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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema. Achieving the near-impossible task of doing justice in a mere 82 minutes to this incredibly rich, varied, and expansive domain, FREE RADICALS is as expertly constructed an introduction to the topic as one could hope for, thanks in large part to...
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainity is demonstrated - where Amanda's neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived - where everything is...
4) Palindromes
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress.
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1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"'Strange Victory' was the first solo film by Leo Hurwitz, a central character in the radical Frontier Film movement. It is both an exposé and inside view of the facts of the Cold War as experienced at the very moment of its birth. The director's vision amounts to an almost surrealist network of images and sounds about the perverse consequences of the "strange victory"--How high hopes are destroyed, and the flowers of evil grow instead, with aggressive...
7) Leviathan
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling, immersive documentary that takes viewers deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast-the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail"--Container.
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2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
9) Caravaggio
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own visuals, while touching on all of Jarman's major concerns: history, homosexuality, violence and the relationship between painting and film. Featuring Tilda...
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting...
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326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Andy Warhol's 1966 movie 'The Chelsea Girls' is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the Chelsea Hotel with Factory Superstars like Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov, 'The Chelsea Girls' was Warhol's first commercially successful film. In honor of the 24th anniversary of The Andy Warhol Museum, the publication of 'Andy Warhol's 'The Chelsea Girls'' coincides with a major project...
12) Eraserhead
Series
Criterion collection volume 725
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2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
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2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + folded insert.
Language
Swedish
Description
Two sisters, Karin and Maria, are keeping vigil for a third, Agnes, who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific nurse.
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Made when she was just 18 years old, Barbara Rubin's art-porn masterpiece Christmas On Earth (1963-65) shocked NYC's experimental film scene and inspired NYC's thriving underground. For the next four years her filmmaking and irrepressible energy helped shatter artistic and sexist boundaries. A mythical 'Zelig' of the sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah. But beyond shaping the spirit of the sixties,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 641
Criterion collection volume 642
Criterion collection volume 640
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Criterion collection volume 642
Criterion collection volume 640
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Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (274 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind's obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world"--Container.
19) Trudell
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and work of John Trudell, a Native American poet, musician and political activist of Santee Sioux heritage.
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