Tyler Turkle

Tyler Turkle Trailers

Harry Crews: Survival Is Triumph Enough TrailerSeminoles, Alligators, and Football Players TrailerExcess, Black Noise, and Fast Moving Pictures Trailer

Tyler Turkle was born May 29, 1947 in Alliance, Ohio. He received his B.A. in History in 1970 from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio and studied cinematography at Kent State University. From 1975 to 1987, he taught art, photography and filmmaking at Florida State University as a Visiting Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence. His films have appeared in national and international film festivals while his paintings and sculptures have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.

Most Popular Tyler Turkle Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

Walk That Dog Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

A chance meeting between the artist, ten young boys, and a yo-yo champion in a drugstore parking lot provides the substance for this rambling and anarchic filmed interview that at once parodies “man on the street” television interviews while introducing and sustaining an unusual but deliberate verite technique on its own.

Lincoln Logs for Jesus Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

“Playing on all of Tyler Turkle’s previous interview films, accelerating and violating their stylistics, LINCOLN LOGS FOR JESUS is a nearly Cubist look at the world.

Observeillance Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

A lyrical tour guide takes the viewer on a trip down the Wakulla River in North Florida. Although the camera remains relentlessly fixed on him, his vivid, near-musical descriptions of Southern flora, fauna, and wildlife gives a better view of things than total visual mobility could ever allow.

Spider 71-50 Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Strange assembly of stark and nearly surreal images tell the tale of life and death as seen through the eyes of an observer and eventually the subject himself – a blind man in a wheelchair.

A Quiet Afternoon with Strangers Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

“A ‘silent’ interview, QUIET AFTERNOON is the most strange and moving of Turkle’s films, documenting the year-round garage sale of an eccentric, elderly Ohio couple.

Cut Trailer (1976)

25 August 1976

A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than a comic editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and manipulating raw footage.

Smokey Wears Pantyhose Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Fast -paced film works its way through American culture in a crazy quilt of images and wild sounds including truckers’ CB radio banter and arcade machine gun fire.

Harry Crews: Survival Is Triumph Enough Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

This powerful film documents the hardships, tragedy and loss suffered by the prolific Southern writer and novelist Harry Crews.

Seminoles, Alligators, and Football Players Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

Born and bred in the deep South, the football rivalry between Florida State University (Seminoles) and the University of Florida (Gators) has roots so old it is hard to tell exactly when and where it began.

Excess, Black Noise, and Fast Moving Pictures Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Seventy seconds of furiously energetic filmmaking in which all of the possible pauses in visual and aural activity have been removed.