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- Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
- Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
- A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
- Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- A mysterious 20-minute short of surreal, dream-like imagery open to many interpretations.
- In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- In a rare excursion beyond Andy Warhol's New York base, this home-movie-ish lark features an unlikely Tarzan, wandering around Los Angeles in search of his Jane.
- A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
- A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer.
- Experimental short uses Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.
- Idylls of the beats in the Beat Generation scene of San Francisco's North Beach.
- A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.
- Prometheus engages in repeated scenes of bisexuality in this independent feature from the New York underground.
- "Damned If You Don't is a real prize. Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voicovers to create an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme. When the two women finally meet and make love, the woman's careful unwrapping of the nun's complicated prison of clothing is both foreplay and liberating metaphor. The film is as hypnotic as a dream."
- My ten year correspondence with serial killer Aileen Wuornos leads to an intimate and mesmerizing interview on Florida's death row. Also features Penny Arcade, Lydia Lunch and Nan Goldin. "I had the life as Aileen Wuornos. Why did I end up on the stages of the world, rather than on death row?" : Penny Arcade, ex-Andy Warhol superstar. Aileen was executed in October 2002 at Florida's State Prison.
- A short film by Bruce Baillie in which he documents his journey across North America.
- An short film which captures various activities with a watermelon while set to a catchy tune.
- The tawdry and tragic life of Mexican-born film star Lupe Velez is chronicled in this quirky "art-house" feature.
- In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shaped New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground at the very start of their careers. Through interviews with family and friends, found photos, and archival footage, Piero's daughter, Thérèse, explores the artistic legacy and life of a man she never knew. This intimate documentary explores the promise and perils of leading an authentic, creative life, and the impact that it can have on the people you leave behind in the process. Can you make peace with never knowing your father if you can find a connection to him through his art?
- Bitch-Beauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with now-deceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant, who died of a heroin/cocaine overdose in 1999. Using Hanavan's films, performances, readings, and music as well as footage from Lund's work, Bitch-Beauty is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic self-expression.
- An experimental film consisting of images of satin, beads, painted faces, and people dancing.
- Skin, eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old song of Mexican hero, Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nadiso en Santa Cruz de la Soledad.
- Shooting in 1966 without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Nelson and Wiley created a masterwork of '60s independent cinema. "The Great Blondino" follows an anachronistically attired young fellow as he navigates a beguiling, sometimes troubling world with a curiosity that opens us wide to the filmmakers' inspired, free-form vision. In many ways, the wonder of Blondino may echo the excitement of invention and exploration that Nelson and Wiley experienced in the making of the film. Utterly exuberant and freed from rote cinematic restriction, it embodies an artistic rigor and direction that also prevents it from ever seeming too unhinged. An incredible feat of tightrope walking.
- A montage of images of film making is followed by a silent western story.
- This film consists of alternating black and white frames.
- A soundless film starts in a studio: an artist sits, a nude stands; a page burns, paper cutouts appear, images are distorted. The artist removes his eye; it falls from his hand, seeing images spin as it rolls. A man falls, objects in the studio falls on him, he's not the artist. A woman gets help from a man in a lab coat; he and the man on the floor fight over a shotgun. Outside, in the city, people and cars move backwards. On the street, those from the studio chase a woman who's stolen leeks. In the backward cityscape, they move forward. They run toward a seaside amusement park. The artist follows, his head in a bird cage. He ends up with the woman who went for help; or does he?
- An experimental short film from Joseph Cornell documenting a day in the park with birds and people.
- The pioneer of the American diary film presents footage of his avant garde colleague shot between 1963 and 1990.
- Intercourse between two people who never appear on the screen at the same time. An exploration of sex and male/female identities.
- A 3 minute pan to the left.
- Equal parts poetic essay film and family folklore, Atmospheric Marginalia is an enchanting probe into a pair of star-crossed lovers and misfits, the continuing bonds theory of grief, and the existence of an afterlife.
- Low-budget film illustrates the various factors which have lead a man to hijack a plane to Cuba.
- A camera mounted in the backseat of the car of Benning and Gordon traveling across the US east to west, takes in the passing terrain as framed by the windshield.
- A history of muscular women from Henry II's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to the present, suggests the passionate intertwining of personal fantasy and history characteristics.
- A German WWII veteran and émigré to the United States depicts the increasingly downward progression of his family and life through the lens of his battlefield camera, including his own death during a stateside military protest.
- A young man sets out for an aimless stroll by tram from the center to the outskirts of Prague.
- Experimental film in which cells with energized particles reveal human outlines.
- A film literally about film, not just its content but its physical form, as the director shares with us his collection of 35 mm leaders, off-cuts and test footage and tells the story behind each.
- An experimental short film in which a copy of an interview is shown on a monitor next to the live interview creating the illusion that the two are talking to each other.
- Focuses on the body by way of starkly lit portraits to meditate upon the tension between presence and absence, before shifting to zero in on the figure of a pensive bride.
- ROSLYN ROMANCE "seems to be a sort of manual, concerning all the stuff of the cycle of life, from the most detailed mundanery to... God knows."
- The Tin Woodman, framed by light bulbs, does a little dance, leaps and retrieves his axe from outside the frame, chops down a tree that turns into various objects, grabs a heart emblem from the corner, and goes to the Emerald City at night with Toto. He goes to the edge of a cliff, where he meats an Asian spirit who gives him a heart shape that becomes a kite that hooks to him with a cane. This is followed by approximately ten minutes of kaleidoscopic images, including a man's hands, a dancing girl, and a cutout of Krishna.
- A short experimental film documenting "Parsifal" set to the score by Richard Wagner.
- An investigation into a relationship between two women in time and space.
- This film includes our five favorite significant messages: 1) The first American Morse Code message transmitted in 1844 by Samuel Morse himself. 2) In 1912 the Titanic transmitted the then new SOS distress call as it sank. 3) In 1956 the beacon atop the new Capitol Records Tower flashed HOLLYWOOD to promote them as the first record company based on the west coast. 4) In 1966 Commander Denton blinked a message to secretly communicate how POWs were being treated in North Vietnam. 5) The last official use of International Morse Code by the French Navy in 1997.
- Legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie's first film, shot in San Francisco (and utilizing the city as an effective backdrop). A combination of documentary and fantasy starring Baillie's "lovely friend" Miss Wong, ON SUNDAYS evokes an evocative quote by Carl Jung, "...remembering a potentiality of life which has been overgrown by civilization."
- A late Beat, proto psychedelic short film in which Baillie captured a woman friend in dance, her shadow as a negative against a shimmering background.