David Sherman - Selected Works 1996-2009
Includes Tuning the Sleeping Machine, To Re-edit the World, The Graceless, Roman Chariot, and Work Song OM (for Allen Ginsberg)
Includes Tuning the Sleeping Machine, To Re-edit the World, The Graceless, Roman Chariot, and Work Song OM (for Allen Ginsberg)
I wrote my Master's thesis on the teaching of film as an art form. From 1969 to 1980 I was able to put these ideas into practice while teaching filmmaking in the Art Department at Sonoma State University in northern California. Some of my students , whose
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s-Webb building
IN/FLUX is a series of three DVDs. Each DVD is a compilation of experimental films and videos from the African world. The violence and the pleasures, the contradictions, fears and desires of a planet shaped by the postcolonial condition, the present-futur
Makimono is an Asian roll painting depicting a landscape. The subject of the film is the language of film itself, its mutability and its influence on the viewer's vision and thinking. While the film gradually progresses the viewer is gently invited to ref
Solomon Nagler’s film work twists and turns through the uncanny topological spaces between abstraction and representation, negation and affirmation, place and placelessness. Allegorical by design, Nagler’s vision is composed of fragments of recognizable r
A limited edition retrospective DVD of 23 landmark films commissioned through the groundbreaking Channel 4/Arts Council England AnimateTV project, a unique collaboration supporting innovative and risk-taking experiments in animation.
Gunvor Nelson is a painter, photographer and master of personal film and video. A celebrated artist in her native Sweden, she pioneered personal filmmaking in California from the 1960s to the 1990s.Gunvor Nelson is a painter, photographer and master of personal film and video. A celebrated artist in her native Sweden, she pioneered personal filmmaking in California from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Includes:
- Schmeerguntz (1965, 15 min., sd., b&w, 16mm)
- My Name is Oona, (1969, 10 min.), sd., b&w, 16mm)
- Take Off (with Magda), (1972, 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm)
- Moon's Pool, (1973, 15 min., sd., col., 16mm)
Gordon Ball's films have been acclaimed for their originality, their powerful directness. As filmmaker Stan Brakhage has written of Ball's two works on the death of his mother and the death of his father, he "has accomplished something unique in the autobGordon Ball's films have been acclaimed for their originality, their powerful directness. As filmmaker Stan Brakhage has written of Ball's two works on the death of his mother and the death of his father, he "has accomplished something unique in the autobiographical genre of motion pictures. " Jonas Mekas declared Ball's Mexican Jail Footage "the best jail film I've seen"; of the same movie Robert Frank exclaimed "I can't forget this film."
Three distinct locations are brought together in this film Three Studies in Geography (2011), which encompasses three previously separate films made over the last ten years. Each location presents a particular balance of land, sky and water. The first par
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