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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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New on DVD: Life Transpo by Donna Cameron
Life Transpo by Donna Cameron Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Griffiti by George Griffin
Griffiti by George Griffin An archive of independent animation by George Griffin, including prize-winning shorts, experimental films, gallery installations, and commissioned work. Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Hidden in Plain Sight by Mark Street
Hidden in Plain Sight by Mark Street *Hidden in Plain Sight* is inspired by the tradition of cinematic city symphonies and is made up of footage shot in four cities: Santiago de Chile, Hanoi Vietnam, Dakar Senegal and Marseille France. Vignettes from each place are juxtaposed so that the viewer is pulled from place to […]
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New on DVD: A Year by Mark Street
A Year by Mark Street A tattered diary film. Middle age concerns swirl around me in Brooklyn and follow to North Carolina, and New Orleans (before the storm) and back home again. Video journal entries mix with 35mm abstract film images, sublime and inviting, suggesting an elegy for celluloid. Read more and purchase..
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New on DVD: Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs
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
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
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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"Iimura used the process of re-photography, but in this instance, the screen was the tiny viewer of a 16mm editor.... Read more »