Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2014/09/cine-collage-remixing-moving-image-thur.html
Featuring:
Three By Chuck Braverman!
Three By Chuck Braverman!
Braverman’s Condensed Cream of the Be@tles (Color, 1974)
A decade-long pop-culture revolution distilled into 15 minutes of cinematic bliss. Rapid-fire montage of song snippets, iconic clips, apocryphal stills, and animation: a prototype of the modern documentary, only without the talking heads and fourfold as fab! This non-narrative film showcases the flip, exuberant 60s to the end of the sober, socially conscious decade as we watch airport mob scenes, madcap press conferences, records, concerts, books, posters and movies, all tumble past in a dizzy spasm of bliss.
Nixon: Checkers to Watergate (Color, 1976)
Our embattled and embittered 37th president is hoisted on his
own petard, or at least some or his own more notorious moments before the press! Braverman's playful way with two decades of sound bites captures his awkward ways and simmering resentments. Gathered together in a spry, narration-free short, they form a fascinatingly frank portrait of RMN. We still have Nixon to kick around and as Frost/Nixon and the quirky Our Nixon prove, some of us never tire of it.
own petard, or at least some or his own more notorious moments before the press! Braverman's playful way with two decades of sound bites captures his awkward ways and simmering resentments. Gathered together in a spry, narration-free short, they form a fascinatingly frank portrait of RMN. We still have Nixon to kick around and as Frost/Nixon and the quirky Our Nixon prove, some of us never tire of it.
Television Land (Color/B+W, 1971)
Brilliant, impressionistic, narration-free history of Television utilizing original clips, similar to the Oddball Films favorite “The Car of Your Dreams”. Directed by Charles Braverman, this snappy montage is divided into three sections: entertainment, news and commercials.
Brilliant, impressionistic, narration-free history of Television utilizing original clips, similar to the Oddball Films favorite “The Car of Your Dreams”. Directed by Charles Braverman, this snappy montage is divided into three sections: entertainment, news and commercials.
Report (Bruce Conner, 1967, B+W, excerpt)
"Report” can mean an account of events or a blast of a rifle and both meanings are apt for this incendiary work. Using found footage, footage the news coverage captured from his homeTV and even mostly blank film, Conner arranges familiar images and audio against each other in throbbing juxtapositions. Events in Dallas had a clear before and after for America, but Conner's careful structure plays with the sequence of events to shocking effect. Report ultimately fuses images of promise and plenty with those of cataclysm and oblivion.
The brilliant and troubled Arthur Lipsett created this experimental montage with over 50 years worth of found sound and newsreel footage with everything from beauty pageants to military propaganda to Richard Nixon. The jarring juxtaposition of images create a landscape of the rising technocracy that has only escalated in the decades since. Lipsett wrote about the themes of the film “as science grows, religious belief seems to have diminished... The new machines (of every description) are now invested with spiritual qualities. They have become ritualistic implements.”
An autobiography of Frank Mouris and a stop-motion free-associative collage of 11,592 media images collected from magazines, which shift and mutate across the screen as Mouris reads a list of words starting with the letter "f". The words bounce off the images and trigger memories, which Mouris recounts on a second track, interwoven with the recitation. Mouris received an Academy Award and the film was selected in 1996 for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Frank Film, because of its innovative and energetic use of collage, has exerted an influence on succeeding generations of animators.
Unintentional collage! This wacko reel of censored film clips will be presented as found. Marked “Mandatory Edits” and compiled presumably by the editor at the big Los Angeles TV station where this reel originated, these feature film clips were apparently deemed too violent, sexual, suggestive or shocking to be shown on TV. Jarring edits take you from the Civil War to WWII to the old West, to Ancient times and back, and from color to B &W. See flaming arrows in the chest, suggestive undergarments, bloody stumps, heaving breasts, and so much more! See Gary Cooper, Buddy Greco, Burt Lancaster, Charo, and a cast of thousands together in the boldest film that never was!
Watch Daffy Duck wreak havoc on a movie set by cutting and splicing together various clips into finished product of a movie contains nothing but newsreel titles and clips surrealist style. An unintentionally avant garde masterpiece!
Family Court (Color, 1998, Animal Charm, video)Animal Charm, a collaboration between Richard Bott and Jim Fetterley —began using found VHS tapes to make video collages in 1995. With the advent of YouTube a decade away, the artists culled bins of dead and devalued media, including industrial and promotional videos, bargain vinyl LPs, and consumer- grade electronics. They then combined disparate footage, using early nonlinear video-editing software, to create unsettling and humorous works. The duo compose unexpected juxtapositions in an attempt to subvert the original intentions of the found videos and to expose their absurdity while eliciting new meanings from the detritus of culture. (from animalcharm.com)
http://www.animalcharm.com/index.html
Martin Arnold, rather than piece together several films, utilizes one very small piece of a film and by moving the film a few frames forward and then a few frames back, manages to uncover hidden subtexts and create a unique dance with the characters. It is like a DJ scratching a record, the narrative moves along ever so slightly but to mind-expanding effect. In this seminal work, Arnold uses a clip from To Kill a Mockingbird and while this piece is wholly entertaining, you also begin to take note of heavier topics like the black maid subjugated to the background and the strange kiss between Scout and Atticus.
About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.