Fringe Americana

A Horse Is Not A Metaphor - Barbara Hammer . The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that take her far from the hospital bed.

Robert Breer - 69 (1968)  I love Robert Breer. Great early animation.   Oh yea , Happy Valentine day

Robert Breer - 69 (1968)  I love Robert Breer. Great early animation.   Oh yea , Happy Valentine day

Stan Brakhage - I…Dreaming (1988) Probably my favorite Brakhage. Full of fear and love.

The Clock - .Here is a 3 minute snip bit of the instillation film.  It is in effect a clock, but it is made of a 24-hour montage of thousands of time-related scenes from movies and some TV shows, meticulously edited to be shown in “real time”: each scene contains an indication of time (for instance, a timepiece, or a piece of dialogue) that is synchronized to show the actual time.

Christian Marclay mini documentary- At the 2011 Venice Biennale, Marclay was recognised as the best artist in the official exhibition, winning the Golden Lion for The Clock, a 24-hour compilation of time-related scenes from movies that debuted at London’s White Cube gallery in 2010. Newsweek responded by naming Marclay one of the ten most important artists of today. This is a short film on his music and sampling

John Cage playing amplified cacti and plant materials with a feather

Media Burn by Ant Farm ( 1975) Ant Farm was an avant-garde  architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice. Fascinating stuff

John Cage performing “Water Walk” in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I’ve Got A Secret.

Colorful Colorado- phil morton (1974)This is a example of early video art using the color capability of the Sandin Analogue Image Processor - the “Color IP”