Found Footage

Doug Ischar, Alone With You
Doug Ischar
Alone With You

At the heart of Alone With You is the notion of impassioned avarice, i.e. the kind of motivated acquisitiveness that drives both erotic desire and obsessive collecting.

Brent Coughenour, Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres
Brent Coughenour
Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead

Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres is Chapter 3 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

"Positing a linear continuum, with 'nothing' at one end of the spectrum and 'something' at the other, at what point does 'nothing' become 'something?'"

Untitled (Nixon / HAL)
John Neff
Untitled (Nixon / HAL)

This video is a 7-minute single channel piece consisting of two monologues: the first is a speech prepared for Richard Nixon in the event of a moon landing disaster in 1969, the second is the final words of the computer HAL from the film 2001.

This title is only available on Suitable Video, Volume 1.

Manhole 452
Jeanne C. Finley, John Muse
Manhole 452

Despite assurances from local municipalities, a fact of life is that Manholes blow sky high more frequently than most people realize. Manhole 452 directs the viewer’s attention to the shapes, sizes and patterns of manhole covers on Geary Street in San Francisco, and then plunges deep below into the manholes themselves to explore the hidden threat that lies below.

Physical Impossibility of Life
Brent Coughenour
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)

The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead is Chapter 2 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

I can’t live if living is without you, he said as his tear-stained cheek glistened in the glare of the klieg lights. Slowly, he tightened his finger around the trigger . . . .

The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
Brent Coughenour
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now)
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead

The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now) is Chapter 1 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

These Blazeing Starrs!
Deborah Stratman
...These Blazeing Starrs!

Since comets have been recorded, they've augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European broadsides with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage.

Village, silenced
Deborah Stratman
Village, silenced

A re-working of Humphrey Jenning's 1943 seminal docu-drama The Silent Village wherein coal miners from the Wlsh village of Cwmgiedd re-enact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting Czech villagers of Lidice. Principal focus in this re-mix is upon the way sound is used as a mode of social control.

Light is Waiting
Michael Robinson
Light is Waiting

A very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.

-- Michael Robinson

All Through the Night
Michael Robinson
All Through the Night

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