New DVDs
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New on DVD: A Year by Mark Street
A Year by Mark Street A tattered diary film. Middle age concerns swirl around me in Brooklyn and follow to North Carolina, and New Orleans (before the storm) and back home again. Video journal entries mix with 35mm abstract film images, sublime and inviting, suggesting an elegy for celluloid. Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs
Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters led by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. “Investigation of a Flame” is an intimate, experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine, […]
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New on DVD: Short Films Volume III: Ijime, Ilime II, Tziporah, North Side/South Side, Garden, Jack Haber by Abraham Ravett
Short Films Volume III: Ijime, Ilime II, Tziporah, North Side/South Side, Garden, Jack Haber by Abraham Ravett North Side/ South Side: A cinematic reflection inspired by the memorial service for a recently deceased colleague. Premiere: 2007, Vienna International Film festival Ijime Part II: The first in a series of cinematic reflections on “Ijime.” “Ijime” is […]
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New on DVD: The Last Happy Day by Lynne Sachs
The Last Happy Day by Lynne Sachs THE LAST HAPPY DAY is a half hour experimental documentary portrait of Sandor Lenard, a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs and a Hungarian medical doctor. Lenard was a writer with a Jewish background who fled the Nazis. During the war, the US Army Graves Registration Service hired […]
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New on DVD: Gaudi & Cezannescapes by Gary Adlestein
Gaudi & Cezannescapes by Gary Adlestein Three experimental shorts informed by the styles of the artists they celebrate. (the two most recent are mini-DV’s inspired by the work of Gaudi, the other, created 15 years previously, is a single-system sound, edited- [mostly] -in-camera Super-8). Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: John O’Keefe’s Adaptation of Song of Myself by William Farley
John O’Keefe’s Adaptation of Song of Myself by William Farley “For O’Keefe’s Song of Myself is an art song in spoken form. Poised halfway between being a straight recitation and imaginative interpretation of Whitman’s poem, the performance plays with our intellect and emotions like an intoxicating piece of music.” – Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly Read […]
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New on DVD: Old Spaghetti Factory by William Farley
Old Spaghetti Factory by William Farley Mal and Sandra Sharpe found a painting in an upscale Berkeley junk shop. They bought the colorful mural, which was painted in 1963 and had once been on the wall of North Beach’s Old Spaghetti Factory. The Sharpes puzzled over the forty faces in the painting.. Read more and […]
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New on DVD: Cinema of the Body: Element, MUSEic of the Body, Light of the Body, Wildfire, Tides, Videotape for a Woman and a Man by Amy Greenfield
Cinema of the Body: Element, MUSEic of the Body, Light of the Body, Wildfire, Tides, Videotape for a Woman and a Man by Amy Greenfield Please note this title is not for sale for home purchase/use, only institutional purchase. “To convey more effectively the experience of movement Greenfield has often performed or performed with, nude […]
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New on DVD: Camera Dance Volume 1 by Amy Greenfield
Camera Dance Volume I: Transport, Dervish, Element, Tides by Amy Greenfield Please note this title is not for sale for home purchase/use, only institutional purchase. “Amy Greenfield and Stan Brakhage are two artists who at times seem to imply a deeply religious conception of the body and its relation to nature. Still, I think that […]
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Nathaniel DorskyAugust and After
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After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.
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