A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.
An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)
The theme is apparently the birth and growth of civilization, its ultimate destruction and rebirth; however, MEET ME, JESUS is actually about loss: the loss of innocence, dignity and hope. The film's final irony is our usual compensation: "If these wings should fail me Lord, meet me with another pair." MEET ME, JESUS is a compilation film using found footage as well as original material and hand painting on film. —Canyon Cinema
A sight/sound combine of exotic imagery shot semi-randomly in superimposition off a TV and then cut to make a fast moving but extremely ambiguous ‘story.’ Gorilla moves through modern man’s myth mind like a runaway train bursting at the seams. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.
The world is recommitting sexual-political suicide by daily insertion of missile-cocks into self-orifices. Complete with ejaculatory delusions, military erections, and the animated virility of Krazy Kat. LOTUS WING spends USA over us all as our lives are spent wiping up the remains of our self-destruct. Probably my last film in this genre.
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Der Journalist Will Roczinski wird südlich von Los Angeles tot in seinem Auto aufgefunden. Obwohl der ganzen Sache eher skeptisch gegenüber stehend, ist er vor seinem Tod Hinweisen nachgegangen, die den Besuch der Erde durch Außerirdische belegen könnten. Die Auswertung des in seinem Auto gefundenen Filmmaterials lässt diese Möglichkeit zumindest zu.
1970. Der Vietnamkonflikt spitzt sich zu. Der Präsident verhängt den Ausnahmezustand und ordnet ein Notstandgesetz an, das erlaubt, “alle in Frage kommenden Personen, die die innere Sicherheit gefährden könnten”, festzunehmen. In einer Wüstenzone südlich von Kalifornien tagt ein Gericht, die Verurteilten müssen durch die Wüste fliehen, ohne von der bewaffneten Polizei eingeholt zu werden…
This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
Es ist einer der ersten Bigfootfilme und er hat sicherlich zum Boom rund um das Fabelwesen in den 70ern beigetragen. Auch war sein halbdokumentarischer Erzählstil - die Schauspieler fungieren teils als "Augenzeugen" und die nachgestellten Stalking- und Angriffsszenen basieren angeblich alle auf wahren Begebenheiten - seiner Zeit durchaus voraus und dürfte sämtliche reißerischen Bigfootdukos bis heute geprägt haben.
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
The original broadcast of the 1977 Halloween special of Night Owls With Jack Delroy. Released on VHS as part of a collector's edition of Late Night With The Devil.
Die im Stil einer Reportage daherkommende Parodie von Autor und Regisseur Eric Idle – Mitbegründer der legendären britischen Komikertruppe Monty Python – erzählt die Geschichte der Beatles, dieser vier jungen Männer aus Liverpool, die Anfang der 60er Jahre die Musikwelt revolutionierten...
A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)
In response to the legend that the "Manson Family" may have filmed themselves in some of theirs exploits, this film is a re-creation as to what a film of their may have been like. The film, shot in a piecemeal fashion, is an intentionally amateurish faux "home movie" of the events leading up to, and including, the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders.
Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness… an insensitive un-involvement in the human condition and our own humanity. —Chick Strand
Ein Fernsehteam macht sich auf, um im brasilianischen Urwald eine Dokumentation über die letzten Kannibalen zu drehen. Als nach 2 Monaten jegliche Lebenszeichen von ihnen ausbleiben, wird ein zweites Team in den Wald geschickt, um die Vermissten zu finden. Dies geschieht auch - allerdings ist alles, was man von den jungen Leuten noch findet, ihre von Maden und Käfern bewohnten Skelette. Immerhin ihr Filmmaterial findet den Weg zurück in die Heimat und wird zwecks einer TV-Ausstrahlung ausgewertet. Nun kommt die ganze schreckliche Wahrheit ans Licht: Um gute Bilder zu bekommen, haben die skrupellosen Reporter die Naturvölker gequält, mißbraucht und geschändet. Klar, dass diese sich dafür rächen wollten..
Daniel Eisenberg's film (or "memory essay," as theorist Nora Alter referred to DISPLACED PERSON) is a challenge to a conventional view of history, a provocation using traditional documentary forms: found footage, newsreels, a radio lecture of French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Razumovsky" quartets.