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americanfilms
Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970)
From Wikipedia: Landow or Land constructs ‘facades’ of reality, often directly addressing the viewer using the language of television, advertising or educational films, and by featuring characters that are often the antithesis of those we might expect to see, such as podgy middle aged men and religious fanatics. He sometimes
Ready (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009-2010
From UBU.com: “Re’Search Wait’S comprises four movies: Ready, The Re’Search, Roamie View : History Enhancement, and Temp Stop. The setting of this other side of the Any Ever diptych is a complicated industry predicated on the supremacy of metaphysically evolved market research. The base commodities are personality traits; while ordinarily
CENTER JENNY, 2013
Kevin McGarry writes, “Ryan Trecartin has established a singular video practice that in form and in function advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity, and also propels these matters as expressive mediums. His work depicts worlds where consumer culture is amplified to absurd or nihilistic proportions and characters circuitously
Lucifer Rising 1972
Kenneth Anger- Lucifer Rising 1972 Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned
The Girl’s Nervy (1995)
Director: Jennifer Reeves (1995, color 16mm, 5 minutes) From UBU.com: Exuberant rhythms are created for the eyes in this nostalgic study of the single film frame, through cutting, pasting, and painting clear and photographed film images. Fleeting shapes in lush, spattered color flicker and dance to big band beats.
Hare Krishna – Jonas Mekas
Hare Krishna | EUA, 1966, 16 mm, 4 minutes. Directed by Jonas Mekas