- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC. viewing copy. 1 videocassette of 1.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. silent - no soundtrack; sound.
- Notes:
- Compilation of films by Fluxus artists. Includes: ZEN FOR FILM (Nam June Paik, 1962-64, 8 minutes); INVOCATION OF CANYONS AND BOULDERS (FOR STAN BRAKHAGE) (Dick Higgins, 1966, 20 seconds); END AFTER 9 (George Maciunas, 1966, 1 minute); DISAPPEARING MUSIC FOR FACE (Chieko Shiomi, 1966, 11 minutes); BLINK (John Cavanaugh, 1966, 3 minutes); 9 MINUTES (James Riddle, 1966, 10 minutes); 10 FEET (Maciunas, 1966, 23 seconds); 1000 FRAMES (Maciunas, 1966, 43 seconds); EYE BLINK (Yoko Ono, 1966, 35 seconds); ENTRANCE TO EXIT (George Brecht, 1965, 7 minutes); TRACE #22 (Robert Watts, 1965, 3 minutes); TRACE #23 (Watts, 1965, 3 minutes); TRACE #24 (Watts, 1965, 5 minutes); ONE (Ono, 1966, 5 minutes); EYE BLINK (Ono, 1966, 15 seconds); FOUR (Ono, 1967, 6 minutes); FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (Pieter Vanderbeck, 1966, 6 minutes); SMOKING (Joe Jones, 1966, 5 minutes); OPUS 74, VERSION 2 (Erik Anderson, 1966, 2 minutes); ARTYPE (Maciunas, 1966, 3 minutes); BABY FOOTAGE (Alison Knowles, 1966, 30 seconds); SHOUT (Jeff Perkins, 1966, 2 minutes); SUN IN YOUR HEAD (TELEVISION DECOLLAGE) (Wolf Vostell, 1963, 7 minutes); READYMADE (Albert Fine, 1966, 3 minutes); THE EVIL FAERIE (George Landow, 1966, 28 seconds); SEARS CATALOGUE 1-3 (Paul Sharits, 1965, 28 seconds); DOTS 1 & 2 (Sharits, 1965, 35 seconds); WRIST TRICK (Sharits, 1965, 28 seconds); UNROLLING EVENT (Sharits, 1965, 5 seconds); WORD MOVIE (Sharits, 1966, 50 seconds); DANCE (Fine, 1963, 40 seconds); POLICE CAR (John Cale, 1966, 2 minutes); FLUX FILM #36 (Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr, 1970, 3 minutes); FLUX FILM #37 (Peter Kennedy & Mike Parr, 1970, 2 minutes); JE NE VOIS RIEN, JE N’ENTENDS RIEN, JE NE DIS RIEN (Ben,1966, 8 minutes); LA TRAVERSEE DU PORT DE NICE A LA NAGE (Ben, 1963, 4 minutes); FAIRE UN EFFORT (Ben, 1969, 3 minutes); REGARDEZ-MOI, CELA SUFFIT (Ben, 1962, 7 minutes). Also includes: booklet with information on films, filmmakers and the Fluxus movement, in French and in English.
Titles
+ Zen For Film
- Director:
- Paik, Nam June
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963-64
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A film made up of transparent leader, intended to accumulate dust and scratches as it passes through the projector with each successive screening. Originally running between 20 and 30 minutes.
+ Invocation Of Canyons And Boulders (For Stan Brakhage)
- Director:
- Higgins, Dick
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Originally intended to be projected as a loop. Close-ups of a mouth that is chewing gum.
+ End After 9
- Director:
- Maciunas, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Numbers flash on the screen.
+ Disappearing Music For Face
- Director:
- Shimoi, Chieko
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A gradual transition from smile to non-smile, featuring Yoko Ono. The length of this film varies in other versions from 1 to 15 minutes. Filmmaker also known as Mieko Shiomi.
+ Blink
- Director:
- Cavanaugh, John
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A flicker film alternating frames of light and darkness.
+ 9 Minutes
- Director:
- Riddle, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A seemingly chronological progression of numbers.
+ 10 Feet
- Director:
- Maciunas, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A progression consisting of 10 feet worth of film.
+ 1000 Frames
- Director:
- Maciunas, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A film consisting of 1000 frames of 16mm film.
+ Eye Blink
- Director:
- Ono, Yoko
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. An close-up of an eye blinking, seen in extreme slow motion.
+ Entrance To Exit
- Director:
- Brecht, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Sonic/musical soundtrack. A white screen gradually fades to black as a sine wave is heard on the soundtrack.
+ Trace #22
- Director:
- Watts, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- Silent - no soundtrack.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. An “erotic film poem” consisting of a series of incongruous images.
+ Trace #23
- Director:
- Watts, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- Silent - no soundtrack.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A series of images that include a female torso and decorated plastic hot dogs.
+ Trace #24
- Director:
- Watts, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- Silent - no soundtrack.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. X-ray footage of a person in profile drinking, eating, speaking and salivating.
+ One
- Director:
- Ono, Yoko
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A match is struck, seen in extreme slow motion.
+ Eye Blink
- Director:
- Ono, Yoko
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A close-up of an eye blinking, in extreme slow-motion.
+ Four
- Alternate Title:
- Film No. 4 (Bottoms); Bottoms
- Director:
- Ono, Yoko
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A “socially-engaged film for peace,” consisting of a series of human buttocks - including those of Susannah Campbell, Philip Corner, Anthony Cox, Bici Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Kyoko Ono, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Jeff Perkins, Susan Poland, Jerry Sablo, Carolee Schneeman, James Tenney, Pieter Vanderbeck and Verne Williams.
+ Five O’Clock In The Morning
- Director:
- Vanderbeck, Pieter
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- Silent - no soundtrack.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. Stones and chestnuts fall onto a table, seen in extreme slow-motion.
+ Smoking
- Director:
- Jones, Joe
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An extreme slow-motion view of cigarette smoke.
+ Opus 74, Version 2
- Director:
- Anderson, Erik
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A strobe film consisting of individual frames of images filmed in the filmmaker’s apartment.
+ Artype
- Director:
- Maciunas, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A cameraless film with marks made directly onto transparent leader.
+ Shout
- Director:
- Perkins, Jeff
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. Two men, facing each other in profile, scream at one another.
+ Sun In Your Head (Television Decollage)
- Director:
- Vostell, Wolf
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- Silent - no soundtrack.
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A film transferred off a video screen. A “cut up” made from video recordings of fragmented television broadcasts.
+ Readymade
- Director:
- Fine, Albert
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A color test strip from a developing tank.
+ Evil Faerie, The
- Director:
- Landow, George
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An odd character goofs around on a rooftop.
+ Sears Catalogue 1-3
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. A series of individual frames, each an image taken from a Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue.
+ Dots 1 & 2
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Made from a positive and negative print of the transparent perforated film used at the time to indicate the end of a roll to lab technicians.
+ Wrist Trick
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. Negative and positive images of a wrist being slit by a razor blade, alternating with the image of a half-peeled banana.
+ Unrolling Event
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent - no soundtrack. Instructions on how to properly defecate into a toilet.
+ Word Movie
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Sound. Each frame contains a single word which shares a letter with the word preceding it.
+ Dance
- Director:
- Fine, Albert
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A burlesque-style dance/mime performance.
+ Police Car
- Director:
- Cale, John
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Images of two unidentifiable flickering light sources.
+ Flux Film #36
- Director:
- Kennedy, Peter; Parr, Mike
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Shooting straight down from a fixed position on the ceiling, feet on a bare floor pace around the edges of the screen.
+ Flux Film #37
- Director:
- Kennedy, Peter; Parr, Mike
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Successive sheets of tracing paper are fixed to the camera’s lens, making the image increasingly opaque.
+ Je Ne Vois Rien, Je N’Entends Rien, Je Ne Dis Rien
- Director:
- Ben
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The filmmaker, positioned in front of the camera at a public event, stands blindfolded, gagged and with ears stopped up with wax, holding a sign.
+ Traversee Du Port De Nice A La Nage, La
- Director:
- Ben
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The filmmaker swims across the port of Nice fully clothed.
+ Faire En Effort
- Director:
- Ben
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1969
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The filmmaker stands in front of the camera.
+ Regardez-Moi, Cela Suffit
- Director:
- Ben
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1963
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The filmmaker stands in a public place holding a sign.