Genres: experimental

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #3

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #2.”)

  • Base Tranquility

    This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man’s fetish for technology.

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #4

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #3.”)

  • Schizy

    “Schizy” is Barbara Hammer’s first film and is about her own coming-out process.

  • School

    A bad movie about a bad school girl. The kind of spanking-fetish film Disney would have made.

  • Scissere

    A narrative formed from a young man’s unfiltered perception of a fragmented environment following his release from a psychiatric clinic. The film concentrates on his perception of three individuals – a drug addict, a scientist, and a young mother. The film is a study of the order in confusion, forcing the viewer to construct and decipher the inter-relatedness of the strands that constitute the story.

  • Scissors

    An animated film using single-frame manipulation techniques to describe the imaginary life cycle of a pair of scissors, in a vaguely submarine backdrop of strange plants and ball-like creatures bounding around the landscape. Scissors like to eat these balls, but occasionally they form an aggregate monster that likes to eat scissors.

  • Scrambles

    Impressions of a day of motorcycle races. Action and fatigue.

  • Scream of the Butterfly

    In vivid colour, the metamorphosis from larva to butterfly to collector’s jar. The beauty of the butterfly bursts from the cocoon as an atom bomb, only to be netted and bottled. The living beauty can only become illusory when bottled.

  • Seadrift

    “Seadrift” is based on a story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere of the whole. With Mike Kuchar, Robert Cowan, Donna Kerness, Walter Gutman and others.