Browse by Label: MICROCINEMA

Artist:	RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT
Title:	Open Score
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MC 596DVD

First volume in this electrifying avant-garde DVD series, documenting this 9 Evenings series in NYC from 1966. "In 1966, 10 New York artists and 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, in October 1966. The artists included are: John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into 10 films, each of which reconstructs the artist's original work and uses interviews with the artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is a 10 DVD set of films on this legendary series of theater, dance, and music performances. Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg is the first film to be released in a series that will bring to life a historic moment in contemporary art history. Open Score was performed on October 14th, 1966. It began with a tennis game between Frank Stella and his tennis partner, Mimi Kanarek, on a full-scale court laid out on the Armory floor. Rauschenberg had adopted one of the oldest forms of performance that everyone recognizes, a tennis match, and made it into dance. He also used the game 'to control the lights and to perform as an orchestra.' Each time Frank or Mimi hit the ball a loud BONG vibrated around the Armory and the sound of each BONG switched off one of the lights illuminating the court..." --Billy Klüver, 1997. All-region DVD, two-sided for both NTSC & PAL formats.

Artist:	CAGE, JOHN
Title:	Variations VII
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MC 749DVD

"In 1966, 10 New York artists and 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theatre performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. The artists were John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into 10 films, each of which reconstructs the artists' original work and uses interviews with the artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. Variations VII, performed at 9 Evenings, was the next to last in John Cage's series of indeterminate works that he had begun in 1958, which made increasing use of electronic equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of Variations VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance. This rare and historical film is the second in the 9 Evenings series from E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) and ART PIX and was produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin of E.A.T. and directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam." All-region DVD, two-sided for both NTSC & PAL formats. 41 minutes + 85 minute audio track.

Artist:	BENAZERAF (DIRECTOR), JOSE
Title:	Night of Lust
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MC 768DVD

Grey-area reissue, "released" by Independent International Films. Black & White movie from 1962(?), dubbed in English. Approx 57 minutes long. "Banned in over half the world! A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz score, and the most beautiful French babes the world has ever seen. It pricks the conscience, probes the libido and excites the senses!" NTSC format, region free.

Artist:	SCHLEMOWITZ, JOEL
Title:	Short Experimental Films
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	3DVD
Price:	$52.00
Catalog #:	MC 774DVD

"Joel Schlemowitz is a wizard of cinema, and this collection of short experimental films is a marvel to behold. Each piece is a unique gem -- quirky, provocative, playful, often handmade, and always daring -- celebrating Joel's astonishing mastery of the tools of filmmaking, and his poetic grasp on the art of cinema." --Alan Berliner. "Joel creates cinema-poems that crack open the infinite. Tracing the jeweled veins of Gustave Moreau, J.K. Huysmans, and Gerard de Nerval, his work eludes the dark shadows of night & illuminates the evening with cascading colors and flickering dreamscapes." - Jennifer MacMillan, Curator, Invisible Film Series. Bonus footage: Filmmaker Interview by Jennifer MacMillan; The Film-Makers Coop's Move by Brian Frye; "Grand Magic Lantern Exhibition!" documentation by Jeanne Liotta. All films newly transferred and re-mastered from 16mm film and soundtrack sources. All-region NTSC format DVD. Total running time: 3 hrs. 21 mins.

Artist:	LAMBERT, ALIX
Title:	The Mark of Cain: On Russian Criminal Tattoos
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MC 775DVD

"Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners -- The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian criminal tattoos. Captured in some of Russia's most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of its origins: the penitentiary and the criminal environment. Incisive interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of The Zone and The Code of Thieves of the vory v zakone." "...it's beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking." -- David Cronenberg, Director of Eastern Promises. Language: Russian, with English subtitles. Color, 1 hour, 13 minutes. All region NTSC.

Artist:	OPPENHEIM, DENNIS
Title:	Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-74
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	MC 778DVD

"Dennis Oppenheim (born 1938) has received international attention for a conceptual oeuvre spanning performance, video, sculpture, installation, and land art. In the early 1970s, Dennis Oppenheim was in the vanguard of artists using film and video to investigate themes relating to body and performance. This portfolio features a selection of his works known as the Aspen Tapes, produced between 1970 and 1974, in which Oppenheim uses his own body as a site of experimentation on the personal. In these works, the artist enters into an intimate and dynamic dialogue with his body as he explores the boundaries of personal risk, bodily transformation, and interpersonal communication. With the publication of this portfolio in collaboration with the artist's studio, this seminal series of quasi-anthropological performances is now available to the public for the first time on DVD. Just as Oppenheim's work explores new and unusual forms of communication and address, Slought Foundation hopes that this portfolio contributes to an existing discourse about alternative possibilities for cultural production and reception. In Oppenheim's Transfer Drawings and Identity Transfers, for instance, the artist deposits and retrieves information from his daughter Kristin and his son Erik." An 11-page booklet includes an interview with Dennis Oppenheim by Willoughby Sharp. Running time: approx. 120 mins; NTSC format DVD, all regions.

Artist:	VA
Title:	RESISTANCE[S] Vol. II
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MC 782DVD

All regions double-sifed disc for both NTSC & PAL formats. "RESISTANCE[S] Vol. II is a collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring nine artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, these intimate, poetic and documentary works are witness to the region's complexity, vitality, and diversity of creative energies. Distanced from the usual stereotypes, the artists aim to explore existential, political, and aesthetic issues of our time while opening up to new narrative perspectives that break from our media's monotonous and repetitive imagery." Extras: Interviews/Biographies; Subtitles: French, English, German; Duration: 110 mins.; Stereo/color/4:3/DVD 10/NTSC/PAL/Zone: All.

Artist:	KENNARD & CAT PICTON PHILLIPPS, PETER
Title:	To Die For
Label:	MICROCINEMA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MC 790DVD

"You'll recognize the extraordinary photo montage work of Peter Kennard. It's been with us since the '70s -- not-so-quietly commenting with biting satire and double take images. The collaboration with Cat Picton Phillipps has taken the work to new highs -- Tony Blair taking a photo of himself, holiday snap style, in front of a curtain of incendiary bombs mid-explosion. Enough said? Over 8 hours of stunning imagery on one DVD. Turn your TV into an unlimited work of art with breathtaking still and moving images from world-renowned artists and photographers. Ambient in concept -- there's no story-telling, no narrative, just a constant stream of compelling beauty." Widescreen.

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