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Urban wanderings inspire these six experimental films ' from a collage of movie trailers found outside a Brooklyn theater, to an evocation of an Uruguayan poet's life as a bookkeeper, to a compendium of vox populi interviews gleaned from city streets. Created over 10 years, this collection reveals the urban experience with verve and insight.
| Catalog Number: MC-1159 |
Type: Collection / Set |
Genre: Documentary, Experimental |
| Copyright: 2010 |
Length: 75 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC/EAN: 880198115997 |
| Label: Blackchair Collection |
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Films In Compilation
Trailer Trash directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2008,
00:05:00
A skewed take on film detritus: movie trailers are rescued from the trash and hand painted, holding up a funhouse mirror to the industry of expectations
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Collison of Parts directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2010,
00:15:00
An excavation of the concept of montage: small moments public and private brush up against each other, creating a charged tapestry of the immediate.
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Sueldo/Licensia (Salary/Leave), directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2010,
00:08:00
An adaptation of two of Mario Benedetti’s poems using Montevideo, Uruguay as a melancholic backdrop.
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A Year directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2006,
00:25:00
A tattered and unflinching diary film-- video journal entries mix with abstract film images recorded in New Orleans and Brooklyn and beyond.
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Brooklyn Promenade directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2001,
00:03:00
A walk in Brooklyn after 9/11 allows the filmmaker’s children to reflect on what just happened.
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Happy? directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Experimental,
2000,
00:19:00
“Are you happy?” This simple query, asked of hundreds of passers by in NYC, led to a series of ruminations about the passage of time and the nature of contentment.
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Cuadro por Cuadro (Frame by Frame) made with Lynne Sachs directed by
Mark
Street
USA,
Documentary,
2009,
00:08:00
A documentary of a workshop taught by the filmmaker at the Fundacion D’Arte Contemporaneo, an artist’s collective in Montevideo, Uruguay. Workshop participants pore over discarded films frame by frame.
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Andy Mann
MC-1185, 2010
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The late video pioneer Andy Mann left an extensive collection of his video art to Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, with the desire to have the work distributed and screened for educational and artistic purposes. The Andy Mann Video Library is... more >
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Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs
MC-564, 2001
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On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate... more >
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Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and Videos, Vol. 3
MC-724, 2007
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10 Films:
“XY Chromosome Project” 12 min. 2007
“The Small Ones”, 3 min. video 2006
“Noa, Noa”, 8 min. 16mm, 2006
“Atalanta 32 Years Later” 5 min. video, 2006
“Tornado”, 4 min. video 2002
“Photograph of Wind” 4... more >
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The Last Happy Day
MC-1237, 2011
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The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in... more >
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Which Way is East - Notebooks from Vietnam
MC-465, 1994
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When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection... more >
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Wind in Our Hair
MC-1238, 2010
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Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, “Wind in Our Hair” is an experimental narrative directed by New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs about four girls discovering... more >
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