All Films

Experimental film by Jim Davis.

This film is one of the first Greek commercial documentaries on industry infrastructure. Shot by Roussos Koundouros, the film stands out for its original take on the subject, mainly due to its avant-garde editing and the use of music and soundtrack to underline the visual narration. The film presents the procedures and stages of constructing the aluminum factory infrastructure as well as the steps of production, from extracting bauxite to producing aluminum.

"Back in the 60s my friend Duff Decker and I would swap sound tapes that we made at home from scraps of TV, radio, records, along with our own noises. Sometimes these would center on a theme but often they were simply pure sound structures. The track here is of the latter sort, a tape sent to me by Duff. It stirred me to consider setting images to it as a playful and irreverant bagatelle. I had found some commercial travel movies that were being thrown out, and I also had numerous 'outs' from my own film work. These are what I used. The sounds and pictures criss cross over one another. Duff’s sound track tape is made of oppositions and shifts that seem to have no logical sequence and my images largely do the same. Yet I tried to feel my way toward something that might achieve a meaning out of meaninglessness. An abstract flow of cohesive irrationality. A movie! Well, I’m happy with the outcome, but if you’re not, you can blame Duff. He started it." –Abbott Meader

Created at Bell Labs in 1965, this short film likely contains the first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion. The figures move (or 'dance') seemingly at random on a 3D stage.

A mutual venture of a most inordinate sort. Vaguely a mistake, but fun at that.

A musical lesson on how to become an amateur filmmaker.

Professional strippers teaches a newbie how to do it.

"Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville innovated a machine they called 'Flicker' which produces similar effects to what Sam was filming with me. The other footage is of me with a large pair of scissors, cutting up verbal material from magazines. I was working on collaging text and pictorial material onto a large, fascinating chair owned by Bill Bissett." -Gary Lee-Nova

Science fiction short

The film portrays our heritage of history. Beginning with our nation's founding in freedom, events shown in rapid succession emphasize the enterprise and inventiveness that blazed a trail across a continent and how direct the journey toward the stars.

"An encounter at Coney Island both sweet and sad, between Jerry (Sims) and Barbara (Kahn), and the filmmakers, himself!" - B. F.

Lilan, the heroine, reconciles herself with the breakup of an affair.

Attracted by the roar, hinds come to gather around their leader. The lonely stag forces the leader into the fight for the herd. Hinds watch the fight and follow its winner when the fight is over.

A short film about voting in the United States.

A collaborative film conceived as a ‘picture postcard,’ the moving images recorded by the camera mirroring the card’s picture side, the sound track evoking its written message. Life and Film is a lyrical look at some Chicago filmmakers on their way to the Michigan sand dunes.

A young man travels to his uncle’s lonely castle to give him a rare tractate. His uncle enlists his help in summoning up the ancient demon Cthulu, using secret rites of Black Magic which involve grave-robbing and murder. As the demon is summoned, the young man fears the worst and is forced to make a life changing decision.

The double point of view about a perfect murder in a short 8mm film, which glues the viewer to the screen while paying tribute to Hitchcock.

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Latvia. The team was joined by the heavyweight poet Imants Ziedonis and Herz Frank as script writers. Instead of one of the old, merited, medal rattling ‘combat camera- men’, “Year in Review” is an unusually vivid and unique film for the time. The creative team were awarded the State Prize for the film.

Theatre performance with accompanying film by Robert Whitman.

The true story of a young girl called Clarita who in front of doctors, police and other officials would suffer terrible bite marks from what seemed like an invisible dog but in fact was a demonic manifestation. This 30min story shows how Lester Sumrall was directed by God to visit this girl and release her in Jesus Name.

A short animated film about Day of the Dead by Mexican director Adolfo Garnica.

Hawes’s first film—and her only shot on 35mm—documents songs performed by a group from St. Simon’s Island, Georgia who worked to preserve and continue the musical heritage of their Gullah-Geechee culture.

Based on the tale of the same name by Alfredo Dante Gravina.

Lovely nighttime footage of the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, New York.