Film Format: 16mm

  • Wild Wheels

    A comic and revealing exploration of Art Cars, personally customized automobiles which reflect the individualistic spirit of their drivers. Traveling across the country in his own wildly decorate VW bug, Blank discovers a memorable cast of real-life characters who are obsessed with transforming their cars into mobile works of art.

  • Wildwood Flower

    As the Carter Family sings “Wildwood Flower” an elaborate embroidered border is created around an image of a nude woman riding slowly toward the camera, producing a kind of cameo in motion.

  • willing voyeur … , the

    A photograph. Two blondes with a past on a train from Washington DC. Their destination is an abandoned train station, with body bags and kids running for their lives. At the station dead bodies are pulled from the basement and piled in the foyer for disposal. Mr. One, the consummate loner, waits. He feels bad about past deeds. He will even the score his way… At the station everyone is obsessed with a photograph titled “Gun Control” that defines the collective consciousness of the times. If everything is a clue, what’s the mystery? When the two blondes arrive at the…

  • Window

    “The tensions between containment and expansion, inner and outer, surface and depth, reflections and projections, implicit in any window, are felt as rhythmic movements of colour and light within the projected frame.” – M.J.

  • Window Water Baby Moving

    “…Brakhage’s treatment of the birth of his (first) daughter… is a picture so forthright, so full of primitive wonder and love, so far beyond civilization in its acceptance that it becomes an experience like few in the history of the movies.” – Archer Winsten, NY Post

  • Window Wind Chimes: Part 1

    “‘Window Wind Chimes’ explores in semi-documentary manner the interrelationship between Vincent Grenier and his wife Ann Knutson in the environment of their San Francisco apartment. Conversations between them consist of fragments of arguments, apologies, affections and distillations of the personal rituals that take place between man and wife. “The film begins outside the apartment in a laundromat with a tour-de-force performance by George Kuchar rattling off at the mouth about wind chimes, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller; a character obsesssed by something or other trying to make contact with the surrounding world and never succeeding. The scene changes to the…

  • Windows in Armour

    A film about urban emotional and societal complexities. Different personal impressions and visions of the urban metropolis are presented through an unusual blending of verbal accounts and visual imagery, documentary and dramatic forms.

  • Winter Kept Us Warm

    “Winter Kept Us Warm” is English Canada’s first gay film. The story of a campus friendship between two young men that grows into something more, this film played to festival acclaim around the world in 1965. “‘Winter Kept Us Warm’ was made on a shoestring at the University of Toronto by Secter, [then] a 22- year-old English major from Winnipeg. It wasn’t easy. After Student Council money launched the filming of Secter’s script of an ‘ambiguous’ (as they used to say in the sixties) male friendship in a campus residence, finishing grants were predictably refused by the Canada Council, the…

  • Winter Last July

    A personal ‘travelogue’ of Australia frames images of palm trees, ferries, flags and dark corners of light and shadow drawing a solitary exploration. “A flag waving gracefully in a series of dissolves and double exposures underlines the poetic reality evoked in Winter Last July, reinforced by the filmmaker’s own haunting piano soundtrack” (Ann Arbor Film Festival 1984)

  • Winterlude

    “Winterlude” was the first film completed on a rear-screen rephotography system (optical printer) that I built in the summer of 1975. The film introduces a vague narrative context that remains latent throughout the main body of the film and is finally revealed in the closing sequence. The core of “Winterlude” consists of a series of landscapes containing juxtaposed live-action and painted visual elements through which trains appear, travel across the frame and disappear. (LM)