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Video Out: The Story of VJ'ing and Live Video
Art. DVD,
NTSC.
From the psychedelic light shows of the 1960's to the heady, early days of experimental video art; from New York's nascent Soho Scene to today's techno underground, Video Out tells the story of live video art over the last thirty years. Featuring: Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Etra, Kurt Ralske, Benjamin Weil, Carl Goodman, Angie Eng, The Light Surgeons, Joshua White, Glen McKay, George Stadnik, and many others. Produced and Directed by Meredith Finkelstein and Paul Vlachos, 2005. Approx 80 minutes. (Quicktime trailer)
Private home use $30.
Institutions $100. (does
not include public performance rights)
CAMERA 3 SERIES, VIDEOTAPES: Each video contains interviews and clips from the filmmakers' works. VHS, NTSC (some are available in PAL, please inquire). $70 each (Same price, private home use or institutional use. Public performance rights not included)
A11---HANS
RICHTER: GIVE CHANCE A CHANCE. Scripted
documentary and interview. Richter talks about his career, early experiments
with the movie camera, association with the world of the Surrealists, origins
of Dada, and evolution of his own style. Includes examples of graphic work and
films including Ghosts Before Breakfast, Inflation, Rhythmus
21, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Dadascope and 8 x 8
(a chess film made with Jean Cocteau).1973,
27 mins.
Poem
Field by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton, 1964
A16---STAN
VANDERBEEK: THE COMPUTER GENERATION. 1972, 27 mins. The
pioneering experimental filmmaker is seen here at work with Wade Shaw at the
sophisticated 'new' 1972 computer at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
His main thesis is the inevitable interaction of computers with artistic creativity."
Includes excerpts from several of his films.
A17---VANDERBEEKIANA!
: STAN VANDERBEEK’S VISION. 1968, 28 mins. The
pioneering film experimenter at home discusses work, jokes, found images, toys,
inventions, etc. This documentary includes excerpts from his films Will,
See Saw Seams, Image After Image After Image, and Poem field
#1.
A23---JOHN
WHITNEY, SR.
John
Whitney, Sr. one of the early pioneers in films made by computer-driven cameras
explains and demonstrates his work. Shot on location at Whitney's home in California,
includes excerpts from his films "Matrix 3", "Catalog", "Permutations" and from
James Whitney's "Lapis," shot with John's motion cam invention. Making abstract
motion in time, and impinging directly on the viewer's emotions as music does
-- these were among Whitney's early goals. "Music organizes time in a special
way, creates tension in us, then satisfies, gratifies. We can do the same for
patterns-- something is going to happen, make it happen in a way you don't expect.
Film permutations can be parallel to tones in harmonic sequenceÉ dominant chord
resolves into tonic chord." To do this, says Whitney, "we need new tools, and
to learn how to control them. They're unlike musical instruments which we have
been practicing on for 300 years. We have to start from scratch. " --CATV. 1975.
27 mins.
A28---NORMAN
McLAREN. 1970, 27 mins. Animator
and experimental film artist Norman McLaren talks with film historian William
Sloan, and introduces excerpts from his work to illustrate his ideas and techniques.
Scottish-born McLaren, who made his home in Canada and was an early member of
the National Film Board of Canada, was a pioneer in short films using various
film tricks, animation, painting on film and handmade sound tracks. Film excerpts
here include sections from: "Boogie Doodle", "Loop and Dots", "Begone Dull Care",
"Rythmetic", "Poulette Grise", "Neighbors", "Canon", "Pas de Deux". These films
illustrate experiments with a wide variety of techniques. Sound tracks, often
drawn directly on the film, include jazz, electronic warbles, scratching, distorted
dialogue, and classical music. 1970.
A31---LEN LYE. 1957.
Filmmaker Len Lye shows excerpts from several of his works and discusses his
ideas with Peretz William Johnnes, director of the Film Center of the YM-YWHA
in New York City. Lye also speaks of his work and ideas, demonstrates some "tangibles",
and shows clips from his films. Len Lye was a New Zealand filmmaker active from
about 1930 through the 60's. As a youth he studied Polynesian art. One of the
first artists to paint and draw directly on film, he also developed several
of the montage and fast-cutting techniques later used successfully in advertising.
His interest in the relationship between light and rhythm led to experiments
with moving sculptures he called "tangibles." These later evolved into moving
sculptures that generated their own music. 1962.
A33---RENE CLAIR. Conversation with distinguished French film director
Rene Clair. He discusses film techniques, cinema as art, and the origins of
the essential art of film today in the silent films of yesterday. Includes excerpts
from his films "Le Million" (1931), and "Gates of Paris". 1957.
A34---ALEXANDER ALEXEIEFF: THE PIN BOARD. Painter-draftsman-filmmaker-printmaker
Alexander Alexeieff, with his wife and co-worker Claire Parker, discuss the
use of his "pin-board" technique for illustration and film animation. With excerpts
from their films, a demonstration of the pin-board, and film made on location
in Paris about the reception of their art. 1966.
A36---OSKAR FISCHINGER. 1977. Exploration of the film work of the painter,
abstract artist, engineer, animator and film artist Oskar Fischinger, with many
examples of his work. Commentary by his widow Elfriede Fischinger, by writer
William Moritz who spent years cataloguing Fischinger's work, and by film animator-historian
John Canemaker. 1977, 28 mins. CVM Note: Film historian John Canemaker's
amusing article regarding the taping of this show, and the travels of Elfriede
and Bill to New York, was originally published in Funnyworld Magazine,
No. 18, Summer 1978, and is online at the Fischinger Archive website: Elfriede!
On the Road with Mrs. Oskar Fischinger
A43---MARY ELLEN BUTE FILMS “FINNEGANS WAKE” - A portion of
Bute's feature film "Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake" is shown, with
discussion by its producer-director Mary Ellen Bute and William Tindall, Professor
of English at Columbia University, New York City, author of "The Reader's Guide
to James Joyce." 1965.
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