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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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