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ANXIOUS ANIMATION

DVD from OtherCinema

ANXIOUS ANIMATION presents six contemporary film artists who take us into surreal worlds of delirium and paranoia...

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Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings' that combined the energy and volume of creative rock and jazz with the mesmeric effect of multi-dimensional lightshows. Another kind of culmination: Marinetti records most of the principal collaborators in the UBU film group, like Aggy Read and the Perrys. Uniquely valuable as a document of Australia's late 1960s counter-culture..

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Alfred Leslie - COOL MAN in a GOLDEN AGE - selected films

DVD from Lux

Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the present, his own canvases were amongst the most revered of his peers. In 1964 he made Pull My Daisy with the photographer Robert Frank and in 1966 collaborated with the inimitable poet Frank O'Hara on The Last Clean Shirt...

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American Avant Garde Film (1947-1986) (Vol 2) Treasures IV from American Film Archives

Double DVD from Ark

Treasures IV presents works by 27 artists - from Bruce Baillie to Andy Warhol - who worked outside the mainstream and redefined American cinema in the decades following World War II.

"The American avant-garde presents a stunning alternate history of cinema - an entirely different set of possibilities, another world of images and sounds - but the films have always been difficult to see," said NFPF Board member Martin Scorsese, who wrote the foreword to the Treasures IV program notes. "That is why I'm so excited by this new set in the Treasures from American Film Archives series." The five-hour set samples an array of film types and styles, from abstract animation to documentary.

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Animal Charm - Golden Digest

DVD from OtherCinema

Animal Charm makes videos from other people's videos. By compositing TV and reducing it to a kind of tic-ridden babble, they force television to not make sense.

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Ben Russell - The Future

DVD from dimeshow

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Ben Russell - The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

DVD from dimeshow

Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, Russell presents a fractured historical narrative without any real protagonist and in which the titular character goes mostly unseen. Based almost entirely on historical accounts leading up to and surrounding the events of the 1877 Lincoln County War in New Mexico, TWENTY-ONE LIVES employs a series of re-enactment of murder and resurrection that produce history as its main character in an effort to unravel it.

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Bill Daniel - Who is Bozo Texino?

DVD

THIS SPECTACULAR TRAVEL ADVENTURE FAITHFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED IN REALISTIC BLACK AND WHITE FILM AT CONSIDERABLE RISK FROM SPEEDING FREIGHT TRAINS AND IN SECRET HOBO JUNGLES IN THE DOGGED PURSUIT OF THE IMPOSSIBLY CONVOLUTED STORY OF THE HERETOFORE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE CENTURY-OLD FOLKLORIC PRACTICE OF HOBO AND RAILWORKER GRAFFITI AND THE ABSURD QUEST FOR THE TRUE IDENTITY OF RAILROADING'S GREATEST ARTIST WILL LIKELY AMUSE AND CONFOUND YOU IN ITS SINCERE ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND AND PRESERVE THIS ARTFORM.

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Bill Viola - Hatsu Yume (First Dream)

DVD from Editions a Voir

Hatsu-Yume (First Dream) is Bill Viola's masterpiece, the greatest work by one of the most important video artists in the world. A spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. Hatsu-Yume was produced in Japan in 1981 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation.

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Bruce Bickford - Prometheus' Garden

DVD from Bright Eye Pictures

Best known for his collaborations with rock iconoclast Frank Zappa in the 1970s (Dub Room Special, Baby Snakes, The Amazing Mr. Bickford), underground animator Bruce Bickford has influenced generations of artists with his startlingly original vision....

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COELACANTH & KEITH EVANS - Wrack Light in Copper Ruin

DVD/CD from Seal Pool

Jim Haynes and Loren Chasse have collaborated with Keith Evans to create coelacanth's fourth and most complex record. culled from two performances -- a five-hour recording session during matmos's 96 hours of performances at the yerba buena center for the arts, and an audio/visual performance with Keith Evans -- 'Wrack Light in Copper Ruin' explores the the symbiosis of materiality and sound, and its infinite network of metaphors and allegories.

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Chris Marker / Alexander Medvedkin - The Last Bolshevik and Happiness

2DVD from Icarus Films

Based on the life and work of the great Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another through an archeological expedition into film history, exploring the relations between art and politics in the former Soviet Union. Medvedkin's silent classic, HAPPINESS, a surprisingly irreverent comedy about early Soviet efforts at collectivization, appears on a second disc in a restored, uncut version. Both films feature supplementary interviews and related short films.

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Craig Baldwin - Sonic Outlaws

DVD from OtherCinema

Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music.

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Craig Baldwin - Tribulation 99

DVD from OtherCinema

Upon its release in 1991, TRIBULATION 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Baldwin's "pseudo-pseudo-documentary" presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.

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Curated by Jenni Olson and Karl Knapper - Afro Promo

DVD from OtherCinema

Oh yeah! Alternatively trashy and poignant ??" and sometimes just plain hard to believe these days ??" here's an irresistible program of Black Cinema trailers that trace its evolution through its most crucial period, 1946-1976.

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Curated by Matt McCormick and Morgan Currie - The 70s Dimension

DVD from OtherCinema

Time Warp!

Here's a media-archaeological treasure trove of 16mm commercials, PSA's, and TV ephemera from that delirious decade of polyester and smiley faces. From the classic iconography of the Marlboro Man to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour Stretchers", this outrageously retro review of candy-colored clips offers more than campy fun. In fact, it allows us precious insight into a lost, impossibly innocent world of fondly remembered looks, styles, and attitudes, from way back in the good ol' 20th Century.

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Curated by Stephen Parr - The Subject Is Sex

DVD from OtherCinema

Stephen Parr of Oddball Film + Video presents an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. Drawn from his extensive 16mm film archives, this polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peep show loops, and oozing oodles more!

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Don Gillespie, Roberta Friedman and Gene Caprioglio. - 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs

DVD from Mode

John Cage's artwork, "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs", appeared in the October 6, 1977 Rolling Stone magazine - a gala issue celebrating their move to New York.

He constructed his "waltzes" through chance operations as a series of 49 multi-colored triangles superimposed on the Hagstrom map of New York City. Later, he published a score for "performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s)" with the exact street locations depicted by each point of the triangle.

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Earl Brown - Tracer: Chamber Works in Surround Sound

DVD 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.

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Edward O. Bland and Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Cry of Jazz

DVD from Atavistic

Filmed in Chicago, finished in 1959, the Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race, a forcast of what he called "the death of jazz."

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Emily Richardson - 6 FILMS

DVD from Lux

Emily Richardson's films explore landscapes and environments to reveal the way that activity, movement and light is inscribed in place. Traversing an extraordinarily diverse range of landscapes including empty East End streets, forests, North Sea oil fields, post-war tower blocks and Cold War military facilities Richardson's films offer a dazzling deconstruction of place and time. They focus the mind and eye to detail, finding transcendence and emotion in the everyday.

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Enid Baxter Blader - A Film is a Burning Place

DVD from Aurora Picture Show

This compilation of experimental short films and videos by Enid Baxter Blader unfolds like the pages of a lost diary, with fleeting glimpses into an anonymous someone's memories and desires. A filmmaker, painter, and bluegrass musician, Enid Baxter Blader finds inspiration in ruminations on rural life, stormy weather of the emotional and environmental variety, majestic landscapes, and small town civility. DVD includes an essay by novelist and journalist, Ben Ehrenreich.

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Experiments in Terror 2

DVD from OtherCinema

Creeping once more into the darkest corners of the cinematic imaginary, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2 unearths a body of ghoulish works to satisfy our most perverse celluloid cravings.

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Experiments in Terror

DVD from OtherCinema

As if by some irresistible compulsion to witness the mortification of the flesh, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR perversely unearths a celluloid sarcophagus of horrible, horrible beauty... a phantasmagoria of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre...

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Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver - From Zero: Four films on JOHN CAGE

DVD from Mode

From Zero: Four films on JOHN CAGE
19 Questions with John Cage
Fourteen with the Ives Ensemble
Paying Attention with John Cage
Overpopulation and Art with Ryoanji with John Cage, Isabelle Ganz and Michael Pugliese

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George Barber - BEYOND LANGUAGE Selected Video Works 1983 - 2008

DVD from Lux

A pioneer of British video art, once described in Art Monthly as 'the Henry Ford of independent video' George Barber gained an international reputation with 'Scratch Video', an original fast-cutting, multi-layered rhythmic genre of work in the 1980s. Moving away from Scratch in the early 90's, Barber created many low-tech video pieces and was influential in defining the then emergent 'slacker' aesthetic.

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Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick - Nomads and No-Zones

DVD from OtherCinema

Drawn from the raw material of their drifts and detours, here's an album of radical diaries and personal documentaries from two of the West's bravest makers. Gritty glimpses of edgy experience in marginalized cultures, their authentic film stories afford rare access and insight into the lived poetry of a dozen-plus autonomous zones.

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Guru Guru / Mani Neumeier - Best of Krautrock 1971-2006

DVD from Be Free Music

Finally. here it is, the long-waited guru guru DVD. The best material of 1971, 1976 and 2006. Guru Guru were seminal to the German free jazz and psych music scenes, influenced by rock music, such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, The Who, Rolling Stones and early Pink Floyd. Among the band's friends were Amon Düül, Can and Xhol Caravan, with whom Guru Guru played jam sessions.

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Guy Sherwin - OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 â�� 2007

DVD / 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.

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Henning Lohner - The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John Cage

DVD from Mode

Director Henning Lohner worked with John Cage during his later years, including collaborating with Cage on his only film, One11. During that time, Lohner filmed interviews and footage with Cage, and after Cage's death decided to assemble some of it into this unique "composed film" based on musical principles - a tribute to Cage, his thoughts, music and influence.

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Hermann Nitsch - Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America

Book and Companion DVD from Slought Foundation

Blood Orgies:Hermann Nitsch in America (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2008), a critical examination of pioneering work by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, with photo and video documentation of his ritualistic performances since 1962. Included is a companion DVD featuring the short film 'Das Orgien Mysterien Theater: Die Aktionen, 162-2003'

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Hilary Harris - The Films of Hilary Harris: Four Visionary Short Films

DVD from Mystic Fire Video

Hilary Harris pioneered and contemporized time-lapse film making techniques to achieve a unique experiential view of the world we inhabit.

Films include:
— Organism [1975] — 9 Variations [1966] — Highway [1958] — Longhorn [1951]

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Hisham Mayet - Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway

DVD 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.

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Ian Andrews - Transiterations

DVD from demux

Transiterations is a series of thematically linked short video pieces by Sydney based artist Ian Andrews made between 2006 and 2008. The work is built around a number of 'recordings' of banal events found by Andrews in his daily 'transit.'

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Jack Bond - Dali in New York

DVD from Sunrise Pictures

Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave."

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Joel Schlemowitz - Short Experimental Films

3 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

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Johan Grimonprez - dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

DVD from OtherCinema

Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960's and 1970Õs. By the 1990's, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases.

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John Cage - 'One 11' with '103'

DVD from Mode

THE FIRST COMMERCIAL RELEASE OF CAGE'S ONLY MAJOR FILM.

One11 (1992) a film without subject by John Cage, produced and directed by Henning Lohner

103 (1991) for large orchestra
the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln or Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo and John Kennedy, directors

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John Cage - Variations VII: E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering

DVD 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

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John Walter and Andrew Moore - How To Draw A Bunny - The Mail Art of Ray Johnson

DVD from Palm Pictures

How to Draw a Bunny explores the fascinating, often hilarious, and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson. A "Pop Art mystery movie", the film is framed by Johnson's mysterious suicide on Friday, January 13th, 1995, the puzzling circumstances of which left both his intimate admirers and the general public wondering if this was a final "performance".

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Jonas Mekas - Walden - Diaries, Notes and Sketches

DVD, poster, book from Blackchair Collection

Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

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Jordan Belson - 5 Essential Films

DVD from Center for Visual Music

Allures (1961), Samadhi (1967), Light (1973), Fountain of Dreams (1984), and Epilogue (2005)

"These five films by Jordan Belson, representing his early, middle, and later periods, are essential for three reasons: the early classics were breakthrough masterpieces, the previously unreleased "Fountain of Dreams" is a dazzling revelation from the middle period, and the shimmering "Epilogue" from 2005 makes it clear that the master still has the spark of genius, breathing new life into the vocabulary he has developed over more than a half-century of visionary filmmaking." - Gene Youngblood

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JosÃ© BÃ©nazÃ©raf - 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!

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Kenneth Anger - The Films of Kenneth Anger - Volume One 1947-1954

DVD from Fantoma Films

Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. A major influence on everything from the films of Martin Scorsese, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and David Lynch to the pop art of Andy Warhol to MTV, Anger's work serves as a talisman of universal symbols and personal obsessions, combining myth, artifice and ritual to render cinema with the power of spell or incantation.

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Kerry Laitala - Journey into Darkness ... films by Kerry Laitala

DVD from Mercurial

"Film noir, mystical surrealism, psychoanalysis, fairy tales- a cacophony of symbols and stylistic devises are used in the creation of these consistently enigmatic and richly crafted little films. Laitala is like an alchemist deeply absorbed in a process, removed from the constraints of commercialism and transient styles, working alone in her lab, searching for the unexpected poetry of cinema and the subconscious." -- Louis Benassi, Curator, Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Kerry Laitala - Some Films by Kerry Laitala

DVD from Mercurial

"Film noir, mystical surrealism, psychoanalysis, fairy tales- a cacophony of symbols and stylistic devises are used in the creation of these consistently enigmatic and richly crafted little films. Laitala is like an alchemist deeply absorbed in a process, removed from the constraints of commercialism and transient styles, working alone in her lab, searching for the unexpected poetry of cinema and the subconscious." -- Louis Benassi, Curator, Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) - Drift

DVD from Plexifilm

DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.

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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.

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Luis BuÃ±uel - Death in the Garden

DVD from Transflux Films

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of ill-starred fugitives- a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.

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Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali - Un Chien Andalou

DVD from Transflux Films

Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Buñuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens innocently with the words "Once upon a time." What follows is one of the most shocking and celebrated sequences in film history - a razor slashing a woman's eye in extreme close up...

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Lutz Dammbeck - The Net

DVD from OtherCinema

Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck's THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology – a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.

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Lydia Lunch - Video Hysterie - 1978-2006

DVD from Atavistic

This retrospective of Lydia Lunch's musical collaborations from 1978-2006 is an incredible representation of her approach to art.

Hailed by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 90's" no other artist of the 20th century has fought forged punched and sculpted their own artistic vision in such a uniquely original way. Defying categorization Lunch actively has conquered new territories and has gained international recognition for the innovative quality of her work.

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Malcolm Le Grice - Afterimages 1: Malcolm Le Grice Volume 1

DVD from Lux

Malcolm Le Grice is one of the central figures in British experimental film and video. He has been making work since the mid-1960s which has continued to be exhibited internationally, including recent screenings at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. He is currently a professor at the University of the Arts London, and is the author of several books including Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age (2001).

This DVD includes five of his most important early works: Little Dog For Roger (1967, 12 mins), Berlin Horse (1970, 9 mins), Threshold (1972, 17 mins), Whitchurch Down (Duration) (1972, 10 mins) and After Lumiere - L'Arroseur Arrose (1974, 12 mins).

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Margaret Tait - Margaret Tait, Selected Films 1952 - 1976

DVD 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.

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Mario Bava, Franco Prosperi - Hercules in the Haunted World

DVD from Fantoma

Hercules (Reg Park) must battle a monster made of stone, retrieve a golden apple from the tree of Hesperides, and brave the horrors of Hades to rescue his beloved from the clutches of the evil Lyco (Christopher Lee). Oracles, witches, and vampires abound in this delirious blend of sword and sandal adventure, horror, and psychedelia. Maestro Mario Bava's first color film is awash in a sea of primary hues, creepy atmosphere, and eye-popping imagery. Fantoma is very proud to present the original European cut of this widescreen wonder for the first time in the U.S.

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Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop - Sumatran Folk Cinema

DVD 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.

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Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

DVD from Mystic Fire Video

A journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion of Haiti filmed by Maya Deren during 1947-1951, and edited posthumously by Teji and Cherel Ito. The viewer attends the rituals of Rada, Petro and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocations - ritual offerings, song and dance. The Voudoun pantheon of deities, or Ioa are introduced as living gods, actually taking possession of their devotees. Also featured are the Rara and Mardi Gras celebrations.

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Maya Deren - Experimental Films

DVD from Mystic Fire

"From the early 1940's until her death in 1961, Maya Deren evoked and exemplified the American avant-garde movement virtually by herself. Her first film, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, set the tone for the decade and linked the movement to the older European avant-garde films of Cocteau and Buñuel." - Cecile Starr, The New York Times

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Merce Cunningham - Split Sides - Merce Cunningham Dance Company

DVD from Artpix

Merce Cunningham's Split Sides (2003) captures the iconic modernist choreographer's most radical use of chance procedures. As the title implies, the piece is divided into two parts. Each 20-minute part features one of two options for the different creative elements of the piece: set design, costumes, lighting, music, and choreography. Original scores, composed specifically for this collaboration by the British alternative rock group Radiohead and the Icelandic experimentalist group Sigur Rós, offer the two choices of music.

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Michael Snow - WVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have The Time)

DVD from Art Metropole

Wavelength has been acclaimed as a classic of Avant-Garde filmmaking since its appearance in 1967. In February 2003 Snow created a new work consisting of simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the original work. WVLNT is composed of 3 unaltered superimpositions of sound and picture. Originally 45 minutes - Now 15!!

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Negativland - Our Favourite Things

DVD from OtherCinema

OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package.

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Norman McLaren - Norman McLaren: Masters Edition

DVD Boxset from Image Entertainment

The National Film Board of Canada is proud to offer unparalleled access to the incomparable work of Norman McLaren with a box set of seven DVDs, bringing together the complete works of Canada's best known filmmaker. From his initial experiments in Scotland in 1933 to his final NFB film in 1983, the films form an extraordinary body of work remarkable for its inventiveness, research and humanism. A master of experimental film, influenced by surrealism, and passionate about dance and music, McLaren was a complex artist whose filmography is both prolific and brilliant.

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O Sirhan, O Sirhan #2

Magazine and DVD Box Set

Inspired by george maciunas' fluxus boxes, phyllis johnson's late 60's multimedia magazine, aspen and old issues of soundcollector, o sirhan, o sirhan#2 is a collection of interviews, texts, musical scores and audio-visual ephemera from varying threads of the underground and avant-garde compiled by visual artist and musician, che chen.

with sir richard bishop / jessica rylan (can't) / mark gergis (sublime frequencies) / burning books / bruce mcclure / bradley eros / lsd / rolyn hu / benjamin dowell / sherlock terry....

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Peripheral Produce All Time Greatest Hits

DVD from Peripheral Produce

Peripheral Produce started as an iddy-biddy screening series in Portland Oregon in 1996, and soon after added a videotape distribution wing into the mix. 7 years and a whole lot of videotape later we have finally reached double digits with OUR 10TH VIDEO RELEASE! and to crown the achievement it only seemed fitting to couple it with a GIANT LEAP TO DVD! with so much drama their seemed to be no choice but to put on our best dancing shoes and present a collection of the best and brightest short films and videos from Peripheral Produce's history.

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Peter Gidal - Afterimages 2: Peter Gidal Volume 1

DVD from Lux

Peter Gidal's films have been an influence on several generations of artists. An important theorist and writer as well as a filmmaker since the late 1960s, Gidal was a pioneer of 'structural-materialist' film and his work has been shown around the world, including retrospectives at the ICA in London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

This DVD includes three seminal early films: Key (1968, 10 mins), Clouds (1969, 10 mins) and Room Film 1973 (1973, 55 mins).

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Peter Newman - Paperhouse

DVD from demux

PAPERHOUSE is an hour-long composed document of the sound and video practice of Australian artist Peter Newman, featuring material drawn from exhibitions, performances, screen works and installations between 2003 and 2007

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Peter Weibel - Rewriter Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975

DVD from Slought Foundation

Weibel started out in 1964 as a visual poet, and was soon transferring the structures of the visual culture from the page to the screen, while still retaining the model of language as one of perception. Later, he developed a critical impulse that turned not only against art but also against society and the media itself.

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Phill Niblock - The Magic Sun

DVD from Atavistic

Featuring rare & exclusive SUN RA footage, photos & audio. A film by PHILL NIBLOCK featuring SUN RA & HIS SOLAR ARKESTRA.

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Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

DVD dual layer from Extreme

"The Movement of People Working" by minimalist composer, film maker and photographer Phill Niblock portrays human labor in its most elementary form. It is the combination of his slowly evolving harmonic music that creates an otherworldly masterpiece.

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REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art

Three DVD Boxset and Booklet from Lux

REWIND + PLAY presents a selection of key works from the first decade of artist's video practice in the UK. From early conceptual experiments exploring the parameters of the medium to works dealing with media culture and television this collection explores the range and diversity of the first years of video as new media.

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Raymond Salvatore Harmon - Plexus Illuminata

DVD-R from handmade edition

Limited edition handmade art DVD-R from the Chicago-based film and multimedia artist who pushes boundaries between anthropological study, philosophic discourse, and contemporary art. With a CV extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerrilla media actions.

http://www.raymondharmon.com/

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Raymond Salvatore Harmon - Tree of Knowledge + Tree of Life

DVD-R from handmade edition

Limited edition handmade art DVD-R from the Chicago-based film and multimedia artist who pushes boundaries between anthropological study, philosophic discourse, and contemporary art. With a CV extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerrilla media actions.

http://www.raymondharmon.com/

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Raymond Salvatore Harmon - YHVH

DVD-R from handmade edition

Limited edition handmade art DVD-R from the Chicago-based film and multimedia artist who pushes boundaries between anthropological study, philosophic discourse, and contemporary art. With a CV extending from performance based 16mm and 8mm film to video circuit-bending and analog feedback installations as well as sound and visual conceptual installations and guerrilla media actions.

With soundtracks by Alan Licht, Rob Mazurek and RS Harmon
http://www.raymondharmon.com/

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Rob Nilsson - Words for the Dying

DVD from Provocateur

A revealing cinema verité portrait of the former Velvet Underground musician, John Cale, in creative collaboration with Brian Eno. Director Rob Nilsson follows them to Moscow, London and Wales for the recording of a new album, "Words for the Dying", built around four Dylan Thomas poems.

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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Vol. 3 Keep Busy, About Me: A Musical, S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main Street

Special Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P.

Robert Frank, born in Zurich in 1924, has made, in his 50-year career, an unquestionably significant contribution to photography. His seminal book The Americans is arguably the most important American photography publication of the postwar period. His work continues to influence photographers and has spawned a rich body of theoretical writing. Yet at the very moment Frank became an art-world star at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned still photography to become a filmmaker.

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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Volume 1 Pull My Daisy, The Sin of Jesus, Me and My Brother

Special Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P.

Robert Frank's significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a "star" at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker....

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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Volume 2 Conversations in Vermont, Life raft Earth, OK End Here

Special Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P.

At the end of the 1950s, Frank abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Volume two comprises Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth and OK End Here.

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Robert Rauschenberg - Open Score

DVD from Artpix

In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, in October 1966. The artists included are John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.

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Russ Forster - So Wrong They're Right

DVD from OtherCinema

SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT chronicles a 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. in search of "trackers" – fanatical collectors of 8-Track tapes, those funky clunky pre-recorded plastic cartridges from the 70s. Russ Forster and Dan Sutherland capture over 20 interviews, brimming with reminiscences, rants, political diatribes, fantasies, fix-it tips, sales pitches, and everything else that defines the skeptical yet inquisitive mind of the 8-Track enthusiast. More than a film about pop-music nostalgia, it serves as a statement of outrage from a population of consumers who are tired of being told what to consume.

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Sam Green - The Rainbow Man/John 3:16

DVD from OtherCinema

Available on DVD for the first time is the breakthrough documentary by Academy Award Nominee Sam Green (THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND).

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Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace - The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

DVD

With voices like a sackful of rusty hinges, ramshackle playing a broken string away from careening madness, and a repertoire filled with itchy-balled ballads like "Fucking Sailors in Chinatown," the Holy Modal Rounders came on the Greenwich Village acoustic scene of the '60s like horndogs humping the folk movement's leg. Forty years later, they stand as perhaps the truest heirs to the Harry Smith Anthology's wild and woolly Americana—a point Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace's affectionate doc makes with a minimum of fuss and lots of bawdy hilarity. - Jim Ridley (Village Voice)

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Sara Sackner - CONCRETE! The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry

DVD from Padded Cell Pictures

Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour of their Miami Beach home/museum -- the worlds largest private collection of concrete/visual poetry from such twentieth century art movements as Italian Futurism, Russian and Eastern European Avant Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Ultra, Tabu-Dada, Lettrisme, and Ultra-Lettrisme. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the word speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful life of collecting art, poetry, and artist books.

with art by Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Matta, Bob Cobbing, Tom Phillips, Katharina Eckhart, Gertrude Stein, Ben Vautier and many, many more... and with music by Terry Riley, Arnold Dreyblatt and more

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Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers Co-op & British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s & 1970s

DVD from Lux

LUX and Re:Voir are proud to announce the release of the DVD 'Shoot Shoot Shoot', the first time that works from this defining period in British artists' filmmaking have been made available on DVD or video. The 1960s and 1970s were groundbreaking decades in which independent filmmakers challenged cinematic convention.

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Sir Richard Bishop - God Damn Religion

DVD + 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.

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Stefan and Franciszka Themerson - The Films of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson

DVD 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/

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TV Sheriff and The Trailbuddies - Not 4 $ale

DVD from OtherCinema

Emerging from the LA underground in year 2000, a self-proclaimed "video band" called TV SHERIFF & THE TRAILBUDDIES hit the scene with their twisted take on performance art and VJ remixing. They have since taken their unique act to venues worldwide, providing animated commentary on the state of mind control in the USA. THE TRAILBUDDIES focus on the banality of television, creating rhythmic collages from appropriated clips of the most absurd broadcast moments. And besides their virtuoso sampling, the madcap ensemble creates original – and hilarious! – karaoke-style melodies on mass-media manipulation.

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Takahiko Iimura - Collected Films of Takahiko Iimura No. 1

DVD from Blackchair

Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working in film since l960 and with video since 1970. He is also a widely established international artist, having numerous exhibitions in Japan, the USA, and in Europe. One of his early films, "Onan", (included here) was awarded Special Prize at the legendary Brussels International Experimental Festival, l964.

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