Peter von Ziegesar Trailers
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Total trailers found: 28
Your Death is My Delight Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A silent film shot mostly on high contrast 16mm film, attempting to tell a story mostly with titles. Put together during a particularly bad time when I had just moved to the East Village and was living in a storefront on Sixth Street just off the Bowery.
Arriflesh Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Arriflesh is a diary film recording a period I spent, very much at loose ends, dividing my time between Vermont and New York City.
Circus Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
I have little recollection of filming this except for reacting with a kind of instinctive horror to the subjugation of these large animals, and to some extent the people, to tawdry entertainment.
Brenda and William: An American Love Story Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A short documentary by Hali Lee and Peter von Ziegesar.
Cats-Snow-Magic Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A diary film, the record of an interim period, winter with two cats at the bungalow at 4111 Oak Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
Peter Rolls Some Sigarettes Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
A film school assignment supposed to demonstrate a circular and repeatable action.
Faces Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Influenced by Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” I set about recording some of the artists who populated my world in Kansas City during the 70s.
Horseflesh Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Horseflesh is an artifact of a year spent living on a horse farm in Vermont listening to Charles Mingus and John Coltrane.
Emma Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A cat climbs a screen, men squat on the pavement to gamble behind a 7-11, solarized film warbles in and out.
Whales Trailer (1980)
01 August 1980
This is a diary film shot at the same time as my edited sound film, Alaska. The film reflects my awe as I accompanied my sister, Olga, a marine biologist, and her research partner Beth as they conducted whale research in Prince William Sound, among ice floes and cetaceous beasts larger than our small inflated boat.
The Peter Diaries: Life is Slow in the Fast Lane Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Short documentary by Peter von Ziegesar.
Concern For The City Trailer (1986)
01 February 1986
"Made at the same time as Koyaanisqatsi, Concern for the City is a very different film. I feel that y
Luella Luella Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A diary film, recording the summer weeks I spent with Robin Hill at her cousin’s house in Vermont where she’d been hired as a baby-sitter.
Prom Night in Kansas City Trailer (2002)
10 November 2002
An exploration of the consummate American coming-of-age ritual as it is observed in middle America.
Bat Kite Lucy Robin Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
This is a record of a summer I spent in Columbia Maryland using film magic to make a bat kite come alive and filming Lucy and Robin at a fairly typical moment, dancing to Bob Dylan’s “Apple Suckling Tree.
Dedicated to the One Eye Love Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
Dedicated to the One Eye Love is a Chaplinesque meditation on silent film, and a rather apocalyptic view of Chicago in the early 1970s.
Our Day Will Come Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
My only scripted dramatic film using actors, heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, though nowhere near as obscene.
Alaska Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Alaska is the visual artifact of a two-week trip, in 1976, to Homer, Alaska, where my sister was marrying the son of a homesteader.
Four 78's Played at Normal Speed Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
Daily life in an alien city. This is an early diary film trying to formalize my sojourn in cold, naked Chicago in four chapters, presented as four 78 rpm records dropping one by one.
Just Sprouts Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
In Just Sprouts, my goal was to make a film completely divorced from the camera and from such concerns as composition, lighting, camera placement and exposure.
Who Shall Remain Nameless Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
This film juxtaposes extreme close-up film of the activity of ants in the tunnels of an ant farm with a narration by a middle-aged, middle-American male discussing the relation between race riots and the positions of the planets.
None Saved Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Based on the idea of Indonesian shadow puppet plays, which combine popular songs and Hindu mythology with political satire and broad comedy, None Saved satirically plays off of the events and mass emotions surrounding Jimmy Carter’s drive for the presidency in 1976.
Alchemy of the Word (Altered Video Version) Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Twelve years after making the experimental black-and-white 16mm film, Alchemy of the Word, I ran the film through a prototype digital video synthesizer called a Chroma-Chron, and added a soundtrack by the East Village band, Liquid, Liquid and the German electronic music composer, Holgar Czukay.
Oh, No Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
"...contains a cacophony of visual imagery, taken from personal life and imagination, set to the Mother's of Invention Song which is cynical about love.
Alchemy of the Word Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
Alchemy of the Word is a hand-made film in which I applied Zip-A-Tone patterns directly to 16mm clear film stock, including upon the optical edge, so that the dancing shapes onscreen created their own soundtrack when projected.
A History of Dancing Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A History of Dancing visually follows the transmigration of the soul after death, going through several states before reaching a final destination similar to Nirvana.
Wheels/Trails Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Wheels/Trails draws inspirations from John Cage’s cut-and-splice sound collage, “Williams Mix,” which he composed using chance operations by throwing I-Ching sticks.
The Alphabet Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A particular favorite of mine, this film takes Rimbaud’s words one step further into the arena of “inane refrains and artless rhythms.
