When you wake up and you have so much to do that you just want to go back to bed. The illusion created by shooting the entire film in reverse emphasizes the entire cycle of life.
Filter Films
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Applying: a nude woman is painted completely black. Attention concentrated on the process of going from white to black. Removing: she washes herself off in the bathtub, and goes from black to grey to white. Seemingly austere, the film is resonant on many levels, and each viewer brings to it his/her own associations.
Applying and Removing
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An effective mime-skit showing the perils of drinking and driving. A mixture of mime, camera work, and special effects prepares us to expect the inevitable crash. An excellent film for use in driver and health education or dramatic arts classes.
No Mime Game
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Lindsay and Murray are an attractive couple who are content to spend their time together reading the weekend newspaper at a popular cafe. Their quiet and nondescript behaviour sets them apart in a room full of warmth, excitement and camaraderie. A passing waitress disrupts their repetitive routine of cigarettes, coffee, and newspapers with the standard check-in – “Is everything all right here?” The vagueness of the question plants a seed of doubt in Lindsay’s mind. Looking at Murray as he continues to read his paper without missing a beat, she is chilled by the fear that he has lost his love for her. Confused by this thought, she reaches out and surprises him with her sudden desire for reassurance. Unaware of her fears, Murray is at first annoyed by her unsolicited attention. However, her persistence hits its intended mark. Overwhelmed by her immediacy, Murray feels the dormant sensuality that lies within him awaken and take over. The cacophony of the cafe gives way to the lullaby of the two lovers renewing their passion for each other. She releases Murray and innocently returns to her own newspaper. Embarrassed and slightly disoriented, Murray is left to wonder what all the fuss was about. After all, everything is all right here. Maybe too all right.
Grateful
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A grandfather recounts a story to his two young granddaughters, explaining what happened to his fingers. A short fable about family, storytelling, and cannibalism that gives new meaning to the phrase “finger food.”
Grandpa’s Fingers
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“Grand Opera” marks a stock-taking of Benning’s work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of events dealing with the historical development of the number pi, Benning’s travels, and homages to Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow (Owen Land), and Yvonne Rainer. “Before making films on a full-time basis several years ago, [Benning] taught math to high school drop-outs in an alternative school. Most of those enrolled were alcoholics, so he brought in empty liquor, beer, and wine bottles. Together they worked out comparative pricing based on the percentage of alcohol versus the volume of each. Factors like the availability and the physical effects of each were added. After extensive research they conclusively, logically, and mathematically proved that a brand of vodka was the most economical and effective purchase. In a different way, ‘Grand Opera’ echoes this wry sense of irony.” – John Greyson, Fuse Magazine 1980
Grand Opera
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A dark yet humorous psychological journey about the filmmaker’s efforts to reconcile his socially awkward and sexually naive past with his mature present. Putting himself in front of and behind the camera, L’Ecuyer has forged a stunning hybrid of fiction and documentary. “The Grace of God” crackles and gleams with L’Ecuyer’s aesthetic innovations and his impressive gifts for story telling and directing. “The Grace of God” is a labour of love, comprised of scenes gathered sporadically over a ten-year period. The resulting stream-of-consciousness film takes us on a metaphoric train ride home that slowly reveals the time-worn truth that moving is generally more important than arriving.
Grace of God, The
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Neil Burns’ experimental drama offers a poignant, pixillated, pop art account of disconnection, death, and digital immortality. Suppose you died – and nobody noticed?
Grace Eternal
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On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he travelled in parades with his children, appeared at dinners, lectured, etc. On July 20, I spent the morning in his office in the state capitol and the afternoon with him and his wife in a television studio, then with Mrs. Lamm greeting guests to the governor’s mansion and finally with Governor Lamm in his office again. These two days of photography took me exactly one year to edit into a film which wove itself thru multiple superimpositions into a study of light and power. (SB)
Governor, The
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‘Good Citizen: Betty Baker’ follows a civic-minded housewife as she tracks the missing Prince Phillip. This madcap chase takes our heroine Betty from our neighbour’s trash, to a strangely exciting all-girls bar, to the arms of a handsome lady golfer. Cherry pie never looked so good.
Good Citizen: Betty Baker
