A documentary film about an Argentine army officer who discovers the secret police use of political prisoners for sex exploitation film purposes and protests after the murder of a young girl.
"La soiree terminera dans le sang avec LE PAIEMENT DE TERESA VIDELA une seance de torture dans une quelconque dictature d'Amerique du Sud. Douze minutes de sadisme, un documentaire insoutenable qui reconstitue des faits reels, une 'bavure' a la dimension chilienne. Incroyable, bestial, inhumain, et pourtant, cela se passe la-bas du cote de Buenos Aires ou Santiago ...." - La Voix Du Nord
Awards: SECA Award, SF Museum of Modern Art, 1978; Palo Alto Film Festival, 1980; Bronze Award, Information Film Producers of America Competition, 1980; Finalist, American Film/Video Festival, 1981; Second Prize, Dramatic Presentations, Baltimore Int'l Film Festival, 1981; Prize of First Work, Lille Film Festival, 1981; Golden Eagle Award, Institute of Amateur Cinematographers in London, 1984.
Purchased for broadcast by Suisse Romande, 1981.
Collection: University of Pennsylvania
1978, 16mm, b&w/color/so, 11m, $35
Written by Niccolo Caldararo, Tom Heinz and Martha Singer. Photographed by Ted Miliken and Tom Heinz, edited by Tom Heinz and Ted Miliken. This film concerns a performance of painting ballet of an intersection in San Francisco undertaken by the Goodman Arts Group in 1979 during rush hour traffic. The intersection was at Geary and Van Ness and the ballet began at approximately 6AM and lasted for an hour until approximately 7AM. The artists were dressed in various gard with whiteface and hats, armed with rollers and buckets of poster paint. Thousands of cars were involved tracking paint on road and tires over miles of city scape.
Awards: 1981 Intercom Section, Chicago International Film Festival; 1984 Ente Mostra Cinematografica Internazionale (Italy); 1984 Chico Spring Video Festival; 1984 Cinanima, Festival International de Cinema de Animacao (Portugal); 1985 Film Arts Foundation/San Francisco Chapter American Institute of Architects, Settings Program
1980, 16mm, color/so, 7m, $25
Script, narration, photography, direction by Niccolo Caldararo. Edited by Tom Heinz. Sound recording by Focused Productions. Remixing by Sound Service. Background Music by Tom Wells. Songs: "Sin Odio" by Ali Primera and "After Work" by Brain Damage.
Set in 1992, the film describes events following a national referendum on nuclear disarmament which is successful but is countered with an attempt by the American military to stage a mock nuclear war in order to retain their power. This is blocked by a popular uprising that is aborted by "other" forces.
1983, 16mm, b&w/so, 22m, $65
Starring: Susan Kuchinskas, Joey Powerdrill, Tom Wells and K. Risa Robbins.
This is a science fiction short for fans of La Jetté and Road Warrior. It is a mix of Freaks and Trial of Terra. The film takes a ride to earth in 2002 AD where political ideologies and religions have united to outlaw sex and sensuality. Offenders are punished in public or exiled to penal colonies in outer space. Rebellions on these colonies lead to limitless sexual experimentation by sex perverts on the outer limits.
Exhibition: Opened for Divine's Lust in the Dust at the Berlin Int'l Film Festival, 1984; Shown at the Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival, 1985.
1984, 16mm, b&w/color/so, 14m, $50
Written and co-directed by Yuri Kageyama. Starring: Bernadette Cha and Norman Toy. A woman recollects an affair she has had with a young Chinese-American gangster. An off-beat Asian-American "romance," the story explores a transient sexual relationship from a female perspective. The film is a subtle, provocative essay that raises issues of Asian-American sexuality and subculture. These issues are more often than not only whispered about and have yet to be addressed in cinema arts. Narration is "read" in the first person by the young Japanese-American woman who questions her own motives in this illicit affair and the impetus for such a foray.
Awards: Palo Alto Film Festival, 1986; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1987; Onion City Film Festival, 1988.
Exhibition: NY and SF Asian American film festivals.
1985, 16mm, b&w/so, 19m, $60
Written and directed by Niccolo Caldararo and Dominick DeRasmo. Camera: Aaron Ranen. Three experimenters on the roof of San Francisco's Club 9 battle 20,000 years of artistic criticism. Attempting to create "new works" without derivative baggage, each has a 4' x 6' canvas strapped to his back. They are armed with brushes, brooms and rollers. Ten assistants assault them with bombs, paint guns, and French bread with pasta sauce.
"Hilarious ... wildly creative .... Tristan Tzara would be proud. ..." - 23rd Chicago International Film Festival
Award: Certificate of Merit, INTERCOM, Chicago Int'l Film Festival
1986, VHS, 15m, $25 Home; $50 Other
Director: Niccolo Caldararo; Music: Brain Damage.
A filmic ballad of the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco during which groups of Punk Rockers disrupted events with speeches, music and skits. In the end the police are ordered to attack the main groups, beat them and arrest the majority.
1986, 16mm, b&w/so, 6m, $25
Awards: 1988 Mill Valley Film Festival
VHS, $20 sale
This video compares the environment of testimony between the witch hunt trials of the 1950s and the Iran/Contra scandal of the 1980s. Using footage from the army hearings against Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Iran/Contra hearings, the video [exposes] the formula by which the accused clothed their illegal acts against the Constitution and American citizens, in the hysteria of anti-communism.
1989, VHS, b&w/color/so, 6m, $25; $50 (U-Matic)
Two Native American prophecies are regarded in light of contemporary events. The Ghost Dance prophecy of the Plains Indians and the Grandfather cult of the Amazonian Tupi. Together these images of survival of peoples and their environments are contrasted with the historic movements of peoples into the Americas in the last 500 years, the destruction of the natural environment which has resulted and racism against Asian immigrants.
Exhibition: Bill Graham's Gathering of the Tribes, 1990; P3 Alternative Museum, Tokyo, 1990; Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, 1991; American Anthropological Association, 1992.
Collection: University of Hawaii at Manoa Wong Audiovisual Center
Note: Also available on 3/4" U-Matic and 1" videotape.
1990, VHS, color/so, 4:52m, $Inquire