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The House of Sweet Magic
Helen Hill
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Helen Hill (1970-2007) was a filmmaker and activist raised in Columbia, South Carolina and settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied Experimental Animation at Harvard and California Institute of the Arts. She taught film workshops wherever she went, and compiled “Recipes For Disaster: A Film Cookbooklet.” Helen Championed low-budget and do-it-yourself approaches to filmmaking, including super 8, hand-processing, and drawing on film, and insisted that “you don’t need to keep up with the latest technology to make a good film, you just need a good idea.”
Helen’s murder in January 2007 in New Orleans cut short the life of an incredibly talented and original artist. Here are ten of Helen’s films. They include cel animation, cut-out and 3-D puppet animation, hand-processing, and live action filmmaking. Be prepared to enjoy tea parties, a cotton candyland, romance activism, a potbelly pig family tree, chicken angels, and much more.
DVD runs 56 minutes, titles include:
Tunnel of Love (1996)
Madame Winger Makes a Film (2001)
Scratch and Crow (1995)
Your New Pig is Down the Road (1999)
The World’s Smallest Fair (1995)
Vessel (1992)
Film for Rosie (2001)
Mouseholes (1999)
Bohemian Town (2004)
Milking & Scratching: Handmade Films
Naomi Uman
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Few media artists bring together the personal and raw nature of documentary with the intimacy and artistic beauty of experimental filmmaking as effortlessly as Naomi Uman. This collection, comprised of five short 16mm works, features Naomi’s instantly recognizable aesthetic of scratched, dyed, and hand-processed imagery and defies the established boundaries of experimental film, narrative film, documentary filmmaking and social commentary. Her series Leche & Mala Leche examine the life of a Mexican family as they move from a rural dairy ranch to the complex immigrant life in Central California, while her widely popular films Removed and Hand Eye Coordination feature stunning examples of hand-manipulated film.
DVD includes: DVD includes: Leche, Mala Leche, Private Movie, Removed, and Hand Eye Coordination.
99 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 14 - DVD - 2005
Something Like Flying
Deborah Stratman
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From the claustrophobic confines of suburban surveillance to the infinite landscapes of the Taklamakan desert, Deborah’s films blur the line between abstract and documentary filmmaking and capture the alien environments within everyday life. In Order Not To Be Here confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities by examining the ways privacy, safety, fear and surveillance determine our environment, while Kings of the Sky documents a tightrope troupe fighting for religious autonomy and political independence.
DVD includes: In Order Not To Be Here, Kings of the Sky, and From Hetty To Nancy.
140 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 13 - DVD - 2005
The 70's Dimension:
What The 70's Really Looked Like & 70's Remix
Various Artists
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Peripheral Produce mavericks Matt McCormick and Morgan Currie curate a media-archaeological treasure trove of dumpster-rescued 16mm reels containing commercials, PSA’s, and TV ephemera from a delirious decade of polyester and smiley faces. From the classic iconography of the Marlboro Man to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour Stretchers", this outrageously retro review of funky, clunky clips offers precious insight into a lost, impossibly innocent world. DVD also includes 70's Remix (curated by Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence), featuring scavenged film scrap and celluloid collage from found footage filmmakers Matt McCormick, Thad Povey, Tony Gault, Damon Packard, People Like Us, & Animal Charm.
100 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 14 - DVD - 2005
The Next Best Place
Bill Brown
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You can take Bill Brown out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of Bill Brown. His films are vast and expansive and take you on a road trip across the back roads of forgotten places. From his award winning Confederation Park, which carefully depicts an aimless American kid setting out across the Trans-Canada Highway, to Buffalo Common, which observes the dismantling of nuclear missile silos across North Dakota, Bill’s films blur the difference between documentary and personal filmmaking and create a time-capsule of the subtle changes of the North American landscape. His films have won many awards and screened at nearly every film festival on the planet, he has received both Rockefeller and Creative Capital grants, and in November 2003, the Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of his work. His ‘turn-ons’ include blimps, elevated trains, and vegan bratwurst, but the steady tug of time passing and Hummers leave him less excited.
DVD Includes: Mountain State (2003), Confederation Park (1999), Buffalo Common (2001) and Roswell (1994).
90 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 11 - DVD - 2004
From Tugboats to Polar Bears
Matt McCormick
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Portland filmmaker and Peripheral Produce ring-leader Matt McCormick makes films that combine found and original sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. In his recent documentary Towlines, which features an original soundtrack by James Mercer, Matt explores the role of the tugboat in modern society, while in American Nutria he examines the plight of an imported species and chastises capitalism’s tendency to create its own disasters. The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal makes the observation that the process of destroying one art form unwittingly creates another, while The Vyrotonin Decision, created with scraps of 16mm television clips from the early 70’s, reflects on some the advertising world’s more embarrassing moments. Matt’s work has screened in film festivals, galleries, and d.i.y. art spaces around the globe, and his film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal was named as one of the ‘Top 10 Films of 2002’ by both The Village Voice and Art Forum magazine. Matt has also worked and collaborated with several artists and musicians, including The Shins, Miranda July, The Postal Service, Avalon Kalin, and Calvin Johnson.
DVD Includes: Towlines (2004), Grounded (2004), American Nutria (2003), Past and Pending (2003), The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001), Going to the Ocean (2001), The Vyrotonin Decision (1999) and Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (1999).
85 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 12 - DVD - 2004
Peripheral Produce’s All-Time Greatest Hits
Various Artists
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now in 100% recycled packaging!
Peripheral Produce started as an iddy-biddy screening series in Portland, Oregon 1996 and soon after added a videotape distribution wing into the mix. To crown the achievement of reaching our 10th release, we had no choice but to put on our best dancing shoes and present a collection of the best and brightest short films and videos from Peripheral Produce’s history. The compilation includes Miranda July’s Getting Stronger Every Day, Naomi Uman’s Removed, Sam Green’s N. Judah 5:30, Animal Charm’s Stuffing, Bryan Boyce’s Election Collectibles, Jim Finn’s Wustenspringmaus, Brian Frye’s Oona’s Veil, Matt McCormick’s The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Vanessa Renwick’s Crowdog, and Bill Brown’s Buffalo Common. Works from this collection have screened from the Sundance Film Festival to the Whitney Biennial and is a representation of the some of the best experimental work being made today. And to prove that we had some fun along the way, the DVD comes with special ‘behind the scenes’ bonus footage from the 2001 Peripheral Produce Invitational.
90 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 10 - DVD - 2003
Waste-book #1
Brian L. Frye
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“The essence of film is time. As a photograph stills the breath of life, the cinema implies its inevitable exhalation. That which moves, moves inexorably toward its dissolution. These films reflect the intersection of that un-narrative, and the artifacts of its realization: the “surface’ of the image, or rather the pane of that looking glass we call the movies. The figures which inhabit them are the raw stuff of history, bit players and understudies who, in moments of crisis, are called upon to abandon the wings of this grandest stage and hesitantly deliver their lines. the history in which they participate is not that of the scientist, but that of the philosopher, for they beg the question: to what story are we now the party, and which words shall we use in its recitation?”
Titles include: Robert Beck is Alive and Well and Living in NYC, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Kaddish, Oona’s Veil, The Letter, Across the Rappahannoc, Lachrymae.
60 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 9 - VHS - 2003
Nest of Tens
Miranda July
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Nest of Tens is comprised of four alternating stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control derived from intuitive sources. Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters and their own bodies.
27 minutes - Peripheral Produce / Nest - VHS - 2000
The Starlight Dynamic Video Mix Tape
Various Artists
Like a drive through the country or a love song that never ends, the Starlight Dynamic gives us what we really need. From the expansive insights of Bill Brown or Gerard Holthuis to the warm fuzzy of Naomi Uman or Jim Trainor to the gut busting antics of Bryan Boyce or Animal Charm, the Starlight Dynamic is roadtrip with a good friend and the sound of dry leaves crunching under your feet.
Titles Include: Private Movie by Naomi Uman, Election Collectibles by Bryan Boyce, Bill Brown’s Confederation Park, The Moschops by Jim Trainor, Gerard Holthuis’ City at Night (AMS), The Vanishing Point by The Distance Formula, Animal Charm’s Mark Roth, and Knuckle Down by Sarah Marcus and Kate Hardy.
90 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 6 - VHS - 2001
Animal Charm
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Five absurd experimental shorts on this self-titled offering from the Chicago based media collective Animal Charm (aka Jim Fetterly and Rich Bott). Feel the warm with these mesmerizing and enchanting videos in your home or office; perfect for barbecues or seminars! Features Stuffing, Ashley, Lightfoot Fever, and others.
25 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 2 - VHS - 1998
The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape
Various Artists
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The original, first ever Peripheral Produce release that features a compilation of twelve experimental films and videos by Negativland, Russ Forster, Miranda July, Animal Charm, Scott Arford, Vanessa Renwick, Matt McCormick, the Olympia Film Ranch, Bryan Konefsky, Eric Ostrowski, Jon Raymond, and Julian Lawrence. The “Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape” is an abstract taste test of contemporary underground cinema. Comes complete with instruction manual.
70 minutes - Peripheral Produce No. 1 - VHS - 1998
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