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Experimental Films
The RE:Voir/USA project and
its European counterpart make available for the first time a premiere
collection of experimental films. These releases of both contemporary and
classic avant-garde works are unparalleled in the field. The highest quality
video transfers are made in direct collaboration with the individual
artists. The tapes are handsomely packaged in color artwork, and many
include original pamphlets or books helping to inform the appreciation of
the works.
The mission at Re:Voir is to ensure that this highly original and richly
textured yet fragile body of work maintains a prominent position in the
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Adolfas Mekas
- Hallelujah the Hills
35mm
1963 b/w 82' V.O. stf
Producer: David C. Stone. Assistant: Jonas Mekas
et Ed Emshwiller. Cast: Jack: Peter H. Beard Leo: Marty
Greenbaum Vera (Winter): Sheila Finn Vera (Summer):
Peggy Steffans Father:
Jerome Raphel Mother: Blanche Dee Convict 1: Jerome Hill
Convict 2: Taylor Mead "Hallelujah the Hills
presents itself as a tale (a 'romance' the author
would call it) for adults, in love with the history
of film, in particular American cinema, ready to
be swept away into a whimsical universe, fantastical,
a bit crazy and out of line, a perpetual magical
and childish movement." Frédérique Devaux 1963,
82 mins
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Barbara
Hammer – Sanctus
Sanctus
1990 19' Still Point 1989 8' Vital Signs 1992 9' "Sanctus composes
and recomposes, in an astonishing found-footage film, a series of 'X'
(ray) films shot in the 1950's by the doctor and film director James
Sibley Watson." Florent Guezengar "In Sanctus, Barbara Hammer
addresses in a visually and aurally stunning fashion the co-fragility
of both human existence and the film emulsion, the raw material onto
which she creates images." Jon Gartenberg
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Berthold Bartosch
- L'Idée
35mm
1932 b/w 25' "Bartosch
showed that animation could be POETIC... It was
Bartosch who first dared
to give animation the dimensions of a great art,
trusting it to voice his pain, to lay bare his heart,
to tell of his hope for a better future - which
he never saw." Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
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Bill Morrison
- 8 Films
Night
Highway 1+3 1990 b/w 7' Lost Avenues 1991 6' Footprints 1992 b/w &
color 6' Photo Op 1992 b/w 5' The Death Train 1993 b/w 17'. The World
is Round 1994 b/w 5' Nemo 1995 b/w 5' The
Film of Her 1996 b/w 12' "Whales, trains, movie projectors and the
lines on highways are transformed into stunning, hypnotic ruminations
on history and memory, fate and human intervention."
Los Angeles Weekly, 1998
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Boris Lehman
- Life Lesson
1995
105' Written, directed and produced by: Boris Lehman. Image:
Antoine-Marie Meert. Sound: Henri Morelle. Editing: Daniel De Valck.
Sound mix: Antoine Bonfanti. Coproduction: Dovfilm,
ZDF, WIP, RTBF (Carré noir), with help from Communauté française et
la Région wallonne,
I'Atelier Jeunes Cinéastes (AJC) and the Centre de l'Audiovisuel in Brussels. "Behind these images and sounds
that have been stifled by today's society, Lehman hunts for noises,
cries, songs, messages that go astray. He says that if we look at the
invisible we may hear the words. He invites us to look beyond the
appearances of social life and to vibrate in tune with life's polyphony
that is all around us." Philippe Simon
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Boris Lehman
- Looking for my Birthplace
À
la recherche du
lieu de ma naissance 1990 75' Written and directed by: Boris Lehman. Assistanted by: Nora Delgado. Image: Patrice
Cologne, Aldo Mugnier, Antoine-Marie Meert. Sound: Laurent Barbey,
Martin Stricker, Henri Morelle.
Editing: Daniel Devalck. Assistant editor:
Olivier Moeckli. Negative cutting: Huguette Vanvolsem. Sound
mix: Thierry Delor. "That may be the
subject of your work: like me, but in a totally different way, you try
through cinema to bring together the proofs of your existence."
Richard Dindo, lettre
à Boris Lehman
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Dissolution -
6 solutions
A group of contemporary French women
filmmakers. This cassette brings together nine films plus the cover signed
by these six women. The work is seemingly widely diverse, but in their
details they come together and weave surprising connections. Fréderique Devaux - Fils d'images 1999
1'19" Vivian Ostrovsky - Public Domain
1996 13' (vosta) Marcelle
Thirache - Palme d'or 1993 4' Martine Rousset
- Chants 1996 20' Marcelle Thirache - Big Band 2001 3' Frédérique
Devaux - Bri(n)s d'images 1998 5' Marcelle
Thirache - Abstraction n°1 1999 3' Frédérique Devaux - Logomagie 1998 4'10" Jennifer Burford - Portraiture 1999 b/w 20' Cécile Fontaine - jacquette
/ cover
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Fluxus - Fluxfilm
Anthology
Starting
in the early sixties, Fluxus
followed in the footsteps of the Futurist and Dada
avant-gardes, going against the established grain
of Fine Art and Official Art. 37
films. Durée totale
: 120' 1962-1970 col. & b/w Films by: Nam June
Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas,
Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh,
James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht,
Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek,
Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell,
Albert Fine, George Landow,
Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter
Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier.
Contains a 44-page booklet by Maeva
Aubert presenting the
Fluxus artists and films.
This title will be available in NTSC VHS in May.
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Hans Richter
- Early Works
Rhythmus 21 1921 sil. b/w
4' Rhythmus 23 1923 sil. b/w 4' Filmstudie 1926 b/w 5' Ghosts Before Breakfast
"Vormittagsspuk" 1927-28 b/w 7'
Race Symphony "Rennsymphonie"
1928-29 b/w 7' Two Pence Magic "Zweigroschenzauber"
1928-29 b/w 2' Inflation 1927-28 b/w 3' Everything Turns Everything
Revolves 1929 b/w 3' "By film I mean visual rhythm... to see
movement, organized movement, wakes us up, wakes up resistance, wakes
up the reflexes, and perhaps wakes up our sense of enjoyment as
well." Hans Richter
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Harry Smith -
Early Abstractions
Films
No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 1939-1956 23' Contient
un livret de 40 pages avec la bio-filmographie de Harry Smith ainsi
qu'une sélection d'entretiens sur sa vie et son ¦uvre.
"My movies are made by God; I am just the medium for them."
Harry Smith "Smith's films can be watched for pure color
enjoyment, or for motion - Harry Smith's films never stop moving - or
you can watch them for hidden and symbolic meanings, alchemical
signs." Jonas Mekas
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Jeff Scher - Reasons to be Glad
NYC
(1976 2') Reasons to be Glad (1980 4') Area Striata
(1985 b/w 4') Milk of Amnesia (1992 6') Trigger
Happy (1997 b/w 5') Garden of Regrets (1994 7')
Yours (1997 4') Post-Cards from Warren (1998 1')
Turkish Traffic (1998 4') Ann Arbor Film Festival
Trailer (1998 1') Bang Bang
(1998 b/w 4') Sid (1998 4'). Includes BONUS film
Grand Central (1999 b/w 15'), Scher's poetic light
and shadow portrait of Grand Cetral Station, shot
in luminous black and white.
"Some
of these films started from the love of film and
the greedy desire to fill every frame with as much
color and shape as possible." Jeff Scher (1976-99) 61mins
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Jonas Mekas - Walden
Two
boxed sets, with video cassettes, poster and 150-page book with
unpublished texts by 60 authors including the personalities appearing
in the film and critical texts. Diaries, Notes and Sketches 1969 180'
Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the
diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an
epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of
the '60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
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Jonas Mekas - Lost Lost Lost
Diaries,
Notes and Sketches 1976 b/w & color 180' Lost Lost
Lost comprises the first shots Mekas took upon his arrival in America as a political refugee.
It documents the New York counter-culture of the
'50s as well as the development of Mekas' own
filming style.
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Jonas Mekas - This Side of Paradise
1999
col. & b/w 35' "The time was still very close to the untimely,
tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her
children to do, to help to ease the transition, life without a father.
These were summers of happiness, joy and continuous celebrations of
life and friendships. These were days of Little Fragments of
Paradise." Jonas Mekas (1999) 35 mins
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Jonas Mekas - Trois amis (box set, book in
French)
The
book and box are only available in French: the cassette is available by
itself under the title THREE FRIENDS. Jonas Mekas' experimental home movies featuring John
Lennon, Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, the
founder of Fluxus. Zefiro
Torna, Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas. - 1992 35' Happy Birthday to John (avec
John Lennon et Yoko Ono) - 1995 18' Le livre : Fluxfriends de Jonas Mekas,
collection 15x21, Editions du Centre
Pompidou, Paris 2002, 160 pages
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Jürgen Reble
- Passion
Passion
(1989-90 b&w/colour 54') Reble's
unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating
structures and colors. Micro- and macro-scopic imagery build a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape
- an intimate perception of creation. "Film
is something which is always in a state of flux...
The images, 'real' in the beginning, gradually disintegrate
and the gelatine layer
- where the chemicals are embedded - dissolves.
All that's left in the end is the 'raging of the
elements'."
Rumpelstilzchen
(1989 15')
Jürgen
Reble Total running time
69 mins
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Ken Jacobs -
Tom Tom the Piper's Son
1969-1971
b/w & col. 110' Boxed set containing the 2-hour
film and a 214-page bilingual book, a special "Tom
Tom" issue of Exploding,
the French magazine of analysis in film experimentation.
Articles by: Xavier Baert,
Nicole Brenez, Frédérique
Devaux, Vincent Deville,
Ken Jacobs, Emeric de Lastens, Loïg Le Bihan, Stéfani de Loppinot, Christophe Passemard, Emmanuel
Siéty. "Jacobs reveals
film as a Frankenstein art. What is a movie but
a celluloid corpse brought to life by the electrical
spark of the projector? Rephotographing
a 1905 Biograph one-reeler,
Jacobs penetrates into the image, delving into each
shot, zooming in on details, probing deeper and
deeper". BONUS title
A Tom Tom Chaser (2002 b/w 11') Jacobs' never-before-seen
poetic riff on the transformation of his film from
chemical to electronic form during the telecine
(video transfer) process.
David
Schwartz Total running time 133 mins
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Len Lye -
Rhythms
A Colour Box 35mm 1935 4' Kaleidoscope 35mm 1935 4'
The Birth of the Robot 35mm 1936 7' Rainbow Dance 35mm 1936 5' Trade
Tattoo 35mm 1937 5' Colour Flight 35mm 1938
4' Swinging the Lambeth Walk 35mm 1939 4'
Color Cry 1953 3' Rhythm 1957 b/w 1' Free Radicals 1958-1979 b/w 4'
Particles in Space 1967-1980 b/w 4' Tal Farlow 1960-1980 b/w 2' Len Lye pioneered
"direct film," film made without a camera, by painting and
scratching images directly onto celluloid, by reworking found footage,
by casting shadows of objects onto unexposed film, and by experimenting
with a number of early color techniques. (1935-80) 47 mins
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Letterist Films: Woman, Women!
Includes:
Hélène Richol, Blue Kisses and Marshmallows
and Woman is Not What She Used to Be; Christiane
Guymer, The Witness or Timid Expectations;
Suzanne Lemaître, All Women are Joan of Arcs;
Hélène Richol,; Pip Chodorov, End Memory; and Maurice Lemaître, A Love Story. (1978-95)
68 min.
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Lionel Soukaz - Ixe
1980 48' Includes 40-page booklet
with new texts by Xavier Baert, Nicole Brenez and Lionel Soukaz. "Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS - as it is
pronounced in French - like a scream, a wound) is an imploded,
crucified film. X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the
compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and
Drugs." Guy Hocquenghem
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Martin Arnold
- Cinemnesis
pièce touchée
1989 b/w 15' passage à l'acte
1993 b/w 12' Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy 1998 b/w 15' Contains a 16-page essay by Akira Lippit, "Cinemnesis,
Martin Arnold's Memory Machine." “I work with feature-film
scenes, with popular cinema, so for my work the image itself is also
very important: it doesn’t only show certain places, actors, and
actions; it also shows the dreams, hopes, and taboos of the epoch and
society that created it.” Martin Arnold (1989-98) 42 mins
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Maurice Lemaître - Films d'amour
L'Amour-système 1979 b/w 17' L'Amour réinventé 1979
15' Des scènes d'amour très
réalistes avec force détails
et gros plans S-8mm 1978 15'30" L'Amour, qu'est-ce ? 1976-1989 24'
Chantal D., Star 1968 26' "In love, men and women still have a
long way to go in order to get beyond the stereotypes they think they
have overcome." Maurice Le
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Maurice Lemaître - Le Film est
déjà commencé ?
35mm
1951 62 mins "The first attempt to break
down the normal framework of the film presentation, this screening
focuses on different terms of the film spectacle - sound, picture,
screen, theater - and undermines each individually." Maurice Lemaître
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Music by
Teiji Ito 1959 b/w 15' At Land 1944 b/w sil. 16' Ritual in Transfigured Time
1945-46 b/w sil. 16'
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Maya Deren - Dance Films
replaces
version copublished with Editions à voir "history of
dance vol 2") A Study in Choreography for
the Camera 1945 b/w 2'30" Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 b/w
14'30" Meditation on Violence 1948 b/w 13' The Very Eye of Night
1952-55 b/w 15' In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a
limitless, cinemato-graphic space. Moreover,
he shares, with the camera, a collaborative responsibility for the
movements themselves. This is, in other words, a dance which can exist
only on filmS The
movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn
of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Being a film ritual,
it is achieved not in spatial terms alone, but in terms of a time
created by the camera
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Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen
1947-1951,
1977 b/w 54' Edited by Teiji
and Cherel Ito using images filmed by Maya Deren in Haïti 1947-51.
The soundtrack is made up of recordings taken by Maya Deren and texts from her book Divine Horsemen
published in 1953. Divine Horsemen is a documentary on the Voodoo
religion of Haïti. It deals with the rituals
of three cults whose origins stem from Africa. The viewer is
introduced to a pantheon of spirits who communicate to the worshipper.
Several scenes demonstrate the phenomenon known as "possession. "
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Mekas Mekas
& Chapelle 3 Voyages en Lithuanie
ADOLFAS
MEKAS : Going Home 1971 60' JONAS MEKAS : Reminiscences of a Journey to
Lithuania 1971-1972 82' POLA CHAPELLE : Journey to Lithuania 1971 90'
In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas
and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania. They
had left Lithuania as young men, destined
for a German labor camp. Now they came home for a visit, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle.
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Mekas, Menken
- Visions of Warhol
Award
Presentation to Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas 1963
b/w 12' Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations,
Willard Maas 1964 4' Anthropological Sketches: Friendships and
Intersections, Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas 1963-90 35' Andy Warhol, Marie Menken 1965 18' Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic
Inevitable, Ronald Nameth 1967 12' Scenes
from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde
film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist. With Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer,
Ivy Nicholson, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, George Maciunas,
Barbara Rubin, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger,
the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Ingrid SuperstarŠ
(1963-90) 81 mins.
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Michael Snow
- Presents
1980
98' A film by Michael Snow with Jane Fellowes,
Peter Melnick, Robin Collyer,
Keith Lock, Brian Day, Stephen Smith, Gregory Svaluto,
Ric Amis and The
Canada Council. Contains a 40-page booklet of texts
on the film by Michael Snow, Max Knowles, Ivora
Cusack and Stéfani
de Loppinot. "The apparent
vertical scratch in celluloid that opens Presents litterally
opens into a film within the film. When its figure awakens into a woman
in a real set, the slapstick satire of structural film begins."
Philip Monk
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Michael Snow
- Rameau's Nephew (box set)
"Rameau's
Nephew by Diderot (Thanx
to Dennis Young) By Wilma Schoen" 1971-74 255' Box set: 2 cassettes and 180-page book, co-published by
the review Exploding, lead us through this cinematic maze, one of the
most ambitious projects in avant-garde film. "It is a sound-film, a 'talking picture' which concentrates on
making experiencable the truth that recorded
speech is not spoken speech." Michael Snow
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Oskar Fischinger
- Volume 1
OSKAR
FISCHINGER (1900-1967) was the champion of absolute ideas in abstract
experimental films. He left Germany in 1936 at the
invitation of Paramount and went to
Hollywood, where he was the
initial inspiration for Walt Disney's Fantasia, and where he continued
to work in the abstract field both in painting and filmmaking until his
death in 1967. Fischinger alone, of the many who had used the form, continued solely to produce
abstractions on film, to the point where his name became identified
with the form. Muratti Greift
Ein 1934 2' Spiritual Constructions 1927 b/w
7' Study N°7 1931 b/w 2'30" Study N°8 1931 b/w 5' Kreise 1933 2' Allegretto 1936 3' Motion Painting
N°1 1947 11'
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Oskar Fischinger
- Volume 2
Muratti Privat
1935 b/w 2' Wax Experiments 1921-1926 9' München-Berlin
Wanderung 1927 b/w 5' Study 5 1930 b/w 3'
Study 9 1931 b/w 3' Study 12 1932 b/w 5' Komposition
in Blau 1935 4' American March 1941 3'
Organic Fragment 1941 1' Mutoscope Reels 1945
b/w 2' Muntz TV Commercial 1952 b/w 1' Both
tapes include a booklet of texts by William Moritz.
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Patrick Bokanowski - Courts-métrages
La Plage 1991 12' La Femme qui se poudre
1972 b/w 18' Déjeuner du
matin 1974 b/w 12' Au bord
du lac 1993 6'
"Now there are films such as La Plage
and Au Bord du Lac
which return in a more classical way, that is more closely linked to
painting (and always to music, thanks again to Michèle
Bokanowski), to the royal road of
experimental film." Dominique Noguez
(1972-93) 48 mins
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Patrick Bokanowski - L'Ange
35mm
1977-1982 70' Music: Michèle Bokanowski. Image: Patrick Bokanowski,
Philippe Lavalette. With Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture, Jacques Faure, Mario Gonzalés,
René Patrignani, Rita Renoir. * Selected at Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes 1982. *
Grand Prix du Jury et
Prix de la SACEM, Besançon. * 1er Prix du film expérimental au Festival de Grenoble.
"...this unclassifiable artist-alchemist of celluloid, author of
the most fantastic visions in French cinema." - Vincent Ostria, Cahiers du cin
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Paul Sharits - Mandala films
Piece Mandala
/ End War 1966 sil. 5' N:O:T:H:I:N:G 1968
36' T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G 1968 12' "You are pulled into the world of
color, your color senses are expanded, enriched. You become aware of
changes, of tones around your own daily reality. Your vision is
changed. ... Your experience range is expanded. You have gained a new
insight. You have become a richer human being." Jonas Mekas
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Peter Rose -
Analogies
Incantations
1968-1972 8' Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time 1977 14' The Man
Who Could Not See Far Enough 1981 33' Secondary Currents 1983-1990 b/w
16' Spirit Matters 1991 6' "I'm an escape artist. I aspire to
travel in the fifth dimension, to speak unknown languages, to discover
the next stage in the evolution of thought. I construct structural
parables that allude to the possibility of there being more to the
universe than is permitted by our explanations." Peter Rose
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Peter Tscherkassky - Cinemascope Trilogy
Miniaturen S-8mm col & 1983 b/w 16' L'Arrivée
35 mm/CinemaScope 1998 b/w 2'10" Outer
Space 35 mm/CinemaScope 1999 b/w 9'40"
Dream Work 35 mm/CinemaScope 2001 10'15"
"I wanted to make a film in which the physical materiality of the
film strip could intervene in the film's story." Peter Tscherkassky
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Rémi Lange - Les Yeux
brouillés
S-8mm 1995-2000 85' Diary film by Rémi Lange. Story, camera, editing: Rémi Lange, Antoine Parlebas.
Music: Tiburce. Production: Magouric Productions & Rémi
Lange with help from THECIF-CONSEIL REGIONAL ILE-DE-FRANCE and the
C.N.C. "Antoine and Rémi have been
living together for over three years. Rémi
films their daily life in Super-8. One day, he finds himself thinking:
"the desire between us is gone"... But maybe he's only
inventing problems in order to make his life into a real movieŠ"
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Rémi Lange -
Omelette
S-8mm 1993-97 78' Journal filmé de Rémi Lange. Histoire
: Rémi Lange et Antoine Parlebas. Image : Antoine Parlebas et Rémi Lange. Production : Les Films de l'Ange.
Affiche : Tiburce (Multimédiart). Soon to be
released in English. Contains a 40 page booklet by Rémi Lange, "Recipe for Omelette,
letter to my viewers (1998)" on the making of his diary film, the
writing of his journal, and his friends
reactions upon seeing Omelette. "How to reveal one's homosexuality to Mommy and Daddy?
Rémi Lange films himself getting a big slap
in the face: a family secret he hadn't foreseen. It's funny, and as it
should be for super-8 on the big screen, blown up out of
proportion!" Frédérique Pajes
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Robert Breer - Recreation
Includes an in-depth study of Breer's work, a 150-page book in French and
English, by filmmaker and writer Jennifer Burford. Form Phases IV 1954
3'30" Recreation 1956-57 2' A Man and His Dog Out for Air 1957 b/w
3' Jamestown Baloos 1957 b/w & color 6'
Blazes 1961 3' 69 1968 5' Fuji 1974 10' LMNO 1978 10' Swiss Army Knife
with Rats and Pigeons 1980 6' Bang! 1986 8' Time Flies 1997 5'
"Single images one after another in quick succession fusing into motionŠ this is cinema." Robert Breer (1954-97) 60 min
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Rose Lowder - Bouquet d'images
Roulement, rouerie, aubage 1978 b/w
& coul. sil. 14'10" Les Tournesols (Sunflowers) 1982 sil.
2'41" Impromptu 1989 7'48" Quiproquo 1992 12'27" Bouquets 1-10 1994-1995 sil. 10'43" Some important examples of
Rose Lowder's films that are based on a
variety of techniques devised to compose the image in the camera while
filming.
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Stan Brakhage - Anticipation of the Night
1958 sil. 39' "This film
splendidly develops the main traits of Brakhage's
films: no hero, visual sensuality, fluidity of movement and montage, a
passion for color." Dominique Noguez
"Brakhage has produced a body of silent
work of fragile beauty that directly addresses our need for intense,
tender, and prayerful cinema, a poetic exploration near the pinpoint of
mind where light, spirit, and body come upon one another."
Nathaniel Dorsky
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Stan Brakhage - Dog Star Man
1961-1964 sil. 75' édité avec le concours du CNC. "Dog Star Man elaborates in
mythic, almost systematic terms, the world view of the lyrical
films." P. Adams Sitney
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Stan Brakhage - Hand-Painted Films
Night
Music IMAX 70mm 1986 0'30" Autumnal 1993 5' Study in Color and
Black and White 1993 2'30" Three Homerics
1993 6' Ephemeral Solidity 1993 5' The Harrowing & Tryst Haunt 1993
5' Stellar 1993 2'30" Black Ice 1994 2'30" Chartres Series 1994 9' Naughts
1994 5'30" Originally a student of the abstract expressionist
painters, Stan Brakhage has steadily
completed over 200 films in a forty year period. Considered a master in
avant-garde circles, his theory of representing "Closed-eye
vision" in film has led him to these recent hand-painted works, a
visual tour de force. (1986-94) 44 mins
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Stan Vanderbeek - Visibles
Science
Friction 1959 10' A la mode 1959 b/w 7' Breathdeath
1963 b/w 15' Poemfield n°2 1971 6' Achoo Mr Kerrooschev 1960 b/w 2' See Saw Seams 1965 b/w 9'
Panels for the Walls of the World 1967 b/w 8' Oh 1968 9'30" Symmetricks 1971 b/w 6' "Stan Vanderbeek is like Georges Méliès,
whom he claims as godfather, an illusionist. His earliest films are
animated collages, his midway films are collages of film
technique." Sheldon Renan 1959-72, 105 mins
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Stephane Marti - Les trois
offrandes
Les Métaphores d'Alex 1999
15' Le Rituel de Fontainebleau 2000 30' Le Veau d'or 2001 30' Includes a boklet: Stephane Marti's bio-filmography
and an interview with Raphaël Bassan. Super-8 trilogy of three autonomous
mirrors/films expressing Marti's themes of the sacred, the body and
desire.
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Takahiko Iimura - Sixties Experiments
Junk
8mm 1962 b/w 12' Music: Takehisa Kosugi Ai (Love) 8mm 1962 b/w 10' Music: Yoko Ono
On Eye Rape 16mm 1962 b/w 10' Co-R: Natsuyuki
Nakanishi A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput
16mm 1964 b/w 12' with Sho Kazakura "A playful irony attenuates and
lightens the conceptual weight of Iimura's
art, always poised between abstract and concrete, Zen spirituality and
technology, utmost spareness and complex mechanicalness of seeing." Bruno Di Marino
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Zanzibar / Jackie Raynal
- Deux Fois
35mm
1969 b/w 70' "This film was shot in one week in
Barcelona. It puts into a question
Raynal's own profession, film editing,
expressing violent urges in this autobiographical context." Paule Lejeune "She
put in her film the visionary crazed coldness of major paranoïacs. We also find the murderors,
painful madness of Fritz Lang's great films, in which all the fiction
it reduced to sketchy outlines, arabesques, leaving almost no
trace." Serge Daney
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Zanzibar
films / Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur
35mm 1968 62' With Bernadette Lafont, Laurent Terzieff
and Stanislas Robiolle. Shot in May 1968, Le Révélateur is the first of the
Zanzibar films to be released on
video. "Le Révélateur is a dream-like
film about what psychoanalysis calls the primal scene: how a film is
born, how a child is made, the first time a child sees his parents
making love." Philippe Garrel
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Arts Media Pty. Ltd., 2004
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