Film Format: 16mm

  • Christo in Paris

    Since the days of King Henry IV, Paris’s Pont Neuf has inspired artists. Now it is the focus of the environmental sculptor Christo – and the millions of Parisians who watch him create an astounding architectural poem from the oldest bridge in their city. Rich in political intrigue and artistic debate, “Christo in Paris” charts the fulfillment of the artist’s ten-year obsession: the wrapping of the Pont Nuef, the same bridge where he courted his wife, Jeanne-Claude. The result is a ravishingly beautiful tapestry of art and romance.

  • Body Scares

    “Body Scares” is a journey through four generations of women. Generation after generation the body is printed with secrets and wears all the memories of the past.

  • Christo’s Valley Curtain

    In 1974, Christo built a valley curtain across a mountain pass in the southern United States. This is a record of his struggle and stunning achievement. “‘Valley Curtain’ is by far the finest film I have ever seen about an artist and his work. Technically brilliant, beautifully paced, with not an image wasted or held too long, the film somehow makes it possible for the viewer to become involved at a deep and personal level with the whole marvelous epic. ‘Christo’s Valley Curtain’ is never didactic; it neither explains nor describes and this is its great strength . On its…

  • ZERO the inside story

    On a journey to find the origins of the number zero, a woman discovers more than she was expecting. The journey begins as a quest for the cultural roots of zero and how this concept touches human consciousness in unexpected ways. The search leads her to India, said to be the birthplace of the mysterious number, and the ancient city of Varanasi. There she maps her inner world onto the powerful mix of Hindu ritual and spirituality she encounters, finally confronting a traumatic event in her past. More than a film about the number that is not, “ZERO the inside…

  • The Holes Remained

    She stared out the window. The children hadn’t called for weeks. “Out of sight, out of mind…” she thought. Florence Hutton was a local newspaper advice columnist. Now she is dead and her daughters have returned to their childhood home to sort through the belongings.

  • Man Who Loved the Bears, The

    Grady Mutzel works nine-to-five, five days a week, and gets the same bus home every day. But he doesn’t take his work home with him. Instead, Grady develops an affection for bears which becomes his obsession. He organizes candy treats in order to feed the bears at the zoo, because “we all need a treat every once in a while.”

  • Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    “INFUNDE LUMEN CORDIBUS was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (‘A New Kind of Science’) to determine the content and colour of the shots, their duration, and the time of their appearance: the palette of effects, and their rhythmical development… is entirely the result of computational processes that model natural events. John Cage instructed us that art should imitate nature in its manner of operation; I have tried to take the lesson. The music was composed, using related principles, by Colin Clark with the assistance of Josh Thorpe” (R. Bruce Elder). The film’s title translates…

  • Chrysalis

    Made in collaboration with Alwin Nikolais. Images of dancers in the Nikolais Dance Theatre Company are cinematically choreographed using a wide variety of film techniques from slow motion to pixillation. In the course of the film they pass through a series of transformations.

  • following the line of the web

    Creating an intricate visual map, photograms provide an opportunity to travel through the space of a spider’s web.

  • Encounter in Space

    Set out in unknown and sinister territory, a man undertakes several adventures, fighting his enemies and alter-egos of his own personality. A promising sexual act is interrupted by eye surgery and the promise of introducing the man to his real self.