Movies: Larry Gottheim
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 1973
Horizons (1973)
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Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal fl...
- 1983
Natural Selection (1983)
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From student films, with additional material shot in New Mexico....
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....
- 2022
Entanglement (2022)
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An exhilarating cinematic train ride at the speed of sound through a quantum landscape. Music. The dance of death. Do you remember?...
- 1976
Mouches Volantes (1976)
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The second in Larry Gottheim's ELECTIVE AFFINITIES cycle, MOUCHES VOLANTES is, in the filmmaker's own words, "a celebration of elusive relationships" between sound and image, color and black-and-white, the moon and the waves, the aural testimony of B...
- 1970
Fog Line (1970)
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Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line consists of a fixed shot of clearing fog in a valley in upstate New York where he lived and worked in the early seventies....
- 1984
"Sorry/Hear Us" (1984)
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"A film about transformations. It was made with students from one of my seminars. We attempt to deconstruct a poem’s language by playing it backwards until some words emerge from the backward text. The students then created film images that illustrat...
- 1987
The Red Thread (1987)
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Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed (using the camera almost as a p[r/a]inter, a means of shaping the visual world as film, but without reflection) in response to what that world was opening in me. "Material!" - anal...
- 1981
Tree of Knowledge (1981)
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It started with filming the tree. Something was released in that manner of filming seemingly farthest removed from the procedure of the early films. I first thought a simple ordering of this rich material might be enough, something related to BARN RU...
- 1971
Barn Rushes (1971)
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"…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set by hints of color and motion interactions, positive and negative spaces, etc., and the unyielding delivery on one of the great apotheoses of poetic c...
- 1971
Harmonica (1971)
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Arguably Larry Gottheim’s most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains the camera on a friend improvising a tune in the backseat of a moving car. Held out the window, the harmoni...
- 1987
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses (1987)
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Christened for the Greek mythological personification of human memory, MNEMOSYNE, MOTHER OF MUSES is Larry Gottheim's facsimile edition of how one reflects on life and experiences (namely, in flashes and excerpts of sound and imagery). Typically know...
- 1978
Four Shadows (1978)
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Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sect...
- 1989
Machete Gillette... Mama (1989)
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"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim’s formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between ...
- 2012
The Opening (2012)
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An early cut of the footage seen in Chants and Dances for Hand....
- 1971
Doorway (1971)
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A serene winterscape glides, as in a dream, across the screen, from darkness to darkness...Vision shivers, hesitates ever so slightly to savor, to hold still, but inevitably everything passes. Far becomes near, near far. Shadows seed their counterpar...
- 1987
Video Album 5: The Thursday People (1987)
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The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illness...
- 2017
Chants and Dances for Hand (2017)
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"There are scenes of Vodou ceremonies in which I participated, scenes filmed during an uprising, personal images (Hand is my son from a Haitian marriage) but this is far from a documentary. There are no sounds other than the sync sounds that accompan...
- 1970
Corn (1970)
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A fixed camera companion to FOG LINE. Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the waiting bowl. Each of these actions inaugurates a period in which one contemplates an image whose steady t...