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S~Q~~A,;u,Q , , H~Ait#Q~ Ar 79.5111 J...FJ/.5 ~.3 Five Improvisations by Paul Glabicki. ' ' ' ' Moon Breath Beat by Lisze Bechtold . The following film programs include a collection of films that are diverse in their style and content but similar in their independent production values. The artists behind each film chose to produce their films outside the commercial film industry thus enabling them the freedom to personally form their film and, oftentimes, find alternatives to the traditional formats . s~ THE PERSONAL CINEMA . ...... .. .... ... ..... ..... .............. 2-5 ANIMATION ... .... .... .. .. .. ....... .... .... .... ...... 6-8 DOCUMENTARY ................................. ... .. ... ....... 9-10 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS . .. ..................................... 11-14 NEW FILMS FROM THE NEW SOUTH .......... ....................... 15 DANCE ... .. .... .. .............. .......... .. ....... .. ...... 16 DREAMS, TALES AND LEGENDS .. .... .. ............ .. ......... 17-19 HUMOR, PARODY & SATIRE ........ .. ....... ..................... 20 CREATIVITY ....... .. .... .. .... .. ......... ... ... ... ............ 21 ADVENTURES ................................................... 22-23 TEACHING FILM WITH FILM ....................................... 24-26 STUDENT-MADE FILMS ................... .. .. .... .. .. ......... 27 *AT THE MOVIES WITH BAD DOG ...... .. ....... ................... 28-33 INDEX OF FILMS ...... .... ......... .. ......................... 34-35 GENERAL INFORMATION ....... ................................. .. 36 *AT THE MOVIES WITH BAD DOG :s designed to promote children's media awareness through films, discussions, art, creative writing, and dramatics. Each program comes with a guide to each film including planned activities for age groups 4 to 8 and 9 to 12. The Media Arts Center staff will provide additional information and assistance. r:l .. ,l...... , . J ~"f STATE UB~~ 0" SEP 1 5 1986 STATE DOCUMENTS Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam by Tom Davenport. The South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center 1800 Gervais Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 803/734-8684 The South Carolina Arts Commission is a state agency which promotes the visual, literary, performing and media arts in South Carolina . The South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center supports media artists and media arts in a ten-state southeastern region which includes Alabama , Florida , Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia . Both the South Carolina Arts Commission and South Carolina Arts Commission Media Arts Center receive funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts . Published May 1986 I Samadhi by Jordan Belson. Tk~~ PROGRAM 1 43 Minutes $25 FRANK FILM NY, NY SAMADHI POLAR MOMENTUM FRANK FILM . Frank & Caroline Mouris. 10m. Color. Academy Award-winning animation that traces the life of the filmmaker. NY,NY. Francis Thompson . 15m. Color . Special visual effects convey the multiplicity, glitter and excitement of the Big Apple. SAMADHI. Jordan Belson . 6m. Color. A film poem which illustrates the progression of Samadhi, a Mahayana Buddhist term for ultimate state of consciousness, as the individual merges with the universal soul. POLAR. Peter Bundy. 2m. B&W. A mysterious image is given close scrutiny through varying camera lenses. MOMENTUM . Ray Day. 10m. Color. An artistic insight into the day in life of an auto mechanic. Page 2 Moon Breath Beat by Lisze Bechtold . PROGRAM 2 43.5 Minutes $25 MOON BREATH BEAT SOFT SAND MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON FAMILY DREAM HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE MOON BREATH BEAT. Lisze Bechtold. 5m . Color. A woman and her two cats are diverted by their natural attraction to birds and the whims of the moon . SOFT SAND . Nancy Yasecko . 3m . Color. The film by South Carolina Filmmaker Nancy Yasecko moves like soft sand , sifting and chang ing found footage . The sound is from natural sources and electron ic synthesizers . MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON . Maya Deren . 20m . B&W . One of the major American Experimental films of all time , laying bare a woman 's (Deren 's) inner obsession and hallucinations , through a choreography of movement and personal drama. FAMILY DREAM . Jan Millsapps. 5.5m. Color. A film by South Carolina filmmaker Jan Millsapps exploring dreams and dreaming based on an intriguing , disturbing dream about her family. HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE . Anita Thacher. 10m. Color. The film fully embodie.s the spirit of surrealist painter Renee Mag ritte , capturing the beautiful , subtle , restrained , uncanny nature of his vision which is interpreted by Thacher as five in dividual filmic paintings . Page 3 Five Improvisations by Paul Glabicki. Tk~~ PROGRAM 3 41 .5 minutes $25 PLACE OF EMERGENCE ZONES FIVE IMPROVISATIONS PLACE OF EMERGENCE . Paul Brekke . 20m . Color . A haunting vision of the primordial existence of animal/man. ZONES . Dan Curry . 18m. Color. A sometimes humorous cinematic diary of Curry's life in Virginia that explores the relationship of sound, image and narrative . FIVE IMPROVISATIONS. Paul Glabicki . 3.5m . B&W. A playful scrambling of outlined images that includes a scintillating homage to early filmmakers such as George Melies and Windsor McCay . -...JO J~;-vlS Page 4 Murita Cycles by Barry Braverman . PROGRAM 4 38 Minutes $25 MILL HUNK HERALD SWEET SAL MILL HUNK HERALD . Tony Buba. 13m. Color and B&W. A film dedicated to the spirit of Lech Walesa and union struggles set in Buba's hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania . SWEET SAL. Tony Buba. 25m B&W. A straight on portrait of a fast-talking , woman-chasing pool hustler living in the dying Penn sylvania mill town of Braddock , Pennsylvania . PROGRAM 5 63 minutes $25 MURITA CYCLES THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH MURITA CYCLES . Barry Braverman . 28m . Color. Braverman's portrait of his father whose enthusiasm for collecting has overwhelmed the size of his house and neighborhood bicycle fix-it garage. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH . Peter Rose . 35m . Color. Varying in style from parody to elegy to spectacle to confession to a kind of rite-of-passage , the film includes Rose 's spectacular ascent, with camera in hand, of the Golden Gate Bridge. Page 5 The Sound Collector by Lynn Smith. =~~ PROGRAM 1 42 minutes $20 RED BALL EXPRESS STARCYCLE CONEY AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE HEN HOP RED BALL EXPRESS . Steve Segal. 2m . Color. UP IS DOWN Virginia animator Steve Segal draws directly on film creating a playful , animated train which PANDORA 'S BOX spins, romps and changes its shape. THE SOUND COLLECTOR STARCYCLE . Deanna Morse. 3m . Color. Using techniques of metamorphosis, the film follows the birth, death and rebirth of an orange cartoon star. The soundtrack is children 's reactions to the visuals . CONEY . Frank & Caroline Mouris . 5.5m . Color. An amusing jaunt via time-lapse photography through New York's infamous Coney Island amuse ment park . AN AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE . Charles Braverman . 3m . Color. A landmark work which established the art of kinestasis (animating still photographs) . This widely-acclaimed film visually compresses 200 years of American history into 3 pounding minutes . HEN HOP . Norman Mclaren . 4m . Color. The economic designs perfected by Mclaren for drawing directly on film create a sprightly new puzzle of the classic egg-before-chicken, chicken-before-egg dilemma. UP IS DOWN . Goldsholl Associates . 6m. Color. A classic tale about a boy who walks on his hands illustrates the conflict between conformity and creative growth. PANDORA 'S BOX. Steve Segal. 7.5m . Color. A continually revolving box reveals odd bits of old films, cartoons and humorous clips of Segal himself. THE SOUND COLLECTOR . Lynn Smith . 11m. Color. Leonard, a six-year-old, has an unusual hobby that his brother and father think is strange . He collects sounds and builds a story in which Dracula meets a knight-in-armor. Page 6 Boccioni's Bike by Skip Battaglia . PROGRAM 2 46 minutes $20 QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO BOCCIONI'S BIKE COMPOSITION IN BLUE THE MYSTERIANS HEAD AN OLD BOX QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO. Sally Cruikshank. 10m. Color. Quasi, Anita and Rollo visit a Coney Island of the future where hotels stage conventions for talking vegetables and thoughts are made into paintings while-u-wait. BOCCIONI'S BIKE. Skip Battaglia. Sm . Color. A lyrical interpretation of the movements of a bicyclist depicted in the graphic style of the Italian Futurists . COMPOSITION IN BLUE. Oskar Fischinger. 4m . Color. One of the classic examples of the traditional abstract expression of film art produced in Ger many in 1933. THE MYSTERIANS. Kathy Rose . 4m . Color. An excellent line animation which uses a metamorphosis style in which strange forms evolve into and out of each other. HEAD . George Griffin . 11m. Color. An ingenious film in which the animator's own face, hands and voice are involved in the un folding of his animation techniques, including some extraordinary optical illusions. AN OLD BOX. Paul Driessen. 9m . Color. Created with the barest of lines, flashes of color, street sounds and music, this magical journey speaks of loneliness and joy, old age and human values , and the spell of Christmas . Page 7 Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski . PROGRAM 3 41 minutes $20 HALLELUJAH FUJI THE STREET PRECIOUS METAL FURIES TWO SPACE TANGO HALLELUJAH . Mark Henriksen . 4m . B&W. South Carolina filmmaker Mark Henriksen animates the experimental photographs of motion picture pioneer Edweard Muybridge to the music of Handel 's Chorus. FUJI. Robert Breer. Bm. Color. A voyage made by tracing , frame by frame,