Video

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

	DUCHAMP, MARCEL: A Game of Chess Code:phv6010 Price: £19.98 Quantity in Basket: none
A 50 minute video, shot in 1964 in black and white consisting of interviews with Marcel, Marcel at his first major retrospective in Pasadena talking about his work (mostly his very little known pre-Armory work, nude descending a staircase, king and queen, and the readymades). He also talks about chess, reflects on art and history, visits his old friend Edgard Varese and walks around in New York. There is more recent colour footage of the artworks edited in. The soundtrack is mostly taken from Varese. It's a vital document, but I have to say that the editing is eccentric, the hopping from one thing to another un-necessary, some of the images need labelling, and it merely skims the surface of the oeuvre However, not to complain; someone had at least the gumption to interview Marcel on camera, and it's good to see Edgard in his den. All in French with subtitles. Arty but awkward packaging. Still. It's good to see Marcel saying what he has to say - so much better than the mythmaking and neutrality of the written word - and what he has to say is well worth hearing. PAL VHS.
	FISCHINGER, OSKAR: Volume1 Code:fischingerVideo Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
If anyone deserves the epithet genius in this field, it would be Fischinger. Though, predictably, he never made money, he produced works of stunning brilliance and originality and invented techniques others would adopt and extend, and some even (like Disney with Fantasia) profit from. Pure abstraction, colour, the appropriate expression of musical movement and dynamic relationships were his constant subject. This first collection features works from 1931, including the luminous Muratti cigarette advertisement, Spiritual constructions, an extraordinary silhouette work of constantly mutating, fluid figures, following the travails of two figures in an uncertain landscape, Study no 7 and No. 8, Kreise and Allegretto (all abstract music settings), and one later film Motion Painting No.1 (1947), a constantly evolving single painting and overpainting. VHS PAL. With excellent notes in a 24 pp booklet in French and English.
	FLUXUS: The Fluxfim Anthology Code:fluxusAnthologyVideo Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
The definitive Fluxus film edition, compiled by George Maciunas and assembled by Jonas Mekas featuring 41 fluxfilms by Nam Jun Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, Geoge Brecht, Yoko Ono, Joe Jones, Wolf Vostell, Erik Andersen, Jeff Perkins, Albert Fine, Robert Watts, James Riddle, Pieter Vanderbeck, John Cavenaugh, Pail Sharits, George Landow, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Benjamin Vautier and John Cale. Runs 2 hours on VHS PAL. With full notes in a 48pp booklet in French and English.
	LYE, LEN: Rhythms Code:lyeRhythms Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
12 films made between 1935, when Lye was working in John Grierson's groundbreaking GPO film unit, and 1980, charting the work of this pioneering maker of movies without a camera Here he, explores various techniques: painting and spraying directly onto blank film stock with, and without, stencils, working independently with all 3 separate negatives of colour film, scratching onto exposed negatives, direct contact (rayogram) and working with found footage (plunderoptics). Plus there is one more conventional animation. In all of them, music is essential - from Holst through Cuban Jazz and Sonny Terry to African percussion Orchestras. VHS PAL. With full notes in a 32pp booklet in French and English.
	MAGMA: BobiMUSICWORKS: No (video) Code:AKT6 Price: £24.09 Quantity in Basket: none
The same concert as the double CD.
	PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure 1 (video) Code:INNOVA400 Price: £19.98 Quantity in Basket: none
Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (Music for Acrobats by HP), Music Studio - Harry Partch (Partch introduces and demonstrates his instruments and performs, alone, using overdubs (!) WINDSONG. This is worth the whole video, U.S. Highball - A performance/film of the celebrated Hobo piece; excellent - MTV Phooie !, DAPHNE OF THE DUNES (Windsong in full as soundtrack to a curious narrative-artmovie). A MUST for any HP fan. Invaluable archive material. From the US original converted by the British Harry Partch Society to UK PAL standard.
	PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure 4 (video) 'Delusion of Fury' Code:INNOVA404 Price: £19.98 Quantity in Basket: none
MADELAINE TOURTELOT's film of all playing, all singing, all dancing 1969 UCLA stage production (75mins.), with extra interpolated film material. It makes all the difference to see how HP imagined his music to look as well as sound. A crucial document + the San Diego KEBS-TV documentary featuring 'Daphne of the Dunes', two duets from 'On the 7th day...' (Harry P. and Danlee Mitchell) and an interview with HP (28 minutes). PAL version.l
	RICHTER, HANS: Early Works Code: Code:richterEarlyVideo Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
A selection of films from the Dada Film Pioneer including: Rhythmus 21 and 23 (1921, 1923), Filmstudie (1926), Ghosts Before Breakfast and Inflation (1927-8), Race Symphony and Twopence Magic (1928-9) and Everything Turns, Everything Revolves (1929). VHS PAL. With excellent notes in a 24 pp booklet in French and English.
	VANDER, CHRISTIAN: Une Homme et une Batterie (video) Code:VANDERVID Price: £20.27 Quantity in Basket: none
Christian talks and plays; a lesson, a philosophy, a technique. For the already interested.