"Approximates a small child's fantasy world in the dark. In a series of close-ups, the nightlight is transformed into a meditative star-spangled sky. An improvisation, edited inside the camera and shot on a single reel. The stars swirl in silence." - IFFR

28.IV.81 (BEDOUIN SPARK) "...display[s] ...

Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic-light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punched stencils, passing buses shoot beams of light...

A hypnotic, visual frenzy of Kabuki imagery gone mad; the magical and ritualistic confrontation between a magenta-haired Western intruder and a Japanese recluse turns into a mesmerizing dance for domination. Live actors and objects filmed in stop-motion animation.

Ship feared lost in wild Atlantic sea. A portrait, of sorts, photographed from filmmaker Toney Merritt's former studio apartment on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Anti-war demonstration, New York City march to Sheep Meadow. Veterans against the war, Yippies, arrests and flags of a half-forgotten revolution. Photographed in 1968; completed in 1974.

Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super-8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of dark and light and an occasional skyscraper. The stark black lines of the trees against the whiteness create the sensation of a painter's chiaroscuro. Wov...

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media. The third part of the UNSUBSCRIBE series.

What if the "Looking Glass" were, at the same time, a window and a mirror; if the window was the mirror, the mirror the window? And your projection through this transparent/reflective plane did bring you to a world that is as externally rich as the self, in its internal churning, shifting through...

A camera mounted on a movable cart, pointing down at the floor, passes over a seemingly endless succession of gaudy carpets and surfaces in a single shot through a major hotel. The movements across the two-dimensional space, and in-and-out of elevators through three-dimensional space, suggest a c...

The historical Estudios Churubusco lab, where Golden Era Mexican films were processed in the 1950s, is still running, pretty much unchanged. This film is a desperate and loving attempt to preserve the memory of the people, knowledge and objects coexisting in this space, that risks closing at any ...

A meditative black-and-white short on the devastating effects of drug-use (in the personification of heroin). First screened in the Bay Area in a program of death-related films at the Oakland Museum of California.

On a cold day in November, a family of deer hunters returns from the field to the barn. A cinematic poem about deer hunting, masculinity and a fresh kill. Shot on Super-8mm black-and-white film on location in Wisconsin.

A fugue for wushu in the West.

MOUNTAIN VIEW thinks about framing, movement, surface and depth. The film consists of three continuous zooms towards a landscape that are deconstructed into a discontinuous sequence of single frames. Movement is exposed as an illusion of twenty-four static frames per second, the organic movement ...

As editor of New Left Notes, the newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Saul Levine was at the center of multiple radical political movements. For NEW LEFT NOTE, he employs a rapid-fire editing style to create a frenetic, kaleidoscopic portrait of the anti-war movement, the Black P...

Delicate threads of energy spiral and transform into mysterious microscopic cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist's dream. PRIMA MATERIA is inspired by the haunting wonderment of Lucretius' "De rerum natura" and is an homage to the first, tentative photographic r...

The principal issues are the manner and persistence of the sociological collective unconscious are forwarded through time by way of the surviving generations which survive as personal contributions to the collective unconscious.

"SAVING THE PROOF is a complex transformation of an ordinary action: a woman walking. The rhythm of her gait and the pulsating, repetitive sounds counterpoint with alternating images of her transversing city streets, passing windows and fences, descending stairs. As the images repeat and vary wit...

A short, poetic meditation on music and meaning in cinema. "Aurally iconographic" music fragments have been decomposed, then re-composed into loops and patterns and then combined with eclectically chosen imagery shot mostly in the western United States. The result is both a reflection of the arti...

"Mistakes are a gift to begin to imagine." - Stéphane Mallarmé

In SOME MISTAKES I HAVE MADE, Janis Crystal Lipzin re-imagines almost fifty years of Super-8mm, 8mm, 16mm and half-inch video outtakes, experiments, accidents, processing errors and unplanned occurrences calling attention to the cons...

Lily Dale is a spiritualist community in Chautauqua County, New York. Pilgrims and tourists swarm the hamlet in summer but, in the autumn, Lily Dale becomes a more intimate setting for spectral communions. SPIRITS IN SEASON explores the town's Leolyn Woods, pet cemetery, Inspiration Stump and Fai...

TODAY IS SUNDAY is both a still life and a landscape film in which the characters are described by nature. The relationship of the man and woman is articulated in dialogue with the external environment of clouds, wind and waves.

"TODAY IS SUNDAY, a lovely black-and-white, elliptical semi-narrati...

JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of twenty-nine stations and running as a loop. TOKYO-EBISU shows the views from the platforms of ten stations in Yamanote Line, from Tokyo Station to Ebisu Station clockwise. The in-camera visual effects and ...

"A short, quick, neat and amusing opener (for film programs) that will start the audience off in a good mood and clear you immediately of the suspicion of being arty. You won't go wrong with this one." — Journal of Popular Film