Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and micro-expressionistic exploration
By the late 1960s I moved from Berkeley to San Francisco where I met other like- minded artists and experimental filmmakers. It was the era of intense outrage against the war in Viet Nam, psychedelics, and interest in Eastern mysticism.
In 1974 I moved to a rural property on Old Redwood Highway in Sonoma County near the town of Penngrove California... During the ensuing years... I could both record interesting moments and also weave a cinematic fabric equivalent to the gestural style and
Filmed with the Bolex Rx8 camera which was the exact same size as a 16mm Bolex but holding 4 times the amount of film time-wise. These rolls were spontaneously edited with my in-camera style and have emerged as portraits, mostly of artist friends, includi
For more than 25 years Jon Behrens has worked completely outside of the mainstream conception of what filmmaking is , He began to make films as a teenager in the late seventies, starting out with his Grandfathers Wollensak regular 8mm camera and then mo
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 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.
