Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering,...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972...

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

This is a rare video interview with one of America’s finest film artists, shot in New York towards the end of his abruptly terminated career.

The visual "degeneration" of the image ... through successive rephotography is paralleled by the compression of verbal information to the point of...

Three-screen film. On the first screen, close-ups of an agitated match in front of a young woman's fearful face. On the soundtrack: matches, warnings...

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera "mistakes," printing "errors" and various "assaults" upon film (some...

'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened...

Footage of a strip of damaged film.

Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

The film consists of two identical prints shown simultaneously, one projected inside the image of the other. The inner image is out of sync one...

The images for this project were first obtained by enlarging, with an optical printer, frames of evenly distributed grain particles from a black and...

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

The film consists of seven sections: the first section, "Specimen I," a "flicker" film, is the subject for the other sections of ANALYTICAL STUDIES...

Toilet paper event, single frame exposures.