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DVD005159

Fluxfilm Anthology

Paik, Nam June; Higgins, Dick; Maciunas, George; Shiomi, Chieko; Cavanaugh, John; Riddle, James; Ono, Yoko; Brecht, George; Watts, Robert; Vanderbeck, Pieter; Jones, Joe; Anderson, Erik; Perkins, Jeff; Vostell, Wolf; Fine, Albert; Landow, George; Land, Owen; Sharits, Paul; Cale, John; Kennedy, Peter; Parr, Mike; Ben; Vautier, Benjamin;

Anthology Film Archives & Re:Voir, 2010

Description:

DVD - Region free.   reference copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.   fullscreen.   sound.  

Notes:

Essay booklet (in French and English) with diagram available from checkout.

Titles

+ Zen For Film

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #1

Director:

Paik, Nam June

Running Time:

Short.   8 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1962 - 1964

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Clear film, accumulating in time dust and scratches." - EAI

+ Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (For Stan Brakhage)

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #2

Director:

Higgins, Dick

Running Time:

Short.   0 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Mouth, eating motions. -EAI

+ End After 9

Alternate Title:

End After Nine; Flux Film #3

Director:

Maciunas, George

Running Time:

Short.   1 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Word & number gag, no camera." -EAI

+ Disappearing Music For Face

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #4

Director:

Shiomi, Chieko

Running Time:

Short.   11 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors

Notes:

"Transition from smile to no-smile, shot at 2000fr/sec. Camera shows only a CU of the mouth area." -EAI. Stars Yoko Ono.

+ Blink

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #5

Director:

Cavanaugh, John

Running Time:

Short.   2 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Flicker: White and black alternating frames." -EAI

+ 9 Minutes

Alternate Title:

Nine Minutes; Flux Film #6

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:

"Time counter, in seconds and minutes." -EAI

+ 10 Feet

Alternate Title:

Ten Feet; Flux Film #7

Director:

Maciunas, George

Running Time:

Short.   0 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10." -EAI

+ 1000 Frames

Alternate Title:

One-Thousand Frames; Flux Film #8

Director:

Maciunas, George

Running Time:

Short.   1 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000." -EAI

+ Eye Blink

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #9

Director:

Ono, Yoko

Running Time:

Short.   1 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors

Notes:

Very slow motion blinking eye.

+ Entrance to Exit

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #10

Director:

Brecht, George

Running Time:

Short.   7 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1965

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"A smooth linear transition from white, through greys to black, produced in developing tank. The 'door sign' ENTRANCE fades in, white letters on the black background, stays for a few seconds, then slowly fades into white. Five-minute fade into black and the title EXIT, which stays for a few seconds then fades into white." -EAI

+ Trace #22

Alternate Title:

Trace Number Twenty-Two; Flux Film #11

Director:

Watts, Robert

Running Time:

Short.   3 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1965

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking." -EAI

+ Trace #23

Alternate Title:

Trace Number Twenty-Three; Flux Film #12

Director:

Watts, Robert

Running Time:

Short.   3 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1965

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso. The female then passes different decorated plastic hot dogs, banana shapes suggestively between her legs, through her arm pits, etc. Ends with an egg floating on water." -EAI

+ Trace #24

Alternate Title:

Trace Number Twenty-Four; Flux Film #13

Director:

Watts, Robert

Running Time:

Short.   1 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1965

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Begins with a picture of Marilyn Monroe, then shifts to a female body, shot from belly button down, which is wriggling under piles of cellophane." -EAI

+ One

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #14

Director:

Ono, Yoko

Running Time:

Short.   5 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors

Notes:

"High speed camera 2000fr/sec. match striking fire." -EAI

+ Eye Blink

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #15

Director:

Ono, Yoko

Running Time:

Short.   0 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors

Notes:

"Same as No. 9, probably." -EAI

+ Four

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #16

Director:

Ono, Yoko

Running Time:

Short.   6 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1967

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema, Female Directors

Notes:

"Sequences of buttock movement as various performers walked. Filmed at constant distance." -EAI

+ Five O’Clock in the Morning

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #17

Director:

Vanderbeck, Pieter

Running Time:

Short.   5 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera." -EAI

+ Smoking

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #18

Director:

Jones, Joe

Running Time:

Short.   5 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"Sequence of cigarette smoke shot with high speed camera, 2000fr/sec." -EAI

+ Opus 74, Version 2

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #19

Director:

Anderson, Erik

Running Time:

Short.   2 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc." -EAI

+ Artype

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #20

Director:

Maciunas, George

Running Time:

Short.   3 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera." -EAI

+ Shout

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #21

Director:

Perkins, Jeff

Running Time:

Short.   2 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other." -EAI

+ Sun in Your Head (Television Décollage)

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #22

Director:

Vostell, Wolf

Running Time:

Short.   7 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

Germany [West]

Year:

1963

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963." -EAI

+ Readymade

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #23

Director:

Fine, Albert

Running Time:

Short.   2 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Color test strip from developing tank." -EAI

+ Evil Faerie, The

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #24

Director:

Landow, George

Running Time:

Short.   0 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"A man on the roof making flying gestures with his hands. Film is preceded by a picture of an object of 'L' shape shakingly moving. At the end of the film, image of 'Kodak girl' briefly appears." -EAI

+ Sears Catalogue 1-3

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #25

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:

"Pages from Sears catalogue, single frame exp." -EAI

+ Dots 1 & 2

Alternate Title:

Dots One and Two; Flux Film #26

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:

"Single frame exposures of dot-screens." -EAI

+ Wrist Trick

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #27

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:

"Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures." -EAI

+ Unrolling Event

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #28

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:

"Toilet paper event, single frame exposures." -EAI

+ Word Movie

Alternate Title:

Flux Film #29

Director:

Sharits, Paul

Running Time:

Short.   4 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color and b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"Single frame exposures of words, color." -EAI

+ 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:

"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall." -EAI

+ Police Car

Director:

Cale, John

Running Time:

Short.   1 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

color

Country:

USA

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Underexposed sequence of blinking lights on a police car." -EAI

+ Flux Film #36

Alternate Title:

Flux Film Number Thirty-Six

Director:

Kennedy, Peter; Parr, Mike

Running Time:

Short.   3 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

USA

Year:

1970

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde

Notes:

"Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame." -EAI

+ Flux Film #37

Alternate Title:

Flux Film Number Thirty-Seven

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, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject." -EAI

+ 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:

France

Year:

1966

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged." -EAI

+ Traversée du Port de Nice à la Nage, La

Director:

Ben

Running Time:

Short.   3 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1963

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Swimming across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice." -EAI

+ Faire un Effort

Director:

Ben

Running Time:

Short.   2 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1969

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers." -EAI

+ Regardez-Moi, Cela Suffit

Director:

Ben

Running Time:

Short.   7 minutes

Sound:

silent - no soundtrack

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1962

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Silent Cinema

Notes:

"Sitting on a promenade in Nice with a sign: Watch me, that's all." -EAI