Film Format: 16mm

  • My Withered Tomato Friend

    “My Withered Tomato Friend” is a haunting, experimental narrative that merges the roaming voice of a battered wife with popular images of women to question the conventional ideology of representation and the denial of domestic violence. Alternating between provocative poetry and submissive prose, the voice echoes terrifying thoughts of the abused woman while gradually deconstructing – and reconstructing- manipulated found footage. “Absolutely exhilarating to watch, this is the hard edge of feminist experimental cinema.” – Piers Handling, Director, Toronto International Film Festival One Star Award, Canadian International Amateur Film Festival, 1992

  • Myth of Sisyphus, The

    In the language of collage, this experimental animation film is a visual interpretation of a story by Albert Camus. It concentrates on that moment when Sisyphus watches his rock fall. “At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning to his rock, in that slight pivoting, he contemplates that the series of unrelated actions which becomes his fate, created by him, combined under the memory’s eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has…

  • Name Change: A California Film

    Barbara Martineau became Sara Halprin and made this film to mark the change.

  • Name Your Poison It’s a Scream Channel No. 5

    A nasty little movie about violation and contamination – physical, geographical and ideological. The sound, built and mixed on a 4-track cassette recorder, was culled from shortwave radio, Italian B-movies, and a perfume advertisement. Chernobyl, AIDS, and sexual assault in a lament for our times.

  • At Her Cottage

    “At Her Cottage” depicts a woman who recounts, first non-synchronously, in voice-over, then synchronously, on camera, an episode of an acquaintance asking a young medical student friend to perform an abortion and his refusal. He claims that she is too young to make such a decision. In another episode, she tells of a man from a nearby town dying after his car plunged into icy waters, while another passenger escapes. “At first, the images in this section are typical cottage scenes. We are presented with vistas overlooking a lake, a young girl lying on a towel, a plastic wheelbarrow and…

  • Nancy Boy Versus Manly Woman

    A dumb jerk (Karl) – who happens to be the author of the most wildly successful underground comic book ever – receives an urgent telephone call from his old skirt (Gretchen). Innocently believing she plans to beg for a reconciliation, he consents to a meeting at her apartment, only to discover she’s hanging out with a trendy group of intellectuals and balling them too. The shock proves too much for Karl for, despite his burgeoning popularity – bolstered by numerous talk-show appearances – Gretchen couldn’t give a rat’s ass about him. He’s still a lousy lay and she’s just now…

  • Naosaki

    An aesthetic study of gymnastic movement, emphasizing its visual and lyrical elements, and creating the “feeling” of movement through the use of slow motion, repetition of movement, dissolves, etc. The movement proceeds sequentially through preparation, strength movements, airborne movements and so on to resolution.

  • Narrows Inlet

    Starting with a boat swaying on its anchor at the head of an inlet, a landscape of pilings, shore, and forest is slowly revealed by time-lapse photography as the morning fog lifts. While the deep space of the landscape evolves out of the fog-enshrouded flatness of early morning, the camera skips from fixed point to fixed point – suggesting the motion of the human eye while reading.

  • Narziss und Echo

    A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film, whereby the film’s content must be deduced from the film’s formal structure. “Long seemed invalid the Prophet’s word, – But honored it was, – By the outcome at last: – How odd the madness, how strange a death!”(Ovid, Metamorphoses).

  • Naughts

    A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, “nothing.” A series of “nots,” then, in pun, or knots of otherwise invisible energies. 1) The first begins with a semblance of fog clouds rising vertically, an upward lifting waterfall likeness which screens an ephemera of painted shapes that come, at end, to a rhythmic and formal hardness. 2) A progression of blue surreal shapes vanishing in forward movements. 3) A gathering of crystalline forms in primary colors emitting upward-moving flares of multicolored lights, all gradually suggesting an outward momentum. 4) An orange rock-beseeming wall…