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The first release is from the filmmaker MM Serra, who whose tireless efforts as director of the Cooperative alongside the rest of her team have for the last 30 years kept their organization a vibrant source of exchange and diffusion of experimental cinema works around the world. (ART)core features 15 of MM's video and film works, which deal with a variety of themes including LGBTQ+ issues, portraits of artists, marginal figures "marked by a lush sensuality, a concern for light, (and) play..." (Barbara Hammer).
Serra DVD available here
Darling International 1999, 16mm, b&w, 22 min
Bitch Beauty 2011, 16mm, color, 7 min
enduring ornament 2015, 16mm on digital, color, 14 min
Mary Magdalene 2017, Super8/16mm/video, color, 5 min
real to reel Mama 1982, 16mm, color, 20 min
Chop off 2008, Super8/16mm/ video, color, 6 min
Double Your Pleasure 2002, 16mm, b/w, 4 min
Jack Smith's apartment 1990, VHS on digital, color, 8 min
L'amour Fou 1992, 16mm, color, 17 min
eye etc 1982, 16mm, color, silent, 5 min
Turner 1987, 16mm, color, 3 min
Framed 1984, 16mm, color, 1:30 min
Nightfall 1984, 16mm, color & b/w, 1:30 min
NYC 1985, 16mm, color & b/w, 1 min
PPII 1986, 16mm, color, 1 min
The next release in this series is a collection of 15 films by the artist and poet Storm de Hirsch. Mythology of the Soul includes a large collection of the artist's work on Super 8 and 16mm from the 1960s.
"A further exploration into the color of ritual, the color of thought; a
journey through the underworld of sensory derangement. A very beautiful
work! The abstractions drawn directly on film are like the paintings of
Miro; moving at full speed to the rhythm of an African beat."
-Dominique Noguez
De Hirsch DVD available here
FILMS
Aristotle 1965, Super8, color, silent, 3 min
Divinations 1964, 16mm, color, sound, 6 min
Deep in the Mirror Embedded 1965, Super8, color, silent, 14 min
The Recurring Dream 1965, Super8, color, silent, 3 min
Malevich at the Guggenheim 1965, Super8, color, silent, 6 min
September Express 1973, Super8, color, silent, 6 min
Lace of Summer 1973, Super8, color, silent, 4 min
Silently, Bearing Totem of a Bird 1962, Super8, color, silent, 7 min
Ives House 1965, Super8, color, silent, 11 min
A Reticule of Love 1963, 16mm, color, silent, 3 min
The Tattooed Man 1969, 16mm, color, sound, 35 min
Shaman 1967, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min
Journey Around a Zero 1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 3 min
Third Eye Butterfly 1968, double screen 16mm, color, sound, 9 min
Peyote Queen 1965, 16mm, color, sound, 9 min
Two more releases are forthcoming in this series. Next month, a collection of 6 films from filmmaker Larry Gottheim will be available.
"Elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution, Barn Rushes
is tugged gently toward different sides of the set by hints of color
and motion interactions, positive and negative spaces and the unyielding
delivery on one of the great apotheoses of poetic cinema at fade-out
time."
-Tony Conrad
Gottheim DVD available here
FILMS
Blues 1970, 16mm, color, silent, 8:30 min
Corn 1970, 16mm, color, silent, 10:30 min
Fog Line 1970, 16mm, color, silent, 11 min
Doorway 1971, 16mm, b/w, silent, 7:30 min
Harmonica 1971, 16mm, color, mono, 10:30 min
Thought 1971, 16mm, color, silent, 7 min
Barn Rushes 1971, 16mm, color, silent, 34 min
And finally for 2021, a collection of home movies by the artist and actor Taylor Mead are slated for release in April, 2021.
FILMS
My Home Movies 1964, Super 8, color, sound, 38min
Home Movies (Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece) 1965, Super 8, color, sound, 14min
Home Movies (NYC to San Diego) 1968, Super 8, color, sound, 19min
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