Futurist Song
What surely was futuristic visual stimulation in 1972 comes off as old fashioned and quaint when compared to the graphic overload of modern day bullshit.
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Roger Jacoby
Films
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Dream Sphinx
Ondine and Sally Dixon "star" as ecstatic 19th century lovers in Roger Jacoby's first home-processed film. Nickelodeon imagery, school children of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Botanical Conservatory. "As the strains of an aria rise, the grainy specks of Jacky's self-processed film begin to darken and swim like fruit fles,...Start your free trial to watch
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Floria
Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing melodramatic gestures from his actors with a ruined soundtrack of static and full-on textural experiments that simulate decayed nitrate film bursting with color or fading to white,...Start your free trial to watch
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L'amico Fried's Glamorous Friends
L'AMICO FRIED'S GLAMOROUS FRIENDS "...is built around a pas de deux by Ondine and Sally Dixon... with a quickness of breath and dryness of the throat one is apt to say, 'What is that!' as if peering into some exotic fog. The sometimes lovely and sometimes not beautiful but nearly always exquisite...Start your free trial to watch
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