This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and interviews with both Mengelberg (the "godfather of Dutch improvised music") and key collaborators provide a clear insight in Mengelberg's original way of thinking and way of working.
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.
Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.
Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.
Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.
A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.
Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc.
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.
Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.
Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.
Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.
X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.
Flicker: White and black alternating frames.
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.
Following a series of title cards, a man in sunglasses briefly flutters his hands like fairy.
In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An "anti-film", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.
Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.