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Gymnopédies
Gymnopédies
Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track ...
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Jewel Face
Jewel Face
(Now) famous sculptor artist George Herms displays drawings on butcher paper as the filmmaker’s daughter plays with colors of light.
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Johnnie
Johnnie
A little boy swings, breaks sticks, looks up into the sky, himself a cherub, while on the soundtrack Chad and Jeremy sing "and if a hundred boys should die, we can send a hundred more." ...
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Ein Traum der Liebenden
Ein Traum der Liebenden
In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.
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5.1
Duo Concertantes
Duo Concertantes
Jordan’s imagery is exquisite and eloquent, concentrating on simple, repeated use of particularly poetic symbols and figures, a conglomerative effect of old Gustave Dore drawings, 19th ...
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The forty and one nights
The forty and one nights
Painter and collage artist, Jess (Collins) performs 41 (now lost) collages to (his) selected sound bits in the manner of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon.
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Hymn in Praise of the Sun
Hymn in Praise of the Sun
A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.
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The Seasons’ Change
The Seasons’ Change
A simple contemplation of the plum tree through a window. In rich black and white.
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Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
Minerva Looks Out into the Zodiac
From a central pivotal position, the camera eye (in this case, the hard and inflexible eye of Minerva) looks out upon twelve passing scenes. None of the scenes are necessarily ...
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Spectre Mystagogic
Spectre Mystagogic
"Human qualities migrate through light and shadow... Like flames and waves, the dead and the living course through this world... without weight through space and time."
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The One Romantic Venture of Edward
The One Romantic Venture of Edward
The young man, played by Stan Brakhage, gets himself into a seriously comic mix-up by indulging in semi-sexual fantasies, and allowing the fantasies to take over. This is the best of my ...
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4.2
Trumpit
Trumpit
Featuring a card game played on the body of a naked woman, Lawrence Jordan portrays male sexual frustration while slyly satirizing Hollywood reaction shots.
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5
Man Is in Pain
Man Is in Pain
A woman reads Philip Lamantia's poem (from which the film gets its title), which evokes masculine angst as the hand acts out the scenario of the poem.