donderdag 8 november 2012

Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, "Ballet Mécanique" (1924)

"On a volé un collier de perles de 5 millions"
The section with the play on the newspaper headline starts at 10:16.

Man Ray, "L'étoile de mer' (1928)

L'étoile de mer
poëme de Robert Desnos
tel que l'a vu
Man Ray
(0:47)

Les dents des femmes
sont des objets
si charmants ...
(1:40)

... qu'on ne devrait
les voir qu'en rêve
ou
à l'instant de l'amour.
(1:52)

Adieu! (3:04 - handwritten)

Si belle! Cybèle? (3:16)

Nous sommes à jamais
perdu dans le désert
de l'éternèbre
(3:40

[etc.]

"qu'elle est belle" (14:52)

belle (15:02 - three layers become visible at once: the text, the mirror, the filmic image)

Man Ray, "Emak Bakia" (1927)

With, in this version, the famous intertitle saying "La raison de cette extravagance" at 16:15. Furthermore, images of text on a scrolling billboard at night, starting at 1:30.

maandag 5 november 2012

Su Friedrich, "Gently Down the Stream" (1984)

Peter Rose, "Secondary Currents" (1982)

Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall, "Argument" (1978)

Watch it here on UbuWeb: http://www.ubu.com/film/mccall_argument.html.

Yvonne Rainer, "Film About a Woman Who ..." (1974)

George Landow, "Remedial Reading Comprehension" (1970)

George Landow / Owen Land And as a little extra: "The Evil Faerie / Flux Film N° 25" (1966)

Robert Nelson, "Bleu Shut" (1970)

Joyce Wieland, "Rat Life and Diet in North America" (1968)

Peter Gidal, "Structural Film Anthology" (1976-78)

Gidal Peter Structural Film Anthology
BRUCE CONNER - MOVIE - THE END

Bruce Conner, "A Movie" (1958)

BRUCE CONNER - MOVIE - THE END

Len Lye, "N. or N.W." (1937)

Writing letters ...

Edwin S. Porter, "College Chums" (1907)

The telephone conversation with the antique kinetic typography starts at 1:58.

Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, "The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra" (1928)

Titles integrated in the decor and style of this old American short film.