animated autobiography of Frank Mouris, received an Academy Award and was selected in 1996 for inclusion in the National Film Registry, which preserves films deemed to be "culturally, historically and esthetically important." Frank Film, because of its innovative and energetic use of collage, has exerted an influence on succeeding generations of animators.
Skyscraper
1959/ 20' , Color/B/W
Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke
A whimsical doc about construction of Tishmann Building at 666 Fifth Avenue, as seen from the worker's point of view. The dazzling images of 666 Fifth Ave being built from the ground up are set to a jazzy score of beat-style poems and songs and blended with the voices of actors playing construction workers, in this unique and wonderfully funny document.
LABYRINTH by Jan Lenica, 1962, 10 min.
Labyrinth - First Prize in experimental films at the IX International Festival of Short Films in Oberhausen 1963.
winner of 16 international awards. Snitt features a couple whose domestic habits are as warped as their facial features. And, yet, they are recognizably ordinary, squabbling throughout a game of Scrabble and then making up. They are caught up in their own little world, oblivious to the nuclear holocaust that has rained down on the world outside.
BALLET MECANIQUE by Fernand Leger, 1924
This film, the first declared "sans scenario" in its text introduction, is a collage. The swinging chrome balls, the gears of machines, the dancing bottles, the rotating disks juxtaposed with femine lips and eyes are all awaiting the female form trudging endlessly up and down the stairs with her burden. The symbols seem obvious to us in an age of technology and sexual advertisement/liberation.
Next Screening: Sunday March 20 @ 8 PM
3rd Annual Full Worm Moon Films Spring Screening
SEATS ARE LIMITED : rsvp@audioastrology.com
**** IMPORTANT: My projector is broken, we NEED to borrow
a 16mm film projector for this screening-- or else no films. (see sched below)
