All Films

The base sequence of Iris is a constructed cycle of coloured events followed by its copy chromatically inverted though a non compliant lab process. This sequence is then again copied-inverted, and so forth, each new sequence generating in turn the next one. Through this process, each subsequent generation complicates and enriches picture. The result is quite impressive. The sound, produced on a frequency synthesizer (oscillators and filters), punctuates the invert-copy sequences.

A hand, a nose, lips pass through mesh and light.

His Name is Art Baldwin and, according to the Chicago Tribune, he was "the only authentic State Street Santa Claus." For three decades, he presided over Santa's Cozy Cloud Cottage in Marshall Field & Company's flagship store, led the annual Christmas parade and brought joy to thousands of children. Warm and compassionate, blunt and irascible, he leads us here through his preparations for a day in "The Chair." In a remarkable and revealing conversation, he gives us an inside look at the hard life of a department store Santa including his unexpurgated opinions on kids, gold, Grammas, Mexican women, bad knees, good friends and money. It is a bittersweet view from the other side of The Cozy Cloud Cottage -- touching, maddening and joyful. This is a portrait of Santa you've never seen before and will never forget.

Les Gazolines is a group from the Homosexual Revolutionary Action Front (FHAR) formed in Paris in 1972 and dissolved in 1974. The movement was founded by Maud Molyneux, Patrick Bertaux and Paquita Paquin as a “kind of continuation of FHAR”. The small group stands out for its aesthetic and ideological provocation, and its games on gender. Their rallying cry is “Dick!” Initially, the group was nicknamed the "Camping Gaz Girls". Its members showed a "camp" humor, proclaiming that "makeup is a way of life", or even "Proletarians of all countries, caress yourself” and “Let’s nationalize the glitter factories!” Their behavior often caused scandal, for example when the Gazolines overturned a police van during a demonstration against the destruction of the Halles de Paris or during the funeral of the Maoist militant Pierre Overney. Films such as The Sperm Bank by Philippe Genet and Pierre Chabal testify to their liveliness and impertinence.

Second part of LEGO ferie 1973. LEGO and the cinematic possibilities are played with. Released in 1976, 5/14/2013 (online)

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

8mm short showing an aspiring actress and her audition in Mauro Mingardi's studio.

The zygote is the cell that carries the information that will give rise to a person. The film presents all the emotions that make up the individual throughout his life.

Made in the urban area of ​​the Valley of Mexico, this documentary presents a collage of images about the overpopulation, pollution and excessive growth of the big city. The accelerated and pulsating rhythm that passes and vanishes in the constant coming and going of vehicles and people.

A documentary about the planning and construction of the Palace of the Republic, Berlin.

“Yin Hsien” means “appear-disappear,” and Michael Whitney has translated this into film through the skillful movement of T’ai-chi Chuan and Kung Fu and use of a computerized optical printer.

A complex video piece for 1/2" video thru 4 video decks: Record-Play-Record2-Play2. Performance at Gutman Library, Harvard; 16mm camera by Andrew Harmon. A 2nd camera recorded the 4 monitors. Quad decks were used to record live and delayed sounds.

This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. Although the Reth (king) has been reduced to the status of second-class magistrate in dispute settlement by the Sundanese government, he is still the focus of political and national identity for a Shilluk people composed of competing territorial groupings. At the death of the Reth, his spirit passes into the Nile.

Violence and dependency, chance and madness in psychological and personal relationships. The family considered a paradigmatic knot.

The drama of the East German tanker on the coast of the island of Sein and the bay of Audierne.

The forest is burning. By man's fault. "Accused, look at your harvest of ashes" ; this simple sentence sums up the film.

Cinéma Vérité Documentary on Block Island, the smallest town in the smallest state. Made in the mid-70s, the film provides a glimpse into the life of the unique island town.

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20 years later the sewer system has yet to be built.

I made this film in the course of a single day using a borrowed sync. set-up. Color and sequence of event has been preserved. My concerns in the film were to photograph and record events that were anticipated, but accidental, within the confines of a format that would provide a context of determined artificiality. [Overview Courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative]

As part of my artistic research, dating back to the years from 1975 to 1978, among the objectives I felt the need to give expressive autonomy to the film medium, understood no longer as a mere reproduction of a performance, a happening or a workshop . Looking, not as a director, but as a visual artist, to a certain underground and independent Cinema, this is the first of his films (in 8mm color film) by direct editing on the camera, with internal and external shots, entirely superimposed.

Short documentary by Cindy Neal about Sam's Shoe Service shop on West Roscoe St. in Chicago.

The instrument is visually "played" through camera movements. In a second phase, the video composition is set to music with the sounds of the clarinet.

Closed in an empty room, a young artist gradually creates a sculpture made of air, which is then given as a present to the world by blowing it out through the door’s keyhole.

The final film in Bartok's series of "Skyworks" pieces.