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Earl Brown - Tracer: Chamber Works in Surround SoundDVD from mode Earle Brown first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This "Calder aesthetic" stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$95 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Scott Morrison - Five Video WorksDVD Five key works by the emerging Australian audiovisual artist Scott Morrison focussing on the synergistic nature of sight and sound. Add to Cart $25 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Ira Cohen and Marty Topp - Paradise Now: a collective creation of the Living TheatreDVD + poster + booklet from Arthur Arthur Magazine proudly presents PARADISE NOW: The Living Theatre in Amerika DVD featuring rare, never-before-distributed films and a bacchanal of revolutionary multimedia documents from The Living Theatre's historic and influential '68-'69 American tour. A fulminating art-meets-life installation brought to you in collaboration with The Living Theatre and Universal Mutant, Inc. Add to Cart $47 Personal Use$47 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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SOLUS FILM COLLECTIVE at Anthology Film Archives NYCDVD from Solus Solus is an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm / 16mm and DV. The group was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland, by Moira Tierney and Alan Lambert. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films internationally and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Sir Richard Bishop - God Damn ReligionDVD + CD from Locust For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mention the pocketbooks) of the ignorant masses. Well, Richard Bishop has decided he would like a piece of the action. This film is a diabolical experiment in hypnotic mind control—a phantasmagoric presentation of demonic and divine imagery, meticulously assembled and designed to put the viewer into an altered state of darkened awareness. Includes original music from Elektronika Demonika, as well as unreleased material. Add to Cart $27 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop - Sumatran Folk CinemaDVD from Sublime Frequencies A film by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop, Sumatran Folk Cinema is a psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the heart and soul of the island's culture with the main focus on music. Witness classic Dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, raw TV excerpts, Minang Orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk musicians, audio/visual artifacts and much more wrapped in a 60 minute kaleidoscope complete with an epic soundtrack. Add to Cart $30 Personal Use$30 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Hisham Mayet - Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan HighwayDVD from Sublime Frequencies Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway' captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Add to Cart $30 Personal Use$30 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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José Bénazéraf - Night of Lust (Drogue du vice, La)dvd from LLC BANNED in over half the world! A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz score, and the most beautiful French Babes the world has ever seen. It pricks the conscience, probes the libido and excites the senses! Add to Cart $25 Personal Use$25 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Joel Schlemowitz - Short Experimental Films3 DVD set from Microcinema International Joel Schlemowitz is a wizard of cinema, and this collection of short experimental films is a marvel to behold. Each piece is a unique gem -- quirky, provocative, playful, often handmade, and always daring -- celebrating Joel's astonishing mastery of the tools of filmmaking, and his poetic grasp on the art of cinema. -- Alan Berliner Add to Cart $75 Personal Use$75 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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John Cage - Variations VII: E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & EngineeringDVD from Artpix Variations VII, performed at 9 Evenings, was the next to last in John Cage's series of indeterminate works that he had begun in 1958, which made increasing use of electronic equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of Variations VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$70 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Margaret Tait - Margaret Tait, Selected Films 1952 - 1976DVD from Lux Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most unique and individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films. Margaret described her life's work as consisting of making film-poems. She often quoted Lorca's phrase of 'stalking the image' to define her philosophy and method, the idea that if you look at an object closely enough it will speak its nature. Add to Cart $50 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Stefan and Franciszka Themerson - The Films of Stefan and Franciszka ThemersonDVD from Lux The Themersons had a significant influence on the art and philosophy of the avant-garde of Eastern Europe during the 1930s. Their work reflected something of the Dada and Constructivist forms and ideas of the time, but what most distinguished them throughout their lives, was their remarkable invention and technical experiment. http://www.themersonarchive.com/ Add to Cart $55 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Guy Sherwin - OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 – 2007DVD / 128 page book from Lux Optical Sound Films collects the ongoing work and research of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent British film artists of the last 40 years in a unique artist's book and DVD publication. Optical Sound Films explores in detail one of his particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound. Add to Cart $65 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Vivienne Dick - Afterimages 4: Vivienne DickDVD from Lux Born in Donegal, Ireland, Vivienne Dick moved to New York in 1975. There she became part of a group of filmmakers affiliated to the music and aesthetics known as 'No Wave'. Shot mainly on Super-8, Dick's films from this period feature many people and musicians from the No Wave movement in New York, such as Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, James Chance and Ikue Mori. Add to Cart $240 Academic/Institutional Use |
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Lis Rhodes - Afterimages 3: Lis Rhodes (volume 1)DVD from Lux Lis Rhodes has been at the forefront of British experimental filmmaking since the early 1970s. A strong formal aesthetic has been developed in her films, reflecting her involvement with the debates and practice which emerged from the London Filmmakers' Co-operative, where she was Cinema Curator 1975-6. Add to Cart $240 Academic/Institutional Use |
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Wholphin ISSUE 5: Winter 2008DVD / Journal from McSweeney's The fifth issue of Wholphin features an adaptation of Michael Chabon's short story "House Hunting," starring Paul Rudd and Zoey Deschanel; the world champion, one-handed, blind-folded Rubik's Cube master; the ancient art of tree-hanging; an Oscar-nominated animated short; an infuriating expose of the U.S. governments arm twisting, horse thieving assault on two Shoshone Indian grannies; giant paper airplanes; drunk bees; meat puppets; and a short film about Darfuri rebels literally smuggled out of Sudan in the back of a horse cart. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$35 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Fassbinder Collection II (Martha/In A Year With 13 Moons)DVD from Fantoma He has been called everything from a petty tyrant to the last great filmmaker of the 20th century. In little more than ten years, Rainer Werner Fassbinder created an amazing legacy of forty-three films. Before his death at the age of 37, Fassbinder had destroyed boundaries, redefined genres, and changed the course of German cinema. Fantoma is very proud to present this special 2-DVD set featuring two of his finest films. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$35 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Fassbinder Collection I: Whity/Pioneers in Ingolstadt2DVD from Fantoma "He has been called everything from a petty tyrant to the last great filmmaker of the 20th century. In little more than ten years, Rainer Werner Fassbinder created an amazing legacy of forty-three films. By his death at the age of 37, Fassbinder had destroyed boundaries, redefined genres, and changed the course of world cinema."Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$35 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Richard Elfman - Forbidden ZoneDVD from Fantoma A frantic, funny, and occasionally profane blend of Fleischer Brothers cartoons, German Expressionism, Depression-era musicals, and '60s underground movies, cult aficionados will be delighted by the sheer energy and imagination of this long-unavailable classic. Add to Cart $25 Personal Use$25 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Jose Mojica Marins - The Coffin Joe Trilogy3DVD set in Coffin! from Fantoma Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucinations...Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape and talon-like fingernails, is a horror icon in his native Brazil. Revered as the national boogeyman, Coffin Joe has been immortalized in films, TV shows, radio programs, comic books and popular songs. He is the creation of writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins whose perversely original and strangely personal filmmaking style has been compared to an unholy blend of Mario Bava, Luis Bunuel and Russ Meyer. Fantoma is proud to present new director approved editions of these three seminal tales of terror in a specially priced limited-edition boxed set. Add to Cart $60 Personal Use$60 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |