New Acquisitions

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   New on DVD: Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 29th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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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   Past New Releases: Summer 2009

   Posted April 27th, 2010 in New Acquisitions
   

   New Releases from the Summer of 2009. Martha Colburn Bruce Conner Nathaniel Dorsky Robert Huot George Kuchar New Releases Martha Colburn Born 1971 in the boonies of Pennsylvania, now I live in delightfully frightful Baltimore. I’m a self-taught/self-sufficient (thanks to Super 8!) filmmaker. I began making films by cutting up and hand-coloring State Surplus films. […]

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    Past New Releases: Spring 2009

    Posted April 27th, 2010 in New Acquisitions
    

    New Releases from the Spring of 2009. Colin Barton Gary Beydler Christopher Cogan Marie Menken Pat O’Neill Mark Toscano Works now available on DVD by.. Bruce Baillie Raymond Rea Lynne Sachs Colin Vincent Barton Colin Vincent’s work is embedded in a psychic temporal space where he tries to tap in to the inner emotional response […]

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