avant-garde, experimental, surreal film

resnais mon oncle d'amérique
Luis Bunuel The Phantom of Liberty
debord la société du spectacle
Nagisa Oshima In The Realm Of The Senses
michael snow so is this

That's the person I was trying to think of in my original post to this thread. The film that features rapidly alternating perspectives from within a hallway. It has been bothering me ever since (particularly as I'd seen the film in question multiple times), and it came to me tonight.

Serene Velocity. Great film. Anyone know this one?

The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz
...where end of the world in coming to London, windows speak and the subway has it's own gods.

Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
...where the boys from KLF burn a million pounds of their own money. It really happened.

Don't Touch the White Woman!
...where the famous battle between general Custer and the Indians takes place in modern-day Paris. Marcello Mastroianni plays Custer, and Catherine Deneuve is his mistress.

i thought the K foundation thing had been officially discredited now?

What do you mean by that? I heard Drummond & Cauty have destroyed all the existing copies of the film, but nothing about it being discredited.

which surprises me. i kind of thought he had gone through with it. seemed like that kind of bloke from his writing. [naive fool that i am]

every once in a while i check amazon..i don't know how to start a request or a waiting list for a release, so all i do is hope..

now, the only maya deren- related dvd out at this point is the excellent documentary "in the mirror with maya deren" on zeitgiest films.

George Landow - On the Marriage Broker Joke...

how about "Holy Mountain" by Jodorowsky

# Hairspray (1988)
# Desperate Living (1977)
# Female Trouble (1974)
# Pink Flamingos (1972)
# Multiple Maniacs (1970)

The Color of Pomegranates -Sergei Paradjanov

WR Mysteries of the Organism -Dusan Makavejev
Sweet Movie - Dusan Makavejev

(under no circumstances read _any_ plot summary of Sweet Movie before watching the film)

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/33/makavejev.html

All Bunuel after 1960 is worth watching at least once, also don't miss El

found this site looking for a good link for Zulawski's film Possession. have seen about 75% of these, which bodes well for the ones I haven't.

i thought this was the thread where one of the noize dudes threw a hissy fit because they thought i criticized a brakhage film, but i guess not

(sorry)

An Evening w/ Ernie Gehr at NYC MoMA tonight (there were still tix 2 hrs ago).

http://moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=6243

Recent obits for Curtis Harrington refer to a series of early underground movies, including one, 'Wormwood Star', featuring the fabulous Marjorie Cameron from 'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome'.

Anyone seen any of this?

By next year, every expensive uptown arts venue that screens a-g film will be devoted entirely to Ernie Gehr.

'Pleasure Dome' is fucking awesome! There's a collection of Kenneth Anger's films (vol. 1, more forthcoming I hope) on DVD now from Fantomas, I got it through Netflix. I liked all five of them on the DVD. Marjorie Cameron was the wife of Jack Parsons, crazy fucking world.

Chappaqua, anyone?

Anger v.2 is out.

Gehr was a funny little guy, talking about his friendship w/ Michael Snow: "Then he moved to Canada. And there was no email, it was the '60s! People were living in caves!"

Serene Velocity is hypnotic, for those who aren't susceptible to seizures... Side/Walk/Shuttle might be in my top 3 San Francisco films now.

pleasure dome is def. my favorite anger

Didn't Jack Parsons claim at one point that Marjorie Cameron wasn't actually human, that she was the magic(k)al result of a ritual that he and L Ron Hubbard had been working?

So, anyone want to talk about structural film? I know virtually nothing about it, but nevertheless assigned myself the task of writing about it.

On that note, I love how This video is a response to Global Swine Flu Cases Close To Pandemic Level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY7B2-Wqj6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-v4kZPzZzY&feature=related

I'm kind of amazed at what's on Youtube sometimes. Nothing beats seeing an actual PRINT of the Lipsett though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_avIZO8DoOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnakPuaDELk&playnext_from=TL&videos=LFTNLVlm3Y0&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh%2Bdiv-1r-2-HM

fucking love arthur lipsett, even though he's been a big influence on george lucas / coppolla etc it is astounding to me that I made it to 2009 before hearing about him. bruce conner is cool and everything but where the hell were the prints of lipsett's films when I was in film studies 101?

I have a copy of this and I even listen to it: http://www.discogs.com/Arthur-Lipsett-Arthur-Lipsett-Soundtracks/release/792458

http://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=64

I have the Lipsett soundtracks too!

we're pretty much legion

Some loops for y'all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMvQtVEXok&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pe8O5h9EEs&feature=related

These look like shit, sorry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_9D_JB3TBA&feature=fvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LuqpirHl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDoH_KGTR7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=retMJjM3iBY&feature=related

Woah love the split frame in that last one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2OBNPN7818&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTarJ0Op7W8&feature=related

I have more vivid memories of reading Richard Roud's Straub book than the films themselves, intriguing though they were.
I should get around to watching Sicilia!, which James Quant of TIFF was always talking up.

couple of days left to catch two, imo, unmissable online retrospectives of female experiemntal filmmakers:

ellie epp on ultra dogme: https://ultradogme.com/2023/08/18/ellie-epp/

jun kurosawa on equinox: https://equinox.film

👍

Don't know, should I bother watching this?

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2025/histoire-s-du-cinema/central-bazaar

Look fun?

Yes, all Dwoskin is essential

Although Central Bazaar is actually one of his easier to see films (the BFI put out a DVD of it).

A certain former ILXor co-edited a book about Dwoskin a couple of years ago btw.

Great, now won't actually be able to see this tonight but I will hunt some of his work down.

(Just reading about him and yes can see who that ilxor might be :-))