avant-garde, experimental, surreal film

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

Oh man, I love that Martin Arnold, I haven't been able to see it since we watched a 16mm print in my sophomore year of college.

this has been boggling me lately:

http://thesoundofeye.blogspot.com/

ha I see they took down the Ira Cohen film that was reissued by Arthur...

i'm pleased da intawebs has somewhat put pay to the "harder core than thou" aspect of fanboyism that has historically plagued the appreciation of "such" film. i think there's much experimental which doesn't evoke any feeling of "magic" - fair enough - the "real", scabrous, harsh & unforgiving in a situationist / docu style has it's place. but i will say in defence of the magical to check at your leisure fellini's "satyricon" & "casanova" & power rangers lost galaxy "return of the magna defender" i do not joke here.
can you help me tho, i wonder? i'm looking for an old film i thought was either man ray or duchamp (might not be): something like " poeme cinematique " or similar title - very art deco surrealist i think perhaps concentrating on NY or Paris architecture, shadows, the play of light on water etc any ideas? vielen dank !

Ballet Mecanique?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgsqmQJAq0

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

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