Films

Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Year: 1969
Synopsis: After the CEO croaks during a boardroom meeting at a Madison Avenue ad agency, members trying to sabotage each other's chance of winning the top spot each vote for the token black guy, thereby electing Putney Swope. Swope swoops into action, firing them all and replacing them with armed radicals, soul brothers, and sexy red-hot mamas. (from Image Entertainment)

Director: Damon Packard
Year: 2002
Synopsis: Bob (director Damon Packard) is an overweight watch salesman who stumbles around Los Angeles cursing the world of movie production while slowly dying of an addiction to sugar. Can his dead sister who perished from a PCP overdose find him before he joins her on the other side?

Director: Mike Kuchar
Year: 1966
Synopsis: Shy Pop artist Wendel Samson (played by real Pop artist Red Grooms) can't work up the nerve to break up with his boyfriend, so he has anonymous trysts with other men. Meanwhile, when his female friend Margaret pressures him into an intimate relationship, it sends Wendel spiraling into a nightmare world where he's violently punished for his sexuality.

Director: Hollis Frampton
Year: 1970
Synopsis: "Frampton's film is an exercise in mathematical logic in cinema. Or is it a mechanical logic?... It's about alphabet. It's about the unities of similarities. It's about sameness in a confusion. (Jonas Mekas, Village Voice via Filmmakers' Co-op.)

Director: Stan Brakhage
Year: 1959
Synopsis: A poetic documentary on the birth of Stan and Jane Brakhage's first child, Myrrena.

Director: Anthony Rivero Stabley
Year: 2001
Synopsis: Love, Cinema and the concept of "Make Believe" are the prevalent themes of this Award Winning Pop Art Experiment.

Director: Greta Snider
Year: 1996
Synopsis: Three friends, including the filmmaker, rendez-vous in Portland by hitchhiking or train-hopping from different cities. After a week of arguments, soup kitchens, brushes with the law, and bad weather, each leaves with a different memory of the trip. (From Snider's official site.)

Director: Kenneth Anger
Year: 1947
In Fireworks I released all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream. Inflammable desires dampened by day under the cold water of consciousness are ignited that night by the libertarian matches of sleep and burst forth in showers of shimmering incandescence. (From Canyon Cinema.)