A film animation experiment in metaphoric imagery. This is a surrealistic garden where the earth seethes with strange, unusual shapes and activity, accelerated in movement, compressed in time. Insect-like creatures dart under and over the sand with elusive swiftness; Picasso-like faces stare momentarily upward, mutate, and disappear; wilted blossoms become suddenly animated. What happens on the screen is punctuated and accompanied by synthetic sound effects.
A lonely street musician meets a young soldier who has just deserted.
Portrays a combination of mounts, dismounts, floor skills and a variety of stunts ranging from beginning, medium to superior difficulty. Demonstrates spotting techniques. Includes combined movements for useful beam routines.
Part of the Highlights Of The Ann Arbor Film Festival at the Whitney Museum's New American Filmmaker series, Ad Hominem is a political satire made with repetition, again and again rerunning a few TV images of President Nixon's face.
Short funny animation about Flower Power. A General inspects his soldiers and find a flower on a helmet. He gets angry, the flower explodes, the soldiers are happy and dance like they used to do in the Flower Power period.
INT operating theatre, man is wide awake while he has an operation, acupuncture as anaesthetic. Fruit spooned into patient's mouth. Man gets up and walks out of room after operation. Patient interviewed after operation says he didn't have much pain.
Follows the experiences of two brothers and their little sister as they explore the inside of a large empty house which is rumored to be haunted.
Mexican feature film
The Videofreex had several experiences with the Black Panther Party, including interviewing Illinois Chapter Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and New Haven Minister of Information Cappy Pinderhughes. In this tape, recorded on March 5th 1971, the Videofreex one-person camera crew Bart Friedman is walking the hallways of CBS, trying to find out where a video statement by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver is located. The shots are mostly close up on people’s torsos and there is some image loss, but the sound is intact. The tape has an eerie espionage feel. There is a conflict between station personnel and Bart: they keep telling him, “You can’t tape in here.”
"Abstraction deals with the interpretation of abstract form as found in the combination of the nude body, landscape, and objects. Imagery is achieved through visual distortion dealing with reflective surfaces, as well as the superimposition of subject matter. The rhythmic structure focuses on a pulsating expansion and contraction that simulates a life force. An attempt has been made to reveal the basic concepts of a painter's approach to the distillation of reality." —Rosalind Schneider
Gaelic lessons on the Isle of Lewis.
Macdonald lays out his theory of anarchy—in its purest sense of a rejection of hierarchy—in this seriocomic short he argues that protesters, police, and soldiers alike are not the perpetrators of violence but are victims at the hands of leaders.
Re-enactments of current events in the GDR for FRG television
The objective is to show myself visiting myself, and then showing the frustration of loneliness, by trying to be with myself. –Al Wong
A disaffected youth leaves home. With a friend, he explores a demolished house.
Operating on the frontier between art and architecture, Graham Stevens builds inflatable forms and environments that create a dialog between poetry and hyper-technology. Engaged in a critical approach to architecture and opposed to its “rootedness,” Stevens advocates an art of air and movement.
A strange street singer and a poor girl's love story...
‘Games of waves, of light and of the camera. The vertical becomes horizontal, the ground rises to the sky as the sky comes to replace it, the sun covers itself with water while the water launches an attack on the sun.’ C. Brunel
