Most Popular Brian L. Frye Trailers
Total trailers found: 31
Our Nixon Trailer (2013)
23 January 2013
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
6.95: Striptease Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
6.95: Striptease might have been titled "Brian Frye Fails to Strip." We see Frye disrobe, but when he gets to his white undershorts, the roll ends in white flare-outs.
The Silent Majority Trailer (2011)
31 December 2011
This short documentary suggests a direct connection between two of Nixon’s greatest triumphs as president: his landmark 1969 "Silent Majority" speech (in which he argued that street protesters did not represent the views of most Americans, despite their increasing visibility) and his historic landslide re-election in 1972 (in which George S.
Meeting with Khrushchev Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
"Frye's Meeting With Khrushchev is not an easy film to like, but repeated viewings reveal a work of immense weight, a moving combination of intense nostalgia and thoughtful meditation on the impossibility of ever completely understanding history [.
Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Robert Beck was an American soldier from Chicago, who served in the First World War. Struck deaf and dumb by shellshock, Beck was sent to an English sanitarium to convalesce.
Sara Nokomis Weir Trailer (2014)
02 April 2014
This documentary consists of the victim impact video introduced in the penalty phase of the trial of Douglas Oliver Kelly, accompanied by an audio recording of the California Supreme Court hearing oral argument as to the admissibility of the video.
Kaddish Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
A fragment of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man.
The Letter Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
An essay toward documenting the ineffable...One might consider it a dialogue between a man of Faith and one who has merely tasted of the absurd, yet struggles to ingest it.
Encomium Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
I shot this roll of film at a party Bard College threw when it awarded Stan Brakhage an honorary degree.
Apocryphal Movie Trailer (2001)
16 September 2001
Alchemical transformation of the remains of a mysterious low-budget film from 1969.
Across the Rappahannock Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
On December 12, 1863, General Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac engaged General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Show was obviously compiled from a lot more material, which I found over at least a year and a half of hunting about.
Lachrymae Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
".. and yet of that living breathing throng, not one will be encased in a material frame. A company of ghosts, playing to spectral music.
The Anatomy of Melancholy Trailer (1999)
14 August 1999
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City made a short film called "A Portrait of Fear." The film consisted of several tableau shots of amateur actors standing in a field at night reciting painfully overwrought dialogue, apparently lit by the headlights of a car.
Nadja Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
Brakhage has called her the muse, perhaps because she appears only to those who hold a strip of film in their own hands.
Burnout Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north.
Grotto of the Gorgons Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
An electronic variety show featuring poetry, theatrics, dance, songs, and a plot concerning the cultivation of literary innocence and the preservation of Rondo Hatton's memory (a horror actor in 1940s B movies).
Oona's Veil Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
A home-processed, handmade work, revises Charlie Chaplin’s screen test of his adolescent soon-to-be spouse (Oona O’Neill, the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill), broken up by irregular interruptions of black emulsion.
Broken Camera Reels 1 & 2 Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
The film consists of two rolls of film I shot in 1998 or 1999 while living in a Bushwick loft. I was interested in the perfect simplicity of a movie camera and what happens when a single part is disabled.
Francois Boue Services the Fragrance Machine at Bloomingdale's Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
A short sound work by Brian Frye
Observations at Gettysburg Trailer (2002)
06 July 2002
Man is full of sin and nature, and all he does don't bear looking at, and a heap of what he says is a shame and a mawkery.
The Eels of Chicago Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Moira Tierney asked for films about snakes. This is as close as I came.
A Reasonable Man Trailer (2011)
25 June 2011
In 2007, the United States Supreme Court decided Scott v. Harris, which held that where “the record blatantly contradicts the plaintiff’s version of events so that no reasonable jury could believe it, a court should not adopt that version of the facts for purposes of ruling on a summary judgment motion.
Nausea Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
In 1997, while attending the San Francisco Art Institute, I made a 1 hour video of myself reading from John-Paul Sartre's book Nausea while drinking an entire fifth of Jack Daniels.
World's Fair and Exhibition Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
I made this film at the San Francisco Art Institute. I shot the entire film by myself in one day on an Arriflex.
