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- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsCarmilla SalvatorelliA woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorBruce BaillieA visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
- DirectorJoseph CornellMontage of archive footage from industrial, nature and ethnographic documentaries -- a steelworks, caterpillars, Native American dances, camel trains -- made strange by juxtaposition and upside-down, backwards and negative printing.
- DirectorLarry JordanA surreal, dreamlike experimental film blending baroque, Victorian and space age imagery with odd sound effects.
- DirectorHarry SmithAn anthology of Harry Smith's films 1-5, 7, and 10, unfortunately without the divisions clearly marked.
- DirectorWarren SonbertA jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.
- DirectorBetty FergusonJoyce Wieland
- DirectorJoyce WielandStarsJoyce WielandI wanted to make a self-sufficient film, photographing myself in those mirrors on the table with all that water and prisms, and glasses and cups. In a way I was saying I can do a film that needs no people, no outside world, no glamour, no money, and do it all in the kitchen.
- DirectorJerome HillStarsBrigitte BardotErnest BorgnineCyd CharisseA diary film in which Jerome Hill presents his life and milieu through different scenes, many hand-colored and animated.
- DirectorBruce BaillieBruce Baillie's Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility. The narrative, slight as it is, mounts a social critique of sorts, involving the difficulty the title character, a Japanese gardener, has finding work that pays adequately. But the beauty of Baillie's black-and-white photography, the misty lusciousness of the landscapes he chooses to photograph, and the powerful silence of Mr. Hayashi's figure within them make the viewer forget all about economics and ethnicity. The shots remind us of Sung scrolls of fields and mountain peaks, where the human figure is dwarfed in the middle distance. Rather than a study of unemployment, the film becomes a study of nested layers of stillness and serenity.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsYvonne MarquisA soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one - in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20s feel.
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsHiroko EmoriA sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.
- DirectorStandish LawderAn unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom the observer is unable to reach as his or her trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.
- DirectorErnie GehrA soundless experimental film which captures two individuals waiting at a table while light flashes on and off the subjects.
- DirectorBruce ConnerAn experimental film from Bruce Conner which combines found footage of trains and small towns.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsMichael SnowFrampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
- DirectorRobert BreerAbstract figures rapidly shape-shift until finally settling into the form of a man and his dog, but only for a moment.
- DirectorFrancis ThompsonA day in the life of the city and citizens of New York as seen through the fantastic eye, and the incredibly distorted optic lenses, of filmmaker Francis Thompson.
- DirectorLarry JordanAn experimental short from Larry Jordan in which a horse rider and gymnast are filmed.
- DirectorCraig BaldwinStarsMaurice BishopJimmy CarterFidel CastroIn the year 1000, aliens from the planet Quetzalcoatl flee their dying planet and take refuge under the Earth's surface. Disturbed by 1950s American atomic testing, the aliens strike back at the USA in such varied schemes as the replicant Castro, the psychic vampire regime in Grenada and the Allende plot to alter the Earth's axis. Only covert action by the CIA can stop the dreaded Quetzals.
- DirectorStig BergqvistMartti EkstrandJonas OdellA short film about time.
- DirectorAdam BeckettThis is one of those abstract animated films in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the electronic score are unified in a strict structure made of three main sections which progressively develop three subsections. This film may look like it was made using computers or video to the uninitiated, but only animation and much optical printing are to be seen herein.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels