A documentary about rock’n’roll. Making, buying, selling. Radio, jukebox, scoptione, pinball, poolhall. Canned Heat, City Lights, Seeds of Time, LA Tymes. Llyn Foulkes, Charlie Watts, Chris & Craig, Duke of Earl. Seeburg, Wurlitzer. Standing, walking, jumping, singing, dancing, gesturing, surfing. […] Documentary material organized by a predetermined structure. A sequence of picture-sound equations with randomly chosen terms. Vertically. — —— is completely structured; horizontally it is completely random. A pastiche of cinematography, a parody of montage. (Thom Andersen)
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Throbs
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Death of the Gorilla
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Venice Pier
A breathtaking and achingly humble film in which a year’s worth of non-chronological imagery shot down the entire length of Venice Pier is presented,
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This dense and haunting 3-minute epic, rediscovered to great curiosity and acclaim, is the only film completed and released by Bruce Lane.
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Evolution of the Red Star
courtesy of The iotaCenterThis early Adam Beckett film is a hyper-dense drawn animation looped and expanded via his visionary optical printing. Origin
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Bertha’s Children
Five middle-aged siblings and their simple behaviours and declarations are intensely ordered and analyzed, rendering a powerfully unusual family film
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The Divine Miracle
Hyper-stylized imagery of Christ is composited with powerfully weird optical printing work, in this classic vision which took two solid years to produ
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Eclipse Predictions
Diana Wilson’s beautiful animated tableaux reach their zenith in this film, creating a moving visual catharsis for a childhood tragedy.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1967
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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