All Films

The 11th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Documentary on the work of Etienne-Jules Marey. Marey is a doctor and is interested in movement. He first captures it graphically (the pulse of a man, the stride of a horse, the beating of a bird's wings).

Nanny Annie, looking after the kids, tells them scary bedtime stories about goblins who drag away naughty, mischievous children. When they began to fall asleep, the girl told them what well-mannered children should do. And at this time, in his dwelling on the moon, the elder goblin, blowing out the lamp, frightens his offspring before going to bed.

A visual poem on the steam driven Hook Norton Brewery in Oxfordshire UK

This video work was made while Rist was still an art student at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. It was produced in an unlimited edition and is intended to be shown on a domestic-style monitor, although it may also be displayed as a projection with special permission from the artist. The video depicts the artist, an attractive young woman dancing manically around the room while repeatedly singing ‘I’m not the girl who misses much’. The phrase is an adaptation of the first line of the Beatles song ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun'. Referring to her childhood Rist has said, ‘In my village in Switzerland I had a small window on the art world through the mass media; through John Lennon/Yoko Ono I moved from pop music to contemporary art. In return, I will always be grateful to popular culture’ (quoted in ‘I rist, you rist, she rists, he rists, we rist, you rist, they rist, tourist: Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Pipilotti Rist’, Pipilotti Rist, p.16).

Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife. The focus of the film is on the color, music and movement involved, and the gossip which goes on constantly, revealing what the young women think about men.

Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung.

Getting lost on the way to work.

A collection of home movies, sketches and jokes by Len Cella.

A young woman gets a haircut.

"A sort of collage film, using images shot for other films that somehow never were finished. The sound comes from various sound gathering adventures. An Anglo woman's interpretation of magic realism." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

While playing in the meadow, the boy accidentally broke a silver bell. Once in a fairyland, he finds himself in the kingdom of Sukhovey and saves a casket with the seeds of this delicate flower.

A boy suffers because of conflicts in family and leaves his parents. A lonely puppy and a lonely piano bear him company. Now all three of them are not lonely anymore.

How a dwarf taught a giant to play the drum.

Crystal Light Aerobics Competition, held in 1985, was the first of its kind. Since then, competitive aerobics has become a popular sport. Highlights of the national aerobics finals, featuring choreographed exericise routines, mixed pairs and individuals. Taped in Burbank, California on December 14 and 15, 1985. Hosted By Cathy Lee Crosby and Ed Marinaro.

An observational documentary about playwright and writer David Williamson and his work. Excerpts from theatrical performances and films written by Williamson are also shown - including The Removalists, The Club, and Peter Weir's Gallipoli.

Three tales inspired by the writings and scribblings of Leonardo da Vinci "The Flame", "Cranes" and "The Ant and a Wheat Grain" which are united by a fourth fairy tale, "Paper and Ink".

A momentary flight into blood coloured spaces: Blood Sky reveals a ‘…swiringley red world transformed by camera movement’. – Independent Media.

A multiple-superimposition hand-painted visual symphony of animal life of earth. THE LOOM might be compared to musical quartet-form (as there are almost always four superimposed pictures); but the complexity of texture, multiplicity of tone, and the variety of interrelated rhythm, suggest symphonic dimensions. The film is very inspired by George Melies: the animals exist (in Jane's enclosure) as on a stage, their interrelationships edited to the disciplines of dance, so therefore one might say this hardly represents "animal life on earth"; but I would argue that this work at least epitomizes theatrical Nature, magical Creature, and is the outside limit, to date, of my art in that respect. (The balance-of-light was so perfectly realized in making the neg. of this print that I wish to credit Western Cine Lab's "timer" Louise Fujiki as creative collaborator in the accomplishment of this work.)

Reflections in fish tanks in the windows of restaurants in Chinatown, San Francisco, accompanied by sounds of foghorns, passers-by, dining and breaking waves. Shot on Super 8, the images oscillate between abstraction, documentary portrait and poetry, with the fish coming in and out of focus, whilst the sound provides a grounding in the setting of San Francisco’s harbour and nearby Chinatown.

Yellow Aria is a symptomatic view of the lover at work, constantly on the edge of savoring the moments when passion and neurosis overlap. By layering different forms of expression, the film allows language and action to intertwine to demystify love and passion.

One of Jules Engel's works on the Visual Music 1946-1986 DVD from the Center for Visual Music.

In today’s youth-oriented society, the experience and knowledge of older women is typically unheralded and neglected. Countering these ideas is Suzanne Lacy’s Whisper, The Waves, The Wind—a performance evoking and reinforcing the strong spiritual and physical beauty of older women. Lacy says, “They reminded me of the place where the ocean meets shoreline. Their bodies were growing older, wrinkled. But what I saw was the rock in them; solid, with the presence of the years washing over them.” This tape is a document of that performance.