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Experimental filmmaker and painter since the 60's. Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State Art/Film Dept. Taught Film in Art Dept. at Sonoma State University for the decade of the 70s.
Total trailers found: 56
18 December 1979
During the ensuing years of developing the land, remodeling the house, the studios, and various outbuildings, as well as various projects and excursions with my partner and friends, I carried around the smallest and humblest of unobtrusive regular 8mm movie cameras with which I could both record interesting moments and also weave a cinematic fabric equivalent to the gestural style and compositional concerns of Abstract Expressionism, a style of painting I had studied, practiced, and related to since the late 1950s.
01 January 2010
Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.
01 January 1976
The artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with a hired crew of enthusiastic local assistants erected a major early work spanning both Sonoma and Marin counties in Northern California.
01 January 1977
Myron Ort headed up a small team of animators for this 1977 short.
01 January 2008
Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and micro-expressionistic exploration of tropical colors and surfy forms.
01 January 2010
From the “No Metaphor” Series. Camera-less filmmaking. Hand painted.
01 January 2010
Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.
02 February 2012
"In the 1960s I pioneered Abstract Expressionist painting directly to the film surface creating a new vocabulary of moving shape, color, and texture as well as a good measure of chance operation.
01 January 2010
Hand painted film. Extended graphic modes explored.
01 January 2008
Filmed in Baja California where the desert sun meets the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf. A rusting shipwreck on the rocks outside of Cabo San Lucas in 1972 provides a central and poignant metaphor for a macro-psychedelic and micro-expressionistic exploration of tropical colors and surfy forms.
29 March 1975
Mirrored from left to right and front to back, this multilayered black and white symmetrical abstract horror film has apocalypse written all over it.
01 January 1979
Filmed with the Bolex Rx8 camera which was the exact same size as a 16mm Bolex but holding 4 times the amount of film time-wise.
16 May 1968
From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Early work with the JK Optical Printer. Some of the earliest examples of optically manipulated hand painted film.
29 May 1969
Transition from psychedelics to Meher Baba. Cinema as path to reality.
18 May 1968
A love story, as it happened, filmed entirely by the lovers themselves. A joyful affirmation of peace, harmony, and beauty.
04 June 1969
From the Psychedelic Series: 1968-1972. Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.
19 December 1972
The edited A-roll original prior to reversal wet-gate printing and hand-painting.
29 August 1969
"A film produced in Regular 8mm around 1970. At the time this film was very much praised by Stan Brakhage who asked me for a print and urged me to never put a sound track with it.
01 October 1977
Second in the series by the Maysles brothers documenting the monuments/sculptures of Christo, whose art projects are landscape-scaled, and more "pop" performance art designed to question how we relate to art in the public sphere, especially when it's as oblique, non-political (at least, that is what he would claim), and neutral as running a fence through a landscape.
09 March 1972
From the Psychedelic Series 1968-1972 / Painting on Film, Optical Printer work, Multiple exposure, pioneering techniques from Psychedelic era.
08 June 1967
Through the veils of multiple exposure at an "Acid Test" party in San Francisco (toward the end of "He's Here Now" ) one might catch a brief glimpse of Ken Kelsey and Neal Cassidy.
01 January 1979
28 March 1972
Originally an 8mm film with hand-painting which was blown up to 16mm and hand-painted again before multiple printings with several optical manipulations.
01 June 2017
Even by the late 1960s, to my knowledge, there had been no “Abstract Expressionist” non-referential, extended painting applied directly to motion picture film.
