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
Sequel to "The Birth of Electronic Music: Part I" (1971) The 2nd installment covers the slightly more modern era.
This installment covers "electronic" music from 400 BC to 1950, including analog techniques such as the "soundhouses" of the 17th century to the glass harmonica, before finally moving along to early electronic instruments such as the Dynamophone and the Ondes Martenot.
Saturnus (1971) by Ludo Mich (filmed with a self made fish-eye lens) is one of the top works of Belgian underground cinema, still fascinating young generations everywhere. Strange pictures and sounds are received from outer space, they show us the bizarre life on one of the moons of Saturn. In a self-designed setting, several characters: a king, a queen, torturers, gladiators and bush women. They speak an unintelligible language (Lingala) and are dressed up grotesquely, painted Ensorian style. The soundtrack for Saturnus was made using fucked up sound sculptures, heavy tape machines, non stop sax outburst and African poetry and was released in 2005 as part of the Ultra Eczema LP Music from Films by Ludo Mich. One of the leading roles is played by Nicole Van Goethem (1941-2000), Oscar Winner for her animation film Een Griekse Tragedie in 1986.
In this vintage promotional video from the early 1970s, witness how John Morton in the Brock Racing Enterprises Datsun 510 takes on (and defeats) all the European challengers in the drama-filled SCCA Under 2.5-liter Trans-Am championship. This is a charming look into a seminal chapter of Nissan's (Datsun's) motorsports history.
In 1970 Valerie Solanas was released from a mental institution, two years after shooting Andy Warhol. Still unstable, she moved into the Chelsea Hotel where she penned a death threat to Michel Auder and his wife Viva. Using a soundtrack by Wagner, Auder surveys the handwritten evidence of Solanas's threat, before reciting its threatening prose melodramatically.
A chinese documentary.
ACI Films takes you to the county fair.
Summer of '70 on the Adriatic: fun at the beach, a beauty contest, water skiing, holiday hedonism. A postcard of endless indifference when growing up in Yugoslavia.
Experimental film responding to the controversial Industrial Relations Bill of 1971.
A woman who was hitchhiking ends up in the hospital after being raped. She relives the incident in nightmarish slow-motion, questioning her choices.
Film by Ray L. Birdwhistell produced by the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
Mohamed Aboulouakar’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway.
Footage of American bombing of Vietnam.
Werner von Mutzenbecher created Rom 70/71 with an Agfa Microflex super-8 camera, during a residency at the Istituto Svizzero (Swiss Institute) in Rome, from autumn 1970 to spring 1971. As he wanders the city streets in the afternoons, the artist captures, without any preconceived intentions, urbans details, or micro-events that draw his attention. Mutzenbecher describes Rom 70/71 as "reflex cinema" and develops a spontaneous form of filmed diary about a location, in this case a city, without focusing on human presence.
