avant-garde, experimental, surreal film

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

ah super, thank you, but not the film in question. i think the one i'm seeking (based on a hugely fuzzy ancient memory) is a little (just a little) more recent. sadly i can't give you much more than that. sorta swimming cap flapper art deco abstract tourist board film dappled shadows scintillations of water reflections. no worries if you're drawing a blank, so am i!
o:
honorable mention for masaki kobayashi's "kwaidan" ( super cinematic ghost stories in glorious technicolor w/ super toru takemitsu score ), nobuhiko obayashi's "hausu"/ "house" super cheesy scoooby doo style haunted house 70's teen-schmaltz-horror, whatever folks directed "funky forest" gentle contemporary pop-surrealist sketch-show film,
most dario argento, most cronenburg, the m.barney canon, and season 2 & 3 lexx haha!

Hello bob snoom, yr descrip kinda sounds like a mash-up of Vigo's Apropos de Nice and Taris, tho' i don't suppose its either.

i think you might also like Dreams That Money Can Buy by Hans Richter

"dreams..." i know, it's a smasher ! - will def check out the others thank you.
maya deren gave me nightmares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHAWrEj1qY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjnHUJ455Ss&feature=related

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMDez_kGL2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-cvJq3m7pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yALxXKDjI1k

:DDDDDDDD that is lovely, want to see the rest now

oh cripes xposts!!!!!!!!!! um I was talking about the John Smith one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1x-9dLboDo

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

inland empire - david lynch, if not mentioned already. yeah i realize he's the cliche go-to for surrealism, but i have never been more scared watching a movie than that one. really sucks you in.

thank you admrl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMY-3Wg3eE0&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Ty4TTAX48

More Alys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC4-op71sa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vryg0DE7L70&feature=related

Feel like I may have already posted this but too lazy to check:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g&feature=related