City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Treasures IV, American avant-garde film, 1947-1986, produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation

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Treasures IV

produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation

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American avant-garde film, 1947-1986

Anthology of 26 films from American film archives from four key decades of American avant-garde filmmaking. Samples an array of film types and styles, from abstract animation to documentary

Program 1: Film no. 3: interwoven / Harry Smith (3 min.) -- Notes on the circus / Jonas Mekas (12 min.) -- Here I am / Bruce Baillie (10 min.) -- Fake fruit factory / Chick Strand (22 min.) -- Odds & ends / Jane Conger Belson Shimane (4 min.) -- Eyewash / Robert Breer (3 min.) -- Peyote queen / Storm de Hirsch (9 min.) -- 7362 / Pat O'Neill (10 min.) -- Aleph / Wallace Berman (8 min.) -- Note to Pati / Saul Levine (7 min.) -- By night with torch and spear / Joseph Cornell (8 min.) -- The riddle of lumen / Stan Brakhage (13 min.) -- The end / Christopher Maclaine (34 min.) -- Program 2: Bridges-go-round / Shirley Clarke (4 min.) -- Go! Go! Go! / Marie Menken (11 min.) -- Little stabs at happiness / Ken Jacobs (15 min.) -- Chumlum / Ron Rice (23 min.) -- Mario Banana (no. 1) / Andy Warhol (4 min.) -- I, an actress / George Kuchar (9 min.) -- The off-handed jape-- & how to pull it off / Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley (8 min.) -- New improved institutional quality / Owen Land (10 min.) -- Hamfat Asar / Lawrence Jordan (13 min.) -- Necrology / Standish Lawder (11 min.) -- Fog line / Larry Gottheim (11 min.) -- (nostalgia) / Hollis Frampton (36 min.) -- Bad burns / Paul Sharits (6 min.)

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