15 (excerpted from 1:00:00) |
| VDB-01d | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 4: Gendered Confrontations TRT: 1:56:20 Art Herstory, Hermine Freed, 1974, 14:49 (excerpted from 22:00) Female Sensibility, Lynda Benglis, 1973, 13:05 Ama L'Uomo Tuo (Always Love Your Man), Cara DeVito, 1975, 18:52 The Mom Tapes, Ilene Segalove, 1974-78, 03:39 (excerpted from 26:52) Primal Scenes, Linda Montano, 1980, 09:52 Nun and Deviant, Nancy Angelo, 1976, 14:08 (excerpted from 20:28) Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, Martha Rosler, 1977, 39:16 |
| VDB-01e | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 5: Performance of Video-Imaging Tools TRT: 1:54:05 Calligrams, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1970, 04:00 (excerpted from 12:00) Illuminatin' Sweeney, Skip Sweeney, 1975, 05:00, (excerpted from 28:38) Video Weavings, Stephen Beck, 1976, 04:06 (excerpted from 28:00) Five-minute Romp through the IP, Dan Sandin, 1973, 06:34 Triangle in Front of Square in Front of Circle in Front of Triangle, Dan Sandin, 1973, 01:40 Video-Taping, Ernest Gusella, 1974, 02:41 Exquisite Corpse, Ernest Gusella, 1978, 08:23 Einstine, Eric Siegel, 1968, 05:22 General Motors, Phil Morton, 1976, 10:25 (excerpted from 1:00:00) Merce by Merce by Paik, Nam June Paik, 1978, 27:27 Crossings and Meetings, Ed Emshwiller, 1974, 04:04 (excerpted from 27:33) Complex Wave Forms, Ralph Hocking, 1977, 04:11 (excerpted from 05:00) Pictures of the Lost, Barbara Buckner, 1978, 08:04 (excerpted from 23:00) Video Locomotion (man performing forward hand leap) , Peer Bode, 1978, 04:56 Music on Triggering Surfaces, Peer Bode, 1978, 03:06 C-Trend, Woody Vasulka, 1974, 07:19 (excerpted from 09:00) Switch! Monitor! Drift!, Steina Vasulka, 1976, 03:48 |
| VDB-01f | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 6: Decentralized Communications Projects TRT: 1:58:15 Mayday Realtime, David Cort and Curtis Ratcliff, 1971, 10:27 (excerpted from 1:00:00) People's Video Theater (Women's Liberation March NYC, Gay Pride March NYC, Young Lords Occupy Manhattan Church, Native American Action at Plymouth Rock), People's Video Theatre (Elliot Glass and Ken Marsh), 1970-72, 28:22 (excerpts) Participation, Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1969-71, 04:37 (excerpted from 30:00) First Transmission of ACTV, George Stoney and Austin Community Television (ACTV), 1972, 04:31 (excerpted from 8:00) Jonesboro Storytelling Festival: Kathryn Windham Telling Ghost Stories (The Jumbo Light), Broadside TV , 1974, 05:22 The Politics of Intimacy, Julie Gustafson, 1974, 09:26 (excerpted from 52:20) Attica Interviews, Portable Channel, 1971, 08:44 (excerpted from 30:00) Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison, People's Communications Network, 1973, 17:41 (excerpted from 1:03:00) The Laughing Alligator, Juan Downey, 1979, 26:30 |
| VDB-01g | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 7: Critiques of Art and Media as Commodity and Spectacle TRT: 1:49:25 Eternal Frame, Ant Farm and T.R.Uthco, 1976, 22:19 Television Delivers People, Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, 1973, 05:55 The Business of Local News, University Community Video-Minneapolis, 1974, 16:57 (excerpted from 25:00) Proto Media Primer, Paul Ryan and Raindance Corporation, 1970, 14:42 About Media, Anthony Ramos, 1977, 15:36 (excerpted from 26:00) Fifty Wonderful Years, Optic Nerve, 1973, 25:59 Technology /Transformation: Wonder Woman, Dara Birnbaum, 1978, 05:25 |
| VDB-01h | SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE US |
VIDEO DATA BANK | DVD | 2008 | Classics | Video Art and Alternative Media | Video Data Bank is pleased to announce the publication of the DVD box set edition of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. Since its original release in 1995, this comprehensive two-volume, eight program package on the history of experimental and independent video has only been available on VHS tape. The DVD launch will bring this essential tool for the understanding of the development of media arts to a whole new generation of teachers, libraries, students and researchers. The entire anthology (Volumes 1 & 2) includes more than 16 hours of historic video: 68 seminal titles by 60+ artists curated into eight programs ranging from conceptual, performance-based, feminist, and image-processed works, to documentary and grassroots community-based genres. The box set is accompanied by REWIND, a 200+ page study guide with curator s essay, program and tape descriptions, extended bibliography, biographies and videographies of artists and a guide to collections of early video materials. The release of this fabulous comprehensive history of independent video art couldn t be more timely. It is especially critical for this vital and diverse history to appear now, when there is a whole new generation of videomakers and viewers. --Martha Rosler, artist, educator and critic Program 8: Independents Address TV Audiences TRT: 2:57:15 Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life, Downtown Community TV (DVTV) , 1977, 57:00 The Ruling Classroom, Peter Bull and Alex Gibney , 1979-80, 57:38 Four More Years, Top Value Television (TVTV), 1972, 1:00:15 |
| VAR-21b | WHOLPHIN No.4: BONUS DISC The Power of Nightmares |
CURTIS, Adam | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | political | Bonus Disc: The Power of Nightmares Part III: The Shadows in the Cave Directed by Adam Curtus The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it. In the wake of the shock and panic created by the devastating attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September, 2001, the neo-conservatives reconstructed the radical Islamists in the image of their last evil enemy, the Soviet Union - a sinister web of terror run from the centre by Osama Bin Laden in his lair in Afghanistan. There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups around the world who have been inspired by extreme Islamist ideas, and who will use the techniques of mass terror - the attacks on America and Madrid make this only too clear. But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organisation waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this al-Qaeda organisation, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the "sleeper cells" in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy. But the reason that no-one questions the illusion is because this nightmare enemy gives so many groups new power and influence in a cynical age - and not just politicians. Those with the darkest imaginations have now become the most powerful. |
| POT-03 | 12 EARLY 21ST CENTURY WORKS | POTTER-BELMAR LABS | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | Girl Shoots 2 Boys Brawling (2003) 1:30 A flight to the death!?! Amelita Destruction (2004) 4:45 The prevailing, corrupted order begins to suffer an epic breakdown with the future collapse of the consumer appliance market, and possibly civiliazation itself. Published in the Journal of Short Film, vol 1. Esther Levine's Chicken-Washing Technique (2003) 3:00 Grandma Levine demonstrates the cleaning of the bird prior to cooking. From optically-printed film source of the artist's grandmother. A Beautiful Brocade (2006) 4:30 Original music accompanies a beautiful video mix which includes time lapsed film shot at the artists' wedding at the Ant Farm in rural Nebraska. Twa Corbies (2000) 6:00 A video in five parts, based on the historic Scottish ballad of the same name. Flood (2002) 17:00 A selection of live cinema improvisation. The story seems to be about a flood that destroys a world overrun by robots and fractures human society in two. Long (2003) 1:20 Remix of a video and Land Artist Richard Long. Fortress (2003) 4:50 The establishment condemns the visionary. Fortress II (2003) 1:40 Destruction of the Tower. Programmed, along with Fortress, by DLuxe Media Arts into the "Future Perfect" screening at the 50th Sydney Film Festival. The Judge (2001) 3:50 From the sculpture "Portraits of a Spectator, Nos 1-3" created for the 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Release Me (2003) 1:15 Crooning for Release. Pandora's Bike (2006) 12:30 A woman needs her bicycle and to find it, she much transcend this earthly plane, it's hardship and confusion, and gain a greater understanding of the cosmos, and the true meaning of "bicycle". |
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| POT-04 | FORTUNE TRAILER | POTTER-BELMAR LABS | DVD | 2008 | Special Interest | FORTUNE What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What more can we learn about the present? Multimedia artists and performers, Potter-Belmar Labs, will answer these questions and more in their audience-participatory live cinema performance, "Fortune." PBL probes the collective subconscious of the audience, and presents the results in a live mix of sound and moving image. Each performance of "Fortune" is unique; the audience determines the selections and arrangement from a set of reconfigurable vignettes. Original sound and image compositions are interwoven with samples from the culture at-large and field recordings, generating a tapestry of allusion, abstract narration, and dreamlike hallucination. Fans of live cinema, experimental film, participation theater, and new media art will enjoy "Fortune" by Potter-Belmar Labs! Suitable for children with at least one cool parent. |
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| KOC-01 | PASSIONS JUST LIKE MINE | KOCH, Kerri | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Latino Music Fans | Passions Just Like Mine is a documentary film telling the story of Latino music fans in the greater Los Angeles area whose lives have been utterly transformed by the words, music, and lifestyle of British pop star Morrissey. The film offers a stirring glimpse into how one's course in life can be changed by a total stranger with seemingly no cultural similarities. The fans' stories are revealed by the devoted themselves, providing powerful portraits of their obsession and transformative journeys. The camera follows these fans to Smiths tribute shows, Morrissey fan conventions and into Latino neighborhoods and family homes where the influence of the British pop icon resounds. One-on-one interviews with the fans are interspersed with personal archival materials including fanzines, flyers, and photographs, as well as live-footage from tribute bands such as Sweet and Tender Hooligans and These Handsome Devils. Passions Just Like Mine creates a window into a world where an eighteen-year-old Mexican immigrant can become obsessed with a forty-eight-year-old British man he's never known, and even more profoundly, that this same young person is anything but alone. TRT: 78 mins Featuring performances by and interviews with The Sweet and Tender Hooligans and These Handsome Devils, Smiths/Morrissey tribute bands. Interviews with 20+ Latino Morrissey fanatics including the Moz Krew, a group of young friends dedicated partying Moz style and Estefenia Chavez, a life long fan who traveled to England just to see Morrissey perform. Filmed entirely in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Directed by Kerri Koch, creator of Don't Need You, a documentary on Riot Grrrl culture and music. Cinematography by Juan Rodriguez. |
| NEE-01 | VISIONS OF WASTED TIME | NEEDLEMAN, Neil Ira | DVD | 2007 | Short | My wife says this is a bitter work. She's right, of course. That's because this video is about the part of my relationship with my late father that, frankly, brings back bitter memories. My father was a very practical man. Art and culture had no real place in his life. He was, essencially, all about making a living and enjoying as "nice" a life as possible. When he died in 1985, he was living a very nice life in a Florida retirement community. At the same time that he collapsed after a vigorous game of tennis, I was shooting Super 8 film of the street life in New York City. And this- our very different visions of recreational activity- highlighted the gulf between us. From the moment I expressed an interest in exploring / documenting / artistically approaching the world around me with a movie camera, my father was vocally and vociferously against it. He couldn't understand why I wanted to waste my time with a camera when I could be studying something pracitcal, like accounting or medicine or engineering. But I am what I am- and that's a type of person who is very different from my late father. I had nothing against his "nice" life. I'm very happy that he had a few fun years of Florida retirement living before he passed away. I just wish he could have attempted to see the visual world through my eyes. Or my camera. But this was impossible for my father, just as it was impossible for him to sit through and three-minute, silent, single-take Super8 movies. He never could have predicted that he would become the subject of one of them. As you will see when you watch this short video/Super8. Yeah, I guess there's still some residual bitterness in me. 4:40, silent |
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| NEE-02 | I KNOW WHO REALLY SENT THE ANTHRAX LETTERS | NEEDLEMAN, Neil Ira | DVD | 2008 | Short | The mysterious case of the deadly anthrax letters was out of the headlines for many years. And, as with so many other issues, if it's not mentioned in the news, it doesn't register in the public's collective memory. When it comes to important matters and events, we suffer from a type of amnesia that comes from narrow mindedness and a short national attention span. From 2001 until 2008 I was thinking about the anthrax letters. The longer the case remained off the news media's radar screen, the more I began to ponder this incident. Someone must have mailed the letters, but the FBI investigation didn't appear to get anywhere. Since I couldn't read about the case in the newspapers, I decided to write my own story about the anthrax letters. As the form of the story/video began to become finalized in my mind, WHAM! The govenment suddenly announced that they were going to arrest a suspect- a government physicist who was their prime suspect.(Actually, he was "government physicist suspect #2." The first one was finally dropped from the suspect list, but not until his life and career had been irreparably damaged by the investigation.) As you may recall, the prime suspect committed suicide. Some see this as the ultimate confession of guilt. Others are not convinced. It's one more entry to file away in the "Things We May Never Know" folder. But I still had my story and, with a little tweaking to take into account recent investigative disclosures, I could still "bring it to the screen" (as Hollywood types would say). One more note: This story is also inspired by events in the Unabomber case. I won't however, point them out here because, if I did, I'd have to say "SPOILER ALERT." So let's leave it at that. RT- 6:35 |
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| BIT-01 | LUMIA: THOMAS WILFRED AND THE STORY OF LIGHT ART | 13BIT PRODUCTIONS | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Light Art | Thomas Wilfred almost made it. He was not the first, or the last, to try to bottle light in an instrument and to play it like music. For two decades he hauled his steamer trunks of equipment around the country and transfixed people with his strange and beautiful projections. It was the golden age of invention. Electricity was the new religion. This energy infected the arts. Inspired by occult philosophies from Blavatsky and Ouspensky, and scientific theories of Einstein and Heisenberg, Wilfred tried to express the world beyond the material. He inspired many. The few who remain tell the tale of struggle and invention, obsession and anonymity. They all have fascinating stories to tell - of odd experiments, strange devices, and sorties into other dimensions. TRT: 73 mins |
| NES-01 | CINEMA ON FIRE | NESHAT, Shirin | DVD | Documentary | Iranian Cinema | Synopsis: 1st film: Cinema on Fie A documentary film about the Iranian cinema by non-Persian speaking film critiques. This documentary film explains the reasons for the success of Iranian films outside of Iran. 2nd film: Shirn Neshat There is a palpable energy in Shirin Neshat's films, an almost tangible seduction obviating the violence it borders, deeply rooted in the historical culture she would ultimately have to call "home." As an artist living in New York and from there addressing a global audience, Shirin Neshat quietly corrodes the most violent metaphysical imperative assumptions about the nature and function of an "Islamic" femininity. Enduring assumptions of what constitutes an "Islamic woman" are at once domestic to that culture and colonially crafted on it. With a singular strike of creative genius, Shirin Neshat manages to target both of these divergent yet colliding agents. The history of Shirin Neshat's bodily portrayals of this "Islamic woman" is the unwritten chronicle of a mute and concealed femininity. Her photographs and films show and tell what has been forbidden to show and tell. That she manages to do this without violating the bodily codes of an "Islamic woman" marks the site of her creative imagination. TRT: 75mins |
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| KUC-01 | COLOR ME LURID | KUCHAR, George | DVD | 1966 | Underground | The weird world of George Kuchar | Twenty years before the Blue Velvet, George Kuchar was obsessed with pop culture and kitsch. Part of the NY underground, George and brother Mike were unusual and wanting to make lavish melo-drama. Hand painted tiles, lurid colour and sound, tabloid type tales, startling hair-do's and vivid costumes blend and sometimes clash inimitably in these four startling, funny and bitter-sweet films. Features the Four Films: Hold Me While I m Naked The Mongreloid Forever and Always A Reason to Live RT: 75mins |
| VIO-01 | I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE | VIOLA, Bill | DVD | 1986 | An epic journey in five chapters, I Do Not Know What it is I am Like is a personal investigation into the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all possess. In a stream of images of striking clarity, depth and beauty, woven within a subtle fabric of natural sound, Bill Viola evokes a timeless view of the natural world and our place in it. This is a major contribution to contemporary video art that masterfully speaks to us in the inner language of subjective thoughts and collective memories. Bill Viola and Kira Perov gathered images for this video work over a period of two years. In the course of their travels they spent several weeks with a freely roaming herd of buffalo in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, recorded a time-lapse sequence beside a galcial lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and attended a week-long firewalking ritual at a Hindu Temple on the island of Fiji. During this time, Viola was also artist-in-residence at the San Diego Zoo. Chapters Include: Il Corpo Scuro (The Dark Body) The Language of the Birds The Night of Sense Stunned by the Drum The Living Flame TRT: 89 mins |
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| ANG-01 | THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER: VOLUME TWO | ANGER, Kenneth | DVD | 1964-2007 | Experimental | Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of a spell or incantation. Covering the second half of Anger's career, from his legendary SCORPIO RISING to his breathtaking phantasmagoria LUCIFER RISING, Fantoma is very proud to complete the cycle with his long-awaited final volume of films by this revolutionary and gound-breaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world. Films Include: Scorpio Rising (1964 / 16mm / 28min / Color) Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965 / 16mm / 3min / Color) Invocation of my Demon Brother (1969 / 16mm / 11min / Color) Rabbit's Moon (1979 version / 35mm / 7min / tinted b/w) Lucifer Rising (1981 / 16mm / 28min / Color) TRT: 120min |
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| LEE-01 | THE ART AND FILMS OF LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: SECRET AGENTS, PRIVATE I | LEESON, Lynn Hershman | DVD | 2005 | Lynn Hershman Leeson's groundbreaking installation, performance, photography, video, digital, and film works have earned her an international reputation as a prodigious and innovative artist. This collection of her work brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. Hershman Leeson's work explores vision, spectatorship, and the construction of subjectivity, touching on the lived experience of the physical body and the body as a medium on which social law and values are inscribed. Her projects of self-analysis and self mythification explode stable notions of identity. The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson demonstrates how Hershman Leeson's work uniquely mirrors fragmented human subjectivity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. TRT: 120min |
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| BUN-01 | UN CHIEN ANDALOU | BUNUEL, Luis DALI, Salvador |
DVD | 1929 | Surrealist | Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Bunuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens innocently with the words "Once Upon a Time." What follows is one of the most shocking and celebrated sequences in film history- a razor slashing a woman's eye in extreme close up... Intended to provoke rather than please (Bunuel saw it as 'nothing more than a desperate, a passionate appeal to murder'), Un Chien Andalou is a triumph of art and a hysterically dark joy ride whose power to affront the viewer is undiminished after more than three quarters of a century. Feature Length : 17mins TRT: 55mins B/W |
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| DER-01 | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS | DEREN, Maya | DVD | 1943-1959 | Experimental | The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films. Contents: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943-1959, 14mins) At Land (1944, silent, 15min) A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945, silent, 4min) Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945-1946, silent, 15min) Meditation on Violence (1948, 12min) The Very Eye of Night (1952-1959, 15min) Special Features Include: Excerpt from Divine Horseman: The Living Gods of Haiti Private Life of a Cat Previously Unreleased Short by Alexander Hammid TRT: 76mins |
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| KENT-01 | CERTAS DUVIDAS DE WILLIAM KENTRIDGE (Certain Doubs) | KENTRIDGE, William | DVD | 2001-2004 | Films, drawing, installations, theatre, opera: William Kentridge, one of the most important names in South African contemporary art, easily glides between different media, in a combination of references and techniques that render his work unique. In this documentary, which follows him through Johannesburg and Brazil, he speaks of the impact of the landscape and the social contradictions on his work, and comments on the life of characters like Felix Teitlebaum, his alter ego. Shot in digital video and in highly grainy super-8 stock, in a reference to the author's charcoal drawings, the film shows the setting up of a previously unseen installation featuring virtual fish and a real car, commissioned in 2000 by Associacao Cultural Videobrasil for the Contemporary African Art Show in Sao Paulo. Titles Include: Rafael Franca: Obra Como Testamento (2001, 25min) Mau Wal Encontros Traduzidos (2002, 52min) Um Olhar Sobre os Olhares de Akram Zaatari (2004, 42min) |
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| APS-21 c.1 | BEST OF EXTREMELY SHORTS VOLUME II: 1998-2008 |
AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | This free outdoor screening featured films and videos from over ten years of Aurora's annual Extremely Shorts festival, selected by online audience voting. Twenty-three of the most crowd-pleasing short titles were chosen from over 250 works. Pre-screening performance by The Zydeco Dots. Works shown include: * Aurora Picture Show Intro (Claire Chauvin and Patrick Phipps) * Sing Along with Front Row Jow (Joanna Spitzer) * Protect Your Family s Health (Matthew Konicek) * Burt the Turtle (Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison) * Blender Rotation Test 1-3 (Rob Tyler) * Parental Guidance Suggested (Dane Boedigheimer) * Coffee and Milk (Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand) * Prozac & Zantak Invade the Aurora Picture Show (Chris Lockwood) * County Road 459C (Jenny Stark) * Michigan 1971 (Eileen Maxson) * Three Minutes Out (Shizuko Tabata) * The History of Texas City (Bill Daniel) * States of the Union Bill Clinton (Aaron Valdez) * Boxer Rebellion (John Sears) * Mexican Suitcase (Stephanie Saint Sanchez) * Sneeze (Yu Araki) * The Ballad of Courtney and James (Steve Collins) * Texas Gas Powered Leaf Blower Hockey (Bill Daniel) * Ant Farm Time Capsule (Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison) * Monkey Vs. Robot (Geoff Marslett) * Wustenspringmaus (Jim Finn) * Symphony of a Great Actor (Michael Gertson) * Big Screen Version (Aaron Valdez) TRT: 55min |
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| APS-21 c.2 | BEST OF EXTREMELY SHORTS VOLUME II: 1998-2008 |
AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | This free outdoor screening featured films and videos from over ten years of Aurora's annual Extremely Shorts festival, selected by online audience voting. Twenty-three of the most crowd-pleasing short titles were chosen from over 250 works. Pre-screening performance by The Zydeco Dots. Works shown include: * Aurora Picture Show Intro (Claire Chauvin and Patrick Phipps) * Sing Along with Front Row Jow (Joanna Spitzer) * Protect Your Family s Health (Matthew Konicek) * Burt the Turtle (Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison) * Blender Rotation Test 1-3 (Rob Tyler) * Parental Guidance Suggested (Dane Boedigheimer) * Coffee and Milk (Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand) * Prozac & Zantak Invade the Aurora Picture Show (Chris Lockwood) * County Road 459C (Jenny Stark) * Michigan 1971 (Eileen Maxson) * Three Minutes Out (Shizuko Tabata) * The History of Texas City (Bill Daniel) * States of the Union Bill Clinton (Aaron Valdez) * Boxer Rebellion (John Sears) * Mexican Suitcase (Stephanie Saint Sanchez) * Sneeze (Yu Araki) * The Ballad of Courtney and James (Steve Collins) * Texas Gas Powered Leaf Blower Hockey (Bill Daniel) * Ant Farm Time Capsule (Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison) * Monkey Vs. Robot (Geoff Marslett) * Wustenspringmaus (Jim Finn) * Symphony of a Great Actor (Michael Gertson) * Big Screen Version (Aaron Valdez) |
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| VAR-14 c.2 | WHOLPHIN No.1 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2005 | shorts | AL GORE DOCUMENTARY 13:00mins (JONZE, Spike) SOLDIERS'S PAY 11:18mins (RUSSELL, David O.) DEATH OF A HEN 15:54mins (DEWAN, Brian) ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYBODY? 4:11mins (ARTETA, Miguel) THE WRITER 3:10mins (MELL, Carson) THE BIG EMPTY 21:04mins (CHANG, J. Lisa) THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE 6:00mins (National Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Bureau) THE DELICIOUS 15:54mins (PRENDERGAST, Scott) MALEK KHORSHID 16:00mins (SADEGHI, Ali Akbar) TATLI HAYAT 25:00mins (Turkish sitcom) STAIRWAY AT ST. PAUL 8:30mins (OFFERMAN, Jeroen) THE GREAT ESCAPE 10:11mins (OFFERMAN, Jeroen) TRT: 150mins |
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| VAR-15 c.2 | WHOLPHIN No.2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | THE MOVIE MOVIE 3:58mins (MORRIS, Errol) BUILDING NO. 7 3:52mins (SODERBERGH, Steven) THE PITY CARD 12:29mins (ODENKIRK, Bob) AMERICAN STORAGE 13:10mins (COHEN, Andrew Jay) HOME, JAMES, AND DON'T SPARE THE HORSES 31:33mins (DOLAN, John) MORE 6:19mins (OSBORNE, Mark) SOUR DEATH BALLS 4:36mins (YU, Jessica) THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO 26:07mins (LUCAS, Anthony) THE MESMERIST 15:48mins (MORRISON, Bill) OKUSAMA WA MAJO 27:00mins (Japanese sitcom) HOW TO: POKE POLE A MONKEY-FACED EEL 3:43mins (Instructional video) TRT: 149mins |
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| VAR-16 c.2 | WHOLPHIN No.3 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2006 | Shorts | Including: The Russian Suicide Car 5:25mins (HOPPER, Dennis) The Passion of Martin 49:00mins (PANE, Alexander) A Stranger in Her Own City 29:45mins (AL-SALAMI, Khadija) A Bee and a Cigarette 12:15mins (ODENKIRK, Bob) Funky Forest the first Contact 15:42mins (NO MORI, Naisu) Never like the first Time! 14:30mins (ODELL, Jonas) Kitchen 14:31mins (WINOCOUR, Alice) Ballistic Jaw Propulsion of Trap-Jaw Ants 3:39mins Yeah Yeah, We Speak Englsih. Just Serve 3:28mins Flotsam/Jetsam 5:16mins (ZELLNER, David and Nathan) Tactical Advantage 3:30mins (RABINOVITCH, Daren) Bobby Bird 7:18mins (MELL, Carson) TRT: 165mins |
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| CUE-02 | VOLUME I | CUEVAS, Ximena | DVD | 2008 | Includes: Las 3 Muertes de Lupe (The Three Deaths of Lupe) "In this "antiqued" period piece, the morbid star, Lupe Velez, travels to Hollywood, Guanajuato, and Barcelona, seeking her own death." (1984 / 5min) Medias Mentiras (Half Lies) A video poem about the nature of social relations and mass media, Half Lies exposes the seemingly innocuous ways we distort truth. Harmonious families, trade treaties, and current events are among the mediated realities that Cuevas interrogates. Half Lies makes the viewer question the half truths we encounter daily. The video walks the haunting gray area between documentary and drama, creating a world that is both shockingly grotesque and startingly authentic. Using mass-mediated images, animation, image manipulation, and fantasy, Medias Mentiras interprets the chaotic landscape of politics, urban chaos and everyday existence. In Spanish with English subtitles. (1995 / 37min) |
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| CUE-03 | VOLUME II: Dormimundo (The Sleeping World) |
CUEVAS, Ximena | DVD | 2008 | Includes: Cama (Bed) (1998 / 2min) Estamos Para Servirle (We are Here to Serve You) (1999 / 3min) Contemporary Artist (1999 / 5min) HawaiI (1999 / 2min) Destino (Fate) (1999 / 2min) Natural Instincts (1999 / 3min) Alma Genela (Soulmate) (1999 / 2min) El Diablo en la Piel (The Devil in the Flesh) (1998 / 5min) Calzoda de Kansas (Kansas Avenue) (1999 / 2min) |
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| CUE-04 | VOLUME III | CUEVAS, Ximena | DVD | 2008 | Includes: Help (1999 / 2min) Cuerpos de Papel (Paper Bodies) (1997 / 4min) Colchones Individuales (Individual Mattresses) (2002 / 18min) Tombola Staying Alive (2001 / 3min) Baba de Perico (Parrot Spit) (1999 / 2min) |
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| CUE-05 | VOLUME IV | CUEVAS, Ximena | DVD | 2008 | Includes: Antes de la Television (Before Television) (1999 / 3min) A la Manera de Disney (In the Manner of Disney) (1992 / 3min) Turistas (Tourists) (2002 / 5min) La Puerta (The Door) (2000 / 5min) Cinepolis (2003 / 22min) Someone Behind the Door (2005 / 12min) Ensayo de un Crimen (Rehersal for a Crime) (2005 / 1min) New York, New York (2005 / 3min) |
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| SMI-01 | FLAMING CREATURES | SMITH, Jack | DVD | 1964 | Drama | Perversity and erotica | The film caused a national scandal upon its original underground release; it was banned in 22 states and in four countries. The critic Jonas Mekas brought the film around to various screenings in the 1960s, but at several screenings was arrested for screening the film. |
| GLO-01 | LIVING LIBRARY: SHORT FILMS, VOLUME ONE | GLOBAL ONENESS PROJECT | DVD | Documentary | Notion of interconnectedness | The Global Oneness Project is a living library of short films and interviews. Together these voices tell the story of what it means to live in our greater human potential in an increasingly interconnected world. Titles: Global Oneness Project 4:42 The Land owns Us 6:13 Barrio de Paz 17:00 Seva Cafe 4:00 An Invitation 4:58 Not Just a Piece of Cloth 7:05 Words from the Karmapa 5:28 Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves 4:19 The Heart of Religion 8:03 Oneness Is Abundance 5:15 Living Service 16:43 Waking Up 3:34 |
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| MOR-01 | COMPILATION 1990-2000 | MORRISON, Bill | DVD | 1990-2000 | Experimental | Experimental | Collected shorts of Morrison's earlier experimental creations. He has been refered as one of the "the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde filmakers of the fin-de-siècle" # Trinity (2000) # Ghost Trip (2000) # City Walk (1999) # Film of Her (1996) # Nemo (1995) # The World Is Round (1994) # The Death Train (1993) # Footprints (1992) # Photo Op (1992) # Lost Avenues (1991) # Night Highway (1990) |
| VAL-08 | GOOD MORNING AMERICA | VALDEZ, Aaron | DVD | 2008 | Independent | Apropiated Cable TV Signal | A mix-mastering of two months of Good Morning America narrowed down to six minutes. |
| TT-03 | A DEVICE FOR INTRODUCING YOU TO THE HYDE PARK MINIATURE MUSEUM | TTWEAK | DVD | Children & Family | A Short documentary arround the interesting Hyde Park Miniature Museum | ||
| HY-01 | RANK | HYAMS, John | DVD | 2006 | Documentary | Bullriding | Hold on for dear life as three of the hottest contenders in the wild world of bull riding attempt to maintain their grips long enough to earn the coveted PBR World Champion title as documentary filmmaker John Hyams turns his lens on a treacherous sport where eight seconds can mean the difference between ultimate victory and crushing defeat. Justin McBride is a third-generation bull rider looking to keep the family tradition alive, Mike Lee is a born-again Christian who calls on the power of the Lord to keep him on the bull, and Adriano Morales is a professional rider who has been holding on tight since the age of 18. With the gold belt buckle and a millions dollars in prize money on the line, these three finalists have seven days to prove their worth in the arena and show the crowd that they have what it takes to ride their way to the championship title. 90min |
| RUS-01 | THE HIP HOP PROJECT | RUSKIN, Matt | DVD | 2006 | Music & Concert | Hip Hop | The Hip Hop Project is the dynamic and inspirational story of a group of New York City teenagers who transform their life stories into powerful works of art, using hip hop as a vehicle for self-development and personal discovery. The film traces the evolution of this award-winning outreach program developed by Kazi, a formerly homeless teenager turned youth mentor. After four years of collaboration, the group produced a powerful and thought-provoking album that provides a revealing look at their lives. In contrast to all the negative attention focused on hip hop and rap music, this is a story of hope, healing and the realization of dreams. 88 minutes |
| MUI-01 | SONS OF THE RODEO | MUIR, Matheson | DVD | 2005 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Futuristic Western Rodeo | "Sons of the Rodeo" is a rite-of-passage film about a small-town Texas boy who gains independence from his domineering brother at a futuristic rodeo. Shooter assists his overbearing, older brother B.R. in taking bets for an evolved form of rodeo. While bets are being placed, an accomplished veteran offers B.R. a bribe to insure that the vet will fight in the event. It's a shock to B.R. and the rest of the small community when Shooter's name is drawn to compete against the fierce veteran. Shooter is excited about the impending fight, but B.R. fears for his brother's safety. B.R. scrambles, unsuccessfully, to undo his mistake. Shooter must face this treacherous adversary in a violent face-off. 13 min |
| ZU-01 | GREENSBORO: CLOSER TO THE TRUTH | ZUCKER, Adam | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | 83min | |
| BUT-01 | CONEY ISLAND, USA | BUTTA, Craig | DVD | 2006 | Independent | Coney Island | A down and out carnival hustler struggles to survive over the course of a slow summer in a changing Coney Island. 8 min |
| PET-01 | FLYABOUT | PETRILLO, Monika | DVD | 2006 | Documentary | Family Trip | Flyabout is the heartfelt, personal story of a young woman who gets a pilot's license and inspires her father to do the same. Together with him, she follows her dream to fly a plane around the continent of Australia. Her introduction to the Aboriginal Walkabout brings on the realization that piloting the plane won't be the hardest part of the trip. 74min |
| DEA-01 | THE LAST WESTERN | DEAUX, Chris | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Western film history | A documentary on the era of the B-Western, with a focus on Pioneertown, a life-sized set created by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers that served as the backdrop for "The Cisco Kid" and other films. 61min |
| APS-22 | CHANGE THAT YOU CAN DANCE TO: OBAMA MUSIC VIDEOS | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Music & Concert | Wide range of musical video productions on President Brarack Obama | Not since JFK has a US President inspired such spontaneous output of creative expression around the world. Curated by Aurora Picture Show Curator Mary Magsamen from online works on YouTube and Vimeo, this special screening includes danceable, international videos. Mariachi -Miguel Orozco Obama Posse -Patrick Kalyanapu Barack Obama Song -Wicked Awesome Films Change Animation -James Carver A Tribute to Obama -Craig Brown Kenge Kenge -World Music Network Yes, We Have a Chance -Max Randall Who's Voting Obama -Kennedy Ragaeton -Miguel Orozco **Coco Tea -Video Alley **Canada Loves Obama -Canadians4Obama Wikipedia page edits -Jamie Dubs Barack On By Ken McDaniel -Ken McDaniel Carterhouse Productions Go Tell Mama I'm For Obama -Doug Plavin Barack Obama Change the World -Robert Libetti Obama Girl -Ben Relles/Barely Political Obama Girl's Mama -directed byJohn Moffitt written by Gaille Heidemann Nortena -Miguel Orozco Obama Boy Band -Kai Hasson - Portal Interactive T$SA Vote Obama -Kenzo Hakuta |
| APS-23 | A CELESTIAL EVENT: AURORA 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY GALA | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2008 | Experimental | Experimental | Be Johnny John Carrithers Kara Hearn Magsamen + Hillerbrand Eileen Maxson Potter-Belmar Labs. |
| ANG-02 | THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER: VOLUME ONE | ANGER, Kenneth | DVD | 1947-1954 | Experimental | Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of spell or incantation. Covering the first half of Anger's career, from his landmark debut FIREWORKS in 1947 to his epic bacchanalia INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME, Fantoma is very proud to present the long-awaited first volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time. Contains the films: Fireworks (1947) Puce Moment (1949) Rabbit's Moon (1950, the rarely seen original 16 minute version) Eaux d'Artifice (1953) Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) |
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| GLO-02 | THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT | GLOBAL ONENESS PROJECT | DVD | 2008 | Special Interest | Global Green Building | The GreenHouse Project In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities. The program takes a holistic approach to the city's challenges, integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, organic farming and nutrition. Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves |
| DW-01 | DAVID LING | DWELL | DVD | 2008 | Special Interest | Green Building desing architecture | Architect David Ling lives in a Manhattan loft equipped with a waterfall, a bridge, and a bed cantilevered 10 feet over a moat. This is no home for the faint of heart. |
| MED-01 | GOOD FOOD | MEDIA THAT MATTERS | DVD | 2006 | Special Interest | Healthy food sustainable resources green | This collection of 12 short films on food and sustainability are entertaining as well as informative! They are great to show as a complete collection or individually as accompaniments to feature-length films. Titles on this collection include: The Luckiest Nut In The World Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary) Food Justice: A Growing Movement Recycle Terminator Tomatoes Young Agrarians Profit Cola Water Warriors Don't Worry One More Dead Fish The Meatrix Ripe for Change 1 hr 17 min |
| MED-02 | FIFTH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL | MEDIA THAT MATTERS | DVD | 2006 | Special Interest | social change action civil global warming | The fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival is a celebration of short films, videos, digital stories and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change. |
| APS-25 | EXTREMELY SHORTS VIII (8) | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2005 | Experimental shorts | Shorts | Apple, Gregg Biermann (Hackensack, NJ) Aqueous, Laura Harrison (Houston, TX) Because They Fall, Melissa Tvetan (Portland, OR) Crimenals, Greg Araya (Los Angeles, CA) Cycles of Repetition, Deborah Wing-Sproul (Stone Ridge, NY) Dos Blokes, Brian Clark & Jack McWilliams (Austin, TX) Ebullition, J. Mack (Portland, OR) A Eulogy for Memory, Karl Lind (Portland, OR)A Eulogy for Memory, Karl Lind (Portland, OR)A Eulogy for Memory First Fall, Richard Alvarez (San Mateo, CA) Interlude, Joost Van Veen (The Netherlands) The Light, Rob Smith (Houston, TX) Magic Hostess, Rob Tyler (Portland, OR) Manager s Corner, Skizz Cyzyk (Baltimore, MD)Manager s Corner, Skizz Cyzyk (Baltimore, MD)Manager s Corner Men Ordering Donuts, Dan Monick (Los Angeles, CA) Mrs. Flossie, Flora Georgiou (Melbourne, Australia) Obervation 5, Sanny Overbeeke (The Netherlands) Pushing Cowboys, Lilly McElroy (Chicago, IL) Rowing, Anna Abrahams & Jan Frederik Groot (The Netherlands) Solar Kaffi , Nicole Linde (Portland, OR) Spam Letter, Andre Silva (Iowa City, IA)Spam Letter, Andre Silva (Iowa City, IA)Spam Letter Spring Song, Aaron Valdez (Iowa City, IA) Still I Remain, Tom Gibbons (Oakland, CA) Suskin Sisters, Kadet Kuhne (Los Angeles, CA) There s Something About Aunt Mary, Ben Sayeg (Houston, TX)There s Something About Aunt Mary, Ben Sayeg (Houston, TX)There s Something About Aunt Mary True Story, Stephanie Via (Roanoke, VA)True Story, Stephanie Via (Roanoke, VA)True Story |
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| APS-26 | PANCAKE SUPPER | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Special Interest | GREEN COMUNITY BIULDING | Pancake Supper is a compilation of films about sustainability celebrating green community building. Film titles include: Building Green in Harlem (9:00) by Dwell David Ling's House (5:35) by Dwell & gary Nadeau Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves (4:15) by Global Oneness Greenhouse Project (4:30) by Global Oneness Asparagaus: A Stalk-umentary (6:00) by Kirsten Kelly & Anne DeMare Neglected Sky (1:45) by John Cooney Tapping Mapple Ridge (32:00) by Ttweak |
| DAA-01 | HERE IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE | DAALDER, Rene | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Ban Jas Ader | A documentary about the story of Bas Jan Ader |
| PAI-02 | 10 ON PAIK | PAIK, Nam June | DVD | Experimental | Experimental video art | Various works of Nam June Paik 20 min |
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| HUM-01 | SHADOW OF THE HOUSE, PHOTOGRAPHER ABELLARDO MORELL | HUMENUK, Allie | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | Abelardo Morell | Things are not always what they appear to be, says Cuban American photographer Abelardo Morell. Shadow of the House peers into his past and around the corners of his present to see what normally goes unseen. This film is a rare look into the life of one of America s renowned photographers. A feature length film, Shadow of the House explores how Morell uses his art to make sense of a life up-ended by geographic, cultural, linguistic, and political dislocation. It is an intimate portrayal of how one man s personal struggle with the themes of loss, exile, and self-determination reflects the ways in which we all work to construct narratives that unite the past with the present and memory with desire. Morell has used this tension to fuel a career as a remarkable artist. 74 minutes |
| HAGI-01 | PATHOGEN | HAGINS, Emily | DVD | 2006 | Horror | Zombie Movie Amateur Horror Young | An infection which appears to be caused by a bacteria in the water turns out to be more. A fourteen-year-old student, Dannie, feels the real cause is linked to her recurring dreams. When the infection reaches an epidemic level. it becomes clear that this infection not only kills, but restores the body to a minimally functioning state where the infected become the "living-dead". This unique twist on the classic zombie theme, centers around the highly-intuitive Dannie Jacobs and a group of four other middle school students who try to save their friends, their town and themselves in spite of the odds against them. While they are desperately trying to find an answer before it's too late, they meet researcher Sue who may hold the key to the infection and Dannie's dreams. Written, directed, and edited by 12-year-old Emily Hagins. 67 min |
| APS-27 | JUNKYARD DRIVE IN, TEXAS OIL ON FILM | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Special Interest | oil texas film industry green landscape | These films and videos, from a variety of sources, include promotional films that show the diversity and complexity of products and engineering in the petroleum industry, and its impact on our lives, culture, and economy. It was part of a a drive-in screening of informational and popular films on the subject of oil, at the site of a former auto junkyard on Buffalo Bayou. The DVD includes: Cowboy from Hollywood More Power To You, 9 minutes, 1930s, Oil for Aladdin s Lamp, 20 minutes, 1949, educational/industrial Frontiers of Friction, 1962, 14 minutes, educational/industrial Boots and Coots, 5 minutes, educational/industrial Dockwise, 5 minutes, industrial Blackjack, 2 minutes Downhole Video Service, 3 minutes Ode to Joy, 2009, 7 minutes, art film (CLUI collage) |
| NEL-01 | TOYPUNKS VOL 1 | NELSON, Chris | DVD | 2007 | Documentary | japanese toys punk rock fashion | Toypunks Volume 1 is an odyssey into the world of Japanese toys, fashion and punk rock. Exploring the birth of the designer vinyl explosion from its roots in character culture and punk music, Toypunks Volume 1 takes you in-depth with Japanese fashion icon, Hikaru Iwanaga, creator of the world's first designer toy. Hiddy Kinoshita of Secret Base, Frank Kozik, Balzac, Three Tides Tattoo and more are interviewed highlighting profound cross-cultural connections between today's top creative talents in toys and fashion. |
| SLO-01 | YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER | SLOCUM, Paul | DVD | 2008 | Experimental | Full House Show Recopilation Art experiment | This video project is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show, Full House, overlaid with a set of sound loops from the scene's original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist, and each of the original 10 crews were paid $150, using a commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked Music Review. The project included participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco. |
| PAL-01 | SITA SINGS THE BLUES | PALEY, Nina | DVD | 2008 | Independent | Animation, Indian Tales, Annette Hanshaw | An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. 82 MInutes |
| MARS-01 | ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE | MARSHALL, Aaron | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Young Flimmaker, zombie amateur movie | Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It s feature-length, it s bloody, and the zombies don t run. Just like it should be. But there s one difference between her film and every other zombie movie you ve ever seen: Emily is twelve. 89 minutes. |
| APS-28 | SOUNDFORMS | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Experimental | Student works experiemntal sound video art | The next generation of video artists brings a cacophony of sound, performance and playful experimentation with video. This thirty-minute program showcases engaging and expressive works by University of Houston School of Art students who demonstrate innovative approaches to technology and the genre of video art. The program includes: Sonogram (2:10) by Jenny Westbury, 2007 Zoological Harmonizer Conversion Device #2 (2:27) by Nick Bontrager, 2007 The Night-Time Scene (3:11) by Christopher Pickett, 2008 Untitled-1 (2:06) by Tala Valabzadeh, 2008 Insomnia (1:19) by Sarah Jean Bircher, 2007 Blue (0:40) by Marian Ochoa, 2008 Fuck Me (0:58) by Kelly Quarles & Misha Burgett, 2007 Bad Reception (1:00) by Sarah Jean Bircher, 2008 iPod Genie (Part 1) (0:25) by Kelly Quarles, 2008 Ruzzianz (0:37) by Cody Ledvina, 2008 Robotic Benedict and Beatrice (4:00) by Alex Nguyen, 2007 Psycho (3:08) by Grant MacManus, 2008 Iroq (1:18) by Jacob Jones, 2008 Basic Wire and Cable (1:00) by Chuck Ivy, 2008 iPod Genie (Part 2) (0:25) by Kelly Quarles, 2008 Untitled (1:15) by Dena Wallace, 2008 Only a Thin Drapery (1:03) by Samantha Wiley, 2008 Untitled (1:56) by Kurt Cobbley, 2008 Forest Love Dance Remix (3:32) by Jessica Ninci, 2007 Trampoline (true love) (3:00) by Alex Nguyen & Jenny Westbury, 2008 iPod Genie (Part 3) (0:23) by Kelly Quarles, 2008 The Rings (2:00) by John Madji, 2008 Repetendum (1:30) by Camilo Gonzalez, 2008 Bullets and Butterflies (0:56) by Samantha Wiley, 2008 Swingset v2009 (0:31) by Norberto Gomez, 2009 |
| MED-03 | EIGHTH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL | MEDIA THAT MATTERS | DVD | 2008 | Special Interest | Comunity oriented causes activism documentaries | The eighth annual Media That Matters Film Festival is a celebration of short films, videos, digital stories and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change. They are 12 inspiring films commited to changing the world in 12 minutes or less. The Eighth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival includes: * A Loud Color * A Nomad's Life * African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal * America for Dummies * Argentina Turning Around * Diana * E-Waste * Every Third Bite * Hammoudi * Perversion of Justice * Something's Moving * The Countdown |
| BL-06 | OLIVE'S BACKYARD CONCERT | BLADER, Enid Baxter | DVD | 2008 | Children & Family | Stop frame animation | There's something moving under the ice... 4 minutes |
| COLL-01 | FILMS BY STEVE COLLINS | COLLINS, Steve | DVD | 1996-2006 | Independent | Steve Collins grew up in the suburbs of New York, mostly watching movies. He studied Film at Wesleyan University, taught filmmaking at a therapeutic boarding school, and received an MFA in Film Production from UT-Austin, where he presently teaches Film Production. The Sundance Channell purchased his short film Lonelyland when he was in graduate school. His next film Gretchen and the Night Danger won the shorts competition at SXSW and was expanded into the feature Gretchen. The compillation includes: Director's Reel Gretchen & the Night of Danger Lonelyland Not Funny The Ballad of Courtney & James Homebody The Plumber Bounus Tracks: The Flatnap Prophecies: Volume 1 The Flatnap Prophecies: Volume 2 |
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| APS-29 | CASSEROLES AND COKTAILS: 1950'S COMMERCIALS | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Television | old comercials from tv 1950 | Casseroles and Cocktails is part of the second installment of Aurora´s popular House Party. It was a special 1950s themed event, where the evening included short films and commercials from the 50's. 15 minutes |
| VAR-23 | COMMERCIAL MANIA II | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1950-1960 | Television | old tv commercials | compilation of a wide range of 1950's to1960's television commercials. 68 minutes |
| VAR-24 | CLASSIC TELEVISION COMMERCIALS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1950-1960 | Television | old television commercials | Classic commercials from the 1950's to the 1960's. 45 minutes |
| HUB-01 | SELECTED WORKS | HUBLEY, Emily | DVD | 1982-2006 | Children & Family | animation family memory drawing stop frame animation | The compilation includes: 1. Enough, 5:00 2. One Self: Fish/Girl, 10:00 3. Her Grandmother's Gift, 5:00 4. Delivery Man, 8:00 5. Pigeon Within, 4:00 6. Set & Spike, 6:00 7. Octave, 7:00 |
| VAR-25 | FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY SHORTS: Vol: 2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | Documentary | documentary shorts | 1. CROWFILM by Edward P. Davee A captivatingly atmospheric and experimental film in the tradition of "Winged Migration," CROWFILM is a multi-media celebration of the crow, its world, and its relation to ours. 2. MISS ALABAMA NURSING HOME by Anne Paas A documentary about beauty, aging, and going for the crown, this touching and uplifting film follows an 82-year-old beauty queen on her quest to become Ms. Alabama Nursing Home. 3. NUTRIA by Ted Gesing Hilarious and irreverent, NUTRIA tells the story of the Argentine swamp rat that is both destroying the wetlands of Louisiana and rapidly becoming the region's latest culinary delicacy. 4. ALBUM by Barbara Bird Hauntingly personal and intimate, ALBUM presents the creation and destruction of a "typical American family" through pairing old silent home movies with revelatory oral commentary from the family members today. 5. WOOD ISLAND by Kate T. Williamson An insightful observation on a community in East Boston adjacent to Logan Airport, WOOD ISLAND shows how religion, work, and tradition intersect amid the constant buzz of planes in a community seemingly unchanged by time. 6. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck An exploration of New York City's post-modern consumer market, this smart and funny film follows artist/businessman Geoff Lupo as he advertises all over the city selling useless trinkets from pen caps to stale crackers. 7. IWO JIMA: MEMORIES IN SAND by Beret E. Strong and John Tweedy Weaving interviews with survivors and extraordinary archival footage of IWO JIMA: MEMORIES IN SAND is a powerful and lyrical account of one of the deadliest battles of modern warfare. |
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| GOSC-01 | BUSTING DOWN THE DOOR | GOSCH, Jeremy | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | Surfing documentary | In 1975 a group of young surfers revolutionized their sport. This is their untold story. 94 minutes |
| JOS-01 | LIQUID LOOPS | THE JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW | DVD | 1969 | Experimental | Light Liquid Performance Live Color Projection Experimental Art | Live Projection Performance on an overhead projector. Oil, water and glycerin Light Artist: Cecily Hoyt Originally recorded on 35 mm Film Silent 7 Minutes, repeats 9 times |
| NAM-01 | EPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE WITH THE VELVET UNDERGROUND | NAMETH, Ronald | DVD | 1966 | andy warhol experimental film | The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called EPI, was a series of multimedia events organized by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground & Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warhol's Factory. During a one week run of the EPI in Chicago, in June, 1966, the filmmaker Ronald Nameth filmed every performance. The resulting film is composed of his multiple recordings. This multi-layered film is best though of as a separate work of art, inspired by this multimedia event, rather than a documentary. 15 Min |
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| STER-01 | SELECTED WORKS | STERN, Jeanne | DVD | 2006-2008 | Independent | Animatiuon puppetry experimental | Jeanne Stern creates fantastical microcosms with a hybrid of film puppetry and animation. The DVD Includes: Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors: The story os Siamese brother and sister, Zut and Alors, and their quest for love. Uses clock-work puppetry. Sprout: Paper puppetry with water. A kitchen sink over-flows causing the room to flood. As the water rises, the room sprouts to life. Bellwether: A seamstress is visited in the night by a strange creature that is part human, part umbrella. 18 Minutes |
| VAR-26 | FILMS FUNDED BY THE TFPF | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2009 | Independent | Shorts | The compilation includes short films that have been funded by the Austin Film Society's Texas Filmmakers Production Fund: Tonight (Reprise) by Eileen Maxson Breezeway by George Langworthy The Aviatrix by Toddy Burton Quasar Hernandez by David Zellner Nutria by Ted Gesing Sweet Sweetroll by Bob Ray Subsidized Fate by Lance Myers Beezlebub's Bathtub by Andre Silva |
| GIN-01 | PANSY DIVISION: LIFE IN A GAY ROCK BAND | GINOLI, Jon | DVD | 2008 | Documentary | gay rockband | |
| BRIM-01 | HANDS/MOUTH | BRIMS, Michael | DVD | 2009 | Exploring perception/communication through the body | The two pieces are part of a series called "Listen and Laugh!." It consists of a series of videos featuring various body parts. The series explores notions of perception and communication. Despite strong symbolism, no clear message is present, which might make viewers wonder and challenge their concept of communication. | |
| VAR-27 | VIDEO POOL 2008 CATALOGUE | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2008 | Video Pool Media Arts Centre 2007/08 compilation | This compilation disk contains videotapes created during 2007 and 2008 distributed by Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The tapes include realistic dramas, probing documentaries, conceptual investigations and formal explorations of the medium. A strong sense of narrative prevails. | |
| TRZ-04 | GOAT | TRZEBINSKI, Gabriela | DVD | 2009 | |||
| HU-07a | SLANT 9: Program 1 | HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2009 | Asian American | Girl With A Walkman - Melina Leon Five Fingers - Kevin Barker Beijing Haze - J.P. Chan The Postcard - Josh Kim One Night in LA - Jon Maxwell & Ray Huang Survivors - Soham Mehta |
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| HU-07b | SLANT 9: Program 2 | HUNG, Melissa | DVD | 2009 | Asian American | Alley of Hidden Dangers! - Tim Tsai Waiting For a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story - Oscar Bucher The Pain with Being Thirsty - David Yun Machine With Wishbone - Randall Okita The Others - Aram Sui Wai Collier |
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| VAR-32 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Cisco Kid -Confession for Money -Freight Line Feud -Lynching Story -Newspaper Crusaders -Ghost Town -Buried Treasure -Dog Story -Medicine Flats Side B: Cisco Kid -Oil Land -Phoney Sheriff -Stolen Bonds -The Old Bum Death Valley Days -Dear Teacher -Sego Lillies -Little Washington |
| APS-30 | POISON GIRL REEL | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Your Weekend Forecast, with Nora Gamble - Eileen Maxson Profiles In Science - Wes Kim Maritess vs. The Superfriends - Dino Ignacio Excerpts from A Film is a Burning Place: Works by Enid Baxter Blader |
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| VAR-33 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC3 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Gabby Hayes -6 Episodes (Untitled) Side B: Cowboy G Men -Empty Mailbags -Ozark Gold -Bounty Jumpers -Chinaman's Chance -High Heeled Boots Frontier Doctor -The Outlaw Legion -The Queen of Cimarron -The Twisted Road |
| APS-31 | MENIL MOVIES: CINEMATIC WORKS FROM THE MENIL ARCHIVES CURATED BY ANDREA GROVER, 06/13/2009 | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Menil Archive Films | The Delight & Dilemma of Collecting John and Dominque de Menil University of St. Thomas, 1968 (Excerpt) Wievel Farben die Hand - Ein Film mit und uber Max Ernst Director: Peter Schamoni, 1971 (Excerpt) Marcel Duchamp In His Own Words Director: Lewis Jacobs, 1978 (Excerpt) Man Ray Director: Deide Von Schaewen Buckminster Fuller Lecture at St. Thomas, 1967 (Excerpt) Niki de Saint Phalle: Who Is the Monster... You or Me? Director: Peter Schamoni, 1996 (Excerpt) Video 50 Director: Robert Wilson, 1978 |
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| APS-32 | EXTREMELY SHORTS XII (12) | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Shorts | Ground Control (2:00) Siegfried Fruhauf - Austria An uncontrolled beam of electrons direct across a photoelectric layer of cesium oxide lining a Braun tube, or snow, and become reproducible, thereby losing the status of the chaotic. Twelve Flowers (3:32) Rosebud Pettet & K. Markle Los Angeles, CA Guided and inspired by the late animator Harry Smith, this video explores the image of the flower. This Is a Type of Freak Show Parthogenesis! (2:15) Krista Hoelfe - South Bend, IN A combination of appropriated video, original footage using a Paik/Abe Raster Scan Device (aka a Wobulator), and digital animation. Sound created using captured audio, circuit bent toys, digital effects, and a theremin. Oscillating Fan (2:57) Rob Tyler - Portland, OR A quiet symphony of circulating air, Oscillating Fan is an abstract and joyful look at domesticated technology. The Order (3:00) H. David Waddell - Houston, TX A stop-motion animation crafted with a digital camera in the confined space underneath a table. Without the use of special effects or filters, The Order uses the camera to its full effects, playing with aperture and focus to create dramatic effects and to transport the viewer into another world. Moth (2:20) Shannon Benine - Chicago, IL This video pairs the soundtrack of an actual mortar attack on US troops in Iraq with the image of a toy moth in a soldier s daughter s bedroom. With every drop of a mortar, the highlights of the video are blown out, syncing mage and sound. Hands (1:14) Michael Brims - Houston, TX Hands moving. Mouth (2:41 Michael Brims - Houston, TX A mouth singing. Just The Way You Are (2:59) Liz Rodda - Norman, OK This video pairs two seperate Youtube videos side by side. On the right is a series of girls doing the splits, desperately aware of the camera. The left shows a boy clumsily playing an instrumental version of Billy Joel s Just the Way You Are on a piano. Unknown Movie (1:30) Liz Rodda - Norman, OK Pairing discarded home movies with a poem about family (written by Liz Rodda and read by American poet Ted Richer), this film examines universal and unique characteristics of families. My Secret Love Affair With Matt Gonzalez (2:30) Gordon Winiemko - Long Beach, CA Two hairstyles, one hair product. Two men, one metrosexual love story. Starring San Francisco lawyer and sometime Nader running mate Matt Gonzalez and artist and sometime activist Gordon Winiemko. The Vase (1:00) Jeremy Newman - Mt. Laurel, NJ A mysterious young woman clips off sunflower heads, wrecking havoc on a vase of crickets. The desperate yet graceful movements of the insects are a silent plea against environmental degradation. Audio is silent. Window (1:00) Jeremy Newman - Mt. Laurel, NJ In this work, the window is a reflective membrane separating/joining a domestic interior and the forces of nature. With lightining flash illumination, the female figure is variously primal silhouette and mythical goddess. Audio is silent. Landscape Architect (1:52) Diana Estrada & Joy Harris - Los Angeles, CA A woman talks about explaining the most private of spaces, visually contasted against some intensely public spaces. Pandemic Control (2:59) Robert Ziebell - Castroville, TX A short documentary of a State of Texas Constable directing traffic outside of a middle school throughout the course of a week. Much like a ballet, Constable Mike Perales movements direct the flotsam and jetsam of cars and busses. The Isthmus of Kansas (1:13) Christopher M. Cassidy - Greensboro, NC Original footage taken from locations high above the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines is combined in one nearly symmetrical image. Goat (2:56) Gabriela Trzebinski - Houston, TX A group of Saburu tribesmen in Kenya, East Africa, kill and slaughter a goat for consumption. Trzebinski s ex sister-in-law married into the Sabaru tribe, making the intimate fiming of this traditional tribal practice possible. Faces (2:30) Teresa A. Bayer - Houston, TX Some say the soul is captured in a photograph. I say it is captued in a Xerox copy. Killin It: Economic Crisis (2:33) Goatsilk - Walla Walla, WA Killin It is an internal life-changing experience. It s simultaneously destructive and creative. It doesn t conform to social mores or expectations. Frog Jesus (1:16) Ben Peters - Singapore He thought that he could make a frog Jesus...a nostalgic voyage takes a darker turn, exploring the naivete of mankind through the eyes of a young boy. A Confession (3:00) Erik Levin - Long Island City, NY Combining found footage of a man committing suicide in an interrogation room with the voice of a retired homicide detective, A Confession is a psychological portrait investigating the dynamics and strategies for eliciting a confession and an admission of guilt. This Is Not The Sun (2:54) Lili Chin - La Jolla, CA Waiting for the sun to be dressed, a bowler hat becomes more than just an absurd inquiry in this modern-day parody inspired by Magritte s painting Son of Man. Galvest-Gone! (2:59) David Purdie - Houston, TX Taking you back to Galveston s Seawall Blvd, the way it was before Hurricane Ike hit, you visit the historic sites, but chaos ensues, and as you flee, you see that these iconic buildings are now gone. The Catch (1:00) L. Ashwyn Collins, Champaign, IL A single minute-long closeup shot of a pair of hands combing through hair. The image is beautiful, yet the perspective is uncomfortably close. Spin (1:35) L. Ashwyn Collins - Champaign, IL Spin depicts four simultaneous shots of a peculiar fly. I Am The Blueberry (1:06) Al Herrmann - Los Angeles, CA A musical tale of fruit and fate. Introducing: Cloud of Funk (3:00) Mark Walley and Angela Guerra San Antonio, TX An expreimental music video about a fake funk band which consists of Mark Walley, Michael-Paul Hernandez and Angela Guerra. The soundtrack for the video was created entirely of single sounds repeated rhythmically and layered so the end result is a complete song. Gone in 60 Seconds (1:10) Kristen Galvin - Port Washington, NY An absurdist remix of the classic, epic film Gone With The Wind, boiling the original 222-minute film down to 60 seconds. |
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| FIT-01 | FREESTYLE: THE ART OF RHYME | FITZGERALD, Kevin | DVD | 2004 | Documentary | Freestyle Hip-Hop | Like a needle to the record and a pen to papyrus, Kevin Fitzgerald's camera in his Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme penetrated and saw into hip-hop worlds that were visible but unseen. While the film itself powerfully explores the art of improvisation in hip-hop, Freestyle is also an incredible aesthetic work. And it is no wonder that the opening credits identify it as a film by DJ Organic (aka Kevin Fitzgerald), because Freestyle is in essence a cinematic mix-tape. Using images as dubplates and obscure archival footage as samples, Organic blended, cut, and remixed the different film stocks, color and black and white images, incredible interviews, rare battle footage and the immediacy of hand held shots of freestyle ciphers. His guerilla filmmaking style and use of different aesthetics may seem disorienting to some - but that's the point. Hip-hop was meant to shake shit up and to overturn the status-quo. Who else in the United states could turn an abandoned building or a subway train into a canvas, a piece of cardboard into a dancefloor, turntables into instruments, and old records into new sounds? Who else besides black and brown people in post-COINTELPRO America had the courage, the creativity, and the necessity to reclaim and remix not only their environments, but also their very existence? Sohail Daulatzai, Ph.D University of California, Irvine African American Studies and Film and Media Studies |
| SPA-01 | TRANSISTOR | SPACETAKER | DVD | 2006 | Special Interest | Dance Show | Spacetaker, in partnership with Houston Downtown Alliance, Houston Dance Source, and Aileen Mapes Modern Dance Company presents an original dance piece to scour the landscapes of downtown houston facing Market Square. This project was funded in part by funds from the city of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. "Transistor" was performed on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in Market Square. No tickets were necessary, but a chair or blanket were recommended. Unconventially, "Transistor" is not performed in a theater; it is performed on the streets and buildings, the action sweeps above and around the audience allowing not a millimeter of movement to be missed. The Houston Downtown Historic district provides a blank canvas for the dancers, with thousands of square feet of untouched cityscape to traverse. David Brown, director of Spacetaker, says, "The opportunity to present an original performance in this particular manner is absolutely unique. Under no other set of circumstances will the City of Houston have such an ideal opportunity to showcase Houston's modern dance talent while at the same time presenting the community with a larger-than-life piece of original art to be enjoyed by all, for free." The show experiments with distorting shapes, colors, and texture, as well as examines our identities and transitions through life. Performed by Aileen Mapes (independent choreographer and Suchu dancer), John Dunn, Jess Ray, Herzogenrath and Catalina Gutierrez. "Transistor" is performed to the live accompaniment of two pianos, horns, and African influenced percussion. |
| MED-04 | NINTH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL | MEDIA THAT MATTERS | DVD | 2009 | Shorts | Media That Matters: Short Films That Inspire Action The Next Wave Pacific Islands & USA - 8:03 - Documentary Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger JURY AWARD Bits and Pieces Jordan - 4:35 - Experimental/Animation Jackie Sawiris and Ben Mandell DIVERSITY AWARD Immersion USA - 12:00 - Narrative Richard Levien IMMIGRATION AWARD Locusts USA - 6:29 - Docu-music video Iqaa the Olivetone and Emergence Media HOUSING RIGHTS AWARD Lone Wolf USA - 5:29 - Documentary Jason Sussberg MEDIA JUSTICE AWARD Why Do White People Have Black Spots? Ghant & USA - 6:38 - Documentary Anya Kandel, Momentus International INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE AWARD La Hoja Bolivia & USA - 9:59 - Documentary Gabrielle Weiss UNSPOKEN TRUTH AWARD Will I Be Next? USA - 6:32 - Documentary Ralph Rollins, Jeff McCarter and Elizabeth Czekner YOUTH VOICE AWARD Exiled in America USA - 9:23 - Documentary Angela Torres Camarena CHANGEMAKER AWARD The Secret Life of Paper USA - 5:37 - Documentary Inform, Inc. RETHINKING RESOURCES AWARD Knock Knock, Who's There? India - 0:59 - PSA Breakthrough COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD Looking Back USA - 5:25 - Documentary Emile Bokaer PERSPECTIVES AWARD |
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| VAR-29 | AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY: MOVIES IN THE PARK | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 2008 | Shorts | Selected shorts from Austin Film Society's AFS Movies-in-the-Park. 1. The Aviatrix Toddy Burton (11 min, 2008) A gleaming silhouette rockets through the cosmos. She is The Aviatrix. And she exists in the mind of Anne, a young woman battling cancer. 2. Breezeway George Langworthy (13 min, 1996) A neurotic deconstruction of the comic horrors of nicotine addiction. 3. Sweet Sweetroll's Baaaadassss Spin Bob Ray (3 min, 1997) A short comedy about panhandling for fun and profit. 4. Quasar Hernandez David Zellner (10 min, 2004) After two years of friendship and good times, "Big Brother" Jim offers his young charge Craig a unique explanation why they can never see each other again. 5. Subsidized Fate Lance Myers (5 min, 2004) A man is instructed to burglarize another man's house by mysteriously placed commercial messages. Are the messages all in his head, or has capitalism become an omnipotent force? |
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| BERM-01 | HOMELAND | BERMAN, Nina | DVD | 2008 | Photography | A visual chronicle of the national security state in America from 2001-2007. | |
| SILV-01 | SELECTED WORKS | SILVA, Andre | DVD | 2001, 2008 | Animation | Two animations from Andre Silva. Ichthyopolis 9 min., digital video. (2008) Ichthyopolis is a short psychedelic technomation, which delves into a mythical cosmology of fish and their human caretakers. Somewhere between the occult and the absurd lies Ichthyopolis; a universe consisting of two complementary worlds that can t help but eventually merge. Beelzebub s Bathtub 17 min. 16mm. (2001) Momma Ducky and her baby bars of soap swim serenely within the confines of a porcelain claw foot bathtub until an angry Momma Hair Clod and her baby set off a series of unusual catastrophes. |
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| STRI-01 | SELECTED WORKS | STRIKING VIKING STORY PIRATES | DVD | Children & Family | Described as a mix between School House Rock and Monty Python, The Story Pirates know every kid has a story to tell-- whether it's a world where cats can fly or a rock opera about fuzzy alien Tickle Monsters. Founded in 2003 to promote a love of creative writing, the Story Pirates have collected words and ideas from children across the country and brought their stories to life on stage and on film. That's right-- the inspiration for every Story Pirates song, sketch or movie is an original story penned by a kid. Selected films include: This Movie Is About Cats Flying Abbey Is Sile The Naturalist Tickle Monsters Are Robots |
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| VAR-30 | BEST OF THE SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL | VARIOUS ARTISTS | 2009 | ||||
| APS-33 | BOOT CAMP FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Children & Family | Featuring: Nicholas Walton, Bren Holliday, Kaylie Holliday, Dillan McDonald, Ian McDonald, Thomas McDonald, Dillon Nichols, Alex Thompson, Sofia Botti, Arianna Finger, Tony Bynum, Alfred Cervantes, Emily Egner, Alice Epley, and Ethan Epley GUNS A boy who saves a friend from a group of terrorists with another friend. GO GREEN THE MOVIE One girl realizes she has the power to affect the environment. ART A boy, trying to escape the heat of a hot New York summer day. When he walks into a cool museum, he is unsuspecting of what will happen. WARNING In order to hide the truth from the public, a secret FBI team hunts down an alien. THE TREE See the world from the point of view of a tree, and experience the feelings of those whose lives touch the tree. MELANCHOLY A life-long journey of a man working at a tootsie roll factory. |
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| MAK-01 | SWIMMING MOON | MAKI, Nahomi | DVD | 2008 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 4 mins, 13 sec A being is driven to madness by the full moon, and discovers a sensitive, beautiful and deep dream world. |
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| EXE-01 | STARSHIP EXETER: THE MAKING OF A FAN FILM | EXETER STUDIO | DVD | 2003 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | For Jimm and Josh Johnson, the STARSHIP EXETER project began on Christmas Eve 1995 with a question: Could they, in their spare time, and with their extra money, write and film a pilot episode for a new series that would come close to the look and spirit of the original 1960's Star Trek television show? They conducted much research, wrote a number of possible story lines and chose "The Savage Empire" for budgetary reasons. The action sequences were all storyboarded, and they created all the costumes and most of the props from scratch. A warehouse studio space in Minneapolic, Minnestoa was rented for two years where Jimm and Josh built sets and shot much of the production. They carefully picked friends and acquaintances to work on a voluntary basis both as actors and crew. Once the live action was completed came the long and tedius task of editing and creating visual effects true to the look of the "Original Series." It took seven years, but on December 19, 2002, STARSHIP EXETER made its internet debut. Produced by Joel Sarchet and EXETER STUDIO, "STARSHIP EXETER: The Making of a Fan Film" is a series of eight featurettes documenting the creation and internet release of STARSHIP EXETER "The Savage Empire." "The Making of a Fan Film" is loaded with extensive behind-the-scenes footage, in-depth interviews with the cast, crew, and creators of STARSHIP EXETER, and information on how the props, costumes, sets, and special effects were created. This DVD-R contains eight documentary featurettes: *The Origin of Starship Exeter *Filming Locations and Sets *Costumes, Make-up, and Props *The Cast *Shooting the Episode *The Fight Scene *Special Effects and Editing *Capturing the Imagination and Looking to the Future |
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| EXE-02 | THE SAVAGE EMPIRE | EXETER STUDIO | DVD | 2002 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | The U.S.S. Exeter, freshly recrewed and commanded by Captain John Garrovick, is on a mission to save a ship infected with the deadly Canopus Plague. The Exeter must travel to the homeworld of Andorian Lieutenant B'fuselek to find the cure. But Andorian rebels have other plans . . . and so do the Klingons! | |
| APS-34 | HIGH HO SILVER: A RIDE THROUGH TV WESTERMS | AURORA PICTURE SHOW | DVD | 2009 | Television | Old TV Classic Westerns | High Ho Silver: A Ride Through TV Westerns highlights short excerpts from some of your best-loved television classic westerns. Take a trip back to the golden era of television westerns when the genre was at its peak and families gathered around the television for new episodes of "Bonanza," "The Lone Ranger," "The Cisco Kid," "The Roy Rogers Show" and many other six-shooter classics. 53 minutes. |
| VAR-31 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC1 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Annie Oakley -Chinese Puzzle -The Silver Ace -Annie Meets Some Tenderfeet -Annie's Desert Adventure -The Saga of Clement O'Toole -The Waco Kid Side B The Adventures of Jim Bowie -Birth of the Blade -The Squatter -An Adventure With Audubon -Trapline -The Scessionists -Land Jumpers |
| VAR-34 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC4 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: The Roy Rogers Show -Lady Killer -Phantom Rustlers -Death Medicine -Ghost Town Gold -The Big Chance -Badman's Brother -The Secret of Indian Gap Side B: The Roy Rogers Show -Flying Bullets -The Knockout -Blind Justice -Loaded Guns -Run-A-Round -Money to Burn -Milliner from Medicine Creek -Outlaws of Paradise Valle |
| VAR-35 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC5 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: The Lone Ranger -Enter the Lone Ranger part 1 -Enter the Lone Ranger part 2 -Cannonball MacKay -Legion of Old Timers -Old Joe's Sister -The Renegades -Finders Keepers -High Heels Side B: The Lone Ranger -Masked Rider -Message From Abe -Pete and Pedro -Return of the Convict -Rustlers Hideout -Six Gun's Legacy -Tenderfeet |
| VAR-36 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC6 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Judge Roy Bean -Checkmate -Murder in Langtry -Sunburnt Gold -The Defence Rests -The Hidden Truth -The Runaway The Life and Leyend of Wyat Earp -The Assassins Side B The Deputy -The Return of Widow Brown -Hard Decision Stories of the Century -Dalton Gang -Doc Holiday -John Wesley Hardin -Younger Brothers -Johnny Ringo -Sam Bass |
| VAR-37 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC7 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Pistols and Petticoats -Shoot Out at the O'Day Corral -Sir Richard the Wretched -The Triangle Shotgun Slade -Crossed Guns -Sudden Death 26 Men -Trouble at Pinnacle Peak -The Recruit Side B: Fury -Joey Finds a Friend -Dame Trouble -Search for Joey Last of the Mohicans -The Contest -The Girl -Washington Story |
| VAR-38 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC8 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Bonanza -Badge Without Honor -Day of Reckoning -The Last Viking -The Spanish Grant Side B: Bonanza -The Ape -The Mill -Feet of Clay |
| VAR-39 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC9 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Bonanza -The Gunmen -Desert Justice -Silent Thunder Side B: Wagon Train -Alias Bill Hawks -The Dr. Denker Story -The Malachi Hobart Story |
| VAR-40 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC10 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon -Dog Race -Scourge of the Wilderness -Relief Train -Black Ace -Trapped Hudson's Bay -Black Barrier -Rebels of the Red River -The Avenger Side B: The Adventures of Kit Carson -Badman of Briscoe -Broken Spur -Feud in San Felipe -Law of the Six Guns -Powder Smoke Trail -Trail to Old Sonora |
| VAR-41 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC11 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: Northwest Passage Assassin -Break Out -Death Rides the Wind -Stab in the Back -The Witch -Vengeance Trail Side B: Buffalo Bill Jr -Fight for Geronimo -Runaway Renegade -Red Hawk -Empire Pass -Fight for Texas -The Death of Johnny Ringo |
| VAR-42 | ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS DISC12 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | DVD | 1940-1970 | Television | Old Classic Western TV Shows | Side A: The Range Rider -Convict at Large -The Buckskin -Treasure of Santa Dolores -West of Cheyenne -Bullets and Badmen -The Holy Terror Side B: The Rifleman -Outlwa's Inheritance -Day of the Hunter -Mail Order Groom Bat Masterson -The Fighter -Stampede at Tent City The Adventures of Champion -The Medicine Man Mystery |
| CI-02 | doxita: "All in a Day's Work" | CIRILLO, Karen | DVD | 2009 | Documentary | Work | doxita is a traveling festival of documentary films that are under 40 minutes in length. The program, comprised of approximately two hours of film, represents a wide variety of documentary domestic and foreign, super-short and longer format, serious and funny. It is designed to profile the great content and artistic vision that non-fiction short films provide, but that people don t often get a chance to see. China s Wild West (UK, Urszula Pontikos, 10 min.) An observational and austere look at a group of miners in Western China who chip away at a dry riverbed, hoping to discover jade. Breadmakers (UK, Yasmin Fedda, 11 min.) - A tender portrait of a unique community of workers with disabilities who work together to produce organic breads for delivery in Edinburgh. Watching the bread-making is mesmerizing and observing the intricate social relationships is touching. Wood (USA, David Fenster, 21 min.) - Beautifully shot images of a Northwest logging company and stories from its employees form this elegy to a rapidly disappearing type of labor that includes pride in work, generational history and physical labor. Shika Shika (USA, Stephen Hyde, 10 min.) - Filmed in the Peruvian Andes, this spirited film follows one family that for three generations has scaled the Peruvian Andes to harvest ice for shika shika, a colorful shaved ice treat they sell in the market. The Tailor (Spain, Oscar Perez, 31 min. ) - In a small shop in Barcelona, Pakistani tailor Mohamed holds court over mounds of plastic bags containing customer s clothing. His unique customer service and relationship with his Indian assistant make for fascinating, and comical, observation. |
| MAN-26 | HOLIDAY MATRIX B | MANN, Andy | DVD | 1993 | Experimental | Experimental | VHS # 007 |
| MAN-27 | NANCY FLOWERS | MANN, Andy | DVD | Experimental | Experimental | VHS # 020 | |
| MAN-28 | DIVINITRON | MANN, Andy | DVD | Experimental | VHS # 092 | ||
| MAN-29 | SCROLLS OF ANDREW VIDEO TREE PLAYBACK | MANN, Andy | DVD | Experimental | VHS # 102 | ||
| MAN-30 | HOLIDAY MATRIX VIDEO | MANN, Andy | DVD | Experimental | VHS # 105 | ||
| MAN-31 | HOLIDAY TV TREE | MANN, Andy | DVD | Experimental | VHS # 179 |