Shout
Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.
AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)
This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-WWII European Jazz and free improvisation. Archival footage, rehearsal / performance sequences and interviews with both Mengelberg (the "godfather of Dutch improvised music") and key collaborators provide a clear insight in Mengelberg's original way of thinking and way of working.
No. 4
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
Dance
"Face Smiling. Hammering a brick. CU of an ear (moving?). Face twitching. Dancing on one leg. Rolls, twitches on the floor. Boxes the wall."
Eyeblink
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.
Blink
Flicker: White and black alternating frames.
Mary Bauermeister - Eins plus eins ist drei
Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has no intention of stopping. From morning till night, this extraordinary artist works in her studio near Cologne: a magical place.
Readymade
Color test strip from developing tank.
Smoking
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
Disappearing Music for Face
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.
Word Movie
Single frame exposures of words.
Entrance to Exit
Features entrance and exit door signs, fading through black and white.
Wrist Trick
Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.
Sun in Your Head
"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."
Fluxfilm No. 36
Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.
5 O'Clock in the Morning
A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.
Trace No. 23
Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso.
Fluxfilm No. 37
Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.
Zen for Film
In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An "anti-film", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.
End After 9
Word & number gag, no camera.