Mark Toscano
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Mark Toscano at IFFR
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Releasing Human Energies
A film about control. A surreptitious critique of capitalism in the guise of an instructional film narrated by film artist Morgan Fisher.
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Sangre de Cristo
Visions, Comanche chiefs, counterculture refugees and conquistadors are intertwined in this compelling archaeology of the Southern Colorado mountains.
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A documentary revolutionary in its unconventionality, which, as a result, captures more about its subject (rock ‘n roll), and more vividly and emotion
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Dead Reckoning
A hand-held shot of a cross in the desert is reframed via optical printing, translating its pictorial movements to explicitly cinematic ones in a subt
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Venusville
The two filmmakers had a bet: how easily can you tell the difference between a moving image of a still object, and a freeze frame of the same? Pretty
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Documentary Footage
Morgan Fisher’s rarely seen early masterwork, in which an artist’s model gives an endlessly nuanced performance of self-investigation.
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Throbs
Fred Worden’s earliest extant film is a moving, celebratory collage of epiphanous moments constructed on an optical printer with an unusual grace and
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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
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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,
