Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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Cinématon

Cinématon

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over...

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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)

Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a hot...

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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew...

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Dream Life

Dream Life

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

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Home Movies 1971-81

Home Movies 1971-81

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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Portrait of Snow

Portrait of Snow

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

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Manual of Arms

Manual of Arms

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary...

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Bill's Hat

Bill's Hat

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera...

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Snowblind

Snowblind

"Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

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Toronto Jazz

Toronto Jazz

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny...

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EXPRMNTL

EXPRMNTL

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World...

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Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

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Cinématon V

Cinématon V

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of...

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The Stone Age

The Stone Age

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

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Snow Business

Snow Business

Interview and profile of experimental filmmaker Michael Snow from 1983. Includes extracts from 'Back and Forth', 'Wavelength', 'La Region Central',...

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Michael Snow Up Close

Michael Snow Up Close

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist...

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