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Experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, and cultural worker Marjorie Keller (1950-1994) created a uniquely personal and feminist body of work for twenty years beginning in the early 1970s. Keller also served on the board of directors of the Collective for Living Cinema, was the founding editor of their journal, Motion Picture from 1984 to 1987 and was Director of the New York Filmmakers Cooperative in the late 1980s. Writer J. Hoberman called her “an unselfish champion of the avant-garde.” Her films deftly combine home movie and diary styles through a potent politicized lens.
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Total trailers found: 28
01 January 1991
DEPARTURE is a film that was shot in 1976-77 during a year when I lost my job due to both cutbacks at the campus at which I taught and my involvement in the movement against them.
02 January 1974
Directed by Marjorie Keller.
01 January 1979
The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother.
01 January 1991
A portrait of a mother with her arms full in the backyard bathing her twin babies as the early spring light sings and dances.
20 October 1985
Three songs between heaven and earth. With Carmen, Susan, Joseph and Marcus Vigil.
01 January 1974
Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror.
08 December 1985
Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants.
09 February 1983
An elegy for a Newfoundland dog named Melville and a portrait of his owner.
01 January 1973
A film made by Marjorie Keller that document a successful struggle against welfare cuts by welfare clients, workers, and their allies.
01 January 1975
"The film opens and there is a disfunction of the camera that gives two images at once. The tension between the first and the second, the wrestle to see which becomes dominant is like the tension between an observed couple.
01 January 1973
A young dancer re-choreographed through film editing. This film was originally made in standard 8mm from a home movie.
04 April 1971
A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image.
01 January 1971
The We Demand march of 1971 was the first recorded political action taken by queer activists in Canada.
17 October 1980
The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence, the girl yearning for the power of her sex.
01 January 1975
"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera.
01 January 1977
MISCONCEPTION is composed of six parts that together chronicle the experience of one woman and her husband during the course of her natural childbirth.
01 January 1991
HEREIN charts the movement from political activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Emma Goldman's autobiography, the making of films on the Lower East Side in New York, street prostitution and drug addiction, all inflect the sense of place, space and history.
09 September 1969
A life-light guilt trip, tragicomic psychodrama in the film time. Made in the darkness of my year in a women's dormitory.
30 November 1978
A study of the patterns and gesture of family when ceremony no longer counts. Made to remember the occasion and place myself as a part of it.
01 January 1972
Fleeting 8mm views of the Rhode Island coast reach beyond the home movie towards deeper mysteries of light and presence.
07 July 1977
In THE WEB I delved for the first and only time into film as mischief-making; wicked, like a child.
01 January 1973
“This film doesn’t get anywhere…just like adolescence. The hair comes off, the hair goes on, the hairdresser moves this way and that, the music comes on again and again, Kathy and Steve do and don’t break up, it’s all true, it’s all a lie.
01 January 1995
This film was shot the same weekend as Z (Zee Not Zed), when Stan Brakhage was visiting University of Rhode Island, where Marjorie Keller was teaching at the time.
07 August 2011
Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 5:07 minutes. Still images of things passing; a diary between city and country.
01 January 1979
“This film began as a view out six windows in a crescendo of evocation. Each window is a layer in a different style of representation.
01 January 1975
"A journal of change in pattern of living and seeing as determined by an often misfunctioning but faithful camera.
31 May 1988
Working in the diaristic mode of lyrical cinema, Marjorie Keller arranges fleeting impressions of a summer vacation as pearls on a string.
01 January 1971
A portrait: of Saul Levine, filmmaker and one-time Italian Ice Vendor./of the film surface & depth/so by the choice of image.
