New Acquisitions
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New on 16mm: Diane Kitchen’s Ecstatic Vessels
Ecstatic Vessels by Diane Kitchen (16mm, 2007) “The film transitions between quiet observations and subtle abstractions through exquisite delicacies of movement, line and color. Flickers of light, the quivering of branches and playful gestures of leaves surprise and entice.” – Vanessa O’Neill Read more and rent this film..
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New on 16mm: Robert Nelson’s Special Warning
Special Warning by Robert Nelson (16mm, 1998) “Special Warning is like a poem more than a narrative or story. It suggests states of isolation, barrenness, sexual guilt and sin […]” Read more and rent this film..
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New on DVD: Gregg Biermann’s COMPUTATIONAL SUBLIME: Videos by Gregg Biermann
COMPUTATIONAL SUBLIME: Videos by Gregg Biermann “In this work Gregg Biermann has taken head-on some of the supreme moments of classical cinema and subjected them to a dazzling transformation in the digital domain. The results are exhilarating, surprising tours de force. They also have a zany quality that shows the artist to have a witty […]
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New on DVD: Jon Behrens Selected Experimental Short Films: 1987-2007
Jon Behrens Selected Experimental Short Films: 1987-2007 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 moving on to 16mm shortly there […]
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New on DVD: Con Viento en El Pelo (wind in our hair) by Lynne Sachs
Con Viento en El Pelo (wind in our hair) by Lynne Sachs […]Using a bilingual soundtrack, Lynne Sachs and her collaborator, Puerto Rican filmmaker Sofia Gallisá, articulate this atmosphere of urban turmoil spinning about the young girls’ lives. WIND IN OUR HAIR also includes the daring, ethereal music of Argentine singer Juana Molina. Read more […]
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New on DVD: Trailer Trash by Mark Street
Trailer Trash by Mark Street A skewed take on film detritus: 35mm movie trailers rescued from the trash and affected by hand and digitally.. Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Street of the Sardine and Yesterday’s Shore Tomorrow’s Morning by Eva Lothar
Street of the Sardine and Yesterday’s Shore Tomorrow’s Morning by Eva Lothar Cannery Row in Monterey, California, once the thriving “sardine capital” of the world immortalized by John Steinbeck, stands as a lonely and desolate testimony of man’s mismanagement of his natural resources.. Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Shadow and Light by William Farley
Shadow and Light by William Farley In Shadow & Light, director William Farley (John O’Keefe’s Song of Myself, Darryl Henriques Is In Show Business, The Old Spaghetti Factory, In Between the Notes) offers another deft and revealing portrait of an outsider artist who defies stereotypes of gender, culture and age. Farley tells a story not […]
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New on DVD: Pandora’s Dresser by Lyle Pearson
Pandora’s Dresser by Lyle Pearson Made entirely again by Mac OS X, Episode #II re-examines what emerges from my dresser, on the opposite side of the room. My nine classic East Indian emotions create and study images, through storm and calm. Staring at a Buddha produces oneself, here the opposite. Then, on to a new […]
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New on DVD: Mock Up on Mu by Craig Baldwin
Mock Up on Mu by Craig Baldwin A radical hybrid of sci-fi, spy, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length “collage-narrative” based on (mostly) true stories of California’s post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction […]
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Saul LevineAs Is Is
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Kerry Laitala delivers an elegiac account of the passions and struggles of a female chameleon.
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