James Tenney Trailers
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Most Popular James Tenney Trailers
Total trailers found: 11
Loving Trailer (1957)
01 January 1957
In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows and whites.
Interim Trailer (1952)
12 November 1952
A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss.
"..." Reel 5 Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Reel #5 of (...) is composed of scratch-imagery edited to music by James Tenney. The music starts accompanied only by black leader: then there is a sudden flare of pure white which begins to flicker with negative-colored ephemeral shapes, until finally the music and a fulsome mass of scratched images are accompanying each other.
Brakhage Trailer (1998)
17 September 1998
BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators.
Christ Mass Sex Dance Trailer (1991)
05 May 1991
This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of the balletic restraints of adolescent sexuality — (shaped in this instance) by ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ of Tchaikovsky as well as the gristly roots of Elvis Presley.
No. 4 Trailer (1966)
06 February 1966
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
Verrückt Trailer (2021)
29 March 2021
Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.
Fuses Trailer (1967)
31 December 1967
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch.
Cat's Cradle Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up.
Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ) Trailer (1966)
06 June 1966
Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys.
Desistfilm Trailer (1954)
01 January 1954
Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string.
