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- A compilation of 4 short films and videos on the Japanese theme of MA, which roughly translates to 'negative space', but evokes a deeper sense as a concept of space/time as one, or the interconnectiveness of space and time.
- Arguably Larry Gottheim's most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains the camera on a friend improvising a tune in the backseat of a moving car. Held out the window, the harmonica becomes a musical conduit for the wind, while Gottheim's film transforms before our eyes into a playful meditation on wrangling the natural elements into art. - Max Goldberg
- Larry Gottheim's classic short from 1970, re-scored by musician and experimental geographer, Sterling Mackinnon.
- This corpus of 16 short films was dug out from a hidden avant-garde film collection after 50 years. It is the very first and earliest Japanese pop art/underground film collection. The roots of 60's Japanese underground cinema are all here.
- David Avallone interviews legendary reclusive film director Adolfas Mekas, at his villa in Tuscany. Wackiness ensues.
- This documentary follows the making of "Lucy en miroir" of Raphaël Bassan.
- In an avant-garde spirit, open to his immediate contemporaneity, the filmmaker Marcel HANOUN directed with Estelle COURTOIS in late September 2011, LE CRI, an unexpected silent film of 7 minutes, with the comedian Marc-Henri BOISSE. Marcel HANOUN will always bring back in films historical events at their true distance, and at their human and cinematographic dimensions.
- Four films from one of the first generation of NY underground experimental filmmakers, Japanese-born Takahiko Iimura. 4 films from a golden age of experimentation: Junk; Ai (Love); On Eye Rape; A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput.
- A series of experiments with two cameras and two monitors filming each other.
- Major avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin recounts the filming of his short film Trixi (1969).
- On the subject of Stephen Dwoskin's methods of working and collaborating with others.
- A collection of Takahiko Iimura's short clips from his 12 experimental DVDs, each in one-minute excerpts, and originally produced between 1962 and 2002. A promotional glimpse and a guide to the piece in which one of the highlights is seen.
- This 're-read' work developed out of Iimura's performance practice that he has over the years, from his association with Fluxus to his notion of Video Semiology, radically explores the signifying systems of meaning in moving image making.
- Features four short films on phenomenological language, a concept of writer Jacques Derrida, shot by Takahiko Iimura from 1978 to 2001: Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation (1978), Talking in New York (After Jacques Derrida) (1980), Talking to Myself at PS1 (1985), and Seeing/Hearing/Speaking (2001).
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- Actress Maggie Jennings talks about her collaboration with avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin on the film Oblivion (2006).
- Experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin speaks of the co-ops that he has co-founded and of festivals that he knew well.
- Examines the career of internationally recognized filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, his pioneering work and his films which he shot himself, exploring desire, sexual and moral solitude, the passage of time, and physical handicap (he had polio).
- A compilation video of the creator of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, featuring two short films from the 1960s: Anma (1963), and Rose Colored Dance (1966), the best of his early butoh. Directed by avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.
- Takahiko Iimura is considered one of the most influential experimental cineastes of today. This compilation covers mainly his early stage of the 1960s, starting with 'Onan' (1963), and a more recent one, 'A I U E O NN Six Features' (1993).
- A compilation of two films from the late 1960s by avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura: Flowers, 1968-1969 (1969), and Face (1968). Yayoi Kusama performs body painting with the collaboration of Akiko Iimura.
- Eight camera passes across the barn, each the length of roll of film, the light and the relationship to the foreground changing with each pass.
- Avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura compares the dialectics of images and language, live video image and the viewer, as well as the 'subject' and the 'object' to the complex Yin/Yang principle. A compilation of seven short films.
- In this compilation, Takahiko Iimura presents a series of mind-twisting shorts, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the videos are lined with humor.
- Retrospective held at the Galerie Nagoya City in Japan in 2006. The works of the 15 filmmakers represented in this exhibition come from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when video art was composed of most single and installation works.
- T. Iimura puts the emphasis on the conceptual nature of film, on qualities of temporal and continuity, that would be used in his video work, which began in 1970. Here, you have a starting point of Japan's video art, even a conceptual one.
- In this compilation disc featuring two short films, Takahiko Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers of the late 1960s: Stan Brakhage, Stan Vanderbeek, Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and Andy Warhol.
- Twelve living pictures largely made to be shown on your TV screen, your computer, or better, on a flat screen on the wall as a hanging picture. You choose the design you want to exhibit and it remains there, it moves, it lives, it evolves.
- Through silent meditation from the experience of the memory, avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura reexamines two of his earlier poetic short films: In the River (1970), and Shutter (1971).
- A bowl of blueberries in milk, changing light radiant on the berries and on the glazed bowl, the ever more radiant orb of milk transforming into glowing light itself.
- A huge isolated rock in the midst of the desert in Australia: Ayers Rock. This compilation is reuniting two films around this rock though very contrasting in the way the films were made: 'Moments at the Rock' and 'A Rock In the Light'.
- Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the waiting bowl.
- Takahiko Iimura is very consistent in exploring a certain kind of art-science. His concern with the experience of time, its measured passage and the analogy between time and space, has been the main recurring theme at the core of his work.
- 'Film poem' is a term used in the 60s for experimental film borrowing from literature field. It means non-narrative and short form mostly. Also it often meant lyrical as well though not necessarily so. Features 6 shorts from 1962 to 1971.
- Reunites two positive/negative structural films shot during the hippie movement and the black riots in the East Village, in New York City, in the late 1960s. Features Film Strips I (1970), and Film Strips II (1970).
- CD-Rom version of Observer Observed (1998), a multimedia piece with texts and CG animation in addition to the three video shorts featured on the disc. Compatible with Mac OSX4/Windows.