[Frameworks] This week [July 9 - 17, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [July 9 - 17, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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"Luminous Greenhouse" by Janis Crystal Lipzin
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"Auto Viewing: Simultaneous Opposites #63" by Robert Edgar
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"A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Robert Edgar's Simultaneous Opposites Engine" by Mark Mosher
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (Recife, PE, Brazil; Deadline: July 13, 2011)
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PANOPTiC at Camden International Film Festival (camden, maine, usa; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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MisALT Screening Series Presents: Pornography and its Discontents (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 14, 2011)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA USA; Deadline: September 23, 2011)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 17, 2011)
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Hollywood Black Film Festival (Hollywood, CA USA; Deadline: July 24, 2011)
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Pantheon International Xperimental film & Animation Festival 10.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Basement Media Fest (cambridge, ma, usa; Deadline: July 16, 2011)
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Intervideo Talent Award 2011 (Mainz, RLP, Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Film Fridays at the Varsity (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2011)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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Black Rock Film Fest (Black Rock CIty, NV, USA; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (Recife, PE, Brazil; Deadline: July 13, 2011)
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PANOPTiC at Camden International Film Festival (camden, maine, usa; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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MisALT Screening Series Presents: Pornography and its Discontents (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 14, 2011)
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Hollywood Black Film Festival (Hollywood, CA USA; Deadline: July 24, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Landscape Dissolves [July 9, San Francisco, California]
* Transformation In the Land of Enchantment; Works By Isabell Spengler [July 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Flying Fish and Dream Portraits: Short Films By Marie Losier [July 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Dali Dali!, Rare videos & Footage Featuring Salvador Dali [July 11, Brooklyn, New York]
* River To River Festival [July 11, New York, New York]
* Wasteland Utopias [July 13, Phoenix, AZ]
* Experimental Television Center Program [July 15, New York]
* Cinema 16 Benefit Screening For Millennium Film Workshop [July 16, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Songs 1-14 [July 16, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Program [July 16, New York]
* "Sleepless Nights Stories" [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Jonas Mekas: Personal Record [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Sleepless Nights Stories [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Kelly Spivey Films, Super 8 and 16mm [July 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Text of Light [July 17, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Program [July 17, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2011
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7/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Art Institute
http://www.sfai.edu/
7:30pm, 800 Chestnut Street
LANDSCAPE DISSOLVES
Films By Paul Clipson / Music by Tashi Wada / with a performance by the
Expanded Cinema Workshop / $5 suggested donation
7/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
9pm, Outdoor Screening @ 401 Richmond St. West Courtyard
TRANSFORMATION IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT; WORKS BY ISABELL SPENGLER
The work of German artist Isabell Spengler forces a merging of realms,
the fantastic and the ordinary. Sometimes it is the characters that are
the aliens in our world, navigating urban and pastoral landscapes with
their colourful eccentricities; other times it is the environment,
bubbling with personality where there should be none. The creatures of
Permanent Residents adapt to the mundane, their evolved bodies mirroring
the chores and errands they perform: a balloon inflates as a vacuum
inhales, disco balls spin with the wash cycle. Excitement hides in plain
sight, it belongs. The serene Lantouy glimpses a secluded grotto where
the water breathes bubbles and whispers magic. It is nature from another
planet, yet familiar enough, and welcoming. An interesting counterpoint
to Permanent Residents, Psychic Tequila Tarot explores the space between
self and other, and its collapse. In her yacht-sized, trinket-filled
car, Leila, a sparkle-lipped nomad in full arcane regalia, cruises
around offering passers-by her unique brand of fortune-telling services.
Appealing to the spirits (both metaphysical and liquid), she presents
her clients with a mirror in place of an answer; she becomes what they
want her to be. Critical of Leila's precarious immersion in the public
realm, Isis secludes herself in a white, light-filled room of
interactive, intuitive screens, delighting in the sole company of an
especially frisky canine. Program: Psychic Tequila Tarot 1998, 24:00,
video LINT LENT LAND 2009, 9:00, video Permanent Residents 2005, 9:32,
video Lantouy, Spengler and Adams, 2006 6:47, video Transformation in
the Land of Enchantment 2003, 5:37, video The Natural Life of Mermaids
2004, 10:26, video
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SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011
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7/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street (at Hoover)
FLYING FISH AND DREAM PORTRAITS: SHORT FILMS BY MARIE LOSIER
Marie Losier in person! These films are whimsical fantasies and
fragmented portraits, the former in a tradition of Kuchar and Jack
Smith, the latter capturing essential qualities of some of the great
artists of our time. Filled with color, humor, and cinematic delights,
with collaborators such as Guy Maddin, Mike and George Kuchar, and
Richard Foreman. Films to be screened: Electrocute Your Stars (2004),
Eat My Makeup! (2005), The Ontological Cowboy (2005), Cet Air La (2010),
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist (2008), Papal Broken-Dance (2009), Snowbeard
(2008), and Slap the Gondola! (2010).
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MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011
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7/11
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
DALI DALI!, RARE VIDEOS & FOOTAGE FEATURING SALVADOR DALI
Admission $6. We have assembled a program of rare films, video, and
other footage we were able to get our hands on featuring the enigmatic
artist and icon Salvador Dali. The works spanning 5 decades range from
highly personal footage of Happenings Dali staged around New York in the
early 60s by Jonas Mekas and a 1978 Anton Perich video of Dali – during
a John Stevens fashion shoot and while being serenaded by Tinkerbelle –
to footage of public appearances, commercials, a self-portrait
documentary piece narrated by Orson Welles and others surprises.
Highlights of the 80-minute program include: "Salvador Dali", by Anton
Perich, video, 9 minutes, 1978. The video was shot at Dali's suite in
St. Regis hotel in NY. There was a photo shoot of nude silver-painted
girls by John Stevens. Tinkerbelle talked with Dali, and sang for him
Hello Dolly. Dali was annoyed by it and left. "Dali at Work", by Jonas
Mekas.16mm transfer to digital video, 8 minutes, 2006.In 1963-64,
Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in New York. In all
cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both production manager and casting
director. The stars of the events in this film are the model Verushka
and actor Taylor Mead. Music by Dalius Naujo. "Dali & Moires", by Jonas
Mekas. Sound: Voices of Prof. Oster and Salvador Dali. 16mm transferred
to digital video,4.5 minutes 2006. This was filmed on January 24, 1964
during Profesor Oster's demonstration of Moiré patterns. He is shown
with Salvador Dali. "A Soft-Self Portrait", designed & performed by
Dali, narrated by Orson Welles, video, 55 minutes, 1970. Filmed on
location at Dali's villa in Port Lligat Spain, the work visually
explores Dali's outrageous world, his art, and his philosophies.
Narrated by Orsen Welles, designed, masterminded and acted by Dali
himself. Plus footage of appearance, commercials and other surprises!!
tel: 347.925.1433; J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway or L - Morgan Ave or Jefferston
Street.
7/11
New York, New York: River to River Festival
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/events/brother-another-planet
8:00, THE ELEVATED ACRE at 55 Water Street
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL
Henry Hills will introduce two of his films, GOTHAM and FAILED STATES,
followed by John Sayles' "Brother from Another Planet", at a free
outdoor event in a scenic location. Bring a picnic!
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011
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7/13
Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.phxart.org/
7:00 PM, McDowell Road & Central Avenue 1625 N. Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004
WASTELAND UTOPIAS
Bisbee (AZ)-based David Sherman is an award-winning artist and
filmmaker, whose experimental films and videos have been shown
worldwide. Wasteland Utopias (2010) 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. By juxtaposing
these two thinkers, Sherman asks viewers to consider a multiplicity of
perspectives on our natural and social environments. Introduction and
Q&A with David Sherman. "It's rare to see a film whose aesthetic
principles so elementally parallel the subjects they intend to depict."
Owen O'Toole, Wide Open Cinema
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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011
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7/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER PROGRAM
The Experimental Television Center is a unique video art production
studio in Owego, NY. Since its founding by Ralph Hocking in 1971, ETC
has been providing artists with access to the tools of video art
production through residencies and grants. The studio includes several
one-of-a-kind pieces of video processing equipment, including a
custom-built Dave Jones Colorizer and 8 Channel Video Sequencer, the
Paik/Abe Raster Synthesizer or 'Wobbulator', and a custom Dan Sandin
Image Processor, among others. This year, after over 40 years of service
in the media arts field, Ralph (Director) and Sherry Miller Hocking
(Assistant Director) are retiring and closing the Center down. Working
together with The Standby Program, we have selected a group of videos by
artists who are alumni of both ETC and Standby. Many of these tapes have
been preserved through Standby's Video Preservation Program, and they
are each wonderfully rich examples of works that could not have been
made possible without the visionary support of ETC. Very special thanks
to Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking (ETC), and Maria Venuto (The
Standby Program). All works in this program were created on and will be
projected from video. Nicholas Ray WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN (1976,
5-minute excerpt) Gary Hill EARTH PULSE (1975, 5.5 minutes) Caspar
Stracke ETC, etc (2007, 6 minutes) Jason Livingston LAKE AFFECT (2007, 2
minutes) Shalom Gorewitz DELTA VISIONS (1980, 4.5 minutes) Matthew
Schlanger BUG-EYED RAMROD (1984, 5 minutes) Julie Harrison & Carol
Parkinson TRANSMIGRATION (1987-89, 10 minutes) Connie Coleman & Alan
Powell GENDER ROLLS (1987, 3.5 minutes) Megan Roberts & Raymond Ghirardo
GODZILLA HEY (1988, 2.5 minutes) Alex Hahn DIRT SITE (1990, 16 minutes)
David Blair WAX OR THE DISCOVERY OF TELEVISION AMONG THE BEES (1991,
13.5-minute excerpt) Bianca Bob Miller RED M&Ms (1988, 4 minutes) Lynne
Sachs & Mark Street XY CHROMOSOME PROJECT (2007, 12 minutes) Total
running time: ca. 100 minutes.
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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011
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7/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm , 66 East 4th Street
CINEMA 16 BENEFIT SCREENING FOR MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP
Cinema 16 presents an evening of avant-garde films with live musical
scores in encore performances from past Cinema 16 events, in an evening
to benefit the esteemed media arts center, Millennium Film
Workshop.---//--- The evening will include Brooklyn-based, minimal synth
trio FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, George Bennett) performing to Maya
Deren's At Land, Brooklyn-based sound artist NICK YULMAN with the 1927
film by Charley Bowers A Wild Roomer, ABLEHEARTS (Brooklyn sound and
video artist THOMAS ARSENAULT) performing to Kihachiro Kawamoto's
"Dojoji Temple," and singer and artist JOSEPH KECKLER with Busby
Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935. ---//--- Melding the worlds of art,
music, and film, curator Molly Surno aims to recreate the silent film
era, and resurrect the communal performance experience. Bands are
invited to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition
of a live music accompanying films during the 1920s. Cinema 16 initially
began in 1947 as a New York based avant-garde film society; now over
four decades later, Surno is bringing the spirit of Cinema 16 back to be
experienced by a new generation of filmgoers.---//--- Don't miss this
extraordinary one night event. ---//--- Admission $20 donation.
7/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE SONGS 1-14
by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 minutes, 16mm "SONG 1: Portrait of a
lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4:
Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth
song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco.
SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10:
Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain
scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG
13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and
crystals." –S.B.
7/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
(1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD
(1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES
(1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF
WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films,
BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
"SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES"
Washington premiere: "For two hours we stroll with Jonas Mekas through
New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, bars and
clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee
Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and
daughters, and also many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film
begins with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in that
situation. . . . Sleepy and yet wide awake, you find yourself in the
world of those exhausted from the day's exertions. In Sleepless Nights
Stories we witness (approximately) 25 tales from a thousand and one
nights . . . remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde
filmmakers whose life rewrote film history"—Berlinale 2011. (Jonas
Mekas, 2011, DigiBeta, 112 minutes)
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
JONAS MEKAS: PERSONAL RECORD
ilmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, and M. M. Serra in person A
mix of mostly 16 mm recent and historic short works, personally selected
for this program by Jonas Mekas, includes Award Presentation to Andy
Warhol (1964), a documentation of an event and an homage; a sequence of
five rolls of film shot at a Ringling Brothers Circus, titled Notes on
the Circus (1966); Cassis (1966), recorded at the summer home of Jerome
Hill; Report from Millbrook (1966), filmed "on a weekend visit to Tim
Leary's place"; the episodic works World Trade Center Haikus (2000) and
Seven Days from 365 (2007); as well as the short, personal pieces The
Song of Avila (1966) and Jacobses (2010). (Total running time
approximately 75 minutes)
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES
Washington premiere "For two hours we stroll with Jonas Mekas through
New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, bars and
clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee
Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and
daughters, and also many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film
begins with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in that
situation. . . . Sleepy and yet wide awake, you find yourself in the
world of those exhausted from the day's exertions. In Sleepless Nights
Stories we witness (approximately) 25 tales from a thousand and one
nights . . . remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde
filmmakers whose life rewrote film history"—Berlinale 2011. (Jonas
Mekas, 2011, DigiBeta, 112 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2011
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7/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
KELLY SPIVEY FILMS, SUPER 8 AND 16MM
Approx. 50 Minutes, Admission $6. We present a program of short Super 8
and 16mm films by New York filmmaker Kelly Spivey made from 2000 to the
present. Spivey's films explore themes of class, gender, women's roles
and more recently, anxiety, especially in relationship to our
increasingly frenetic urban lifestyles, and the potential for
information overload. Spivey works exclusively with film, many of which
are collage/animation works. She will also screen footage from a two new
works in progress. Spivey has been making experimental films since 1998.
Her work has screened nationally and internationally at venues and
festivals including Anthology Film Archives, Women in the Directors
Chair, FLEXFest 2011, MIXNYC, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival, Ladyfest Seattle, Ocularis, Hallwalls Contemporary Art
Center, ReelNY PBS. She has received support from the Queens Council on
the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and she was a New York
Foundation on the Arts Fellow in 2005. She works in New York City in
post-production sound and picture editing and video preservation at
MercerMedia. PROGRAM INCLUDES: "Why You Were Born" (2001, 6 minutes,
Super-8mm). "Poor White Trash Girl: Class Consciousness" (2003, 6
minutes, 16mm). "Keep Up With Medicine" (2001, 3 minutes, super 8mm)
"Me, Myself & I" (2003, 3 minutes, 16mm) "Make Them Jump" (2009, 11
minutes, 16mm) "Stein's Cow" (2000, 3 minutes, super 8mm). "What if the
World Loved Cellulite?" (2000, 6 minutes, super 8mm) Plus camera rolls
from 2 new works in progress. more info will be posted at
www.microscopegallery.com, tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. L -
Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
7/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 minutes, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force
exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light."
–Dun Scotus Erigena
7/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON
SAGA (1970, 29 minutes, 16mm) THE MACHINE OF EDEN (1970, 11 minutes,
16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 minutes, 16mm) DOOR (1971, 4
minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 minutes,
16mm) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 minutes, 16mm) THE RIDDLE OF
LUMEN (1972, 14 minutes, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's most
densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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