- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   2 videodiscs of 2.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials: informational booklet (information about individual films replicated on chapter menus); optional newly-composed music soundtrack by John Zorn to select films.
Titles
+ Film No. 3: Interwoven
- Director:
- Smith, Harry
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1947 - 1949
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- An abstract animation from Smith’s “Early Abstractions” series. Presented with the original soundtrack, Dizzy Gillespie’s “Guarachi Guaro” as well as a new soundtrack by John Zorn.
+ Notes on the Circus
- Director:
- Mekas, Jonas
- Running Time:
- Short.   12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1966
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Amateur / Home Movie
- Notes:
- A “diary film” capturing a 1966 performance by the Ringling Brothers Circus, and the excited response of the audience.
+ Here I Am
- Director:
- Baillie, Bruce
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1962
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary
- Notes:
- A sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed children.
+ Fake Fruit Factory
- Director:
- Strand, Chick
- Running Time:
- Short.   22 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1986
- Language:
- Spanish with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- An intimate portrait of the women who work at a Mexican factory, focusing on their daily lives and interactions with each other outside of work.
+ Odds & Ends
- Director:
- Shimane, Jane Conger Belson
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A parodic take on avant-garde film and Beat culture, featuring a mix of found footage and abstract animation. Featuring faux-hipster narration by Henry Jacobs.
+ Eyewash
- Director:
- Breer, Robert
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- An experimental collage animation that plays with visual contrasts and rhymes. Also features an alternate, slightly version of the film, which presents many of the same images in a different sequence.
+ Peyote Queen
- Director:
- De Hirsch, Storm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A “visual music” film that mixes direct animation (made by puncturing the film stock itself) and expressionistic live footage (utilizing a variety of color filters and multiple image channels, with a drum-based soundtrack.
+ 7362
- Director:
- O’Neill, Pat
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- A kaleidoscopic, colorful animation based, in part, on footage of dancers performing.
+ Aleph
- Director:
- Berman, Wallace
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1955-1966?
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An assemblage of diverse, often apparently unrelated footage, heavily manipulated by the artist through superimposition and hand-painting. Optional new musical score by John Zorn.
+ Note To Pati
- Director:
- Levine, Saul
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1969
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Created for a friend touring the West Coast with the Living Theatre, this work, one of Levine’s series of 8mm “Notes” diary films, records Medford, Massachusetts after a snowstorm.
+ By Night With Torch And Spear
- Director:
- Cornell, Joseph
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Made during the 1940s, although the exact date of its making is unknown. A subversive assemblage of silent-era educational footage of steelmaking, exotic locales and insects. Optional new musical score by John Zorn.
+ Riddle Of Lumen, The
- Director:
- Brakhage, Stan
- Running Time:
- Short.   13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1972
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A series of images demonstrating how the everyday world is transfigured by illumination: glistening water, shadows under a door, sunlight through leaves, the chiaroscuro of folded cloth.
+ End, The
- Director:
- MacLaine, Christopher
- Running Time:
- Short.   34 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An apocalyptic vision that relates the stories of individuals on the last day of their lives in six sections.
+ Bridges-Go-Round
- Director:
- Clarke, Shirley
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1958
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Crafted by Clarke from leftover footage from documentary projects for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, this portrait of the the bridges in the New York Harbor creates a dreamlike, almost abstract effect. Optional choice between two musical scores, both used by Clarke during screenings in her lifetime.
+ Go! Go! Go!
- Alternate Title:
- Go Go Go
- Director:
- Menken, Marie
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1962 - 1964
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A hypercharged, time-lapse portrait of New York as a city that never rests.
+ Little Stabs At Happiness
- Director:
- Jacobs, Ken
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959 - 1963
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- With Jack Smith. A whimsical series of improvised vignettes on the margins of New York City.
+ Chumlum
- Director:
- Rice, Ron
- Running Time:
- Short.   23 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1964
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- With Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Barbara Rubin. A snapshot of Rice’s actors, often in exotic attire, shot largely on the set of Smith’s NORMAL LOVE.
+ Mario Banana (No. 1)
- Director:
- Warhol, Andy
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1964
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Sexuality
- Notes:
- A single-shot film of Mario Montez coyly eating a banana.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ I, An Actress
- Director:
- Kuchar, George
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1977
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The filmmaker offers direction to an actress enacting a melodramatic scene (in which she’s playing opposite a draped post topped with a wig), finally rushing into the scene to demonstrate the hysterical excess he wants from her.
+ Off Handed Jape... & How To Pull It Off, The
- Alternate Title:
- The Off-Handed Jape
- Director:
- Nelson, Robert; Wiley, William T.
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Each filmmaker executes a series of pantomimes in response to their own offscreen commands.
+ New Improved Institutional Quality: In The Environment Of Liquids And Nasals A Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops
- Director:
- Land, Owen
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1976
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A comic test administered to the audience, with a glowering figure onscreen attempting to demonstrate the correct answers.
+ Hamfat Asar
- Director:
- Jordan, Larry
- Running Time:
- Short.   13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- A whimsical, dreamlike narrative told with images taken from Victorian-era illustrations.
+ Necrology
- Director:
- Lawder, Standish
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1969 - 1970
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A single, uncut take of rush-hour commuters riding an escalator into New York’s Grand Central Station. Shot covertly from a ladder, the film was run backward through the camera and then manipulated during printing to create a ghostly effect.
+ Fog Line
- Director:
- Gottheim, Larry
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- An unbroken shot of fog clearing from a hillside.
+ Nostalgia
- Director:
- Frampton, Hollis
- Running Time:
- Short.   36 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Narrated by Michael Snow. A series of photographs are presented and burned on camera as the voiceover relates the context and significance of each, but the narration does not match up with the images.
+ Bad Burns
- Director:
- Sharits, Paul
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1982
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- A film made from outtakes in which the film was improperly loaded into the camera.