Genres: experimental

  • Roman Numeral Series Vl

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series Vll

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series Vlll

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Rooftops

    Continuous camera movement over stationary structures on New York rooftops, edited closely to a piece by Benjamin Britten. “Rooftops” reveals an urban landscape devoid of regular city life. “A meditative perusal of rooftops…interesting linear composition with the use of black leader between shots, and great after-images.” – Canyon Cinema

  • Rose, The

    An experiment in film collage made without the use of a camera. It utilizes food dye and handscratched animation directly on the film surface, intercut with live action found footage starring Hayley Mills. Hacked-up footage from an amateur monster movie is parallel-cut throughout, creating the appearance of a narrative.

  • Rose Compilation Vol. I

    VHS Compilation Contains: Pressures of the Text (17 min., 1983) Digital Speech (13 min., 1984) “‘Digital Speech’ uses a traveler’s anecdote, a perverse variant of a classic Zen parable, as a vehicle for an exploration of language, thought and gesture. The tape plays with the nature of narrative, with ways of telling, performing and illustrating, and uses nonsense language, scat singing and video rescan for comic comment. For purchase only.

  • Rose Compilation Vol. IV

    VHS Compilation Contains: “Metalogue” (3 min., 1996); “Foit Yet Cleem Triavith” (2 min., 1989); “Babel” (16 min., 1987); “The Gift” (6 min., 1993); “Secondary Currents” (16 min., 1982). For purchase only.

  • Rose Compilation Vol. V

    VHS Compillation Contains: “Understory” (8 min., 1996); “Analogies” (14 min., 1977); “Incantation” (8 min., 1968); “the man who could not see far enough” (33 min., 1981); “Cazotte in Seven Movements” (10 min., 1995). For purchase only.

  • Rote Movie

    On the voice over, de Bruyn places himself behind the wheel of a car, an appropriate metaphor for his expatriate driven-reflections on his feelings of exile, distance and loneliness. Necessarily unintelligent memories highlight habitual subjectivity of “walking through a landscape alone,” “gypsy,” “victim.” Images of road signs, cars, billboards, the passing landscape; elegantly simple rotoscope (by rote?) drawings, recopied and texturally manipulated filmic images; the inevitability of the repetition of leader. A tired, yearning, moving film.

  • Rue des Teinturiers

    Filmed frame-by-frame in the camera, the focus of each frame is adjusted so that certain graphic features of items in the street are extracted and inscribed onto the film strip in a way which allows their characteristics to be seen, when projected in succession on the screen, as parts of a spatiotemporal image stretching from a position on a balcony over a canalized river to the road. The film is composed of twelve 2 3/4 minute reels, each of which was filmed on a different day throughout a six-month period. No editing was undertaken other than joining the reels together.…