All Those Things

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

July 1987 •English

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

38/79: Sentimental Punk

October 1979 •German

'It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming directly from the projector - using single frames according to a certain plan.'

Highlights

February 2017 •English

Lights flicker & fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.

Memory Vague

June 2009 •English

Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.

Roadz2Home

February 2017 •English

3 minute experimental film.

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March 2017 •English

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Finds Itself in Corners

March 2017 •English

Lines align during acclimated apexes, shadowy vertices, and bright burrows.

Out of the Law

March 2017 •English

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

Sweet-Smelling Movie: Be a Light to the World

February 2016 •Japanese

A coming-of-age story about a high-school girl who wants to use magic, featuring the 11-member experimental band Vampillia

What You Mean We?

September 1986 •English

WHAT YOU MEAN WE is a surreal short film by experimental artist Laurie Anderson.

Beatles Electroniques

January 1969 •English

Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik, the haunting Beatles Electronique reveals Paik's engagement with manipulation of pop icons and electronic images. Snippets of footage from A Hard Day's Night are countered with Paik's early electronic processing.

Cremaster 5

October 1997 •Hungarian

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.

Roda Viva Roda Brasil

January 2019 •Portuguese

Time

October 1966 •English

A concert at the Golden Circle with Don Cherry and his quintet was filmed and then processed to an art movie using various optical effects.

Scanning of Modulations

November 2001 •Japanese

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

Gloom

November 2017 •English

An ambient representation of depression with a slowly fading score building towards an uncertain climax.

Calypso

January 1955 •English

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Time Piece

May 1965 •English

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson. Screened for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, "Time Piece" enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and was nominated for an Academy Award for Outstanding Short Subject.

Kinda Cool to Expend This Much Drool

June 2017 •English

Don't ask me why, but I feel we're about to cry trying.

Ruminative Meditations

June 2017 •English

Say Om as you reach home only to realize you never really left/stopped saying Om.