Genres: experimental

  • Narziss und Echo

    A film in the form of a riddle is a special kind of entertainment film, whereby the film’s content must be deduced from the film’s formal structure. “Long seemed invalid the Prophet’s word, – But honored it was, – By the outcome at last: – How odd the madness, how strange a death!”(Ovid, Metamorphoses).

  • Naughts

    A series of five hand-painted, step-printed films, each of which is a textured, thus tangible, “nothing.” A series of “nots,” then, in pun, or knots of otherwise invisible energies. 1) The first begins with a semblance of fog clouds rising vertically, an upward lifting waterfall likeness which screens an ephemera of painted shapes that come, at end, to a rhythmic and formal hardness. 2) A progression of blue surreal shapes vanishing in forward movements. 3) A gathering of crystalline forms in primary colors emitting upward-moving flares of multicolored lights, all gradually suggesting an outward momentum. 4) An orange rock-beseeming wall…

  • Necrology

    “In ‘Necrology’, one continuous shot films the faces of a 5 p.m. crowd descending via Pan Am building elevators. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into empty space…like faces from the grave… The film is one of the strongest and grimmest comments upon the contemporary society that cinema has produced.” – Jonas Mekas, Village Voice

  • Neurosis

    “Neurosis” makes a powerful anti-war statement through its use of animated still photos as well as live-action footage of a political demonstration. At points the animation of still photos is so dynamic as to create a sense of live-action footage, while at other points it is the very stasis of the imagery that is so effective.

  • New Improved Institutional Quality…

    An attempt is made to escape from the oppressive environment of a test – a test containing meaningless, contradictory, and impossible-to-follow directions – by entering into the imagination. In this case it is specifically the imagination of the filmmaker, in which the test-taker encounters images from previous Land films.

  • New Jersey Nights

    “New Jersey Nights” is a film about lingering emotional memories. It is a narrative film which operates at the level of a dream. Three people converse without real conversation: the dialogues between a woman and two men are constructed from random statements and monologues which overlap, almost meet and then move apart. The images were chosen for their ability to evoke private memories which have universal meaning. These images represent moments that have become locked in memory and which act as keys to persons, places, and events. The optical effects suggest the relentless tearing of photographs, the images dissolving into…

  • New Shoes: An Interview in Exactly 5 Minutes

    “New Shoes” is an interview in exactly five minutes, which gives a candid portrait of a male-female relationship that terminated with dire consequences. Symbolic imagery of a fairy princess intercut with the interview and a temporal distance from the experience itself bring a quick sense of irony to the event. Originally produced as a segment of “Five Feminist Minutes.”

  • New View, New Eyes

    A rare combination of personal diary and travelogue, “New View, New Eyes” traces the filmmaker’s efforts to carve out her own identity, as she makes her first visit to her father’s homeland of India. The journey is an uncomfortable one, as she struggles with “western” preconceptions of India – poverty, beggars, disease – and realizes that she herself has come there as a stranger.

  • New York Eye and Ear Control

    “One of the major achievements of the sixties. Mike Snow postulates an eye that stares at surfaces with such intensity… The image itself seems to quiver, finally gives way under the pressure. A deceptive beginning – silent: a flat white form sharply cut to the silhouette of a walking woman…More human images, love-making – a human epic now still ruled by the after image of the Walking Woman. As in no other film yet seen, its alternately soft and granite images lift us toward the year 2000; capturing not events, not objects, but again and again registering a ‘placement’ of…

  • Newton and Me

    Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were composed of “certain aetheral spirits, or vapours”; one…is the ether, “the succus nutritius of the earth, or primary substance”; the second substance disseminated through the first, is light. (RBE)