Includes two films: Continuum and Deconstruction Sight.. "This is history without narrative, an abstract summation of what happens when human beings move stuff around and make something of it, grow tired of what they've made and demolish it using other things they've made, and then start all over again. What we build, what we destroy, what we find useful to do both, how we let our interaction with them describe what we call human - these are some...

A series of films from filmmaker Adam K. Beckett.

A sensuous woman, an angry artist, a mysterious puppet maker, suspicious townspeople, mischievous kids; these are the characters in THE HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS. The setting is contemporary Vermont, but it is Walter Ungerer's Vermont; the landscape, though beautiful and tranquil, is charged with an ominousness familiar to Ungerer films. Everything takes on a greater importance; time loses its boundaries. Through Ungerer's vision, people are transformed...

Films produced by Janis Crystal Lipzin from 1983 to 2001..

Three part series including the films Premonition, In the Course of Human Events and Line of Fire..

Starting point for this work was a performance text for five performers. I decided that the original text dialogue should be recorded and that I would then translate the text associatively into visual imagery. Parallel to this, the composer created a soundtrack from collected material related to the means inherent in the text. There are three levels in this work: the spoken text, the sound composition and the visual imagery, which were then synchronised...

A series of films exploring relations of text and found image: how text turns the image, spins it, to acknowledge the alphabet as power, accompaniment and meaning. Originating from Child's explorations as a published poet and her friendships in the field..."We perceive that a set of concerns builds up, with artful indirectness: women's power; the gestures of gender; manipulation of a spectator's sensibility through the medium of film; large-scale...

A stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America's craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980s New York scene, millionaire "business artist" Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his own.. This highly energetic character study focuses on Kostabi's current attempts to regain prominence and find happiness through fame, which he openly...

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a personal voice on the immigration debate: DACA, the Dream Act, and other immigration reform, speaking about what it's like to grow up and face an uncertain future as a young undocumented person in America.. Because she doesn't want to appear on camera, found footage from American culture illuminates the...

THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. Edwin S. Porter and other early filmmakers used bizarre sets, fantastic costumes, and magic lantern tricks to illuminate their fantasy films. American parody supplied Douglas Fairbanks with enough unusual material to produce the truly surreal When the Clouds Roll By (1919). An expressionistic The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari...