A surrealist view of a teenage boy's fascination with womanhood as he confuses his feelings between his grandmother, his sisters and a beautiful young woman. The soundtrack incorporates the boy's fears of how the world sees his obsessions.
1972, 16mm, b&w/so, 10m, $30
"[T]he filmmaker is obsessed with shifting time, weird memories and the play of light with film frames. A bride keeps reappearing, evoking an atmosphere that might be from The Tibetan Book of the Dead - sinister not so much for the images but for a certain unspoken terror that the filmmaker ably evokes." - Linda Gross, The Los Angeles Times
1974, 16mm, color/so, 17m, $40
To the Peter Pan song "I Won't Grow Up," a filmmaker edits himself into psychedelic oblivion. A filmmaker's film, FILM ACHERS was described by the Los Angeles Times' Kevin Thomas as "going beyond boredom to pain." Isn't that what making a movie is all about?
1976, 16mm, color/so, 8m, $25
The first three parts of a twelve-part film which explores the history of imagery. The first part consists of hand-painted and scratched film, the second part incorporates the use of negative space and the third part uses elaborate optical printing techniques to incorporate photographic imagery into the increasingly complex images.
1977, 16mm, color/so, 9m, $30
A contemplation of the card from the tarot deck, THE LOVERS examines the myths of romantic love in twentieth century America.
1978, 16mm, color/so, 3m, $20
The news of two years is condensed into a single strange newscast which begins quite obviously in the past, then progresses through the present to a bizarre "future" consisting of real stories from the recent past. While the sound is unrelentingly grim, the picture reacts with comic simplicity to a world on the brink of destruction.
1982, 16mm, b&w/so, 15m, $45
THE ART OF SURVIVAL is a documentary film about Target: LA, an anti-nuclear arts festival which was held in downtown Los Angeles in 1982. The event drew over 5000 people to a multi-level parking structure on a sizzling August weekend to see performances, installations, games of nuclear chance, dance and music. The focus of the film is on the logistical problems encountered by the artists' coordinating committee, as well as on the hundreds of art works which were created especially for this event. Features performance artists Cheri Gaulke, The Waitresses, Mother Art, and the Chambers Brothers Band.
1985, 16mm, color/so, 30m, $90
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Zoldeb, an alien from the distant star system of Sirius, has journeyed to Earth with the mission of attempting to understand the unique earthling concept of fun. His observations about parades, theme parks, baseball, bed races, mooing contests and other common earthling rituals of fun provide a counterpoint to some of the silliest music ever assembled in a single film. Rated G.
Exhibition: Suffolk County Film Festival, 1989; Philadelphia Int'l Film Festival.
1989, 16mm, color/so, 43m, $130