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.
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.
This documentary by Richard Everson marked the first groundbreaking attempt to depict the events of Garabandal in color 16MM film.
"People with an abiding interest in what young America is thinking today will be happy to learn that with perhaps one exception all the movies in the Whitney Museum's current Teen‐Age Filmmakers program are concerned with nightmare visions. The one exception is “Quiet Snow,” a nature study by Rob Hahn and Corey Kaup, which earns its “perhaps” because after several minutes of pastoral imagery it ends with about 30 seconds of mere blackness accompanied only by noise. For all I know, that may be a nightmare." - Roger Greenspun, New York Times, Oct. 19th, 1971
"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.
A history of the Big Red One in Vietnam, 1965-1970. Part of "The Big Picture" series.
Made in 1971, "Comitati Politici" encircles some exclusive witness of the union spokepersons, the employees and the factory workmen at the time.
This short documentary explains the importance of formalist elements such as positive/negative space, texture, color balance, and rhythm in painting and sculpture. The film characterizes these various compositional strategies as being universal, but foremost stresses their manifestation in twentieth-century art.
A look at the design and production of various products.
An interim view of the North West New town from David Mahlowe
"Take a circle as big as you want, just come back to the place you started from before sunset. All the land you go around is yours."
A Film by Keiji Uematsu.
The Boy, the Bird and the Musical Instrument
Popular comedy on traditional society and pamphlet against maraboutism. Two stories follow each other: a young typist is raped by a marabout who will not be worried, while a young man, opposed to the laxity of the brotherhoods of the administration, resists multiple solicitudes.
"A voyage into red cabbage and shells. Shells transform themselves into orange canyons. Cabbage as the universe! A painter's film. Soundtrack: the sound of the sculptures of the Baschet brothers." - RS
