A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.
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Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).
Doomed Nation Video 'zine hailed from Chicago, and showcased the artistic talents of Tom Denney. The interview segments are of SOURVEIN and a couple of live clips, music videos by Denney of BURIED AT SEA, MEATJACK, CROWBAR, CONVERGE, & CUMDUMPSTER.
Strings together what's strung together (please use yr tether).
Be better and more beautiful than you were before.
Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the judging panel who deemed it to be a sad dirge on personal memories and heartbreak.” – The Guardian Directed & Animated by Brian Ratigan Music & Sound Design by Nick Punch (R.I.P.) Produced by Non Films
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
A pre-internet mash-up that mixes “Peanuts” and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.”
Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.
Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.
A short movie about a guy living in his own world.
Slowed, stowed, achingly retold.
Centrist revelations abound among repetitions & revisitings.
Pounding backbeats beaten by [(Don't Get)] warm[welcomes]th.
A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.
This cacophony runs over me, over everything I see, everything I want to see: it's me.
A showcase for the MCAD Animation Workshop 1972 where each student was given one of a series of cells to animate whatever they pleased.
Commissioned by David Bienstock, creator of the New American Film Series at the Whitney Museum of Art to raise funds for the second season of the series. The film was projected at the end of each program and a box to receive donations was placed at the exit of the theater. Whitney Commercial ran for two or three years until the Museum agreed to sponsor the series on its own which has continued to the present season. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
A promotional video by Woah. featuring scenes from southern New Hampshire and Block Island
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.
A promotional video by Dag Henderson