Bertha’s Children
My great-aunt Bertha had seven children. When I visited New York one winter, I asked each of them to be in a film and all of them agreed. When I returned the following winter, however, only David, Marty, Aaron, Bernie and Thelma would do it. Frieda, concerned about the crazy people who might see the film and then write her nasty anonymous letters, refused, and Sylvia was in Florida at the time. (Roberta Friedman)
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Throbs
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unc.
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The Divine Miracle
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Evolution of the Red Star
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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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Death of the Gorilla
Peter Mays achieved these hypnotically dense and hallucinatory in-camera super-impositions shooting off the TV with colour filters, then edited the ma
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1976
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
