Film-makers' Cooperative
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Filmmakers
Takahiko Iimura paints five-minute impressionistic portraits of his fellow filmmakers, followed by a shorter self-portrait. Each vignette was shot without looking through the viewfinder and was edited in-camera. Additionally, the shorts portraying each of the filmmakers (Stan Brakhage, Stan...Watch Movie
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A Chair
One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A CHAIR entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static. While formally minimal, A CHAIR is conceptually challenging in its...Watch Movie
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Sea Child
Marina Shron's poetic short film about a young girl, Lila (played by Argentine actress Federica Cafferata), who has lost her father, SEA CHILD is a surreal coming-of-age story. Filmed against the beautiful backdrop of Laguna de Tota, a dreamy mountain lake in Columbia, Shron composes a...Watch Movie
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
The midwife of American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas (along with his brother Adolfas) was unloaded in New York City by the United Nation Refugee Agency in 1949. There were surely worse places to end-up and Mekas was "hungry for culture," observing the immigrant community in...Watch Movie
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Happy Again
The signature scene from the Hollywood musical SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is split into seven layers. Each layer is moving at a different speed and is visible equally in superimposition. At the temporally central point all visual and audio elements coalesce in a single frame. The result uncovers a new...Watch Movie
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Iterations
Gregg Biermann slices Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW into nineteen vertical columns, each slightly out of phase with the next, reverberating out from a solitary instant in the temporal center of the work where the entire frame coalesces. The result dissects, illuminates and obscures different...Watch Movie
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Blushes
BLUSHES is an exploration of the body. It contrasts gentle imagery of the female form with stark geometrics and powerful rushes of color. Self-depiction and tangible manipulation of the filmstrip establish a new agency for the filmmaker. Through its confrontational nature it subverts the gaze...Watch Movie
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Orange
ORANGE is inspired by the direct film (cameraless) tradition. This tradition includes works in which the filmstrip is directly manipulated by painting, scratching, or otherwise placing objects on it. This tradition was probably originated by Len Lye in his hand painted A COLOUR BOX from 1935. To...Watch Movie
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Fog Line
Called “a small but perfect film” by no less than American avant-garde cinema’s patron saint Jonas Mekas, Larry Gottheim’s groundbreaking early work is a silent single-shot short in which the camera remains stationary but nature provides magical action. A landscape framed by the stretch of...Watch Movie
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Crop Duster Octet
One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for an eight banded kinetic...Watch Movie
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Labyrinthine
Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic VERTIGO are repeated and transformed into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles. Each rectangle appears over the last and grows larger over time. The narrative of the original is all but lost and...Watch Movie
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Horizons
One of the greatest if all-too-often overlooked landscape films in American cinema, Larry Gottheim’s HORIZONS displays a sensitivity to the seasons that seems more in keeping with Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” than the typical nature documentary. HORIZONS was not only Gottheim’s first...Watch Movie
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Utopia Variations
In this piece, the "Over the Rainbow" sequence from THE WIZARD OF OZ moves forward from the beginning and backwards from the end in half second intercuts. This gradually builds from one screen to a 25-voice split-screen canon in which each voice is slightly out of sync. The...Watch Movie
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Chop Off
Iconoclastic filmmaker M.M. Serra presents a provocative portrait of a man who practices self-amputation as performance art. Introducing the film with footage from Todd Browning’s indelible FREAKS and THE UNKNOWN, as well as alluding to Katherine Dunn’s unlikely pop novel, “Geek Love,” Serra is...Watch Movie
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Harmonica
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,...Watch Movie
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High Noon Reflections
In HIGH NOON REFLECTIONS, simple patterns intervene and the original material (an iconic passage from the classic film HIGH NOON) is transformed. Each shot from the original material is repeated five times and this sequence is broken up into a four-part split screen, with each...Watch Movie
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Forged Ways
Photographed on-location, FORGED WAYS combines elements of documentary, narrative and experimental film form. Structurally the film cycles between the first person account of filmmaker, the third person experience of a man navigating the streets of Harlem and day-to-day life in cities and...Watch Movie
