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Other Avant-Garde DVDs and Videos
While all are not specifically visual music, these are important works we highly recommend.
Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s & 1970s. DVD, PAL Region 0 import. Released by Lux and Re:Voir, 2006. 13 single screen films from the London Film-Makers' Cooperative.The 1960s and 1970s were groundbreaking decades in which independent filmmakers challenged cinematic convention. In England, much of the innovation took place at the London Film-Makers' Co-operative, an artist-led organisation that incorporated a distribution agency, cinema space and film workshop. Within this unique laboratory, filmmakers were able to control every aspect of the creative process, and the physical production of a film - the printing and processing - became vital to its form and content. Many of the films made at the LFMC explored the physical nature of the film material, using production processes that shaped the form and content of the final works. The Shoot Shoot Shoot DVD is 2 hours long and contains 13 complete films accompanied by bilingual English / French booklet written by project curator Mark Webber. Contains the following films: At The Academy (Guy Sherwin 1974), Little Dog For Roger (Malcolm Le Grice 1967), Shepherd's Bush (Mike Leggett 1971), Hall (Peter Gidal 1968-69), Dirty (Stephen Dwoskin 1965-67), Marvo Movie (Jeff Keen 1967), Broadwalk (William Raban 1972), Fforest Bay II (Chris Welsby 1973), Slides (Annabel Nicolson 1970), Film No. 1 (David Crosswaite 1971), Dresden Dynamo (Lis Rhodes 1971), Footsteps (Marilyn Halford 1974), Leading Light (John Smith 1975). 117 mins, PAL DVD. First time in distribution in the US. only a few in stock
Private home use $40.
Institutions $100 (permits
classroom and library use, no other public exhibition permitted)
ITEMS BELOW are Re:VOIR USA, VHS Releases (NTSC)
Mekas, Maas, Menken and Namath: Visions of Warhol. 1963-1990. Scenes
from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde filmmakers
and close friends of the Pop-artist. Titles include: Award Presentation to
Andy Warhol (Jonas Mekas, 1963) with Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, Ivy
Nicholson, Gregory Markopoulos, etc.; Andy Warhol’s Silver Flotations
(Willard Maas, 1964); Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (Jonas Mekas,
1963-1990), with Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Barbara Rubin, John Lennon,
Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, etc.; Andy Warhol (Marie Menken, 1965); Andy
Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Ronald Nameth, 1967), with the Velvet
Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Ingrid Superstar, etc. 81 minutes, color.
Re:Voir USA release. VHS Video, NTSC.
Documenting Warhol’s multimedia lightshow with the Velvet Underground and Nico, “Ronald Nameth does with cinema what the Beatles do with music: his film is dense, compact, yet somehow fluid and light. An eerie world of semi-slow motion against an aural background of incredible frenzy. He makes kinetic empathy a new kind of poetry.” (Gene Youngblood)
Private home use $40.
Institutions $200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Jonas Mekas' 3 Friends. (1992-1995). Includes Zefiro Torna and Happy Birthday to John. On October 9th, 1972, half of the music world gathered in Syracuse, N.Y., to celebrate the opening of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Fluxus show, designed by George Maciunas. On the same day, a smaller group gathered in a local hotel room to celebrate John's birthday. This film is a record of that occasion. The soundtrack consists of singing by John, Yoko, Ringo Starr, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Oaks, an many others. The film includes footage of the John Lennon/Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden on August 30th, 1972, the vigil in Central Park on December 8th, 1980, and other rare footage. Includes a 32-page booklet of Jonas Mekas' diary entries used in the soundtrack. 52 mins, VHS Video, NTSC. Re:Voir USA release.
Private home use $40.
Institutions $200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Jonas Mekas, This Side of Paradise. (1999) VHS Video, NTSC. “Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, key part of our friendship. The time was still very close to the untimely, tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her children to do, to help ease the transition, life without a father. One of her thoughts was that a movie camera would be fun for children. Peter Beard, who was at that time tutoring John Jr. and Caroline in art history, suggested to Jackie that I was the man to introduce the children to cinema. Jackie said yes. And that’s how it all began. The images in this film, with a few exceptions, all come from the summers Caroline and John Jr. spent in Montauk, with their cousins Anthony and Tina Radziwill, in an old house Lee had rented from Andy Warhol for a few summers. Andy himself spent many of his weekends there, in one of the cottages, as did Peter Beard, whom the children had adopted almost like their older brother or a father they missed. These were summers of happiness, joy, and continuous celebrations of life and friendships. These were days of Little Fragments of Paradise." — (Jonas Mekas). Re:Voir USA release, 35 mins, b/w & color.
Private home use $40.
Institutions $200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Barbara Hammer: Sanctus (1989-1992). Includes Still Point, Sanctus, Vital Signs. Inclues a 40-page booklet about the films by Stefani de Loppinot and Florent Guezengar. "This work on the film emulsion adds moveable and multicolored radiation, reworking and excoriating the very matter of the film (both the light and the light-sensitive surface), to the white radiation of the X-ray, altering its forms, in much the same way as human skin is here rendered more present by its invisibility." (Florent Guezengar) 36 minutes. Re:Voir USA release. VHS Video, NTSC.
Private home use $25. SALE
Institutions $200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Maya Deren: Experimental
Films
(1943-1946). Includes Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and Ritual
in Transfigured Time. Published
by Re:Voir, 47
minutes, Video, NTSC. Only
a few left
Private
home use $25. SALE
Institutions
$200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom The Piper's Son. Video,
NTSC. Boxed set containing the 2-hour film and a 214-page bilingual book, a
special issue of Exploding, the French magazine of analysis in film experimentation.
"I wanted to ‘bring to the surface’ that multi-rhythmic collision-contesting
of dark and light two-dimensional force areas struggling edge to edge for identity
of shape… to get into the amoebic grain pattern itself – a chemical dispersion
pattern unique to each frame… stirred to life by a successive 16-24 frame-per-second
pattering on our retinas, the teeming energies elicited (the grains! the grains!)
then collaborating, unknowingly and ironically, to form the always-poignant-because-always-past
illusion. A movie about penetration to the sublime, to the infinite...." — (Ken
Jacobs). Published
by Re:Voir, VHS Video,
total running time 133 minutes, b/w & color.
Private home use $75.
Institutions $300. (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Adolf Mekas, Hallelujah the Hills. (1963) VHS Video, NTSC. Adolfas Mekas, born in Lithuania, arrived in the United States with his brother Jonas in 1949. They founded Film Culture, the magazine of independent cinema, in 1954. Adolfas Mekas’s Hallelujah the Hills bears witness to his knowledge and love of cinema, as well as the immense freedom to be found in all the films of the New American Cinema. Replete with innovative cinematic homages ranging from Sergei Eisenstein to Jean-Luc Godard, Hallelujah the Hills is a paean to the cinema and, in the words of its creator, "a song of love, friendship, and youth." Mekas’s story follows two young men (Peter H. Beard and Marty Greenbaum) who have for seven years been courting the same woman (played by both Sheila Finn and Peggy Steffans). When they return to propose marriage in the eighth year, they discover that she has already wed another man. The jilted suitors embark on a camping trip in the Vermont woodlands where comic romps are punctuated by bittersweet recollections of the woman. Time Magazine praised the film as “a far-out and very funny farce, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema.” Published by Re:Voir USA, b/w, 82 min.
Private
home use $40.
Institutions
$200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
Patrick Bokonowski, L'Ange. (1977-1982) VHS Video, NTSC. Bokanowski's feature-length film features music by Michèle Bokanowski. "In this Breughel or Bosch cloaked in a 19th century tail coat, characters 'à la Boltanski,' infinitely coupled to their either seemingly trivial or simply absurd chores, at once mobile (in grinding jerks) and frozen in a sort of infernal eternity, meet in various parts of an unidentifiable location, on and around, it seems, an immense expressionist staircase which leads, nevertheless, to a final luminous irradiation. This film, programmed non-stop in a Tokyo cinema for nearly ten years (as was Cocteau's BLOOD OF A POET in New York in the 50's), has reached cult status among amateurs of a most deeply disrupting and bewitching cinema." — (Jean-Michel Frodon). Published by Re:Voir USA, color, 70 min.
Private home use $40. Only one left
Maurice Lemaitre's Le Film est Deja Commence? (1951-1993) VHS Video, NTSC. TITLES INCLUDED: Film Annonce (1993, color, 3 min.) Le Film est déjà Commencé? (1951, color, 59 min.). "Heir to the dadaist, surrealist, and abstract filmmakers of the 1920's, Lemaître managed to combine equally aesthetics with politics — no easy task and one that fully justifies the current recognition of his work." — Gérard Courant, Libération. Published by Re:Voir USA, color, 62 mins.
Private
home use: $40
Institutions:
$200 (permits
screening for non-paying audience in an institutional context)
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