New Acquisitions

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   New on 16mm: Thad Povey’s St. Louise

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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)

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New Films, News / Events
   

   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

   Posted April 30th, 2010 in New Acquisitions, New DVDs, News / Events
   

   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

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

   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

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

   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

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

   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

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

    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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