Most Popular Dana Plays Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
The Longest Walk Trailer (2023)
15 August 2023
Documentation of the Longest Walk in 1978 pairing footage from the start of the walk at Alcatraz Island with a speech delivered by Lehman Brightman at the conclusion on the US Capital steps, protesting forced sterilization, exploitation of natural resources, and 11 pieces of legislation condemned by the American Indian Movement.
Via Rio Trailer (1986)
13 March 1986
VIA RIO is an ode to our human desire for relationship. The film tumbles through a series of relationships woven around one woman's narration of her parents' marriage.
Agitprop Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Visually arresting, deconstructionist piece examining pre-WWII newsreel war footage propaganda. The visual treatment of this piece, involving optical printing, abstract composting, and time manipulation, mirrors the historical permutations, and re-setting of meaning, this propaganda film segment endured through censorship, duplication, and film extraction.
Zero Hour Trailer (1992)
19 March 1992
The transgression and confrontation is re-enacted in this brilliant fugue-like film by Dana Plays constructed of found footage, and concerning both American involvement in oversees conflict and the resultant unseen plight of the child refugee.
Across the Border Trailer (1982)
13 March 1982
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces.
Arriving/Departing Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Rich, pristine black-and-white digital visual overlays of the train arriving and departing the station at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
Don't Means Do Trailer (1983)
12 March 1983
Part dramatic narrative, part improvisation, DON'T MEANS DO explores the personalities of two young girls and someone they meet while out walking.
Passage Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Stark, high-contrast shimmering circles of confusion emanating from streams in wet sand, and sand crabs scooting over their discarded exoskeletons in pools during low tide.
Silverfish Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Dana Plays leverages inversion techniques and optically printed compositing to recast footage of children playing into an ominous siren song of impending doom.
Rhizome Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
A continuation of Dana Plays’ SALVAGE PARADIGM series compounding detritus of history and memory derived from found-footage salvaged from 1,600 educational films, thrown into a dumpster by Syracuse University after its downsizing effort closed the S.
River Madness Trailer (2000)
06 April 2000
Dana Plays uses point of view construction and match action to situate the viewer in the cement encased riverbed, its surrounding overpasses, bridges and rail yards, by cross cutting between scenes from various Hollywood movies shot on location in the Los Angeles River.
Kongostraat Trailer (1989)
11 August 1989
A diaristic view of parts of Paris, Belgium and Amsterdam. The Turkish family on their stoop, the woman on the train with her two pit bulls and an admirer, interiors, exteriors, the views from the train and the canals of the flat lands.
Aquifer Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
Underwater study in light and motion of the aquifer erupting at Crystal Springs in Zephyrhills, Florida.
Arrow Creek Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Filmed on the Crow Indian reservation at Crow Agency, Montana, ARROW CREEK poetically interweaves elements that creates metaphors on cultural themes through sound/image juxtaposition (such as bull riding and the sound of a mass).
Shards Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Lightly processed field recordings fuse disparate strips of saturated 16mm film into an observational diary.
Nuclear Family Trailer (2001)
17 September 2001
The film explores institutional and personal representations of memory and behavior through a complex interweaving of scientific documentation, animal behavior experiments and vintage pre-school footage.
Grain Graphics Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames.
Love Stories My Grandmother Tells Trailer (1994)
13 October 1994
A portrait of Dana Plays' 90 year old paternal grandmother, Peggy Regler, reminiscing about her love affairs and significant relationships.
Exquisit Corpses Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
This found-footage digital optical printer piece alludes to the decay of cinema and the advancing of digital film through a series of devolving images from the history of photography and early motion picture technology.
Sibling Arrival Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
A coarse but intimate documentary of birth. The eight year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.
