New Acquisitions
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New on 35mm: Antoni Pinent’s Film Quartet/Polyframe
Film Quartet/Polyframe by Antoni Pinent (35mm with English subtitles, 2006-2008) I’ve seen “FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME” several times and it continues to astonish me. I love films that bring out the plasticity of the medium and this film is a prime example – as illustrated for instance by the Super 8 frames that were individually […]
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New on 16mm: Maïa Cybelle Carpenter’s Nous
Nous by Maïa Cybelle Carpenter (16mm, 2010) Inquire for availability. Filmed over a nine-year period, a close look at how we build relationships and how relationships build us. A bi-lingual film in French and English. Optical printing done during an artist residency at Liason of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto in 2005. (MCC) Read more and […]
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New on 16mm: Nathaniel Dorsky’s Compline
Compline by Nathaniel Dorsky (16mm, 2009) Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a […]
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New on 16mm: Nathaniel Dorsky’s Aubade
Aubade by Nathaniel Dorsky (16mm, 2010) Please note this film will be available for rental in July 2010. “An aubade is a poem or morning song evoking the first rays of the sun at daybreak. Often, it includes the atmosphere of lovers parting. This film is my first venture into shooting in color negative after […]
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New on 16mm: Betzy Bromberg’s a Darkness Swallowed
a Darkness Swallowed by Betzy Bromberg (16mm, 2005) “a Darkness Swallowed opens on a pair of faded photographs showing an old dented car, one with a child standing beside it and the other without. Speaking in voice-over, Bromberg references a past event, once that will forever haunt her although it occurred before her birth. The […]
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New on 16mm: Alan Berliner’s The Family Album
The Family Album by Alan Berliner (16mm, 1986) “exerts a cumulative a considerable behavioral fascination.” — J. Hoberman, Village Voice “…a moving and universal celebration, a family album that provokes a warm shock of recognition.” — Howard Aaron, Northwest Film and Video Center “…the disjunction between soundtrack and image curiously heightens the reality and surreality […]
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New on 16mm: Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business
Nobody’s Business by Alan Berliner (16mm, 1996) “A storyteller of profound scope and an editor of eye-popping skill, Berliner ultimately coaxes a hugely entertaining story out of his relatives — an Albert Brooks comedy with the gravity of personal history. ” — CITY PAGES The News and Arts Weekly of the Twin Cities “A gift […]
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New on 16mm: Thad Povey’s St. Louise
Thad Povey’s St. Louise (16mm, 1999) Handmade, music by Soul Coughing. Read more and rent this film..
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New on 16mm: Thad Povey’s Be Like Them
Thad Povey’s Be Like Them (16mm, 2000) “In the volume of those alien voices, sending out their significant messages.” Consumption and conformity can be gross multi-national products. Optically printed found footage Found footage; Music: Ramona The Pest Read more and rent this film..
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New on 16mm: Thad Povey’s An Alchemical Christmas Carol (aka The Alkie Xmas Song)
Thad Povey’s An Alchemical Christmas Carol (aka The Alkie Xmas Song) (16mm, 2002) “mixes up a toxic nog of sweet sentiment, heavenly damnation, and recycled gift wrap..” (TP) Read more and rent this film..
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