Genres: experimental

“‘Wide Angle Saxon’ provides the occasion for Land to demonstrate, albeit ironically, his view of the status of cinematic imagery in a Christian vision that acknowledges a rational historical order… The film obliquely describes the conversion of a television work only to be convinced by it, suddenly, while politely clapping for an avant-garde film that has bored him.” – P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film

A combination Christmas home movie/instructional film on how to make lip-sync sound films with only a wind-up camera and wild tape recorder. Inspired by V. I. Pudovkin’s 1929 statement, “One must never show on the screen a man and reproduce his words exactly synchronized with the movements of his lips. This is cheap imitation, an ingenious trick that is useless to anyone.” “The flamenco dance sequence, wth Hancox yelling out his ‘wild sync’ technique, is the most absurd piece of cinema I’ve ever participated in.” – Lorne Marin “…after Hancox announces near the end that the main action here is…

As the Carter Family sings “Wildwood Flower” an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the camera, producing a kind of cameo in motion.

A photograph. Two blondes with a past on a train from Washington DC. Their destination is an abandoned train station, with body bags and kids running for their lives. At the station dead bodies are pulled from the basement and piled in the foyer for disposal. Mr. One, the consummate loner, waits. He feels bad about past deeds. He will even the score his way… At the station everyone is obsessed with a photograph titled “Gun Control” that defines the collective consciousness of the times. If everything is a clue, what’s the mystery? When the two blondes arrive at the…

“…Brakhage’s treatment of the birth of his (first) daughter… is a picture so forthright, so full of primitive wonder and love, so far beyond civilization in its acceptance that it becomes an experience like few in the history of the movies.” – Archer Winsten, NY Post

“‘Window Wind Chimes’ explores in semi-documentary manner the interrelationship between Vincent Grenier and his wife Ann Knutson in the environment of their San Francisco apartment. Conversations between them consist of fragments of arguments, apologies, affections and distillations of the personal rituals that take place between man and wife. “The film begins outside the apartment in a laundromat with a tour-de-force performance by George Kuchar rattling off at the mouth about wind chimes, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller; a character obsesssed by something or other trying to make contact with the surrounding world and never succeeding. The scene changes to the…

A film about urban emotional and societal complexities. Different personal impressions and visions of the urban metropolis are presented through an unusual blending of verbal accounts and visual imagery, documentary and dramatic forms.