Messages collects the personal and lyrical films of Guy Sherwin, one of the pre-eminent British film artists of the past forty years. The DVD features one of Sherwin’s major film works ‘Messages’ (1981-4) a meditation on childhood and language inspired by the work of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and Sherwin’s experience of his own daughter’s development.
Available on DVD for the first time, this 2004 debut feature of avant-garde veteran (and Ohio-raised) Jennifer Reeves combines elements of narrative, experimental, and documentary techniques to create a truly lyrical example of personal storytelling. In The Time We Killed, Reeves burrows into the perspective of a reclusive woman (poet Lisa Jarnot) who tries to ignore the world outside of her New York apartment. But images from her past and current world events (from 9/11 to the war in Iraq) cause her to confront and fight her growing agoraphobia. Shot on a mix of 16mm and digital video, the brilliantly textured film has achieved extraordinary acclaim for such a radically experimental work and has won major prizes at the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals.
Two 35mm works by filmmaker and artist Pat O'Neill, "Trouble In The Image", an NEA grant recipient, and "Horizontal Boundaries". Includes the bonus track "Runs Good", a First Prize recipient at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1971.
Five 16mm films from the catalog of works by filmmaker and artist Pat O'Neill.
Five films, both 16mm and 35mm, from Pat O'Neill. Includes the installation works "Two Sweeps" and "Let's Make A Sandwich", presented here as they would be seen in a gallery setting: as continuous loops.
For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960’s and 70’s, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation ex
CONDITIONED is a DVD compilation of experimental film and video art from Turkey that explores the intellectual conditioning of children and teenagers through both the educational system and contemporary Turkish society at large.
Though the Bauhaus wasn’t directly involved in all art forms, it definitely exerted interesting impulses nevertheless. A particular point in case is Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s 1922 Reflektorische Farblichtspiele [Reflecting Colour-Light-Play].
Select short, experimental films from around the world that were featured in Experiments in Cinema V5.1 film festival. Note that all proceeds will be invested in ensuring the success of next year's festival.
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