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1) Leviathan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year; the film is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes viewers deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast-the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
"A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, malni - towards the ocean, towards the shore follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside. At its center are Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier, who take separate paths contemplating their afterlife, rebirth, and death. Probing questions about humanity's...
3) Zen noir
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A unique and original blend of Buddhist philosophy, vaudevillian comedy and surrealist art film, Zen Noir follows a nameless detective as he investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple. But his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen, and he finds himself drawn into a deeper, stranger, more personal mystery...the mystery of death itself.
4) Eraserhead
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (63 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Made when she was just 18 years old, Barbara Rubin's art-porn masterpiece Christmas On Earth (1963-65) shocked NYC's experimental film scene and inspired NYC's thriving underground. For the next four years her filmmaking and irrepressible energy helped shatter artistic and sexist boundaries. A mythical 'Zelig' of the sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah. But beyond shaping the spirit of the sixties,...
6) Fantasia
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A blend of classical music and innovative animation, featuring a series of vignettes set to classical compositions by composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. Sequences range from abstract visuals to narrative interpretations, showcase the marriage of music and animation in a visually stunning and imaginative way, creating a timeless and influential cinematic experience.
8) Alice
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alice: A little girl follows an elusive White Rabbit and so begins this dream expedition into the landscape of childhood, combining techniques of animation, puppet theatre and live action in Švankmajer's surreal version of Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
9) Cameraperson
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
10) Heart of a dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 846
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm) + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm).
Description
In this film essay, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
11) 3 women
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines.
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (339 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Description
A collection of documentary films directed by Marlon Riggs which discuss the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States in the late twentieth century.
13) Mad God
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Directed by Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Jurassic Park), the world's pre-eminent stop-motion animator, every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques.
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