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The original, first ever Peripheral Produce release that features a compilation of twelve experimental films and videos by Negativland, Russ Forster, Miranda July, Animal Charm, Scott Arford, Vanessa Renwick, Matt McCormick, the Olympia Film Ranch, Bryan
Five absurd experimental shorts on this self-titled offering from the Chicago based media collective Animal Charm (aka Jim Fetterly and Rich Bott). Feel the warm with these mesmerizing and enchanting videos in your home or office; perfect for barbecues or
“The essence of film is time. As a photograph stills the breath of life, the cinema implies its inevitable exhalation. That which moves, moves inexorably toward its dissolution. These films reflect the intersection of that un-narrative, and the artifacts of its realization: the “surface’ of the image, or rather the pane of that looking glass we call the movies. The figures which inhabit them are the raw stuff of history, bit players and understudies who, in moments of crisis, are called upon to abandon the wings of this grandest stage and hesitantly deliver their lines.
Richter\'s position in the art world was unique. As one of the earliest exponents of Dada, he was also one of the first to recognize the new possibilities cinematography offered the artist. He participated in the first avant-garde film movement alongside
Mekas spent time with Jackie Kennedy and her sister\'s family and children in the years following JFK\'s death. Jackie wanted to give her children something to do to ease the transition to life without a father. A movie camera was suggested and Mekas was
Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist.
Junk; Ai (Love); On Eye Rape; A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput. Four films from one of the first generation of NY underground experimental filmmakers, films from a golden age of experimentation.
The author of more than 200 films of scientific research in the avant-garde spirit, Painlevé devoted his life to filming the infinitely small with state of the art equipment. This collection features Mathusalem, Hyas et Stenorinques, L'Hippocampe, Barbe Bleue, Le Vampire, Oursins, Histoires de Crevettes, Les Amours de la Pieuvre, Acera ou le Bal des Sorcieres and Cristaux Liquides.
Images disintegrate and the gelatine layer - where the chemicals are embedded, dissolves. All that\'s left is the \'raging of the elements\' in a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape. \'The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film\' - Reble.
One of the major works of letterist cinema, LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? had as much of a direct or hidden influence on the New Wave as it does on today's Avant-Garde. Its first screenings in Paris in 1951 became major events. The critics despised it, but this work is and will remain a landmark in film History.
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