New Acquisitions
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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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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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