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"A precursor to the style and energy of my early 16mm films, which I tend to think of as a trilogy: comprised of ‘Petit Mal’, ‘Ciao Bella or Fuck me Dead’ [1978] and ‘Soothing the Bruise’ [1980]" (B.B)
In 1973, Sweet were the subject of a documentary All That Glitters for BBC Schools series Scene. Being intended for “educational purposes,” the program had to pose a relevant topic for debate among its teenage audience—in this case, “Is the music business really that glamorous?” Over a period of two to three days, Scene followed the band members Brian Connolly (vocals), Steve Priest (bass/coals), Andy Scott (guitar) and Mick Tucker (drums) as they rehearsed for a Top of the Pops appearance (which led to an outcry over Priest’s Nazi outfit) and their (now hailed as “legendary”) Christmas show at London’s Rainbow Theater.
Tukiki is a small Eskimo boy who sets out to discover the meaning of Christmas along with a magical character known as North Wind. He visits different places and learns about their customs of Christmas which brings about a turn of events when he arrives home.
Early short film by John Harrison
In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations, Vocabulary, Matrix) for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. The resulting series, entitled Vasulka Video, is innovative and informative television. The Vasulkas introduce and contextualize their works and discuss their processing techniques, providing invaluable insights into their groundbreaking experiments with electronic image and sound manipulation.
Tigers are Better Looking is an adaptation of a short story by Jean Rhys. In the film, Shariffe directs his view towards exile in Europe, showing the wide disparity between North and South. The film contrasts two different civilisations, the homeland, Sudan, and the country of exile, Great Britain. Through poetic abstractions the director manages to portray the strong sense of exile and the longing for the homeland.
Emshwiller writes that Sur Faces is a "stylized collaborative videotape in which actors working with (the artist) explore sexual politics as expressed in styles of drama from Shakespeare to 19th-century social theater, early 20th-century Freudian work, and contemporary fictional autobiographical improvisation. A video collage juxtaposing different ways of using video to express psychological states and conflict." In a synthesis of densely processed, textural images with documentations of dramatic role-playing from sources as varied as Richard III, Strindberg, and the Open Theater, Emshwiller undertakes an inventive inquiry into the transformation and representation of male/female relationships, via video and theater.
Cannes Film Festival 1975
For a long time now, we have been seeing outrageous attempts at tackling the 'woman problem' (and the 'man problem') by pretentious and old-fashioned 'professors' or 'revolu-tionaries,' related to the Nazis or Stalinists, who have just as outrage-ously exalted the proletariat, race or nationality, leading to racist and imperialist crimes. Such excessive behavior can only lead to the exploita-tion and destruction of the very gender concerned. In any case, the basic components of simple love and simple friendship (and a fortiori of Super-Love and Super-Friendship), that we have explored in depth (as evoked in my film, What is Love?), are still so poorly understood today by our contemporaries that even those who claim to be happily experiencing these run the risk of being quickly proven wrong by Life itself."
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
America's great film director-actor Buster Keaton, discussed by film critic Andrew Sarris and Raymond Rohauer, cinema historian, with some unusual perspectives on his goals and motivations. Illustrated with many film excerpts from 1917 to 1928. Rohauer knew Keaton and was partly responsible from rescuing many of his old films from destruction. Sarris is a leading film critic who has often written about Keaton.
The struggle of fishermen in Portugal after Salazar's tyranny.
Regarded as Sandra Davis' psychodrama.
Mary Abbott is a schoolteacher whose husband has to go away for the night on business. After returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.
A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.
Super-8mm footage documenting the gallery set-up for Acconci's exhibition AIR-TIME at Sonnabend Gallery in 1973.
United States 1975, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 6 min
Clerow Wilson and his friends attempt to put on a play to raise money for their band uniforms.
Bart, a gunslinger, dominates the territory. Then Willy wanders into town and falls in love with a prostitute named Rose. Bart chases Willy out of town but he returns with a group of men and shoot it out with Bart and his gang.
On August 13, 1969 thousands of Chicagolandians flocked to downtown Chicago to get a glimpse of the first humans on the Moon (Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr.). Chicago Filmmaker Tom Palazzolo captures the Chicago Apollo 11 Parade with wit and charm, highlighting the hoards of suburbanites who made the journey into the city.
A portrait of a wiry, engaging street hustler, Sal Carulli, whose cocky patter breaks down at the end of the film, when he visits his father’s grave.
Investigative Bigfoot documentary made by Ivan Marx & C. Thomas Biscardi. Features alleged Bigfoot footage which has later found to be hoaxed.
Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothing comes the something we call the world. Being emanates from nothing, and vice versa. Oldest question in the world: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Open Form - Game on an Actress's Face. A segment from a 1971 performance film by the Polish art collective KwieKulik, which uses the face of a famous actress as a canvas on which to experiment.
In this feature-length silent film, Acconci uses hand-written title cards to present an "interior monologue" about speaking, language, and silence. The written text alternates with images of Acconci, alone in the interior of an urban loft or on a rooftop, with the skyline of downtown New York as a backdrop.
Young rich kids, disinherited by their parents, turn to blackmail as a source of income.
Barbara Rosenthal, naked and pregnant, paints a wall.
Young girl, Mindy, has a poodle dog "Mr. Too Little" of the title, and is a part of the circus performers. "Mr. Too Big" is a Tiger, trained by Mindy's Mother. The head of the circus is an angry man who has trained dogs and is mad at Mindy as she took "Mr. Too Little" away as a pet when the dog was one of the most intelligent and talented ever. Many Circus acts perform during the movie. The police get involved when first "Mr. Too Little" runs away and then there is an accident and the tiger "Mr. Too Big" escapes from the circus.
A documentary about the design/construction of the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington, D.C.
A chance meeting on a street corner brings filmmakers Joel L. Freedman and Philip F. Messina face to face with Wayne Shirley, an extraordinary African American street hustler, dope pusher, Vietnam Vet, and self-styled entertainer. Wayne, in the personal surroundings of his apartment, with often delightful candor, unwinds, philosophize, smokes pot and tells of his war, street and drug experiences. He is not a junkie and brags of his ability to shoot dope and not get hooked. Wayne's center stage position is shaken with the arrival of Sonny and Angel, two junkies intent on getting high no matter what. They shoot up as Angel, claiming to be a revolutionary, clashes with Wayne, accusing him of being a good-for-nothing who for a buck will turn his back on his people. A fierce confrontation follows that touches many of the most sensitive issues of the day. The filmmakers, too, are challenged and forced out of their passive roles and made to deal directly with their subjects.
George Greenough chronicles ground zero of the shortboard revolution, as it evolved in 1968. Experience remote Australia and hidden California, as ridden by Bob McTavish, Ted Spencer, Baddy Treloar, Chris Brock, Gary Keys, Russell Hughes and a brigade of the underground's best. Check out Norther NSW in the golden era of the late 1960s, with empty perfection at Lennox Head.
Dancing, cavorting, wasting time. "First Community film after establishing the film class at the Art Academy Münster, Germany [...] all white dressed and with white makeup against black background." (LM)
The Swagman character from ‘Waltzing Matilda’ moved from the billabong to a modern city and the problems he encounters in this new setting.
Ten deliberately untitled films, each separated on the reel by several ft of black leader. #1 begins with blue negative face of child, ends with single centered eye; #2 begins with blowing snow, ends with lamp stand and lights of the city; #3 begins with landscape/sunset thru mist, ends with window sill; #4 begins with green tiled bathroom, ends with golden mirrored image of cameraman; #5 begins with back of airplane seat, ends with horizontal streaks of bold light; #6 begins with brown light thru quartz crystal, ends with candle wick burning and circled by boiling gold flecks; #7 begins with raccoon in rose light, ends with fading face of child; #8 begins with white lamp post, green tree leaves, and window, and ends with flashing window light on brown wall of motel room; #9 begins with rocks, tree trunk and plants in glow of light, ends with green and gold forest scene; #10 begins with flash of scratched "lightning," ends with moving dot, screen fading out.
A documentary about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
Tom is confronted by his parents about being a "dope fiend" for using marijuana.
“The frame itself, which divides what is present to consciousness from what is absolutely elsewhere, is tempered here by the breath, tremor, heartbeat of the perceiver. People this given space, if you will, with images of your own devising.” – HF
Biographical documentary about Harry "The Breaker" Morant, an Australian drover and poet who was court-martialled and executed during the Boer War.
“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.” So begins the artist and writer Russell Connor’s meditative tour of public art in New York City.
Considered one of the century's great photographers, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) is profiled in this 1974 film that follows the slightly eccentric artist in her native Seattle. Cunningham reflects upon her life in photography, and shares her thoughts about feminism, work, marriage, old age and death--all conveyed with an irascible humor that sustained and fortified her throughout her long life. Showcasing many of Cunningham's photos, this film is a tribute to her life and legacy.
"A short film shot in the winter of 1974." - WWD "An unusually balanced film, a very simple film (but then, one which knows itself) . . . light is the subject matter, beginning in sun and ending at fireplace, but this continuity is not permitted to disturb the singular emotion of the film. I am especially intrigued by the stops and-starts within zoom and pan movements-these metamorphizing eye-movement more exactly than the usual smoothness, thus keeping the work most carefully personal." - Stan Brakhage
"Treefall" was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and overlapped. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.
Thai action film starring Sombat Metanee.
A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an undercover "structural" film, this one seems at first to be some sort of berserk travelogue. I spent years going to travelogues as a child, and still have a great fondness for visiting natural history museums in strange cities.
The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Her life revolves around the welfare office and a community facing poverty and unemployment. As a result of the film's events, both the main characters become radicalized and Dorothy eventually turns to violence.
Based on the story of the same title by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, about Nate the Great, a 10-year-old, who tries to solve the mystery of the garbage snatcher
Hoot Kloot is mad at Confederate because he's so slow, so Hoot trades him with another horse. The new horse is fast, but keeps giving Hoot hard time. Hoot ended up trading the fast horse again and gets Confederate again.
A young boy is possessed by the spirit of an Indian medicine man and begins to terrorize the local population.
In 1971, a group of students in New York City learning how to use the nascent technology of portable video interviewed Deborah Hartin for this documentary short. Having spent 20-plus years trying to conform to life in the body of a man, she followed her destiny all the way to Casablanca to receive the gender affirmation surgery that she had long yearned for and had attempted to self-administer in the past. Along with Esther Reilly (who was recently post-operative) and others in the transgender community, Hartin shares her story, revealing how the procedure had transformed her body, her life and her activism.
In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, the demonstrators converged on the New Haven Green to vent their anger and shut Yale down. Yale President Kingman Brewster commissioned a small group of Yale students to document the demonstrations, resulting in this 22-minute black-and-white film.
A hilarious updated version of Hannes Schneider's classic chase film of the 30's. The villain and ski thief, Fred Iselin, is pursued through Vail, Jackson Hole, and Chamonix in France.
The Dogfather tells his nephew a story- his own version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." In this version, the three bears are actually Dogfather and his hench-dogs, and it's pizza instead of porridge, and the Goldilox is an criminal who breaks inside someone's house and eats whatever they have.
A satirical look at suburban life via the "family Christmas letter."
Two episodes from a series of informational shorts made for the ninth festival by subsequent festival manager and Oscar-nominated editor Cassidy. Featuring “Ticket Fred” LaBour and projectionist Peter Wilde.
After the death of her husband a middle-aged woman is looking a new love(r) in her life.
1972 Documentary about a yearly event in San Francisco. What makes San Francisco different? In the 70's you could invite your friends to Christmas Breakfast and make a musical. Everyone pitches in-artists, models, society ladies, gays, straights, lawyers, bohemians, international types--all the colorful crew that makes the city so memorable.
The Gold Rush, Phoenicia as a sea power, political change in Africa, and the Panama Canal are some of the topics considered in showing how different kinds of maps can be used to gain insights into events and patterns of history.
Animated special about two youngsters who are miniaturized and travel through their Uncle's body, to understand more about his health.