Visions of Warhol
Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist.
Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde film-makers and close friends of the Pop-artist.
35mm 1963 82'
A film by Adolfas Mekas with Peter H. Beard, Marty Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, Peggy Steffans, Jerome Hill, Taylor Mead. Camera: Ed Emshwiller. Assistant: Jonas Mekas. Editing: Adolfas Mekas. Music: Meyer Kupferman.
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.
PASSION is a personal film-journey in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through a ritual, following the seasons until his birth. Reble\'s unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating structures and colors
Rephotographing a 1905 Biograph one-reeler, Jacobs penetrates ever deeper into the image, delving into the shot, zooming in on details, probing and probing.
ANALOGIES
- Incantations 1968-1972 8'
- Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time 1977 14'
- The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough 1981 33'
- secondary currents 1983-1990 b/w 16'
- Spirit Matters 1991 6'
"I'm an escape artist. I aspire to travel in the fifth dimension, to speak unknown languages, to discover the next stage in the evolution of thought. I construct structural parables that allude to the possibility of there being more to the universe than is permitted by our explanations." - Peter Rose
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.
A fine retrospective of the pioneer of \'direct film\' whose techniques included painting and scratching images directly onto celluloid, using found footage, casting shadows of objects onto unexposed film and experimenting with early colour techniques. A
Ixe - EEKS is the four points of the compass, the four ends of the cross, is War, Sex, Religion and Drugs. Includes a 40 page booklet connected to the film.
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