Walter Ungerer Trailers
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Walter Ungerer was born in New York City in 1935 of German immigrants. He studied art and architecture at Pratt Institute, receiving a BFA degree in 1958. He went on to Columbia University receiving an MA and PD in 1964. His first film "The Tasmanian Devil" was made in 1965 while living in a loft in the "flower district" of New York City. His third film "Meet Me, Jesus" gained him national recognition as a film artist through exposure at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1969 "Ubi Est Terram Oobiae?" was included in a world-wide MoMA touring program that furthered his reputation. That year Ungerer moved to Vermont. In 2003 Ungerer moved to Maine, where he continues to produce his work. His most recently completed feature "down the road" debuted at the Syracuse International Film Festival in the Spring 2005, and a retrospective of his films was shown in Kiel, Germany in April 2006. Later in November 2006 Ungerer traveled through northern Germany showing his work. His most recent video installation debuted at the Space Gallery in Portland, Maine, March 2006. In 2008 it was installed at the Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, Vermont. In December 2008 Echo Park Film Center and the Eqyptian Theatre, both in Los Angeles; hosted programs of Ungerer's recent works including SUCH AS IT IS, EPITAPH, and THE SALT SHAKER AND THE MOON. Ungerer came to Los Angeles for the week of the showings. Presently Ungerer is organizing a program of films by Maine artists.
Most Popular Walter Ungerer Trailers
Total trailers found: 32
01 January 1993
The film is an improvised story about a young man who meets a young woman in a public place. He attempts to establish a friendship.
01 January 2008
A woman and a man, both no longer young of age, follow basic routines in their home. Outside at the birdfeeders, birds follow basic routines.
18 July 1995
Walter Ungerer's A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter is among a series of experimental films the filmmaker created in the 90s that utilize computer animation and assorted "lo-fi" video artifacts.
01 January 2009
Abstract contemporary sculptures at a museum, male and female mannequins at a downtown mall, the Venice Beach and Santa Monica Promenades with their various attractions of hawkers, exhibitionists and vendors; these are all the subjects of this film.
26 July 1971
Someone attempts to find Oobieland. The realm of artificial sound encountered in the first film (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND) is left behind; there is a terrible silence.
01 January 2002
UNTITLED 2.1.2 uses abstract, hardly recognizable shapes and colors to create a person's emotions as they experience tension and chaos.
01 January 2013
The film begins with abstract images of continuously changing in color, shape and texture. Slowly it reveals the source and real identity of the original subject-matter, and in so doing has transcended the abstract world for reality.
22 June 1972
In the kitchen of a Vermont farmhouse, four people come to sit around a table. The silence of solstice holds them together.
18 July 1999
Digital stills and video footage of a child on a beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are manipulated and obscured to create a nostalgic atmosphere of remembrances.
01 January 2013
Los Angeles is called “City of the Angels”. On this visit in December 2012 what I recorded became the substance of this film.
28 June 2014
The film title is an abbreviation for no comment. With all due respects I find this to be an appropriate description of this film, which is based on abstract drawings, obscure images, and distorted sounds.
01 January 1994
A short animation based on the drawings of an elephant and a giraffe by the filmmaker's seven year old daughter Anna.
20 June 1972
Part five, EPILOGUE TO OOBIELAND is a 40 second animation punctuating the entire series much like a period ends a sentence.
17 July 1969
The Princess of Oobieland is interviewed in a television studio in New York City. Her responses, sometimes only barely discernible over the whir and clang of obscure machinery, are testimony to the closing of those gateways which we encountered in the first part (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND).
01 June 2012
The film explores the different shapes and colors of clouds. It probes the space clouds occupy. Through the use of haunting ethereal sounds and ghostlike imagery, the experience of seeing the heavens is interpreted.
01 January 2008
Meditations on human destruction composed at land's end.
04 August 2012
This work is an exploration of digital still camera motion clips I recorded while visiting the downtown art district of Los Angeles.
01 March 2011
A daily record of one year at Mount Battie, Maine. It is a record of the seasons, the changing light from dawn to evening, sunrise and sunset; the changing weather from bright sun to overcast skies, fog, rain and snow; and the changing visitors that come by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, car, truck and camper to make a pilgrimage to the mountain vista that overlooks a small harbor on the coast of Maine, the North Atlantic coastal islands, and the expansive Atlantic Ocean.
01 January 2007
It is a film in four parts: underground, city, rural countryside, fog and ocean. Though the parts are separate, they are bound by the film; as earth, air, fire and water were separate are bound by the concept of universe for ancient Greece.
17 July 1997
One of a collection of experimental shorts shot on VHS, miniDV or created in the computer, where the results were edited and manipulated by filmmaker Walter Ungerer with various computer software programs.
01 January 2009
The film is an observation of activities in Maine. One Town, Portland is celebrating "First Friday Art Walk" where people go to the museum and art galleries.
27 June 2010
Walter Ungerer’s Monarda (2010) has been screening across the country as part of the 2011 Black Maria Film Festival, a traveling program of new experimental cinema.
10 December 1970
Arthur, a 21 year old American male has been drafted into the army. It is the time of the Viet Nam War.
01 January 1992
Shot in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Montreal; the film follows filmmaker Guido Gruczeck as he begins to piece together his newest project.
01 January 1976
A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling.
17 July 1969
Using hand-painted film, animation and an inventive soundtrack, INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND is an exploration of gateways: a repeated series of movements from the familiar and safe to the unknown and dangerous.
01 January 1979
A sensuous woman, an angry artist, a mysterious puppet maker, suspicious townspeople, mischievous kids; these are the characters in the film.
10 September 2002
The film parallels the short treatise The Awakening of Faith by Asvaghosha which provides a comprehensive summary of the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism.
01 January 2013
How the universe evolved, and how humans developed are questions that arise with our awareness of life on the planet.
01 January 1982
THE WINTER THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SNOW is a visual mood poem using the barest narrative form to convey the feeling and time of crisis for a man in middle age.
19 July 2008
Filmmaker Walter Ungerer shot RANDOM BITS OF UNKNOWN SIGNIFICANCE with an inexpensive digital still camera capable of shooting short video bursts.
01 January 1966
The theme is apparently the birth and growth of civilization, its ultimate destruction and rebirth; however, MEET ME, JESUS is actually about loss: the loss of innocence, dignity and hope.
