Films

Director: Storm de Hirsch
Year: 1965
Synopsis: A further exploration into the color of ritual, the color of thought; a journey through the underworld of sensory derangement. (from Film-Makers' Cooperative)

Director: Ken Jacobs
Year: 1959 --63
Synopsis: Featuring Jack Smith. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement, as well as breaking out of step. (from Film-Makers' Cooperative)

Director: Owen Land
Year: 1976
Synopsis: A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. The newer version concerns itself with the effects of the test on the test taker. (from Canyon Cinema)

Director: Bruce Baillie
Year: 1962
Synopsis: Here I Am is a sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California, started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed children. The atmospheric documentary opens with hilly East Bay streets shrouded in fog. (from Treasures IV DVD)

Director: Chick Strand
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Year: 1971
Synopsis: In 13 sequences, a photograph lies on top of a burner on an electric stove. As the picture slowly burns and turns to ash, a narrator reminisces about the next photo in the next sequence, i.e. as we watch one photo be destroyed, we hear about the next photo we'll see.

Director: George Kuchar
Year: 1977
Synopsis: This film was shot in ten minutes with four or five students of mine at the San Francisco Art Institute. It was to be a screen-test for a girl in the class. She wanted something to show producers of theatrical productions, as the girl was interested in an acting career. (from Canyon Cinema)

Director: Ron Rice
Year: 1964
Synopsis: Polymorphously exotic, Chumlum conjures a vision from the Arabian Nights. As the actors pose in harem costumes and bizarre makeup, Rice explores the allure of indolent women, diaphanous hangings, and swaying hammocks. (from Treasures IV DVD booklet)