Werner Nekes - Media Magica 3 : Pictures come to Life
The third film of Nekes, in a series of six is about the Magic Lantern, animation on paper, object animation, illuminated panoramas and much more.
Label: Own / 3
Artist: Werner Nekes
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, History.
Werner Nekes - Media Magica 1: Film before Film
The first film of Nekes, in a series of six, takes us on a journey trough the magical world of pre-cinematic moving pictures and about the Camera Obscura, the p..(read more)
Label: Own / 1
Artist: Werner Nekes
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, History.
Martina Kudlácek - Notes on Marie Menken
Given access to Menken’s archive by her nephew, Kudlácek mixes rare footage with a soundtrack by John Zorn and interviews with Menken’s contemporar..(read more)
Label: Index / 030
Artist: Martina Kudlácek
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Documentary.
Ursula Pürrer, Angela Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek - Flaming Ears
“Flaming Ears” is a pop sci-fi lesbian, fantasy feature set in the year
2700 in the fictive, burnt-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled
lives o..(read more)
Label: Index / 031
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Fantasy.
Ivan Ladislav Galeta - Obsession: Structuring Time and Space
Ivan Ladislav Galeta’s works that are gathered on this DVD – each and every one, a gem of a film of compositional precision and rigidity – represent the a..(read more)
Label: Index / 28
Artist: Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Structural Film.
Eddie Prevost - No Sound Is Innocent
In this volume Eddie Prevost, the drummer and founder member of AMM, unravels the reasons behind the formation of the improvising group, the influences and refu..(read more)
Publisher: Copula / Matchless / ISBN 0-9525492-0-4
Author: Eddie Prevost
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Music Theory, Politics, UK.
Various Artists - Shoot Shoot Shoot
First time that works from this period in British artists’ filmmaking are made available on DVD. An important organisation in England was the artist-led Londo..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / 519
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, '70s, Pioneers, UK.
Peter Whitehead - Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Compilation of Wholly Communion (1965) and Benefit of the Doubt (1967),
coupled with a new interview with Peter and additional rare footage.
With over three hou..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 750
Artist: Peter Whitehead
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Compilations, Poetry, UK.
Derek Jarman - Wittgenstein
Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once stated that philosophy ought to be written as if it were poetry, and a poetic intensity typified his life and his work. No ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 725
Artist: Derek Jarman
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Cinema, Gay Cinema, Queer Culture, UK.
