The footage shown here features a mix of still images, moving images, and short animated clips. The still images are primarily of a woman in various scenarios, from riding a bike to lying nude on a jagged rock formation. The animated scenes throughout the film include black backgrounds with the following items in bright colors and patterns: mushrooms, the phrase Good-by Fat Larry, and a tiny truck. The soundtrack to this film is a folk melody.
A forty-minute black-and-white tape done in 1971. Fried is seated at a table, trying to run the gauntlet of choices while ordering in a restaurant. He keeps answering the waiter’s questions with more questions.
The film is made up of recordings taken from Tuggener's entire period of creative activity, and brings together places and factories to which the artist produced individual films, books and corporate publications. An inventory of his far-reaching analysis of industry, its activities and the people working within it.
Experimental film about the poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.
1971 / 8mm / color / sound
Animated short by Magdalo Mussio.
'Vibrating Horizon' offers us a view of the sea on a grey day. The horizon in the middle divides the image into two equal fields, the sea and the sky. The quietly rolling waves create an almost meditative atmosphere, until the horizon suddenly takes on a life of its own. The camera shakes on its tripod, as though affected by an earthquake, so that the dividing line between the sea and sky is constantly moving. This camera movement causes the sea and waves to lose their spatiality. The two fields become increasingly abstract, and as a result of the pulsing horizon it seems as if they are attempting to push each other out of the frame.
Moseka, a young woman from Zaire, travels to Belgium to study. With her braided hair and traditional clothes, she is the laughingstock of her fellow students who strive to look European, adopting wigs and European clothing. The film tells of the depersonalization of young Africans when they enter into contact with the European culture.
Based on a construction by Alice Shaddle about the Bardo Plane. –S. E.
This film documents a performance by Taku Furusawa, acting as the Aoyama Outpost of the Kingdom of Lilliput under the influence of Matsuzawa associate Shō Kazakura. Furusawa also acted in the underground theatre group Theater Yakōkan (Night Theater), which had ties with Matsuzawa as well, and in his later years was active under the name Kubikukuri Takuzō, but this film is a valuable document of his early convulsive performance.
Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get his life back on track, but finds only contempt and disappointment in his path. Dissatisfied and angry, Scivano decides, insanely, to make a pact with the devil to obtain power and wealth to plot his revenge.
The film you are about to see is the outcome of a two-semester high school art project. It was made by a seventh grade art class at Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School in Woodland Hills, California. After seeing it, we felt it should be shared with other classes and other teachers.
In a modern Africa, where the music of James Brown is starting to arrive, young people are coming into conflict with the older generations. A musical comedy that tells the story of a girl who wants to become a singer. Her father would rather see her embark on a safer career. But the girl leaves school and, with her mother's help, succeeds in convincing him to send her to the country to study traditional music. Thanks to her stay in the villages in the company of a sociologist friend, the young girl discovers the deep African roots of Afro-American music. When she goes back to the city, she begins to write songs combining Afro-American soul and traditional music
This documentary by Richard Everson marked the first groundbreaking attempt to depict the events of Garabandal in color 16MM film.
"An elaborately structured and miserably acted unveiling of how ruinous people are, it looks like nothing so much as a rich kids' meditation on the vanity of life—from the point of view of a posh Manhattan townhouse." - Roger Greenspun, New York Times review Oct. 19th, 1971 David Wise, the son of Electronic Arts Intermix founder Howard Wise and producer Barbara Wise, was a child prodigy whose pre-adolescent films led him to be described by Jonas Mekas as "the Mozart of Cinema." The young Wise would be trained in stop frame animation by Stan Van der Beek, before going on to his later career as a successful writer of science fiction film and television.
A drunken subway rider is haunted by a toy train, a horde of little people, and the spectre of his drunken grandeur. The news dealer passes through several gross transformations—and some marvelous hallucinations—to emerge as a redsuited monster, a Dr. Jekyllless Mr. Hyde.
A KRON-TV film documentary featuring the last public concert given by one man band musician Jesse Fuller, in Oakland Museum's Cowell Hall on May 7th 1971. Fuller is seen playing several songs (including 'San Francisco Bay Blues') and bantering with the audience, recalling how he appeared in Raoul Walsh's 1924 movie 'The Thief of Bagdad'. Also includes close-up views of him playing his guitar and fotdella (a foot operated percussion bass) and talking about his playing style. Begins and ends with brief scenes of Fuller walking around his Oakland neighborhood.
16mm film, black and white, sound.
