Arrow Creek
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Dana Plays
Films
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Grain Graphics
In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames. In grainy negative, a small number of figures interact in various ways in each of...Start your free trial to watch
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Silverfish
Dana Plays leverages inversion techniques and optically printed compositing to recast footage of children playing into an ominous siren song of impending doom. A characteristically prominent soundtrack of reversed chatter and focused tableaus of metal keys and chains creates an incantatory air and pushes SILVERFISH into...Start your free trial to watch
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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch
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Don't Means Do
“Part dramatic narrative, part improvisation, DON'T MEANS DO explores the personalities of two young girls and someone they meet while out walking. It is a simple and genuine encounter, in the light of a gentle afternoon between the moods of child and adult.” – David HeintzStart your free trial to watch
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Via Rio
VIA RIO is an ode to our human desire for relationship. The film tumbles through a series of relationships woven around one woman's narration of her parents' marriage. This woman (played by Lilian Mafra) is a fresh and fecund personality who relates the story of her mother's infidelities while sitting naked and pregnant in a...Start your free trial to watch
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Shards
Lightly processed field recordings fuse disparate strips of saturated 16mm film into an observational diary. The silhouette of a lizard crawling, a sugarcane harvest, American Indian gatherings, a fatherly barbecue and other outdoor scenes draw unexpected corollaries, limning film's possibilities as a momentary medium not...Start your free trial to watch
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Kongostraat
“A diaristic view of parts of Paris, Belgium and Amsterdam. The Turkish family on their stoop, the woman on the train with her two pit bulls and an admirer, interiors, exteriors, the views from the train and the canals of the flat lands. Laid over are sound recorded at the same locations, providing correlating fragments of...Start your free trial to watch
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Zero Hour
Through optical printing footage from a 1945 US Navy sponsored film promoting "Victory Bonds" which depicts WWII orphans and intercutting of other documentation, ZERO HOUR refers to characteristic current postwar situations, alluding to the avoidance of this depiction by media networks during the Gulf War.Start your free trial to watch
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Love Stories My Grandmother Tells
A portrait of Peggy Regler, the ninety year old paternal grandmother of filmmaker Dana Plays, reminiscing about her love affairs and significant relationships, her failed first marriage, the agreement she had to stay until the children were grown (but to see other lovers) which resulted in the true love...Start your free trial to watch
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Nuclear Family
NUCLEAR FAMILY explores institutional and personal representations of memory and behavior through a complex interweaving of scientific documentation, animal behavior experiments and vintage pre-school footage. The approach is formalistic and optically printed material is used throughout. The drama of the nuclear family is...Start your free trial to watch
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River Madness
A montage of Hollywood movies shot on location in the Los Angeles River. Dana Plays speeds up the action and uses point of view construction and match action to situate the viewer in the cement encased riverbed, its surrounding overpasses, bridges and rail yards, by cross cutting between scenes from various Hollywood movies...Start your free trial to watch
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Rhizome
A continuation of Dana Plays’ SALVAGE PARADIGM series compounding detritus of history and memory derived from found-footage salvaged from 1,600 educational films, thrown into a dumpster by Syracuse University after its downsizing effort closed the S.U. Educational Film Library. Plays optically re-photographs archival footage...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Avant-garde
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- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Cinéma-vérité
- Drama / Coming of Age
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Drama / Docudrama
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
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- Short / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Ephemera / Educational
- Ephemera / Educational
- Ephemera / Educational
- Short / Ephemera
- Short / Ephemera
- Ephemera / Industrial
- Short / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Avant-garde / Structural
- Avant-garde / Structural
- Documentary / Transportation / Train
- Documentary / Travelogue
- Documentary / War
- Documentary / War
- War
- War / WWII
Recent Reviews
Nuclear Family
A fantastic portrayal of the intersecting realities between nuclear testing and the dissolution of the ideologies and intellect that define members of each species.
Arrow Creek
Alright.
Grain Graphics
Good.
Silverfish
sucked