Experimental, Avant-Garde, Video Art, and Surrealism Filmography
Updated April 2008

See also: Animation and Cartoons Filmography, Shorts Filmography [coming soon], Silent and Early Sound Cinema Filmography

(*) Indicates feature or documentary filmmaker; all titles in the collection by director may not be listed on this filmography. Search the ALADIN catalog for additional item records by clicking the director's name.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Documentary Art:21 Compilations

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*Akerman, Chantal
I, you, he, she = Je, tu, il, elle. 1974. [1996]. 1 videocassette (90 min.). Julie stays in a virtually bare room writing a long love letter, with which she becomes increasingly frustrated. She hitchikes along the Brussels highway, where she is picked up by a truck driver. Arriving at the apartment of her former lesbian lover, Julie spends the night, but silently leaves the apartment next morning. VHS 6464

Night and day = Nuit et jour. 1991. [1993]. 1 videocassette (90 min.). Story of a summer in Paris and three young people. Jack drives a taxi at night, and his days are spent with Julie. When he introduces her to a friend, a young man who drives a taxi during the day, complications arise. VHS 3118

Window shopping. 1986. [1991]. 1 videocassette (96 min.). An upbeat Hollywood-style musical set in a Parisian shopping mall that follows the love entanglements of a family who run a boutique in the mall. In the mall, the son of the boutique owner falls in love with the mall flirt, who runs the adjoining hairdressing salon. The wife of the boutique owner, after all these years and quite by chance, meets up with the American solider who liberated her from a concentration camp during World War II and almost runs off with him. VHS 3291

*Almodóvar, Pedro
Bad Education = La Mala educación. 2004. [2005]. 1 videodisc (105 min.). Traces the effects of sexual abuse and religious schooling on the lives of two lifelong friends. DVD 2448

Álvarez, Santiago
Now. 1965. 1 videocassette (6 min.). Montage of U.S. news films and stills that captures the repressive reaction of some authorities to the civil rights movement and the resulting suffering, frustration, and bitterness. The images are accompanied by the song, Now, which was banned on many American radio stations. VHS 6697

Anderson, Laurie
Home of the brave. 1986. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.). Conceptual artist/musician Laurie Anderson performs her unique songs and visuals. VHS 7225

Andrews, Marie
Law and disorder (1982): directors, Dean Constantine, Marie Andrews available on Experimental avant garde series. Cinema and reality ; 11. 1 videocassette (60 min.). New York goes crazy, film projectors explode, trains don't run, plus three foot tall flowers. VHS 5456

Anger, Kenneth
The films of Kenneth Anger. Volume 1. [2007]. 1 videodisc. Includes: Fireworks (1947); Puce Moment (1949); Rabbit's Moon (1950, the rarely seen original 16 minute version); Eaux d'Artifice (1953); and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954). DVD 3296

The films of Kenneth Anger. Volume 2. [2007]. 1 videodisc. Includes: Scorpio rising (1964) -- Kustom kar kommandos (1965) -- Invocation of my demon brother (1969) -- Rabbit's moon (1979 version) -- Lucifer rising (1981) -- The man we want to hang (2002). Covering the second half of Anger's career, from his legendary Scorpio rising to his breathtaking phantasmagoria Lucifer rising, Fantoma is very proud to complete the cycle with this long-awaited final volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick, painstakingly restored and presented on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world. DVD 3297

Ant Farm
Cadillac Ranch Show; &, Media burn. [1988]. 1 videocassette (37 min.). Cadillac Ranch documents the creation of the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, where ten Cadillacs were buried in Texas businessman Stanley Marsh's wheat field on Route 66 as a monument to the rise and fall of the Cadillac tail fin. Media Burn is a spectacular performance piece that combines sculpture, performance, satire and social commentary into a spectacle of cultural anarchy as a customized phantom dream car, guided by a video camera in its tail fin, smashes through a wall of burning TV sets before a cheering crowd at the San Francisco Cow Palace in celebration of America's addiction to TV. VHS 5186

*Antonioni, Michelangelo
Blow-Up. 1966. [2004]. 1 videodisc (111 min.). A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. DVD 608

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Baldwin, Craig
Sonic outlaws. 1995. 1 videocassette (ca. 87 min.). What happens when you release a parody of U2 and Casey Kasem that is meant to "turn the [media] barrage back on itself"? Film is a cut-and-paste collage-style essay using eight formats (including Super-8, Pixelvision, video and computer animation, and stock footage) to take a look at the tribulations of the Bay Area alternative band Negativland and its members as they deal with record companies, the musical group U2, and the United States legal system as a copyright infringement case against them wends its way through time and the courts. Along the way film also looks at television preachers, the Barbie Liberation Organization, and the Tape-beatles. VHS 4041

Barlow, Roger
Even -- as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins (1937, United States, 12 min.) available on available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

Barney, Matthew
Cremaster 3: The order. 2003. 1 videodisc (31 min.). In a death-defying race to the top of the Guggenheim Museum, Matthew Barney is a tartan-clad apprentice seeking Masonic redemption. DVD 451

Documentary: Matthew Barney: no restraint. 2007. 1 videodisc (71 min.). Follow the phenomenal journey of renowned artist Matthew Barney and his collaborator, singer-songwriter Bjork, as they embark on an unbelievable filmmaking journey in Japan. From artistic vision to manifestation, this compelling documentary reveals Barney's unique process in creating Drawing restraint 9, a massive cinematic piece that combines a whaling vessel; 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly; and traditional Japanese rituals in one fantastical love story. It's a rare look at a one-of-a-kind artist who has inspired audiences around the globe. DVD 2893

See art:21: art in the twenty-first century: seasons one and two. DVD 3118

Belvaux, Rémy and André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde
Man Bites Dog = C'est arrivé près de chez vous. 1992. [2002]. 1 videodisc (96 min.). A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter. DVD 1526

Benning, Sadie
The Works of Sadie Benning
[On order]

*Bergman, Ingmar
Persona. 1966. [2004]. 1 videodisc (83 min.). A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic dumbness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities. DVD 1996

Bertoglio, Edo
Downtown 81. 1981. [2002]. 1 videocassette (72 min.). This film provides a chronicle of Jean Michel Basquiat's adventures in New York City in 1981. VHS 7805

Borden, Lizzie
Born in flames. 1983. [2006]. 1 videodisc (80 min.). A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla movement to take over control of the media. DVD 3947

Braderman, Joan
Joan does Dynasty. 1986. 1 videocassette (35 min.). Joan Braderman takes Dynasty apart and examines the pieces in this one woman exposé. VHS 1536

Brakhage, Stan
By Brakhage: an anthology. [2003]. 2 videodiscs (243 min.). disc 1. Desistfilm 1954 (monaural); Wedlock House: An Intercourse 1959; Dog Star Man 1961-1964; The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes 1971 -- disc 2. Cat's Cradle 1959; Window Water Baby Moving 1959; Mothlight 1963; Eye Myth 1972; The Wold Shadow 1972; The Garden of Earthly Delights 1981 (monaural); The Stars Are Beautiful 1974; Kindering 1987 (monaural); I...Dreaming (monaural) 1988; The Dante Quartet 1987; Nightmusic 1986; Rage Net 1988; Glaze of Cathexis 1990; Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse 1991; Untitled (For Marilyn) 1992; Black Ice 1994; Study in Color and Black and White 1993; Stellar 1993; Crack Glass Eulogy 1996; The Dark Tower 1999; Commingled Containers 1997; Love Song 2001. Twenty-six masterworks by Stan Brakhage for the fist time on DVD. DVD 589

Dog star man. 1964. [1987]. 1 videocassette (75 min.). This major work by Stan Brakhage is an experimental narrative revolving around the complex story of the fictional Dog Star Man, utilizing a vast array of cinematic and non-photographic techniques. Broken images of a snowbound woodsman, sexual daydreams, living cells, flowing blood, vessels, stars, suns, and other objects are presented using innovative editing. VHS 2353 Included on By Brakhage: an anthology. DVD 589

Interim (1952). Unglassed windows cast a terrible reflection (1953). The way to shadow garden (1954). The extraordinary child (1954). Available on Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema, 1928-1954. DVD 3103

Selected films. [1999]. 1 videocassette (52 min.). v. 2: Cat's cradle (si., 5 min., 1959) -- Window water baby moving (si., 12 min., 1959) -- Sirius remembered (si., 12 min., 1959) -- The dead (si., 11 min., 1960) -- Thigh line lyre triangular (si., 5 min., 1961) -- Mothlight (si., 4 min., 1963). A compilation of experimental films by Stan Brakhage. VHS 6624 Cat's cradle -- Window water baby moving -- Mothlight included on By Brakhage: an anthology. DVD 589

Water for Maya, a 5 min. hand-painted film by Stan Brakhage that is a tribute to Deren included on In the mirror of Maya Deren. DVD 1269

Documentary: Brakhage. 1999. 1 videocassette (75 min.). Stan Brakhage, possibly the most important film maker of the avant-garde, has consistently redefined the shape of film art. Using excerpts from Brakhage's films, interviews with Brakhage, his friends, family, colleagues and critics, and archival footage of Brakhage spanning the past thirty-five years, this film explores the depth and breadth of the film maker's genius and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. VHS 5802

*Breillat, Catherine
Fat Girl = À ma soeur! 2001. [2004]. 1 videodisc (86 min.). Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a beauty. Elena meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence. DVD 2945

*Bresson, Robert
Au hasard Balthazar. 1966. [2005]. 1 videodisc (95 min.). Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate. DVD 1365

Brockway, Merrill
Camera three presents: a video event, part I ; Camera three presents : a video event, part II / with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company. 1974. [1999]. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Two programs, recorded on one tape, contain important archival works of Merce Cunningham from the early 1960s and 1970s. Presents an experimental marriage of dance and video. Excerpts are included of: Winterbranch, Second Hand, Sounddance, TV Rerun, Changing steps, Landrover and Signals. Cunningham discusses his ideas and approach to dancing. He says they are not concerts but "events." His commentary links the various aspects of the performances. VHS 5973

*Brothers Quay
The Brothers Quay collection: ten astonishing short films, 1984-1993. [2000]. 1 videodisc (123 min.). Contains: The cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (14 min.) (1984) -- The epic of Gilgamesh or This unnameable little broom (11 min.) (1985) -- Street of crocodiles (21 min.) (1986) -- Rehearsals for extinct anatomies (14 min.) (1987) -- Dramolet (Stille Nacht I) (1 min.) (1988) -- The comb (from the Museums of Sleep) (17 min.) (1991) -- De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis (15 min.) (1991) -- Are we still married? (Stille Nacht II) (3 min) (1991) / music by His Name is Alive -- Tales from the Vienna Woods (Stille Nacht III) (3 min.) (1992) -- Can't go wrong without you (Stille Nacht IV) (3 min.) (1993) / music by His Name is Alive. The Brothers Quay create puppet animation, where decaying dolls, primitive machinery, and other found objects interact in an expressionist world of ultra-reality. DVD 465

Broughton, James
The films of James Broughton. [2006]. 3 videodiscs (290 min.). Disc 1. The early years. Mother's day (1948); Loony Tom (1951); Four in the afternoon (1951); The pleasure garden. Disc 2. A middle period. The bed (1968); The golden positions (1970); This is it (1971); Dreamwood (1972); Hugh kukus (1973); (1983); Treatment (1974); The water circle (1975); Erogeny (1976). Disc 3. Finale: the films with Joel Singer. Song of the godbody (1977); Hermes bird (1979); The gardener of Eden (1981); Devotions (1983); Scattered remains (1988). This 3-disc set organizes 17 of Broughton's films into three distinct eras to capture the breadth and evolution of his themes and subject matter. DVD 2769

The potted psalm (1946, United States) / Sidney Peterson and James Broughton. Available on Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema, 1928-1954. DVD 3103

Rituals of play. [1992]. 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 47 min.). Includes: Mother's day (1948) (22 min.) -- Four in the afternoon (1951) (15 min.) -- Loony Tom (1951) (10:30 min.). Mother's day - A classic American avant-garde, this is an ironic recollection of the pranks, fetishes and rituals of a childhood dominated by a narcissistic mother obsessed by mirrors, big hats and proper behavior. -- Four in the afternoon - Four poetic variations on the search for love from the farcical to the elegiac as Game Little Gladys, The Gardener's Son, Princess Printemps and the Aging Balletomane act out their daydreams. -- Loony Tom - This comedy, a slapstick testimony to the liberating spirit of Pan, follows an amorous tramp as he capers across the countryside making love to every woman he encounters. VHS 7554 All titles available on The films of James Broughton. DVD 3103

Brusse, Kees
De Parapluie = The Umbrella. 1961. (31 min.) available on Rare Dutch and Belgian experimental program. 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.). VHS 5236

*Buñuel, Luis
L'age d'or. 1930. [2004]. 1 videodisc (63 min.). Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release. DVD 2792, VHS 4299

Un chien andalou. 1929. [2004]. 1 videodisc (55 min.). Filmed in the subjective language of the unconscious, this early avant-grade film appears as fresh today as when it first appeared. DVD 1083, VHS 7534, VHS 64

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. 1972. [2000]. 2 videodiscs (101 min.). An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. DVD 214

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*Campion, Jane
An Exercise in Discipline - Peel. 1982.
Passionless Moments. 1983.
A Girl's Own Story. 1984.
Available on Sweetie. 1989. [2006]. 1 videodisc (99 min.). Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie'. DVD 3927

*Cassavetes, John
Shadows. 1959. [2004]. 1 videodisc (82 min.). The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white. DVD 1390

Cauvin, Andre
The Mystic lamb by Van Eyck. 1939. (9 min.) available on Rare Dutch and Belgian experimental program. 1 videocassette (ca. 88 min.). VHS 5236

Christensen, Benjamin
Häxan AKA Witchcraft through the ages. 1922/1968. [2001]. In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous. DVD 323

Citron, Michelle
Daughter rite. 1979. 1 videocassette (53 min.). An experimental film explores the relationships between mothers and their adult daughters. One sequence shows two young women discussing their separate experiences with their mother. The second has a woman recalling her feelings, both loving and painful, for her mother. VHS 6808

*Clair, Rene
Entr'acte available on À nous la liberté. DVD 978

Entr'acte (1924); the crazy ray (1924). [1991]. 1 videocassette (62 min.). Early avant garde cinematography utilizing modern film techniques such as multiple images, slow motion, disappearances. Includes hilarious film funeral procession. The crazy ray: A mad scientist discovers an invisible ray which puts all Paris to sleep. Six people escape the effects, find out why and convince the scientist to awaken the people. VHS 6764

Clarke, Shirley
The connection. 1961. [1993]. 1 videocassette (105 min.). Film version of the play The Connection, by Jack Gelber. The play is about drug addicts waiting for a heroin dealer to bring the drug necessary for them to make their "connection." Based on the Living Theatre production, as directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck, the film was shot in a drug addict's apartment in New York City. VHS 7100

*Cocteau, Jean
Beauty and the beast = La Belle et la bête. 1946. [1998]. 1 videodisc (93 min.). A fable about a kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases him from a terrible magic spell. DVD 201, VHS 4375

The Blood of a Poet = Le Sang d'un poète. 1930. [2000]. 1 videodisc (116 min.). An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works. DVD 217, VHS 6554

Orpheus = Orphée. 1949. [2000]. 1 videodisc (95 min.). Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. DVD 218, VHS 5463

Testament of Orpheus, or, Do not ask me why = Le Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! 1959. [2000]. 1 videodisc (80 min.). In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations. DVD 219, VHS 6507

Documentary: Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown. 1983. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Paints a portrait of Cocteau's life using photographs, archival film clips, views of his home and garden, and clips from films of his written works, interspersed with appearances by Cocteau describing his encounters with such people as Picasso, Nijinsky, Satie, and Renoir. VHS 4807

Coney, John
Space is the place. 1974. [2003]. 1 videodisc (82 min.). Sun Ra, space-age prophet, lands his spaceship, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. Like Ra himself, Space is the Place is one of a kind, a mythopoetic manifesto made by people who believed in Ra's mystical message as much as they dug the raw splendor of his Afro-psychedelica. DVD 2056

Conner, Bruce
Bruce Conner films. [1990]. 2 videocassettes (53 min.). pt.1. Ten second film (10 sec.). Permian strata (4 min.). Mongoloid (4 min.). America is waiting (4 min.). A movie (12 min.) -- pt. 2. Breakaway (ca. 5 min.). Vivian (ca. 3 min.). The white rose (ca. 7 min.). Marilyn times five (ca. 13 min.). Nine films by "The master of the ambivalent attitude." Ten Second Film is composed like a poster from ten strips of film of count-down leader. -- Permian Strata depicts a biblical tyrant who is confronted with the truth but cannot handle it. -- Mongoloid shows how a determined young man overcomes a basic mental defect. -- America is Waiting explores ideas of loyalty, power and paranoia. -- A Movie features irony and exaggeration, reminding us that it is made from other movies. Breakaway is a dance film, first viewed forward and then backward. -- Vivian features Vivian Kurtz entombed in a glass display case. -- The White Rose depicts a huge painting being removed from an artist's studio. -- Marilyn Times Five features the eternal mirror image of Marilyn Monroe. VHS 3249

Constantine, Dean
Law and disorder (1982): directors, Dean Constantine, Marie Andrews available on Experimental avant garde series. Cinema and reality ; 11. 1 videocassette (60 min.). New York goes crazy, film projectors explode, trains don't run, plus three foot tall flowers. VHS 5456

Cornell, Joseph
Rose Hobart. 1936. (19 min.) available on Treasures from American film archives: 50 preserved films. Program 4. DVD 1793 pt. 4

*Cronenberg, David
Stereo. 1967
Crimes of the future. 1969
Available on Fast company. 1979. [2004]. 2 videodiscs (93 min.). The story of a corporate-sponsored racing team and the explosive obsessions that speed them through lives of fast cars, fast cash and fast company. DVD 1398

Cunningham, Chris
The work of director Chris Cunningham: a collection of music videos, short films, video installations, and commercials. [2003]. 1 videodisc (200 min.). Includes the director's music videos for the bands Autechre, Aphex Twin, Portishead, Madonna, Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa, Squarepusher, and Bjork; commercials for Sony Playstation, Levis, and Nissan; video installations; and the documentary, "The Making of All is Full of Love." DVD 3133

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Deren, Maya
Divine horsemen: the living gods of Haiti. [1998]. 1 videocassette (52 min.). Documentary look at the Voodoo religions of Haiti by Maya Deren, a Voudoun initiate who was able to take her camera and recorder where few have gone before or since. Presents rituals performed by the Rada, Petro, and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with cosmic powers through invocations, sacrifices, and possession. VHS 5195

Maya Deren collected experimental films. [1986]. 1 videocassette (76 min.). Meshes of the afternoon (1943-59, 14 min. : sd.) -- At land (1944, 15 min. : si.) -- A study in choreography for camera (1945, 4 min. : si.) -- Ritual in transfigured time (1945-46, 15 min. : si.) -- Meditation on violence (1948, 12 min. : sd.) -- The very eye of night (1952-59, 15 min. : sd.). From the early 1940's until her death in 1961, Maya Deren both evoked and exemplified the American avant-garde movement virtually by herself. Meshes of the afternoon: A cine-poem involving the interplay of reality and dreams -- At land: A woman searches, presumably for her own identity, in an unfamiliar environment. She seems tentative, fearful at times, sad, pleased, anxious -- Study in choreography for camera: A dance choreographed for and performed by the camera and the dancer together, in which the camera transports dancer Talley Beatty from point to point, supports him in an extended and accelerated pirouette, and sustains him in an attenuated leap. Ritual in transfigured time: A choreography for camera in which film techniques -- reprinting, varying camera speeds, and direction and movement of the camera -- create a ritual dance from non-dance movements performed by Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook -- Meditation on violence: Solo performance with theatrical lighting but without scenery ; solo performance outdoors in costume -- Very eye of night: A cine-poem ballet of night filmed in the negative and performed by students of Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. The dancers perform as if planets in the night sky, with the constellation Gemini representing the archetypal Self of every man. VHS 683

Maya Deren: experimental films. [2002]. 1 videodisc (76 min.). Meshes of the afternoon (1943) (sd.) -- At land (1944) (si.) -- A study in choreography for camera (1945) (si.) -- Ritual in transfigured time (1945) (si.) -- Meditation on violence (1948) (sd.) -- The very eye of night (1952-1959) (sd.). Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 1940s and 1950s. DVD 630

Documentary: In the mirror of Maya Deren. 2001. [2004]. 1 videodisc (103 min.). Interweaves excerpts from some of Maya Deren's films with archival footage and commentary by acolytes and contemporaries, such as Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas. Includes excerpts from the films: At land, Ritual in transfigured time, and Meshes of the afternoon. DVD 1269

Dovzhenko, Alexander
Arsenal. 1929. 1 videocassette (70 min.). Seen through the eyes of a humble Ukranian soldier, director Dovzhenko presents an account of the Ukraine from World War I and the following social upheavals, through the Russian revolution, to the suppression of a worker's revolt in Kiev in 1918. Dovzhenko presents harsh, realistic scenes of Czarist brutality and war's destruction, but his juxtapositions of the Russian workers and peasants are considered both impressionistic and symbolic. VHS 4643

Zemlya = Earth. 1930. [2003]. 1 videodisc (186 min.). In Earth, workers on the Ukrainian farms struggle to use the land for what they think are the best purposes. Reflects the agricultural collectivization that was going on in the Soviet Union at the time this film was made. DVD 3757

*Dreyer, Carl Theodor
The Passion of Joan of Arc = La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc. 1928. [1999]. 1 videodisc (82 min.). The trial and execution of Joan of Arc, based on actual court records, but compressed into a single day. A classic film notable for its extensive use of close-ups, extreme close-ups, expressionistic camera angles, and historically accurate sets and costumes. DVD 23

Vampyr. 1932. [1998]. 1 videodisc (72 min.). A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man attempts to find and kill a vampire that has assumed the form of an old woman. DVD 3734

Duchamp, Marcel
Anémic cinema. (1926) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

Dulac, Germaine
La coquille et le clergyman. (1926) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

La Souriante Madame Beudet. (1923) available on Avant garde shorts subjects from France. A study in domestic conflicts, this film portrays the life and dreams of a housewife in a small town who is married to a repulsive businessman. VHS 5475

Duras, Marguerite
India song. 1974. 1 videocassette (114 min.). A captivating, poetically crafted love story with an Indian setting. The wife of a French vice-consul in 1930s India begins having affairs in order to escape her boredom. Her husband pretends not to notice because he understands the cause of her behavior. VHS 3703

Documentary: Marguerite: a reflection of herself. 2002. 1 videocassette (61 min.). A personal portrait of the great French writer Marguerite Duras. Made with home movies, archives, film extracts, readings, and television interviews filmed over many years. VHS 7273

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Eames, Ray & Charles
The films of Charles & Ray Eames. Volume 2. [1989]. 1 videocassette (62 min.). Includes: Toccata for toy trains -- House: after five years of living -- Lucia chase vignette -- Kaleidoscope jazz chair -- The Black ships -- Atlas -- Blacktop. VHS 3418 v.2

The films of Charles & Ray Eames. Volume 4. [1993]. 1 videocassette (59 min.). Includes: Design Q & A -- IBM mathematics peep shows -- SX-70 -- Copernicus -- Fiberglass chairs -- Goods. Design Q&A: is a witty statement about design. -- IBM mathematics peep shows: explores intriguing mathematical concepts. -- SX-70: presents the aesthetic potential of the Land camera and the Eames' approach to photography. -- Copernicus: evokes the astronomer's universe. -- Fiberclass chairs: looks at their design and production. -- Goods: looks at a three-screen slide show. VHS 3418 v.4

Powers of ten. [1989]. 1 videocassette (ca. 23 min.). Using visual image along with narration, illustrates the relative size of things in the physical universe. First, takes the viewer from earth to the outer galaxies, showing the increase of time and distance in increments of ten. Then, returning to earth, proceeds from the human scale into the microworld of cells, DNA molecules, and the nucleus of a carbon atom. VHS 3418 v.1

The world of Franklin and Jefferson. 1976. 1 videocassette (28 min.). Traces the interlocking careers of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Presents the background and accomplishments of these two men. VHS 3418 v.3

House. 1955. (11 min.) included on SHORT cinema journal 1:11, Ecstasy. DVD 837

Eggeling, Viking
Symphonie diagonale. 1924. A vailable on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

*Eisenstein, Sergei
Bronenosets Potyomkin = Battleship Potemkin. 1925. [2007]. 2 videodiscs (69 min.). Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where the Czar's troops ruthlessly massacred hundreds of innocent civilians who had sympathized with the mutineers. The film is notable for its use of non-actors in roles. DVD 43

Que Viva Mexico! 1931. [1998]. 1 videocassette (85 min.). A video documentary of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Sigueiros, Rivera, and Orosco. VHS 6051

Romance sentimentale / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov (1930, France, 20 min.) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

Emshwiller, Ed
Films by Ed Emshwiller. [1996]. Lifeline (1960, 7 min.); Thanatopsis (1962, 5 min.); Films with three dancers (1970, 20 min.). Three short experimental films that make use of abstract moving images and human performers and "set men and women in larger, sometimes cosmic contexts". 'Thanatopsis' juxtaposes static and active male and female figures; camera movement and optical manipulation convert the dancer's physical energy into a visceral experience. VHS 7552

Epstein, Jean
La Glace à trois faces. 1927. (33 min.) Le tempestaire. 1947. (22 min.) a vailable on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

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Farrokhzad, Forugh
The House is Black = Khaneh siah ast. 1963. [2005]. 1 videodisc (22 min.). This film about the leprosy colony in Tabriz, Iran is a compassionate portrait of forgotten people. Straightforward yet sympathetic, the film affords dignity to its subjects, particularly through Farrokhzad's striking poem read by the poet herself. The House Is Black has heavily influenced the modern Iranian cinema of such great filmmakers as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who called it "the best Iranian film." It provides, in the film's own words, "a vision of pain no caring human being should ignore." DVD 1434

*Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Berlin Alexanderplatz. [2007]. 7 videodiscs (940 min.). Story of Franz Biberkof, a former transportation worker. When we first see Franz, he has just been released from prison where he has served four years for an irrational act of violence. He returns to his Berlin neighborhood resolved to go straight but forces in his environment, the influences of his cronies, the grinding poverty, the decay of society overwhelm him and he begins his duel with fate. DVD 3385

*Fellini, Federico
8 ½. 1963. 2 videodiscs (138 min.). Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. DVD 369

Fischli, Peter
The way things go: a film / directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. [2002]. 1 videodisc (30 min.). Swiss artists Peter Fischili and David Weiss set in motion a chain reaction along a one-hudred-foot assembly of common household objects. DVD 3766

Frank, Robert
Pull My Daisy. 1959. 1 videocassette (29 min.). Describes the moods and feelings of a group of poets and musicians meeting in a loft apartment on a Friday morning. Jack Kerouac speaks for all the characters and comments on their actions. VHS 5536

Franken, Mannus
Regen = Rain by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken. 1929. (14 min.) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

Friedrich, Su
Cool hands, warm hearts. 1979. 1 videocassette (16 min.). A film in which private acts become public spectacles: on stage, on a crowded street, women perform familiar rituals ... A story of sorts develops, due to the increased interaction between a woman from the crowd and those on stage ... intertitles which appear both in the form of her introspective musings and a narrator's warnings contribute to the emotional and physical struggle. VHS 6712

Damned if you don't. 1987. 1 videocassette (42 min.). This portrait of a lesbian nun combines narrative and experimental techniques, as well as footage from "Black Narcissus," an earlier film with a similar theme. VHS 6713

First comes love. 1991. 1 videocassette (22 min.). Wedding preparations and ceremonies of three heterosexual couples, interspersed with written statements on which countries do not allow homosexual marriage, and also the statement that in 1990 Denmark was the first country to legalize homosexual marriage. Uses no spoken words, but instead the words and songs of Janis Joplin, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt and others. VHS 6811

Gently down the stream. 1981. 1 videocassette (20 min., 30 sec.). Uses material from a succession of dreams to exorcise the mysterious ritualistic power of repeating images. VHS 6804

Hide and seek. 1996. 1 videocassette (64 min.). An exploration into lesbian adolescence in the 1960's. VHS 6710

Rules of the road. 1993. 1 videocassette (31 min.). Story begins with the narrator's lover buying a station wagon. Film looks at how our dreams of freedom, pleasure, and security are often symbolized by the automobile. VHS 6711

Sink or swim. 1990. 1 videocassette (48 min.). A compelling account of the immutable, highly charged relationship between a father and daughter. A young girl narrates twenty-six short stories which recount memories of a father she both fears and admires. Using voiceover, home movies and archival film, Freidrich depicts the disintegration of a family. VHS 5993

The ties that bind. 1 videocassette (55 min.). An experimental film which relates the experiences of the filmmaker's mother, who lived in Nazi Germany. VHS 6805

Furtado, Jorge
Ilha das flores = Isle of flowers. 1989. [1990]. 1 videocassette (13 min.). A funny but ultimately bitter film from Brazil about values, the food chain, and the human condition as it looks at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. VHS 2926

Fusco, Coco
The couple in the cage: a Guatinaui odyssey / a video by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia ; directed & produced by Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia. [1993]. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Gautinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico, are contrasted with archival footage and still photographs showing various occasions when indigenous persons were put on public display at circuses, sideshows and the like. Emphasis is placed on the response of the people viewing the Gautinaui couple. VHS 6845

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Gance, Abel
La Folie du Docteur Tube. 1915. Available on The experimental avant garde series. Volume 18. 1 videocassette (40 min.). A mad scientist discovers a sneezing powder that changes the shape of anything it touches. Uses mirrors and optical effects to create weird and demented visions. VHS 5476

La Roue = The Wheel. 1923. 1 videocassette (130 min.). A tragic story of the wheel of fate, told with the romantic energy of Victor Hugo and the impact of Euripides. VHS 6512

Gill, Harjant
Milind Soman Made Me Gay. [2007]. 1 videodisc (27 min.). A film that explores the memory-scape of four South Asian gay men living in Washington DC; one Hindu, one Muslim, one Christian and one Sikh to reveal how each negotiates his sexual desire with his cultural and religious background. Underneath the nostalgic explorations of life back home lie harsh realities of homophobia and racism in America, and an on-going struggle to find a place of belonging. DVD 3167

*Gilliam, Terry
Brazil. 1985. [1999]. 3 videodiscs (142 min). A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. DVD 360

*Godard, Jean-Luc
Week End. 1967. [1991]. 1 videocassette (105 min.). A middle class couple on a weekend trip get caught up in traffic jams, car wrecks and an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967. VHS 1430

Godmilow, Jill
Roy Cohn. 1994. [2000]. 1 videocassette (90 min.). Ron Vawter performs two linked monologues: the first, a portrayal of a classic Roy Cohn after-dinner speech for the Society for the Protection of the American Family; the second, is Vawter's remounting of Smith's own "performance-of-the self," entitled "What's underground about marshmallows?" and originally performed by Smith in 1981. VHS 6634

What's underground about marshmallows?: Ron Vawter performs Jack Smith. 1993. [2000]. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Constitutes the second half of Vawter's performance piece "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". The full work consists of two linked monologues: the first, a portrayal of a classic Roy Cohn after-dinner speech for the Society for the Protection of the American Family; the second, recorded here, Vawter's version of Smith's own performance-of-the self, "What's underground about marshmallows?", originally performed by Smith in 1981.

Greaves, William
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm two takes by William Greaves. [2006]. 2 videodiscs (174 min.). Includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take 2 ½ (2003). A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. DVD 2391

*Greenaway, Peter
The early films of Peter Greenaway. Disc 1. [2006]. 1 videodisc (87 min.). Includes: A walk through H (1978, 41 min.) -- H is for house (1976, 9 min.) -- Windows (1974, 4 min.) -- Intervals (1969, 6 min.) -- Dear phone (1976, 17 min.) -- Water wrackets (1978, 11 min.). A collection of Peter Greenaway's early avant-garde films created between 1969 and 1978. A series of highly innovative and witty short films which are immensely playful and take pleasure in outlandish detail, fake erudition and corkscrew narratives. DVD 2959

The early films of Peter Greenaway. Disc 2. [2006]. 1 videodisc (224 min.). Includes: Vertical features remake (1978, 44 min.) -- The falls (1980, 187 min.). Presents two major works by Peter Greenaway. In Vertical features remakes, a playful parody of avant-garde theorising, academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best-known fictional character. The Falls is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by "VUE," the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying. DVD 2960

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Hamilton, Ann
The body and the object: Ann Hamilton, 1984-1996. 1 computer laser optical disc. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held May 18-August 4, 1996 at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. CD ROM 34

See art:21: art in the twenty-first century: seasons one and two. DVD 3118

*Haneke, Michael
Caché. 2005. 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.). A talk show host and his wife are living an ideal life until videotapes of them show up on their front porch. As the tapes get more and more personal, they start investigating who is behind it. Will they find more than they bargained for? DVD 2063

Hay, Harry
Even -- as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins (1937, United States, 12 min.) available on available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

Heredia, Paula
The couple in the cage: a Guatinaui odyssey / a video by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia ; directed & produced by Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia. [1993]. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Gautinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico, are contrasted with archival footage and still photographs showing various occasions when indigenous persons were put on public display at circuses, sideshows and the like. Emphasis is placed on the response of the people viewing the Gautinaui couple. VHS 6845

*Herzog, Werner
Herz aus Glas = Heart of glass. 1976. [2004]. 1 videodisc (94 min.). Set in the 18th-century, this film tells of a Bavarian village that loses the secret of making its unique ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary. DVD 3544

Hestand, Mary
He Was Once. 1989. [2004]. A live-action parody of the animated children's TV show Davey and Goliath. DVD 1137

*Haynes, Todd
Dottie gets spanked. 1993. [2004]. 1 videodisc (45 min.). A stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I Love Lucy. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined Steven Gale is obsessed with Dottie Frank, wacky star of the eponymous hit sitcom The Dottie Show. While his mother gently encourages the boy's fixation, his father grows increasingly frustrated by his son's apparently "sissified" interests. DVD 1137

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Ichikawa, Kon
An actor's revenge = Yukinojao henge. 1963. 1 videocassette (110 min.). The story of a female impersonator in a Kabuki troupe determined to wreak vengeance on the villians who caused his parents' miserable deaths. VHS 7868

Iimura, Takahiko
Filmmakers. 1969. [1998]. 1 videocassette (28 min.). A film portrait of prominent filmmakers shot during Takahiko Iimura's first visit to the USA in 1966-1968. The piece was then completed in Japan in 1969 by adding single word commentaries that literally point out in words what was seen (like an English lesson). VHS 7551

Isou, Isidore
Traité de bave et d'éternité = Venom and Eternity . 1951. (111 min.) available on Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema, 1928-1954. [2007]. 2 videodiscs (341 min.). DVD 3103

Ivens, Joris
Regen = Rain by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken. 1929. (14 min.) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

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*Jarman, Derek
Blue. 1993. 1 videocassette (76 min.). Over the blue screen (an homage to painter Yves Klein, as well as a metaphor for blindness, for paradise, for oblivion), Derek Jarman lays bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching sightlessness ... VHS 4701

Caravaggio. 1986. 1 videocassette (90 min.). A film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest, Italian post-Renaissance painter. Caravaggio was the 'enfant terrible' of Italian Art and his short life, marked by extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently. VHS 6530

Edward II. 1992. 1 videocassette (91 min.). Edward II embraces the essential dramatic themes of passion, murder, and unrequited love. Steven Waddington plays the monarch as a man whose destiny hangs on his overpowering passion and lack of responsibility to the British throne. He rebuffs his wife, Isabella, lavishing affection on the handsome Gaveston -- a choice that ultimately seals his fate. VHS 2026

The Garden. 1990. 1 videocassette (90 min.). The film recreates the story of the Passion with the figure of Christ replaced in some sequences by two lovers, who are arrested, humiliated, and tortured. Jarman attempts to examine the role of the Church in the persecution of homosexuality, while treating Christ with great reverence and respect. VHS 6617

Sebastiane. 1976. 1 videocassette (82 min.). Describes the last few days of the life of the Catholic martyr St. Sebastian, in particular his relationship with the Emperor Diocletian in 303 A.D., his banishment to a remote outpost of the Roman Empire because of his Christian sympathies, the ambiguous relation with his commanding officer, Severus, and finally his execution by his fellow soldiers. VHS 6239

Wittgenstein. 1993. 1 videocassette (75 min.). A surreal and fanciful biography of the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who strove to define and teach insights on communication and the powers and limits of language. VHS 4267

*Jodorowsky, Alexandro
La cravate. 1957. 1 videodisc (20 min.). This short film is "about a girl who sells heads. She changes the heads of a poetical guy and a boxer. She puts the spiritual head of the strong body and the idiot head on the spiritual body. DVD 3041

The Holy Mountain. 1973. [2007]. 1 videodisc (113 min.). " ... the Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe" DVD 3044

El topo. 1970. [2007]. 1 videodisc (124 min.). The first part of the film follows El Topo, a gunfighter and his seven year old son on their journey across the desert as they come upon a massacre and hunt down the killers. The second part shows the death of El Topo, and the birth of his new son. DVD 3043

Johnson, Karen
Orange. 1970. 1 videocassette (3 min.). Close-up shots of a person peeling and eating an orange. VHS 1990

Jonas, Joan
Vertical roll. [1988]. 1 videocassette (20 min.). Series of visual images of common objects and various parts of the human body, accompanied by a continuous ++ of the framing. VHS 5238

*Jonze, Spike
Adaptation. 2002. [2003]. 1 videodisc (114 min.). Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot. DVD 699

Being John Malkovich. 2000. 1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.). A struggling street puppeteer takes a job as a filing clerk and discovers a secret door that allows him to enter into the mind and body of actor John Malkovich. For fifteen minutes he experiences being John Malkovich before being dropped out of the sky alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. After sharing this experience with an office colleague and his wife the three hatch a plan to offer this experience to others and charge a fee. DVD 91

The work of director Spike Jonze: a collection of music videos, short films, documentaries, and rarities. [2003]. 1 videodisc (ca. 400 min.). Includes the director's music videos for the bands Wax, Beastie Boys, the Pharcyde, the Breeders, Daft Punk, Fatlip, Weezer, Fatboy Slim, Dinosaur Jr., MC 900ft Jesus, the Notorious B.I.G., the Chemical Brothers, and Bjork, as well as interviews, commentaries, rarities, and three documentaries: What's up Fatlip?, Amarillo by morning, and Torrance Rises. DVD 804

*July, Miranda
Me and you and everyone we know. [2005]. 1 videodisc (92 min.). A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life. DVD 2480

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*Kerrigan, Lodge
Clean, Shaven. 1993. [2006]. 1 videodisc (79 min.). A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution. DVD 3835

*Kieslowski, Krzysztof
The Double Life of Veronique = La Double vie de Véronique. 1991. [2006]. 2 videodiscs (97 min.). Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond. DVD 2936

Kirsanoff, Dimitri
Ménilmontant. 1926. (37 min.) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

*Kubrick, Stanley
2001: a space odyssey. 1968. [2001]. 1 videodisc (148 min.). A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future. DVD 1817

Documentary: Stanley Kubrick: a life in pictures. 2001. 1 videodisc (143 min.). Documentary about the career of director Stanley Kubrick, drawing on Kubrick archives and offering an intimate portrait of his life among family and friends. DVD 2787

Kuchar, George
Weather diary 3. [2005]. George goes to Oklahoma, but there's a lull in storm activity. It's spring, and though there's romance in the air, the lightning just doesn't strike; so George makes his own rain of sorts. Despite the drought, the videos must go on. DVD 2465

Kuchar, Mike
Sins of the fleshapoids. 1965. 1 videodisc [44 min.]. Set a million years in the future, after 'The Great War' has scourged the planet, mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence. Work is left to enslaved androids. One male robot tires of pampering his lazy masters, and joins the humans in sin. Also includes The Secret of Wendel Samson. 1966. (33 min.) and The Craven Sluck. 1967. (20 min.). DVD 1750

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Lambert, Mary
Siesta. [1987]. 1 videocassette (97 min.). Claire (Ellen Barkin) is a professional stuntwoman. When she awakens semi-nude and disheveled beneath a hot Spanish sun and can recall only fragments of her past few days, a nightmarish journey begins for her. She wanders roads and back alleys of an alien countryside, haunted by visions of her last days...her flier husband (Martin Sheen), abandoned by her for a last rendezvous with her lover (Gabriel Byrne), a bloody knife poised to strike, the menacing figure of a taxi driver pursuing her relentlessly. VHS 3166

Leger, Fernand
Ballet mécanique. 1924. (11 min.) available on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339
Also available on 16 mm, MPA 2

Leslie, Alfred
Pull My Daisy. 1959. (29 min.). The Last Clean Shirt. 1964. (39 min.). Birth of a Nation 1965. 1997. (24 min.). 1 videocassette (92 min.). Pull My Daisy: Describes the moods and feelings of a group of poets and musicians meeting in a loft apartment on a Friday morning. Jack Kerouac speaks for all the characters and comments on their actions. The Last Clean Shirt: Sequences of a drive down New York City's Cooper Square and up Third Avenue that is repeated - with only very subtle variations - three times. Sequence is of a man and women in a convertible taking an alarm clock for a ride - with and without subtitles - while the woman speaks what may be Swedish but probably isn't. Birth of a Nation 1965: Remaining fragment features jazz music, street scenes, subtitles written by Frank O'Hara, Willem de Kooning standing in front of the camera grinning, a Nazi firing squad, family life - a young boy reads Dickens and women in their underwear argue, Patrick Mcgee reading De Sade, and an orgy. VHS 5536

Leth, Jørgen
The Perfect Human = Det Perfekte menneske (1967) available on The five obstructions = De Fem benspænd. [2004]. Lars von Trier enters the world of documentary filmmaking and challenges his idol Jørgen Leth to remake his 1967 film The Perfect Human five times, each time with a new obstruction, hoping each time that he will fail! DVD 2250

*Linklater, Richard
Slacker. 1991. [2004]. 2 videodiscs (ca. 98 min.). Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants. DVD 1347

Lye, Len
Lambeth Walk Nazi style . 1942. (5 min.) available on The experimental avant garde series. Volume number 19. To give the British a laugh during their long battle with Nazi Germany, Len Lye took newsreel footage of Hitler and his troops pieced it together, used reverse, stop and jump motion effects to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing a popular British jig. VHS 3119

*Lynch, David
Dumbland. 2005. 1 videodisc (33 min.). Contains: Episode 1. The neighbor -- episode 2. The treadmill -- Episode 3. The doctor -- Episode 4. A friend visits -- Episode 5. Get the stick -- Episode 6. My teeth are bleeding -- Episode 7. Uncle Bob -- Episode 8. Ants. Animated short films created by director David Lynch using Flash software. DVD 1752

Eraserhead. 1977. [2000]. 1 videodisc (85 min.). A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own. DVD 1491

Inland Empire. [2007]. 2 videodiscs (179 min.). When an actress falls in love with her co-star, she finds her life is becoming much like the film she is starring in, which is based on a Polish film that was never finished due to horrible tragedies. DVD 3109

Short Films of David Lynch. [2001]. 1 videodisc (90 min.). Six short films from the incomparable mind of David Lynch, each featuring exclusive introductions recorded for this release. The earliest four pre-date his incredible debut feature Eraserheard ... The Cowboy & the Frenchman was made for French television (specifically for the series "The French as Seen by ... "). Made a few years after Blue velvet and prior to Twin Peaks, it is an absurd exercise in cultural stereotypes. DVD 1751

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McLaren, Norman
Norman McLaren. [2003]. 2 videodiscs (231 min.). Disc 1. Creative process = Le Génie créateur / director, Donald McWilliams, 1991 (117 min.) -- Disc 2. Selected films = Films choisis / 1940-1983 (114 min.). Disc 2. Neighbours ; Begone dull care ; Pas de deux ; Boogie-doodle ; Synchromy ; Mosaic ; A phantasy ; Blinkity blank ; Le merle ; Lines-horizontal ; A chairy tale ; Animated motion, part 5 ; New York lightboard record ; Narcissus. The first disc showcases 14 of his best films and the second contains 'The Creative Process'. "Norman McLaren was a cinematic virtuoso and perhaps animation's greatest innovator. To create his delightful and dazzling animation, he employed an amazing array of techniques, including painting directly on film and his own inventions, 'pixilation' - a wildly surreal form of filming actors in stop motion." Disc 1. Explores the creative process and techniques of Norman McLaren, artist, cinematographer and animator; includes excerpts from McLaren's film vaults, interviews and narration. DVD 645

Norman McLaren: the master's edition. [2006]. 7 videodiscs (900 min.). Brings together the complete works of Norman McLaren, from his initial experiments in Scotland in 1933 to his final NFB film in 1983. Features 58 films, tests, unfinished films and support material (photographs, audio clips and more), along with 15 original documentaries contextualizing McLaren's work and his creative process. In all, the compilation includes more than 130 video and audio documents, divided by theme. DVD 4131 - 4137

DVD 01 includes: 7 till 5 (1933) (12:39) -- Camera makes whoopee (1935) (24:31) -- Book bargain (1937) (8:10) -- Mony a pickle (1938) (4:06) -- News for the navy (1937-1938) (10:37) -- The obedient flame (1939) (9:56) -- Love on the wing ( 1938) (4:27) -- Blinkity blank (1955) (5:15) -- C'est l'aviron (1944) (3:17) -- Window on Canada no. 29: excerpt 1 (1954) (3:42) -- Spheres (1969) (7:20) -- The corridor (1950s) (1:11) -- Barrell zoom (circa 1943) (1:15) -- Love on the wing (1938) (4:27) -- La poulette grise (1947) (5:32) -- La poulette grise: test (1947) (3:44) -- Là-haut sur ces montagnes (1945) (3:10) -- Là-haut sur ces montagnes: test (1944) (0.57) -- Window on Canada no. 29: excerpt 2 (1954) (2:59) -- McLaren at play (1940s) (5:19) -- Out-of-focus cloudscape (late 1940s) (1:53) -- A phantasy (1952) (7:15) -- A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting (1946) (3:35) -- Blurr test (1956-1957) (11:05) -- The flicker film (1961) (3:32) -- The seasons (1966) (4:45) -- Little Negro (1940s) (2:01) -- Beginnings (5:17) -- McLaren and space (3:41) -- Painting with light (5:16). DVD 4131

DVD 02 includes: Begone dull care (1949) (7:47) -- Blinkity blank (1955) (5:15) -- Lines horizontal (1962) (5:55) -- Lines vertical (1960) (5:49) -- Mosaic (1965) (5:28) -- The making of mosaic (2004) (0:59) -- Boogie-doodle (1940) (3:18) -- Short and suite (1959) (4:50) -- Serenal (1959) (3:04) -- Doors (late 1950s) (1:42) -- Hen hop (1942) (3:39) -- Fiddle-de-dee (1947) (3:22) -- Dots (1940) (2:21) -- Hoppity pop (1946) (1:47) -- Loops (1940) (2:39) -- Mail early (1941) (1:44) -- Mail early for Christmas (1959) (0:40) -- Chaplin test (1940s) (0:19) -- NBC Valentine greeting (1939) (1:52) -- New York lightboard (1961) (8:59) -- New York lightboard record (1961) (7:38) -- Stars and stripes (1940) (2:07) -- Birdlings (1967) (3:48) -- Le merle (1958) (4:40) -- The head test (1944) (2:55) -- A little phantasy on a nineteenth century painting (1946) (3:35) -- A phantasy (1952) (7:15) -- Tanguy landscape test (1944) (1:22) -- Surrealistic hand drawing (1939-1945) (1:17) -- Pen drawings (1940s) (1:41) -- The hypnosis film (1960s) (0.37) -- La poulette grise (1947) (5:32) -- The art of motion (2005) (3:24) -- Evelyn Lambart (2005) (5:37) -- Surrealism (2005) (3:46) -- Maurice Blackburn (2005) (4:19). DVD 4132

DVD 03 includes: Spook sport (1940) (7:52) -- July 4th 1941 (1941) (2:30) -- On the farm (1951) (6:50) -- Neighbours (1952) (8:06) -- Two bagatelles (1952) (2:22) -- A chairy tale (1957) (9:52) -- Bounce film (circa 1960) (0.41) -- Six and seven-eighths (1961) (9:21) -- Norman McLaren's opening speech (1961) (6:53) -- Canon (1964) (9:13) -- Canon: test (circa 1964) (4:50) -- Christmas cracker (1963) (9:13) -- Polychrome fantasy (1935) (2:52) -- Pas de deux (1968) (13:21) -- Pas de deux: test (1965-1967) (16:14) -- Ballet adagio (1972) (9:58) -- Narcissus (1983) (21:49) -- Narcissus: test (1973-1975) (2:15) -- Christmas cracker: McLaren's contribution (1963) (3:42) -- Dance (5:02) -- Vincent Warren (5:17) -- Grant Munro (4:47). DVD 4133

DVD 04 includes: Has anybody here seen Canada?: A history of Canadian Movies 1939-1953: outtakes (20:28) -- Hell unlimited (19:14) -- Snakes (1:08) -- The wook (1:11) -- Keep your mouth shut (2:21) -- V for victory (2:04) -- 5 for 4 (2:52) -- Dollar dance (4:05) -- Neighbours (8:06) -- A chairy tale (9:52) -- Chairy tale - alternate ending (:34) -- Chairy tale - tests and outtakes (4:10) -- Window on Canada no.29 : excerpt 3 (2:44) -- War and peace (4:58). DVD 4134

DVD 05 includes: Synchromy (1971) (7:26) -- Test A for Synchromy (1960s) (1:29) -- Test B for Synchromy (late 1960s) (2:46) -- Workshop experiments in animated sound (1957) (5:11) -- Loops (1940) (2:39) -- Neighbours (1952) (8:06) -- Blinkity blank (1955) ( (5:15) -- Le merle rehearses (late 1950s) (2:30) -- Scherzo (1939) (1:25) -- Canon (1964) (9:13) -- Pen point percussion ((1951) (5:57) -- Animated sound test (late 1940s or early 1950s) (2:43) -- Korean alphabet (1967) (7:15) -- Synthetic music experiments (1950s) (audio only) (4:59) -- The animator as musician (5:23) -- Animated motion. Part 1 (1976) (9:10) -- Part 2 (1976) (8:31) -- Part 3 (1977) (9:54) -- Part 4 (1977) (7:01) -- Part 5 (1978) (7:06). DVD 4135

DVD 06 includes: Le merle (1958) (4:40) -- Le merle: test and outtakes (1948) (2:37) -- Dans un petit bois (circa 1943) (2:19) -- Rythmetic (1956) (8:41) -- 1-2-3 (1955) (4:15) -- Alouette (1944) (2:22) -- La perdriole(mid 1940s) (0.46) -- Spheres (1969) (7:20) -- A summer day in Ottawa in 1949-- (1949) (4:38) -- Paper cut-outs (4:00) -- René Jodoin (5:06) -- Experimental film: excerpt (2:27) -- McLaren on McLaren (7:56) -- The eye hears, the ear sees (58:46). DVD 4136

DVD 07 includes: Cinéastes de notre temps (1967) (55:06) -- McLaren par Jutra, SRC 1961 (2:06) -- Pinscreen (1973) (38:43) -- Pinscreen tests (1961) (1:17) -- The digital restoration process (5:15). DVD 4137

Maas, Willard
Geography of the body. 1943. The mechanics of love. (1955) available on Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema, 1928-1954. [2007]. 2 videodiscs (341 min.). DVD 3103

*Maddin, Guy
Careful. 1991. [2000]. 1 videodisc (160 min.). The Alpine village of Tolzbad is a hotbed of repressed desires, Oedipal angst, and sibling rivalry. When a young man's incestuous dream is added to the equation, a calamity of suicides, ghostly visions, forbidden romances and murder occurs. DVD 206

Cowards bend the knee AKA Blue hands. 2003. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, 'Cowards bend the knee' is a jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Maddin casts 'himself' as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales, and resurrects his father as the team's radio broadcaster and his own romantic antagonist. DVD 1488

Dracula: pages from a virgin's diary. 2002. [2004]. 1 videodisc (75 min.). A melodrama, with some dancing, based on the Dracula story. Color film done as if black and white, with some purple or sepia tints. DVD 901

Eye like a strange balloon. 1995. (5 min.)is available on SHORT cinema journal. 1:2, Dreams. [1997]. A whimsical allegory on man's journey through time and space. DVD 19

The saddest music in the world. 2004. 1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.). Isabella Rossellini stars as a Depression-era beer baroness who sponsors a contest to find the world's saddest tune in this dark comedy. DVD 1111
Also includes 3 short films by Maddin.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital. 1988. [2000]. 1 videodisc (68 min.). Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Mantiboba near the turn of the century, this film explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room. The two men are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Also available on the DVD: Two short films also by Guy Maddin; The Dead Father (1986, 25 min.) and Hospital Fragment (1988, 4 min.). DVD 354

Twilight of the ice nymphs 1997. Archangel. 1990. The heart of the world. 2000. [2002]. 1 videodisc (181 min.). Twilight of the ice nymphs (1997, col.): A political prisoner returns to his home after several years of incarceration, falling desperately in love with a woman named Juliana on the boat trip home. Archangel (melodrama, 1990, b&w tinted): A tale of obsessive love in the arctic town of Archangel, where a Canadian soldier, a Belgian pilot, and a Russian nurse, all suffering from amnesia, become involved in a love triangle in which each believes the others to be someone else. The heart of the world (2000, b&w): A parody of silent Soviet propaganda films. DVD 355

*Makavejev, Dušan
Love Affair; or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator = Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. 1967. 1 videocassette (70 min.). The story of a young switchboard operator, Isabella, who falls in love with Ahmed, a sanitary worker. She lives with him until she gets seduced by a younger, more glamorous man. VHS 6548

The Man is no bird = Covek nije tica AKA The Man is not a bird. 1965. 1 videocassette (80 min.). A machinist comes to town to help assemble the new equipment at the local smelter and becomes involved with the girl who rents him a room. While he is at the awards assembly to receive a medal for his work, the girl goes away with a truck driver, and heart-broken, the machinist moves on. VHS 6220

Sweet Movie. 1974. [2007]. 1 videodisc (98 min.). Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel Tower and get stuck together. She moves to a weird anarchic community and later becomes an actress working in a chocolate advertisement. Meanwhile, the revolutionary, pedophile, and mad killer Anna Planeta makes candy in her boat while sailing through the canals of a city that seems to be Amsterdam. She meets the sailor Potemkin and they have a torrid affair. Meanwhile, she uses her candies to seduce young boys and kill her lovers. In the middle of the story, what seems to be footage of a Nazi doctor and a slaughter in a war with many dead bodies is presented. Makavejev's bizarre and pointedly satirical vision is totally uncompromising and filled with shocking images, looking at sex in all its complexities. [on order]

WR: mysteries of the organism. 1971. [2007]. 1 videodisc (85 min.). WR is a unique blend of fact and fiction. It combines the story of the sexual encounter between the beautiful, liberated Milena and a figure-skating champion with an exploration of the life and theories of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. DVD 2987

Man Ray
Man Ray's films. 1 videocassette (45 min.). Emak Bakia: cinepoème (ca. 17 min. ; 1926) -- L'etoile de mer (ca. 15 min. ; 1928)-- Retour a la raison (ca. 4 min. ; 1923) -- Les mystères du Château du de (ca. 16 min. ; 1929). Emak Bakia: cinepoème: All the principles of surrealism are followed in Emak Bakiz. Ray uses light patterns from rotating objects to exhibit his early Dadaistic affiliations. Partially filmed at the villa, Emak-Bakia which in Basque means "leave me alone." L'etoile de mer: An attempt is made to create visually the mood and images of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos. Separate, elusive images are juxtaposed to portray one man's difficulty in becoming committed to a woman. A starfish symbolizes his yearning for sincere beauty without hidden, destructive qualities. Retour a la raison: This Dadaist film includes such techniques as "rayograms" (objects places on raw film and exposed to light) intercut with shots of nude torsos and mobiles. Les mystères du Château du de: A modern villa is the scene of an unsolved mystery. At a flip of the dice two men depart Paris and travel through France in an autocar. How did they come to Saint-Bernard and what did they see in the ruins of an old chateau? VHS 3067

Le Retour à la raison. 1923. Emak-Bakia. 1926. L'Étoile de mer. 1928. A vailable on Avant garde: experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s. [2005]. 2 videodiscs (348 min.). DVD 1339

*Marker, Chris
La Jetée 1962 (28 min.) and Sans soleil 1983 (100 min.) [2007]. 1 videodisc (130 min.). La Jetée: One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue. Sans soleil: French documentary filmmaker Chris Marker blurs the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction film in this personal cinematic journey through the fabric of Tokyo life which he contrasts with views of Africa, Europe, Scandinavia and California. DVD 2949

Le Joli mai = The lovely month of May . 1963. 1 videocassette (180 min.). Cinema verite - In May 1962 Chris Marker went out on the streets of Paris, France, with a film crew. The result is a film consisting of a series of interviews with ordinary people (young lovers, welfare mothers, apprentice stockbrokers) speaking about their lives and feelings in the year the Algerian War came to an end. VHS 4353

La Sixième face du pentagone1968 (28 min.) and L' Ambassade 1973 (20 min.) 1 videodisc (47 min.). La Sixième face du pentagone is a documentary covering the October 21, 1967 Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon. L'Ambassade is a vignette about political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a coup d'état.

Markopoulos, Gregory
Christmas, U.S.A. (1949) available on Avant-garde 2: experimental cinema, 1928-1954. [2007]. 2 videodiscs (341 min.). DVD 3103

Matsumoto, Toshio
Bara no soretsu = Funeral parade of roses. 1969. [2006]. 1 videodisc (105 min.). Eddie and the transvestite Leda both have sexual desires on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda. Gonda fears Leda will expose him to th