To Re-edit the World
A fascinating stew of found footage and recorded tape that is both bitter and sweet, heady and hilarious. It shows a community of highly creative and subversive artists that eventually...
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David Sherman
Films
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Tuning the Sleeping Machine
The process of film perception relies on equal parts optics, mechanics and chemistry; the experience of converging stories comes only with the specific channeling of these conditions. TUNING THE SLEEPING MACHINE suggests a psycho-physical cinema, an emulsive journey of hypnotic illusion that pulls at...Start your free trial to watch
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To Re-edit the World
Assembled from the contents of four boxes of film shot by San Francisco filmmaker Dion Vigne in the 1950s and '60s, spinning through a lost history, a disappearance of names and faces and works and words of the characters who comprised one of the great chapters in American Underground filmmaking. At the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Graceless
A post-9/11 meditation on the new millennium, THE GRACELESS is a video tapestry of digital and analogue artifacts rephotographed and collaged from discarded 16mm educational films, Air Force test footage, live broadcast streams of pre-invasion television news and reality entertainment. Layers of images collide and tear away,...Start your free trial to watch
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Work Song
A strobing procession of early 20th-century stills archived at the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum flash in front of a dark screen, framed in circular silhouette. Simultaneously aligning itself to labor by process while remaining remote, WORK SONG pays homage to the industrial beginnings of Bisbee, Arizona (filmmaker...Start your free trial to watch
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Bay Area microcinema pioneer David Sherman loops a single moment from Allen Ginsberg's legendary protest appearance outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, extending an invitation to join the meditation or enjoy a moment in silence for the beat touchstone who passed in 1997. - Jackson ScarlettStart your free trial to watch
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Wasteland Utopias
WASTELAND UTOPIAS explores the intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s. Webb built his colossal, panoptically-planned retirement...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
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Commerce
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Fantasy / Dream
- Ephemera / Educational
- Drama / Expedition
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / History
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Documentary / Political
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Documentary / Science
- Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
- Avant-garde / Silent
Recent Reviews
To Re-edit the World
Not to be missed by anyone interested in San Francisco cultural history. This is a buffet of hors d'oeuvres from an interesting time -- post-Beat, pre-hippie San Francisco -- each...
To Re-edit the World
Fascinating re-working of significant film footage of a bygone era.
Wasteland Utopias
A lot like being in class. A very surreal, abstract and somewhat programmative educational documentary. It will take me a second view to decide if I believe the concept of...
The Graceless
It's a fascinating short film including the bit about the part of the plane blowing up with the skating team on it in the 1960s. I warned them not to...